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Republic New York

Republic New York Corporation was the holding company for Republic National Bank of New York, Safra Republic Holdings, and Safra Republic Bank.

The company was controlled by billionaire Edmond Safra, who was killed in a fire in his Monte Carlo penthouse apartment by his nurse Ted Maher. Republic New York Corporation was sold shortly after its chairman's death to HSBC Bank USA, the US subsidiary of HSBC of the UK.

Joseph Safra, the brother of Edmond Safra, controlled and owned independently the Safra Group of banks and financial institutions.

History
1966: Republic National Bank of New York is founded by Edmond Safra. Safra had previously opened the Trade Development Bank in Geneva, Switzerland, which acquired a 36% stake in Republic.

1973: Republic New York Corporation was established as a one-bank holding company for Republic National Bank.

1974: Acquires Kings Lafayette Bank, which has 18 branches.

1975: Acquires American Swiss Credit Company, Ltd., formerly part of Franklin National Bank.

1977: Opens Republic Factors Corporation.

1978: Opens Republic International Bank of New York in Miami, Florida.

1980: Republic is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Opens Republic International Bank of New York in Los Angeles, California.

1983: Edmond Safra sells Trade Development Bank to American Express. Several years later, American Express tries to smear Safra, after he attempts to open a competing business.

1987: Acquires the Williamsburgh Savings Bank.

1988: Edmond Safra organizes Safra Holdings S.A. in Geneva, Switzerland, which is 49% owned by Republic.

1990: Acquires Manhattan Savings Bank.

1992: Establishes Republic New York Securities Corporation.

1993: Acquires SafraCorp California and renames it Republic Bank California N.A. Acquires Bank Leumi of Canada. Acquires Mase Westpac Limited, which is a member of the London Gold Fixing. Acquires Citibank's World Banknote Services operations.

1995: Acquires Crossland Federal Savings Bank.

1999: HSBC acquires Republic New York for US$9.8-billion.

2001: Republic pleads guilty to fraud and agrees to restitution of $606 million in connection with cheating Japanese customers by its Republic New York Securities Corporation subsidiary. Their partner at the time Martin Armstrong was convicted and spent 11 years in prison.

2015: Safra Group purchased Chiquita Brands International

Thousand year bonds
Safra Republic Holdings issued $250 million of 1,000 year bonds in 1997, at a time when there were "a number of 100-year bond issues by corporations."

Safra's banking interests catered to clients looking for tax havens in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Monaco.

Republic National Bank of New York
Republic National Bank of New York operated without the "Of New York" part of its full name, even though the name "Republic National Bank of" had at times been used elsewhere.

From 1980 until Safra's death, Walter Weiner was Safra's attorney and CEO of Republic National Bank of New York and, in 1983, Wiener became chairman of the bank.

In 1981, Republic National Bank of New York sought a tax abatement to construct its Fifth Avenue headquarters. The bank was the first midtown project to be turned down since the city's brush with bankruptcy in the mid-1970's. Kenneth Schuman, chairman of the city's Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board, said that the market had become strong enough so that construction would take place without the tax abatement.

In 1998, Safra's Republic National Bank of New York was the preferred foreign bank through which most Russian banks had correspondent accounts. Both Russian banks, including SBS-Agro (СБС-Агро), Menatep (Менатеп), Inkom (Инком), and United Bank (Объединенный банк), and the Russian Ministry of Finance transferred IMF loan money to foreign locations through Safra's Republic National Bank of New York.

On 17 August 1998, the Republic National Bank of New York lost 45% of its net income due to its large holding of Russian bonds that became worthless after the 1998 Russian financial crisis.

In 1999, Safra sold Safra Republic Holdings and Republic New York Corporation to HSBC for $10.3 billion in cash. On 31 December 1999, HSBC Private Bank became the new name for Safra's former holdings.

When Republic was taken over by HSBC Bank USA, which already had acquired the former Marine Midland Bank, the combination retained what Republic had previously achieved: "the third-biggest retail branch network in the New York region." Two competitive parts of their operation were "low-cost checking and free automated teller machine services."

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I know your not that new but the links are a good help. BigDunc 21:29, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

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I have sent you an email re ip that is vandalising. BigDunc 11:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

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Dizzy Down the Rapids

Dizzy Down the Rapids is an arcade style action video game, that was published in 1991 by Codemasters for the Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and Commodore 64.

The game involves Dizzy riding barrels down a river avoiding obstacles and enemies. The game was based on the game play from an arcade game titled Toobin'. The C64 version was originally developed by Paul Black. The C64 version was originally a clone of Toobin called 'Toobin Turtles'. When the game was taken to Codemasters for consideration, it was rebranded to take advantage of the Dizzy character.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kourosh Ziabari

This same person has now created a page in German Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kourosh_Ziabari My question is how to reactivate the deletion process.  This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Userfy (discussion could have also supported a consensus for deletion, but userfying is the less drastic option) --Allen3 talk 12:19, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Kourosh Ziabari
This article, it seems, was written by Kourosh ziabari. There are a few hundred instances of him on the net; the 6 pages of his from the UK are basically him writing on blogs, though, and they don't particularly make sense. I skimmed over some of the Farsi links too, (although my grip on that language is not strong, to put it lightly,) and it seems that, on most of them, he is just bigging himself up. I highlight this for a votes for deletion because I am not sure whether his age and his 'acceptance' classified him as notable. If so, this article needs some deal of rewriting. If not, like I expect, then so be it. IINAG 23:43, 24th August 2005 (UTC)
 * I was just mulling over the page wondering what to do with it, and when I decided to add the VfD header it was already there. Good call. Delete unless sourced. --fvw *  23:54, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Seems to be just a blogger... I say delete for now. Andre ( talk ) 00:15, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with you too. In fact, with all the links to him that I have read, he talks about being a journalist, but there are no examples of journalism! I fear that this may be a case of Walter Mitty, but perhaps it is just childish imagination. He also claimed that he wrote for the Washington Post and the New York Times, but there are no links to his 'articles' for them at all IINAG 00:26, 25th August 2005 (UTC).
 * Delete unless proof of notability is provided. This is why we have WP:AUTO. N (t/c) 01:45, 25 August 2005 (UTC) Userfy. 16:14, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn autobio at this point. -- Etacar11   03:35, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - "World's youngest journalist" gets no relevant Google hits. As for the list of awards... I've won somewhere upwards of 25 regional, state and national honors for excellence in journalism, including five National Newspaper Pacemaker Awards - but that doesn't make me Wikipedia-worthy. From one journalist to another, best of luck in the future... but plumping yourself on Wikipedia isn't going to further your career. Best to get back to writing. Userfy per Alphax. FCYTravis 04:27, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Userfy. Alphax τεχ 04:21, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Userfy. All the Google hits to "Kourosh Ziabari" point to his own blogs. He doesn't seem notable enough to merit an article. However, it will make a nice user page. — J I P | Talk 04:30, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I change my vote to weak delete. Kourosh Ziabari is rapidly losing credibility here. — J I P | Talk 05:52, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or userfy. Autobiography, vanity. jni 06:33, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete seems to be just a big-headed guy advertising himself. No source or citation. Delete unless cited. (Unsigned vote by )
 * Delete This person does not deserve to have a biography here. Compare his weblog last entry "What is cholera?" with this page or just simply google a sentence from his weblog. You will absolutely find an obvious case of plagiarism. Writing articles is different from copying and pasting other's works. (Unsigned vote by )
 * Dear spammer, Our problem is not cholera at this time dear spammer. Our problem is "Kourosh Ziabari" Unsigned vote by Kourosh Ziabari, who removed the above vote
 * Kourosh, you should not remove votes from VfD discussions. It constitutes vandalism. And the criticism is legit - you flat-out stole that article from the health guide website. You even included the headers before the actual article, not bothering to even try to make it look like you wrote it. If this is all your "journalism" amounts to, it is not journalism, it's theft. — J I P | Talk 10:24, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * An observation: There is a book by Elizabeth Laird titled "The House on the Hill," and I don't doubt it is a perfectly lovely book. However, acording to Amazon, it is aimed at children age 4 to 6.  According to my local library catalog, it is 31 pages long, illustrated, and is intended as textbook for foreign speakers of English (part of MacMillan press' Heinemann system of guided readers).  So I question its status as a "novel" as described on the page in question.  It leads one to question the probable amount of exaggeration elsewhere in the page. Userfy.  (On the other hand, Elizabeth Laird is a prolific author of children's books and probably deserves a Wiki page.) (Unsigned vote by )
 * Just I was wondering how a 31 page Beginner Level story in a series could be called a novel. On the other hand, this is his translation of that 31 page. (At least, this was accessible through the internet). His translation is about 4000 words; therefore, I believe that Kourosh has just translated a part of that book, maybe one title and then has called it a novel. Am I right? Kourosh, don’t you think that you exaggerate everything (a little bit)?
 * It could be a severely abridged version. Does someone actually understand Farsi, and can explain further about the translation? To me, Arabic script looks like gibberish. — J I P | Talk 18:54, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. His few writings, if could be counted as article, are just sort of ordinary school-witings of a secondary school student, which make no contribution. Can not be taken serious even, nonsense to some extent in some instances.
 * Kourosh, your weblog is just two months old. How have you been writing in your weblog since 2002? How come?
 * Moreover, your claim to be "one of the most active persian Bloggers" makes no sense when you have posted only 13 entries so far.

 * In the sentence "he is one of the most active Persian bloggers", there are a couple of words missing: "spammers", and "among". So, we should have: "he is one of the most active spammers among Persian bloggers".
 * Warning! Do not let Kourosh Ziabari use Wikipedia for self advertising. This man is a very well known spammer (weblogs spam) among Persian bloggers. There is no need to even know Farsi; just try this google link, and see how he has posted same comments for different weblogs, same text full of self advertising and vanity. He is fake, very fake. Delete and not even Userfy. (Unsigned vote by )

A question
'''You are right, world's youngest journalist returns no google hits but WORLD YOUNGEST JOURNALIST RETURNS MORE THAN 4 PAGES SEARCH RESULT OF GOOGLE. OK?'''

How can I prove that I am the world youngest journalist? Have I the ability or the permission to link all my 1000 articles?
 * Sure. N (t/c) 01:45, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * WHAT?! NO! Zoe 06:20, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Kourosh, the problem is not that people don't believe you are the youngest journalist. The problem is that Wikipedia has a rule against writing an article about yourself.  However, you can put what you wrote on your user page.  -- Reinyday

 * There are other young journalists, anyway. You're not all *that* young. Tim Rhymeless  (Er...let's shimmy) 10:18, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Not that you seem to have done alot more that me or any other kid in my journalism class, but best of luck to you. You might see Maria Sansone. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 07:46, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

I have another question, all the boys and girls on this page Child prodigies are real genius and gifted talented personals, and just I am the problem? All the boys and girls on that page have unormal and special abilities and just I have not?
 * The trick is, you shouldn't put yourself there. Someone else really ought to. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 10:18, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello again, Kourosh. Excuse me if I am curt, but I would not classify writing some web-logs as qualifying you as a prodigy. It is great to start typing something of value, but thousands upon thousands of people do it. Perhaps if you truly had written columns for the New York Times and the Washington Post, as you claimed elsewhere, you would have had our attention, already. IINAG 13:24, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

If you link to your articles, it would prove your claim. That's easy!

 * Comment: Kourosh should consider entering the International Wikinews Writing Contest and make a point of filing his reports in English.
 * Delete (or userfy). Vanity article Jll 20:37, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity. --tranquileye 19:27:56, 2005-08-29 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System

The High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS), is a counter-RAM system under development that will use a powerful (150 kW) laser to shoot down rockets, missiles, artillery and mortar shells. The initial system will be demonstrated from a static ground-based installation, but in order to eventually be integrated on an aircraft, the final design would require a maximum weight of 750 kg (1,650 lb) and a maximum envelope of 2 cubic meters (70.6 feet3).

Development is being funded by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

History
Liquid lasers that have large cooling systems can fire continuous beams, while solid state laser beams are more intense but generally must be fired in pulses to stop them from overheating. (As long as the heat transfer requirements are met solid state lasers can run continuously.) In the past, both types of lasers were very bulky because of their need for these huge cooling systems. The only aircraft in which they could fit were the size of jumbo jets.

Need for such a system was reinforced during the 2006 Lebanon War. Israel had participated in similar work in the past by funding the Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL). This system was tested on August 24, 2004, and was found to be effective at neutralizing mortar threats under an actual scenario. However, this test was administered with short, 20 km range missiles.

Development
For the first few years of the program the Photonics Division of General Atomics was the prime contractor. The design combined the high energy density of a solid-state laser with the thermal management of a liquid laser. Dubbed the "HEL weapon", the initial prototype demonstrated firing a mild one kilowatt (kW) beam. Phase 3 of the program in 2007 demonstrated 15 kW power in a laboratory setting, and at the end of 2008 under the General Atomics bid, Lockheed Martin was selected as the weapon system integrator.

In September 2007, DARPA contracted Textron Systems to supply an alternate laser module using its proprietary "ThinZag" ceramic solid-state technology. Unlike the GA/Lockheed partnership, Textron will also perform the system integration function for their device. DARPA planned a "shoot-off" between the two contenders in 2009 to determine which would be funded to continue the program to further phases.

The more powerful version will produce a 150-kW beam capable of knocking down missiles with the weight and size requirements for fitting onto fighter aircraft or a Humvee. In mid 2008, Jane's International Defence Review quoted the US military that the program is on schedule to meet this ground test. Phase 4 of the program, involving outdoor testing of a weapon-power laser against tactical targets, was planned for 2010.

A prototype was expected to be available by the end of 2012. DARPA planned to use the completed prototypes against targets at White Sands Missile Range in early 2013. This included ground testing against rockets, mortars, and surface-to-air missiles.

DARPA planned for General Atomics to produce a second HELLADS system in January 2013 for use by the Office of Naval Research to test against targets "relevant to surface ships." The first example is committed to Air Force use and cannot be made available for the Navy. Fabrication of the system was planned to be completed in 2012, with power, thermal management, beam control, and command-and-control subsystem integration planned through 2013. The system has a weight goal of 5 kg per kW of power. Both services plan for demonstrations in 2014.

General Atomics revealed in April 2015 that its Gen 3 High Energy Laser (HEL) completed beam quality and power measurements tests. The Gen 3 laser has a number of upgrades that provide improved beam quality, increased electrical to optical efficiency, and reduced size and weight; the assembly is small at only 1.3 x, and is powered by a compact Lithium-ion battery to demonstrate deployability on tactical platforms. Beam quality remained constant through the 30-second demonstration, proving that the beam quality of electrically-pumped lasers can be maintained above 50 kilowatts. General Atomics plans to have the laser module deployable on their Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle by 2018. Demonstrating sufficient laser power and beam quality ended the program's laboratory development phase and achieved acceptance for field trials. Ground-based field testing will assess its effects against rockets, mortars, vehicles, and surrogate surface-to-air missiles.

HELLADS was to be tested during summer 2015 at White Sands. General Atomics has also proposed its Gen 3 HEL to the Navy after an ONR solicitation for a 150 kW laser weapon suitable for installation on Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, to be tested in 2018. The company has displayed the laser as a Tactical Laser Weapon Module which includes high-power-density lithium-ion batteries, liquid cooling, one or more laser unit cells, and optics to clean up and stabilize the beam before it enters the beam-director telescope; a unit cell produces a 75 kW beam, and modules can be combined to create beams of 150-300 kW in power with no beam combining like low-power fiber lasers. General Atomics also plans to offer the Gen 3 to the U.S. Army for their High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL-MD) when its power levels increase to 120 kW in the early 2020s.


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Something in Common

"Something in Common" is a song by American singers Bobby Brown and then-wife Whitney Houston, that was featured on Brown's third album, Bobby (1992). The single version was re-recorded and released in December 1993 by MCA, and was also available on Brown's 1993 compilation album Remixes in the Key of B. It was written by Brown and Houston with Teddy Riley, Bernard Belle, Mark Middleton and Alfred Rosemond, while Riley and L.A. Reid produced it. The song stands as the couple's first musical collaboration and the only song released as a single. It examines two unlikely people coming together as they find "something in common." Its music video was directed by Andy Morahan.

Chart performance
The song was released as a single track in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 16. Although the song and its music video received moderate rotation in the United States, "Something in Common" was not released as a commercial single and was ineligible to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B Singles charts; however, it peaked at numbers 32 and 30 on the Hot 100 Airplay and Hot R&B Airplay lists, respectively.

Critical reception
Larry Flick from Billboard felt the song is "actually quite sweet, and good fun ... not to mention a viable radio contender." Troy J. Augusto from Cashbox named it Pick of the Week, declaring it as "quite a catchy number thanks to the always reliable production skills of Teddy Riley as well as LA. Reid's remix and the duo's pleasant delivery." He also called it a "happy, positive cut". David Browne from Entertainment Weekly noted that here, Brown "coos to his new bride, Whitney Houston, in a bouncy duet". Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented, "My Maaaaaan, Whitney sings proudly on a thundering swingbeat. Giiiiiiiirl, Bobby replies passionately, and together they sing about their much-publicised happy marriage. Baby "Bobbi" joins in on the video only."

Alan Jones from Music Week wrote, "This shuffling jackswing/soul number draws fine vocal performances from the husband and wife team and is the commercial highlight of Brown's album." The Network Forty declared it "a wonderful uptempo track", adding that "the electric vocals of Houston and Brown gives an urban edge to their strong dance and pop base." A reviewer from People Magazine felt it is "destined to be a much scrutinized cut", describing it as an "up-from-the-streets echo" of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. In an retrospective review, Pop Rescue complimented Houston's vocals as "rich and confident". James Hamilton from the Record Mirror Dance Update viewed it as "pleasant". Mark Frith from Smash Hits was less enthustiastic, giving the song two out of five.

Music video
The official music video for the song was directed by British commercial, film and music video director Andy Morahan. It also features Brown and Houston's daughter, Bobbi.

Track listing

 * 1) "Something in Common" (Radio edit) - 4:25
 * 2) "Something in Common" (Original album version) – 4:59
 * 3) "Something in Common" (Extended vocal version) – 6:55
 * 4) "Something in Common" (Quiet Storm version) – 4:38
 * 5) "Something in Common" (Dub version) – 6:28
 * 6) "Something in Common" (LA Reid Remix) – 6:46
 * 7) "Something in Common" (Second LA Reid Remix) – 7:00

Credits

 * Executive Producer – Bobby Brown, Louil Silas Jr., Tommy Brown
 * Piano – Bo Watson
 * Producer – Teddy Riley
 * Remix – L.A. Reid

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Gef

Gef, also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was an allegedly talking mongoose which inhabited a farmhouse owned by the Irving family. The Irvings' farm was located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry Price, Hereward Carrington, and Nandor Fodor. Some investigators of the era as well as contemporary critics have concluded that the phenomenon was a hoax that the Irving family perpetuated by using ventriloquism.

Story
In September 1931, the Irving family, consisting of James, Margaret, and a 13-year-old daughter named Voirrey, claimed they heard persistent scratching, rustling, and vocal noises behind their farmhouse's wooden wall panels that variously resembled a ferret, a dog, or a baby. According to the Irvings, a creature named Gef introduced itself and told them it was a mongoose born in New Delhi, India, in 1852. According to Voirrey, Gef was the size of a small rat with yellowish fur and a large bushy tail.

The Irvings claimed that Gef had communicated to them that he was "an extra extra clever mongoose", an "Earthbound spirit" and "a ghost in the form of a mongoose" and once said, "I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet, and if you saw me you'd faint, you'd be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt!" The Irvings made various claims about Gef: he supposedly guarded their house and informed them of the approach of guests or any unfamiliar dog; if someone forgot to put out the fire at night, Gef would go down and stop the stove; Gef would also wake people up when they overslept; and whenever mice got into the house, Gef supposedly assumed the role of a cat, although he preferred to scare them rather than killing them. According to the Irvings' words, they gave Gef biscuits, chocolates, and bananas, with food left for him in a saucer suspended from the ceiling which he took when he thought no one was watching. The mongoose regularly accompanied them on their trips to the market, but always stayed on the other side of the hedges, chatting incessantly.

The story of Gef became popular in the tabloid press, and many journalists flocked to the Isle to try to catch a glimpse of the creature. Several other people, both locals and visitors, claimed to have heard Gef's voice, and two claimed to have seen it; however, physical evidence was lacking. Footprints, stains on the wall, and hair samples claimed to be evidence of Gef were identified as belonging to the Irvings' sheepdog, as were several photos which were claimed by the Irvings to depict Gef.

Margaret and Voirrey Irving left the home in 1945 after the death of James Irving. They reportedly had to sell the farm at a loss because it had the reputation of being haunted. In 1946, Leslie Graham, who had bought their farm, claimed in the press that he had shot and killed Gef. The body displayed by Graham was, however, black and white and much larger than the famous mongoose and Voirrey Irving was certain that it was not Gef.

Voirrey died in 2005. In an interview published late in life, she maintained that Gef was not her creation.

Harry Price
In July 1935 the editor of The Listener, Richard S. Lambert (known as "Rex"), and his friend, paranormal investigator Harry Price, went to the Isle of Man to investigate the case and produced the book The Haunting of Cashen's Gap (1936). They avoided saying that they believed the story but were careful to report it objectively. The book reports how a hair from the alleged mongoose was sent to Julian Huxley, who then sent it to naturalist F. Martin Duncan, who identified it as a dog hair. Price suspected the hair belonged to the Irvings' sheepdog, Mona.

Price asked Reginald Pocock of the Natural History Museum to evaluate pawprints allegedly made by Gef in plasticene together with an impression of his supposed tooth marks. Pocock could not match them to any known animal, though he conceded that one of them might have been "conceivably made by a dog". He did state that none of the markings had been made by a mongoose. The diaries of James Irving, along with reports about the case, are in Harry Price's archives in the Senate House Library, University of London.

Upon visiting the Irvings, Price observed double walls of wooden panelling covering the interior rooms of the old stone farmhouse which featured considerable interior air space between stone, as well as walls, also made of wood, that "[made] the whole house one great speaking-tube, with walls like sound boards. By speaking into one of the many apertures in the panels, it should be possible to convey the voice to various parts of the house." According to Richard Wiseman, "Price and Lambert were less than enthusiastic about the case, concluding that only the most credulous of individuals would be impressed with the evidence for Gef."

Nandor Fodor
Nandor Fodor, Research Officer for the International Institute for Psychical Research, stayed at the Irving’s house for a week without seeing or hearing Gef. Fodor disbelieved any deliberate deception had occurred and moulded a complex psychological theory to explain Gef based on "a split-off part" of Jim Irving's personality.

Critical reception
Although some psychic investigators thought that Gef was a poltergeist or another type of ghost, sceptics, including residents of the Isle of Man, believed the Irving family had colluded to perpetuate a hoax that was originated by daughter Voirrey. An Isle of Man Examiner reporter wrote that when he caught the girl making noises, her father tried to convince him the sound came from somewhere else. According to Joe Nickell researchers have suspected Voirrey used ventriloquism and other tricks "the effects of which were hyped by family members, reporters in search of a story, and credulous paranormalists."

Contemporary media scholar Jeffrey Sconce writes that the most likely explanation is that "this extra extra clever mongoose was an imaginary companion created by the Irvings' extra extra clever daughter."

Lambert slander case
In 1937 Lambert brought an action for slander against Sir Cecil Levita, after Levita suggested to a friend that Lambert was unfit to be on the board of the British Film Institute. Levita said that Lambert was "off his head" because he had believed in the talking mongoose and the evil eye.

Lambert was pressured to abandon his action by Sir Stephen Tallents but persisted with it and won, receiving £7,600 in damages, then an exceptional figure for a slander case, awarded because Lambert's counsel managed to introduce a BBC memo which showed Lambert's career had been threatened if he persisted with the action, which became known as "the Mongoose Case".

In media

 * Lemon Demon's 2009 song "Eighth Wonder", is written about Gef and contains many of Gef's alleged statements. The original song was 5:10 long, however, an alternate abridged mix of the song was released on the 2016 album Spirit Phone.
 * Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose (ISBN 9781907222481), by Christopher Josiffe, a nonfiction account of the case, was published by Strange Attractor Press in 2017.
 * The Last Podcast on the Left covered Gef in episode 409.
 * Gef was covered in an episode of the podcast Loremen''.
 * Gef and Fodor's investigation are core to the plot of the audio drama "The Dalby Spook", released as a part of Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures: What Lies Inside? (ISBN 9781838687526), by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle, and published by Big Finish Productions in 2022.
 * The Fodor investigation into Gef is central in the 2023 film Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose starring Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver and Christopher Lloyd, with Neil Gaiman as the voice of Gef.

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Inc. (magazine)

Inc. is an American business magazine founded in 1979 and based in New York City. The magazine publishes six issues per year, along with surrounding online and social media content. The magazine also produces several live and virtual events yearly.

Published by Mansueto Ventures, Inc. is best known for its annual rankings of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States, called the "Inc. 500" and "Inc. 5000".

Early years
Inc. was founded in Boston by Bernie Goldhirsh, and its first issue appeared in April 1979.The magazine was headquartered in Boston's waterfront on the India Wharf and relocated to NYC in the early 2000's. Goldhirsh was an MIT-trained mechanical engineer who founded Sail magazine, which he sold for $10 million in 1980. Paul W. Kellam, who had joined Goldhirsh's company as editor of Marine Business, was one of Inc. first editors. Goldhirsh kept a low profile, and George Gendron, who served as editor-in-chief from 1980 to 2002, was considered the "public face" of the magazine.

In October 1981, Inc. became the first magazine to feature Steve Jobs on its cover, alongside the proclamation, "This man has changed business forever."

In 1982, the magazine began publishing its Inc. 100 ranking, which showcases the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States, which later became Inc. 500.

In 2000, Goldhirsh sold the magazine to German publishing house Gruner + Jahr for a reported price of over $200 million. In 2005, Joe Mansueto, founder of investment research firm Morningstar Ventures, bought Inc. and another business title, Fast Company, for about $35 million, forming publishing company Mansueto Ventures.

In 2007, the magazine’s Inc. 500 list was expanded to the Inc. 5000 to include more fast-growing companies.

2010-2020
In December 2013, Eric Schurenberg was appointed president and editor-in-chief of Inc., replacing the long-tenured Jane Berentson. In March 2018, Schurenberg was appointed CEO of Mansueto Ventures, and Ledbetter was promoted to editor-in-chief of Inc.

Its current editor-in-chief is Scott Omelianuk, former editor-in-chief of This Old House magazine. He succeeded James Ledbetter in early 2020.

In 2015, the Inc. 5000 Europe ranking was published.

Inc. Uncensored podcast won the 2016 and 2017 min's Best of the Web Awards for Best Podcast, along with a 2018 Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Award honorable mention.

Inc. received multiple Folio awards in 2017 and 2018, including honors for full-print issues, best redesign, use of video, and use of social media. Its 2016 feature, "The Stealthy Sales Kings of Amazon", won a Best in Business award from the Society for Advancing Business Writing and Editing.

Operations
Inc. is owned by Mansueto Ventures, Joe Mansueto’s company, which also owns Fast Company.

Inc. focuses on entrepreneurship, startups, small businesses, and business growth. It provides insights, advice, special reports, and resources for business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals in building their companies, as well as daily news on money, tech, and management.

It publishes books under the imprint An Inc. Original in partnership with Greenleaf Book Group.

Inc. produces a weekly, award-winning podcast called Inc. Uncensored, where Inc. journalists discuss startups, technology, market and industry trends, and more. The podcast has released hundreds of episodes and won the 2016 and 2017 min's Best of the Web Awards for Best Podcast, along with a 2018 Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Award honorable mention.

Inc. office is at 7 World Trade Center in New York City.

The magazine hosts several events, including the annual Inc. 5000 Conference & Awards Ceremony, which celebrates the Inc. 5000 and allows honorees, alumni, and other growth-minded entrepreneurs to learn and network.

As of 2023, Inc. has 8 recognition programs: Inc. Best Workplaces, Inc. Best in Business, Inc. Regionals, Inc. Founder-Friendly Investors, Inc. Female Founders, Inc. Power Partners, Ignition Schools and Inc. 5000. Inc. Best Workplaces is an annual list compiled by Inc. magazine that recognizes US companies with exceptional workplace cultures. These rankings are based on aspects such as company culture, employee benefits, professional development opportunities, work-life balance, and overall employee satisfaction. It highlights organizations that prioritize their employees' well-being and foster a positive work culture. The magazine also presents an annual Inc. Best in Business Award to the companies that have made an extraordinary impact in their fields and on society in the past 12 months. The winners are selected from a wide array of categories. Inc.’s editors assess the impact a company has achieved over the year, both in its industry and on a social level. Honorees chosen by Inc. appear in its Winter issue and featured on the Inc. website. Inc. Regionals, is an extension of the Inc. 5000 and rankings of the fastest-growing companies in a particular region of the US: Pacific, Southeast, Northeast, Southwest, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Inc. Founder-Friendly Investors is a published list of founder-friendly private equity firms and venture capital firms in America. Inc. Female Founders list recognizes women entrepreneurs. Inc. Power Partners recognizes the companies in the B2B field, and Ignition Schools is devoted to academic institutions, universities, and colleges.

Editors-in-chief

 * George Gendron — 1980–2002
 * John Koten — 2002–2005
 * Jane Berentson — 2005–2012
 * Eric Schurenberg — 2012–2018
 * James Ledbetter — 2018–2019
 * Scott Omelianuk — 2020–present

Inc.500
In April 1979, the inaugural issue of Inc. featured the 'Inc. 100,' a list of the fastest-growing, publicly held small companies. By 1982, this list had expanded to the 'Inc. 500,' ranking companies based on their overall revenue growth over a three-year period. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine each year, highlighting their significant growth and achievements in the private sector of the United States.

Inc.5000
Inc. 5000 was first presented in 2007, expanding the Inc. 500. It lists the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. This list ranks these companies based on their revenue growth rate, defining revenue as gross revenue minus returns and allowances, excluding the cost of goods sold. It categorizes the fastest-growing companies by industry, metro area, revenue, and number of employees, with special highlights for women and minority-run businesses.

To be eligible, privately owned companies must demonstrate three years of revenue growth. Once included in the Inc. 5000, these companies are invited to a three-day Inc. conference. While all 5,000 companies are profiled on Inc.com, only the top 500 gain the spotlight in the September issue of Inc. magazine.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H4xopolis

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

The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 11:59, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

H4xopolis
Not notable. --fvw *  23:47, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete barely 100 members -- Ryan Norton T 00:45, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; non-notable. Jaxl | talk 00:48, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Note from Creator: Aww, man, why does it have to be deleted? Does it really matter if it's insignificant at this point?
 * Posted an explaination and some links on his talk page. GraemeL (talk)

 * Delete. Not notable. --GraemeL (talk) 11:35, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not every webpage deserves an article. --NormanEinstein 12:03, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - not notable - Tεx  τ  urε  16:44, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
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Ola Halén

Ola Sven Halén (born 12 February 1977) is a Swedish metal vocalist, currently with the melodic power metal band Shadows Past. Between 2002 and 2010, he was the lead singer of the Stockholm-based power metal band Insania.

He has written four solo records under the Shadows Past moniker, on which he plays all guitars, bass and keyboards himself, apart from singing. As of 2004/2005 his Shadows Past project is also an active band. Additionally, he has also written and recorded an album of pop songs, called Kind Of Weird.

He cites his main vocal influences as Michael Kiske (Helloween), Oliver Hartmann (ex-At Vance) and former bandmate Dimitri Keiski.

Discography
Shadows Past
 * Idleness, pt. I (2000)
 * Agony (2001)
 * Idleness, pt. II (2002)
 * Idleness, pt. III (2004)
 * Blown Away (demo, 2006)
 * Perfect Chapter (demo, 2009)

Insania
 * Fantasy - A New Dimension (2003)
 * Agony - Gift Of Life (2007)

Solo
 * Kind Of Weird (2004)
 * Nackskott (2016)
 * Idleness (2020)

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User:Gorak

Gorak is a Wikipedia Phototographer

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Marcin Baran

Marcin Baran (born 1963 in Kraków) is a Polish poet and journalist. He has a degree in Polonistics from the Jagiellonian University. He is one of the Polish poets who published their verses in the magazine bruLion (sometimes spelled brulion).

One of the main themes of his poetry is woman, for him the symbol of deathlessness. His poems have been translated into German, Slovak and Czech.

Books of poetry

 * Pomieszanie Kraków: Oficyna Literacka, 1990
 * Sosnowiec jest jak kobieta Kraków-Warszawa: bruLion, 1992
 * Zabiegi miłosne Kraków: Baran i Suszczyński, 1996 (nominated for Nike Award)
 * Sprzeczne fragmenty Poznań: a5, 1996
 * Tanero Kraków: Oficyna Literacka, 1998
 * Prozak liryczny Kraków: WL, 1999
 * Bóg raczy wiedzieć Kraków: Zebra, 2000
 * Destylat Kraków: Wydawnictwo Zielona Sowa 2001 (selected poems)
 * Gnijąca wisienka Kraków: a5, 2003

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User:Rjonesric

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During my career I have written software (Fortran, Cobol, Natural, HTML, and php), have managed large software development projects, and have managed and led information technology organizations.

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Talk:Casio CZ synthesizers

This page needs some information on the Casio VZ synths which were the final synths Casio produced. VZ-1,VZ-8M and VZ-10M. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.67.25.45 (talk • contribs) 23:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Why was the CZ-1 removed from the page?
It is still in the Google cache, but disappeared a couple of revs ago. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jbrave (talk • contribs) 23:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC).

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CZ-1 memory backup battery replacement
Not sure if this is the appropriate place to put this, but as these synthesizers are getting on in years the memory backup battery has usually well exceeded its 10 year design life and may need replacement.

The original BR2032-1HM Lithium battery is a horizontally mounted type that is soldered onto the circuit board.

The Casio CZ1 service manual schematics/parts list (page 62) show a BR2032-1HM Lithium battery.

It is sometimes replaced by a CR2032 lithium cell (which has lower temperature rating and quicker discharge), combined with a horizontal 20mm cell holder (the HM part).

Easy to replace the battery: Just flip the old CR2032 cell out and slot another one in rather than desolder/resolder the BR2032-1HM. Quick and dirty solution, and probably a good quick fix to get your money and run if you are are servicing one for money. Beware the battery may fall out if the device is bumped, hence why Casio soldered the BR2032-1HM type in.

The '2032' is the dimensions of the battery - 20mm wide by 3.2mm high - same for both types of battery.

The BR is for a Lithium Polycarbon Monofluoride battery, and the CR is for Manganese Dioxide chemistry.

Self discharge for BR cells is far lower than CR types (BR=90% voltage left after 10 years), hence their specified preferred use in a 10 year backup environment by Casio in the Casio CZ-1.

The BR cells are rated at 3.0v 190mAh.

Both the BR2032 and CR2032 batteries are designed to be NON-rechargeable.

Don't forget to backup your settings before you remove the battery and restore them afterwards.

I hope this clears up any misunderstandings. Cheers... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.138.209 (talk) 13:02, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

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Special rules of order

A special rule of order is parliamentary procedure term for a rule adopted by the organization that relate to procedure or to the duties of officers within meetings.

Explanation and use
Special rules of order (with a few exceptions) supersede the rules in an adopted parliamentary authority such as Robert's Rules of Order. These rules continue in existence from one meeting to the next.

Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR)
Special rules can be adopted by a two-thirds vote with previous notice or a majority of the entire membership of the group. In conventions, a mixture of standing and special rules that are adopted at the start of the convention are called "convention standing rule" in RONR. These, when adopted as a "package" generally require a two-thirds vote.

The Standard Code (TSC)
The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (TSC), refer to these types of rules as "standing rules", and do not require a simple majority vote without previous notice. One of the most common types of these rules is the rule to set limits on the amount of time, or the number of times, a member may speak in debate or to prohibit some type of motion.

Related concepts

 * "Standing rules" in RONR adopted rules that do not relate to procedure.
 * Under TSC "special rules" as rules adopted just for one situation and do not have continuing existence.

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Feudal baron

A feudal baron is a vassal holding a heritable fief called a barony, comprising a specific portion of land, granted by an overlord in return for allegiance and service. Following the end of European feudalism, feudal baronies have largely been superseded by baronies held as a rank of nobility, without any attachment to a fief. However, in Scotland, the feudal dignity of baron remains in existence, and may be bought and sold independently of the land to which it was formerly attached.

England
Historically, the feudal barons of England were the king's tenants-in-chief, that is to say men who held land by feudal tenure directly from the king as their sole overlord and were granted by him a legal jurisdiction (court baron) over their territory, the barony, comprising several manors. Such men, if not already noblemen, were ennobled by obtaining such tenure, and had thenceforth an obligation, upon summons by writ, to attend the king's peripatetic court, the earliest form of Parliament and the House of Lords. They thus formed the baronage, which later formed a large part of the peerage of England.

English feudal baronies (and all lesser forms of feudal tenure) were abolished by the Tenures Abolition Act 1660, but the titles/dignities remain. However, long before then the royal summons to attend parliament had been withheld from all but the most powerful feudal barons and had been extended to persons with lesser feudal tenures who had personal qualities fitting them to be royal councillors and thus peers. These latter were barons by writ.

The English feudal barony, or "barony by tenure", now has no legal existence except as an incorporeal hereditament title or dignity. It was the highest form of feudal land tenure, namely per baroniam (Latin for "by barony") under which the land-holder owed the now little understood service of "being one of the king's barons". It must be distinguished from the lesser barony, also feudal, which existed within a county palatine, such as the barony of Halton within the Palatinate of Chester. Such barons were merely tenants-in-chief of a prince, whose own overlord was the king.

The duties and privileges owed by feudal barons cannot now be defined exactly, but the main duty certainly was the provision of soldiers to the royal feudal army on demand by the king. A further duty, which involved considerable expense and travel, clearly also a privilege, was the attendance at the king's feudal court, the precursor of Parliament. The principal benefits clearly were
 * the revenue generated from rents and production within the demesne lands of the barony;
 * the personal power and prestige derived from the feudal service of the tenants, the highest level of whom, lords of their own manors, became knights in the baron's retinue.

The estate-in-land held by barony, if containing a significant castle as its caput and if especially large, that is to say consisting of more than about 20 knight's fees (each loosely equivalent to a manor), was termed an "honour". Constituent manors of a barony were mostly subinfeudated by the baron to his own knights or followers, with a few retained tenantless as his demesne. Most English feudal baronies were converted to baronies of writ or peerage under the Tenures Abolition Act 1660. The baronies not converted became baronies of free socage, a dignity title.

There exist today a very few cases of English families which, had it not been for the 1660 Act, would still be feudal barons of ancient creation. One such is the Berkeley family. Although its Earldom of Berkeley became extinct in 1942 and it recently lost its older peerage title Baron Berkeley to a female line, in 2014 the family still possesses and resides (that is to say retains tenure) as county gentry at Berkeley Castle, the caput of the feudal barony of Berkeley granted by King Henry II (1154–1189) to its direct ancestor in the male line Robert FitzHarding (d.1171), whose son took the surname de Berkeley.

France
Under the Ancien Régime until the abolition of the feudal system in 1789, a French baron was any noble in possession of fief called a barony. As such, possession of the title and the land were in theory inextricably linked. Nevertheless, nobles without any fief of their own might assume the title of baron for themselves.

Under the imperial nobility of Napoleon and the recreated peerage of the Bourbon Restoration, French baronies returned. However, these new baronies were simply titles of nobility and not fiefdoms.

Scotland
In contrast to the English equivalent, the dignity of baron is a non-peerage rank of feudal origin in the Baronage of Scotland and is protected by the "Abolition of Feudal Tenure, etc (Scotland) Act 2000" recognised by the crown as a title of nobility with status of minor baron. A Scottish barony is the only UK title of nobility able to be legally alienated from the bloodline of its previous possessor. Hence the Scottish equivalent of an English peerage baron is a Lord of Parliament. The heraldry of Scottish baronies is governed by the court of the Lord Lyon.

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Stanisław Barańczak

Stanisław Barańczak (, November 13, 1946 – December 26, 2014) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to-Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakespeare and of the poetry of E.E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Wystan Hugh Auden, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Keats, Robert Frost, Edward Lear and others.

Personal life
Born in Poznań, Poland on November 13, 1946, Barańczak was raised by his father Jan and mother Zofia, both doctors. He was the brother of the novelist Małgorzata Musierowicz. He studied philology at Poznań's Adam Mickiewicz University, where he obtained an M.A. and Ph.D. His doctoral dissertation concerned the poetic language of Miron Białoszewski. In 1968, he married Anna Brylka, with whom he had two children, Michael and Anna.

Career
Barańczak became a lecturer at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He broke into print as a poet and critic in 1965. Barańczak was on the staff of the Poznań magazine Nurt from 1967 to 1971. After the political events of June 1976, he became a co-founder of the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) and of the clandestine quarterly Zapis. In 1981, the year Poland declared martial law, he left the country and accepted a three-year contract to work as a lecturer at Harvard University. He stayed at Harvard for almost two decades, leaving in 1999 due to complications with Parkinson's disease. He was a co-founder of the Paris Zeszyty Literackie ("Literary Textbooks") in 1983, and a regular contributor to the periodical Teksty Drugie. He also served as editor of The Polish Review from 1986 to 1990.

Barańczak was a prominent representative of the Polish "New Wave" and is generally regarded as one of the greatest translators of English poetry into Polish and Polish poetry into English. He received the PEN Translation Prize with Clare Cavanagh in 1996. His book, Surgical Precision (Chirurgiczna precyzja), won the 1999 Nike Award - Poland's top literary prize. The language he employed in his works is highly evocative of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, John Donne and Robert Frost, with whom he felt strongest connection and whose literary legacy he helped popularize in Poland. Barańczak's own poetry deals with three major themes: the ethical, the political, and the literary. His language can be characterized as outstandingly fluent and flexible and the subject-matter of his poems seems to confirm his commitment to social issues. He started his literary career as "a poetic critic of language and the social order" but his greatest achievements came from his works as a late-20th-century Parnassist, a master of poetic form.

Barańczak introduced the concept of semantic dominant (Polish: dominanta semantyczna) in translations of poetry. The semantic dominant is a "key to the content" of the poem. It is a semantic or formal element that is most crucial and irreplaceable. It can take the form of rhyme, versification, syntax, or the other stylistic elements that prevail. The translator's task is to find the dominant feature of a given work and make it the most important translation element. This approach to poetry translations is based on heuristic model, which Barańczak described in his essay entitled: "Mały, lecz maksymalistyczny manifest translatologiczny"(Small but Maximalistic Translatological Manifest), included in his book:"Saved in Translation: Sketches on the Craft of Translating Poetry".

Some of his poems were set to music by Jan Krzysztof Kelus.

Death
Stanisław Barańczak died at the age of 68 after "a long debilitating disease" in Newtonville, Massachusetts on December 26, 2014. He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

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Talk:Geographic coordinate system

Too many reverts
I see a bit too many reverts, which I suggest end. There are some useful and unuseful bits, so I don't want to add add another revert. Here are a few notes:
 * Use of en dash for "west–east" is correct (MOS:ENDASH), so keep these edits.
 * There is no primary English variation for this article. Not sure what's best: use all US English, use all British English, or mixed, as this is a globally-focused article. I think it is OK to have it mixed in context, as it was before. So use British English for "but neighbouring Scotland" and American English for "cartographical organization include the North American Datum". More on this MOS:ENGVAR.
 * + m t  21:00, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The top of the talk page contains a US English template. Presumably the UK spelling snuck in after the template was added.Jc3s5h (talk) 21:24, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I normally look for Use American English on the main article, but I see this now on the Talk page. This is fine with me. + m t  23:27, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Figure is wrong
The figure with the caption "Earth centered, Earth fixed coordinates in relation to latitude and longitude" is wrong -- since this is for an ellipsoid, the radius vector $r$ should not pass through the center of mass of the ellipsoid. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_conversion#/media/File:Geodetic_latitude_and_the_length_of_Normal.svg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.204.46.102 (talk) 01:45, 30 August 2020 (UTC) Strebe (talk) 03:14, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The diagram is for ECEF, which is not geodetic coordinates. As stated in the article, "The Earth-centered Earth-fixed (also known as the ECEF, ECF, or conventional terrestrial coordinate system) rotates with the Earth and has its origin at the center of the Earth."

Rename??
The name of this page can be confusing, as the specific term GCS is commonly used only for the spherical (lat/lon) coordinates, as opposed to planar or projected coordinate systems (e.g., in ArcGIS and some textbooks). The generic term is just "coordinate system" in geography, so perhaps it should be Coordinate System (Geography), with a section or separate page focusing on GCS (lat/lon). That said, I've always thought such a co-option of the generic term GCS for one type is unfortunate, but it is not my decision. Maybe we should just follow the crowd and start calling lat/lon "GPS coordinates" ;-) Bplewe (talk) 16:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Bplewe has not offered sufficient proof, with citations to reliable sources, that the term "geographic coordinate system" only applies to latitude and longitude, and excludes other terrestrial coordinates such as projected coordinates, Cartesian coordinates coordinates etc. Also, it is not clear tom me that "Coordinate System (Geography)" would be any better than "Geographic coordinate system".

 * Support. “Geographic coordinate system” as used in GIS these days refers to spherical coordinates with a datum. I think this is an Esri convention that has pretty much taken over. The literature, historically, refers to “geographic(al) coordinates” (without “system”) to mean latitude and longitude; no such term as “geographical coordinate system” seems to have been in common use before GIS. Yes, we need references, but the reference will support this change. Strebe (talk) 19:11, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
 * It's not clear that we should decide only on the basis of GIS nomenclature. Some other points of view are astronomy and geography as an academic subject. Looking around, I discovered that Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate system essentially covers (or should cover) the same material, but is a bit more astronomy-oriented. The two articles should probably be merged. Jc3s5h (talk) 21:51, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

 * If the term “geographic coordinate system” was not defined before it came into use in GIS, and is in use nowhere else, then I think we should decide “only on the basis of GIS nomenclature”. The closest I can find routinely in the literature before GIS is “geographic coordinate(s)”, which always seems to refer to latitude/longitude. I don’t think ECEF the should get merged with this one. The ECEF article is woefully incomplete and inadequate; I think it should get fleshed out. Strebe (talk) 01:55, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

 * I totally agree with not changing the terminology solely because ArcGIS does so, and thanks Daan for making me do my homework (and also thanks for being the watchdog over this subdiscipline, every one should have someone as conscientious). There does seem to be an emerging consensus, encapsulated in EPSG, ISO 19111 and the corresponding OGC AS-2, and I would propose that we should conform to their terminology as the baseline. As annoyed as I am about the confusing way that ArcGIS uses these terms in its interface, it does technically conform to these standards. These all define the following (OGC AS-2 Section 9):
 * Coordinate system is a generic term for a framework for measuring locations, not necessarily geographic
 *  Coordinate reference system is a standardized coordinate system for measuring geographic locations, a coordinate system along with a choice of horizontal datum. Spatial reference system is also used a lot here.
 * Geographic CRS measures location using ellipsoidal coordinates (lat/lon on a choice of ellipsoid model, maybe + HAE)
 * Geocentric CRS = Earth Centered Earth Fixed
 *  Projected CRS measures location on a planar surface created by a map projection
 * and a bunch of others including local-context "Engineering CRS", image coordinates, etc.
 * So my revised proposal is to improve Spatial reference system to be the overall umbrella, and focus this page on lat/lon+datum, with the existing title. Grid reference system should probably be revised slightly to conform; should it be renamed to Projected Coordinate System?Bplewe (talk) 00:33, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Refocused
Since there was no objection to my proposal, I have refocused this page with respect to Spatial reference system, Grid reference system, and Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate system, so that this page focuses specifically on latitude/longitude, which is how the term is used in the international standards mentioned above. It could still use some improvement, though. Bplewe (talk) 02:44, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Geography
What is meant by geographic coordinate system?who introduced it? 2405:EC01:1001:2B61:FEF:BAB5:6097:67FC (talk) 04:52, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

 * @2405:EC01:1001:2B61:FEF:BAB5:6097:67FC its a worldwide corrdinates and idk either who introduced it 2601:680:8300:3870:ACD0:3995:CC1D:3CEF (talk) 05:28, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

North South East West
One often sees e.g. +/-Y° and +/-X° instead of °N/S and °E/W. If there are one or more standards for this, I think it might be helpful to discuss this topic on the page. 142.92.29.46 (talk) 19:05, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Good point. Strebe (talk) 23:04, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Do you have some example sources? –jacobolus (t) 23:46, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Not off the top of my head. But I have encountered it in the past.  I came here looking to confirm which is "standard" (I think + is usually N and E) and found nothing. 142.92.29.45 (talk) 14:35, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Found one. Look at the +/- values given for lat/lon here:
 * https://geopandas.org/en/stable/docs/reference/api/geopandas.points_from_xy.html 142.92.29.45 (talk) 14:59, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

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Bubble Dizzy

Bubble Dizzy is an arcade style action video game developed by the Oliver Twins and published in November 1990 by Codemasters for the Amstrad, Spectrum, MS-DOS, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and Amiga.

Gameplay
The game involves Dizzy being forced to walk the plank of a pirate ship and from the sea bed use bubbles to float back to the surface and dry land.

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Martin Groves

Martin Groves is a British hillclimb driver, who won the British Hill Climb Championship in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010. With older cars he had won five rounds of the BHCC between 2001 and 2004, but in 2005 he was exceptionally quick in his new Gould GR55B, clinching the championship at Craigantlet in early August having finished first or second in every one of the 28 BHCC rounds up to that point. He retained the title in 2006, after fending off a strong challenge from Scott Moran.

Also in 2006, Groves drove a Gould (though a 2.65-litre car rather than his usual larger-capacity machine) at Bathurst in the Australian Hillclimb Championship, dipping well inside the hill record.

In 2007 Groves became the first man to dip under 23 seconds at Shelsley Walsh, when he recorded 22.86 seconds on 3 June. However, he lost the record to Scott Moran later that same day. At the final meeting of the 2007 Championship, at Shelsley Walsh on 7 October, Groves secured a hat-trick of titles when he won the first run-off, regaining the outright record in the process with a time of 22.81 seconds. On 17 August 2008, Groves lowered the record further to 22.58 seconds. This record stood for two days short of 13 years before being broken by Sean Gould, Wallace Menzies and Alex Summers on 15 August 2021.

At Val des Terres in July 2009, Groves equalled Roy Lane's long-standing record of 90 wins in BHCC rounds. He became the first driver to record 100 wins in August 2010, reaching the mark at Craigantlet.

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Aleksander Baumgardten

Aleksander Baumgardten (1908–1980) was a Polish poet.

Aleksander Baumgardten was born on May 31, 1908, in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland). He was a writer, known for Pieciu (1964). He died on June 29, 1980, in Katowice, Slaskie, Poland.

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Ronald Gajraj

Ronald Gajraj (April 1952 - December 2018) was a Guyanese lawyer and politician and who served as the Minister of Home Affairs. He was a member of the People's Progressive Party.

Biography
Gajraj was a Lieutenant in the Guyana Defence Force, Lawyer, and later the Minister of Home Affairs, and the High Commissioner to India and Bangladesh.

Gajraj was appointed Minister of Home Affairs by Janet Jagan, on January 1999, and served until May 2005.

In 2002, they were rumours of a death squad operating extra-judicially that was allegedly responsible for the execution of numerous men who were wanted by local police for crimes against the state. In October 2003, George Bacchus, a self proclaimed member of the death squad, accused Gajraj of providing support to the alleged 'death squad'.

Bacchus was found murdered in his home on June 24, 2004, drawing speculation that the execution was carried out by the alleged death squad. However, twenty - three (23) year old Delon Reynolds, A.K.A 'Fatboy' plead guilty for manslaughter and was convicted and sentenced to ten (10) years imprisonment, claiming that a funeral parlour owner paid him to carry out the murder because of a personal problem she had with Bacchus. Nonetheless Gajraj stepped down as Home Affairs Minister, requesting a commission of inquiry, saying "I would like to take this opportunity to state categorically that the statement by His Excellency must not be seen as an about-face. It must be noted that the political opposition has been calling for my removal, thus aborting the course of natural justice. They tried me, convicted me and sentenced me before any investigation. I do not intend to resign on the basis of unfounded and scandalous allegations in sections of the media. I will not be lynched....I call on sections of the media and their political handlers to stop hounding and vilifying my family and me. Let us all await the findings of the Inquiry, which I expect will be made public.".

The Commission of Inquiry was chaired by Justice of Appeal Ian Chang, and also included former Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Major General (ret'd) Norman McLean and Deputy Commissioner of Police (ret'd) and Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mr. Ivan Crandon. According to the Terms of Reference, they were to examine, advise and report on whether and to what extent there was evidence of a credible nature to support the allegations that Gajraj had been involved in promoting, directing or otherwise engaged in activities which have involved the extra-judicial killing of persons. The commission cleared Gajraj of any involvement into the 'alleged' death squad or extra-judicial murders, and he was reinstated as Minister, subsequently resigning under international pressure.

In 2005, he was appointed Guyana's High Commissioner to India, and subsequently Bangladesh in 2015, he was also appointed Guyana's High Commissioner to Bangladesh. He served in both roles until after the 2015 Guyanese general election.

Ronald Gajraj died on 15 December 2018 following a short illness. The People's Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), Gajraj's political party, paid tribute to the late politician noting that "Gajraj would best be remembered for the pivotal role he had played as Home Affairs Minister in the fight against crime at a very challenging time in this nation’s history.".

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Michael M. Ames

Michael M. Ames, (June 19, 1933 – February 20, 2006) was a Canadian academic and Professor of Anthropology of the department of  anthropology-sociology at the University of British Columbia.

Life
He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he received a B.A. in anthropology from the University of British Columbia in 1956. He received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1961. From 1962 to 1964, he was an assistant professor of sociology at McMaster University. He started at the University of British Columbia as assistant professor in 1964 and became a full professor in 1970.

From 1974 to 1997, he was director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. From 2002 to 2004, he was also the acting director.

In 1998, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1979 and made a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1996. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1970.

Legacy
The Council for Museum Anthropology awards the Michael M. Ames Prize.

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San Mateo High School

San Mateo High School is a National Blue Ribbon comprehensive four-year public high school in San Mateo, California, United States. It serves grades 9–12 and is one of the seven San Mateo Union High School District public high schools.

History
In its first year, San Mateo High School was located in the Dixon Cottage on Ellsworth Avenue with an enrollment of just 14 students. The faculty was composed of A.G. Van Gorder, principal, and teacher; and Marie Borough and Florence Kimball, two assistant teachers. The school was opened on September 15, 1902, at 8:30 am, in the two-story Dixon Cottage at 54 North Ellsworth Street. Its courses included foreign languages, the arts, history, and varied courses in science and mathematics. In the beginning, only two years were required for graduation, but many students continued the full four years with intention of going to college. Textbooks were well preserved, as the students had to buy their own. Reimbursement could usually be had by selling the used books to the incoming freshmen.

Princeton University, with the colors orange and black, was "King of Sports" in 1902. Following suit, San Mateo High chose orange and black as its colors, and set its own words to the music of Princeton's school song.

Early in 1903, the high school on Ellsworth Street became too small to accommodate the increased enrollment, which was then 27. Following a bond election, the Board of Education appropriated $24,000 for the purchase of Brewer Tract, which housed Saint Margaret's School for Girls. This was a three-story structure situated on the corner of Baldwin Avenue and San Mateo Drive. During the summer, in addition to remodeling and refurnishing the building, a new chemistry laboratory was constructed and supplied at a cost of $270. SMHS also gained a set of reference books at $75 and three Remington typewriters at $70 each. Classes were conducted in this building from 1903 until 1911.

Although the school building was considerably damaged in the earthquake of 1906, no class time was lost. The building was one of the first to be repaired after the earthquake.

By 1907 there were 90 students enrolled. In 1906, all of the academic departments were accredited by the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, San Mateo High School has been recognized as a leading institution of learning in the San Mateo community. In 1991, the school was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education. In 2005, it was recognized with a Gold Standard Award for Academic Excellence by California Business for Education Excellence (CBEE) in conjunction with the California State University system. This award recognizes only ten California high schools which have shown measurable gains and strong academic performance by preparing students for college and the workforce, while showing evidence of reducing achievement gaps between various subgroups of students over time.

The first graduates of San Mateo High left their school days behind to take part in the leadership of the twentieth century on June 5, 1905. The students of the first class included Elizabeth Dingwell; Emily Donnelly; Kenneth Green, salutatorian; Freda Hagerup, valedictorian; Eva Leavy; Mabel Moore; and Lena Sullivan.

On February 4, 1911, a notice appeared in the San Mateo Times stating that the new San Mateo High School building on the Baldwin Avenue campus was almost completed. On May 5, the new structure was formally opened. At the dedication ceremony, a copper box containing autographed signatures of the High School Board; the faculty and students; the grammar school teachers; the county, town, and grammar school district officials; copies of The Elm; a directory of all the high schools in the state; and pictures of SMHS in all its stages of development from 1902-1911 was placed in the cornerstone to be preserved for all time.

On December 3, a $50,000 school bond was passed by a vote of 394 "yes" and 124 "no", enabling the board, under President J. C. Robb, to award and make payment on bids to the tune of $92,268 covering the building, heating, plumbing, painting, and electrical wiring in the new school.

In the years 1920-1921, approximately 500 students were enrolled in the daytime school, which had a capacity of 350. Women Right's activist Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer would also help create and manage various Art and Architecture departments at the time. Therefore, larger classes and fewer courses were offered, with less individual attention given by the teachers. A committee was formed to investigate keeping the present campus and getting land in the north for a school or obtaining land for one school for the entire district. To help with the problem of a crowded school, the board passed a motion to build a temporary building to house band, music, printing, and two recitation rooms. This was erected between the tennis courts and the retaining wall, shops and the rear of the main building.

The following year, more than 500 students registered at SMHS during the first week of the fall semester. The Baldwin Avenue school was designed for only 400; the main building consisted 11 classrooms, and five classrooms in temporary buildings housed the music, print shop, and history departments. In some cases, it was necessary for 50 students to occupy a room built for 25. Yet the first bond issue for Burlingame High School was defeated because it lacked the necessary two-thirds majority. The school board immediately called for a new bond election for $360,000 to be held November 12, 1921; $60,000 was for land and the rest for the building and furnishings. After a vigorous campaign, highlighted by a mass meeting on November 9, called by Major W. H. Pearson of Burlingame, the issue passed 1710-280. On April 5, 1922, ground was broken for Burlingame High School. On December 20, 1923, about 1,000 people attended the formal dedication of Burlingame High School. It should be mentioned, however, that Burlingame and San Mateo High Schools remained as one student body under one set of student body officers. Early in the spring of 1927, the Board of Trustees ordered San Mateo High to split into two units, to establish separate student bodies: San Mateo and Burlingame High Schools, with their own activities and teams.

In the fall of 1927, the present San Mateo High School Delaware campus was completed. The $600,000 school, designed by architects John E. and E. L. Norberg, consisted of a main and an art building and a boys' gym. The new facility followed the architectural model of Henry VIII's Hampton Court in England. On November 10, the first anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone, the new T-shaped main building was dedicated and featured the state's most complete science departments with experimental switchboards, fume cabinets, and a greenhouse over the biology rooms; a print shop that handled printing for both high schools and the junior college (now College of San Mateo); a Tudor design library; and a dumbwaiter for fast communication between the principal's office and the superintendent's office on the second floor. A clock tower looming above the main entrance boasted the only set of chimes in a high school in the state. The $115,000 chimes were presented by Mrs. Charles S. Howard in memory of her son. With San Mateo and Burlingame high schools officially separated, students in the two cities were committed to attend their respective schools. The school was structurally reinforced for earthquake safety measures in 1934-1935 and then was entirely torn down and renovated for earthquake safety from 2001 to 2005.

After the 2005 rebuild of the school, it did not retain the original T-shaped form but rather a U-shaped design that houses the "A", "B", "C", "D" buildings along with isolated "E" and Music buildings. The A-building houses Administration, World Languages, Social Sciences, Photography, Digital Media, Directed Studies, Student Government, Renaissance Leadership, and some English and Mathematics. The B-building houses just English, with the library occupying the bottom floor; it has a dedicated Media Lab for Journalism and Yearbook. The C-building contains all Science classes (except Biotechnology), a few Mathematics classes, and also consists of one California Technical Education class, Food and Nutrition. The D-building is a state-of-the-art addition to the Biotechnology Training Facility wing that was completed in November 2010. The E-building houses the pool area, sports trainer offices, Small Gym, and Health courses. The Music Building, built in 1927, is still in its original location and houses Band, Choir, and Music courses. In addition, the campus has tennis courts; an all-weather football, soccer, and track and field stadium; baseball and softball fields; and a large Main Gym with dance studios built in 2003 that is used for Physical Education courses, dance instruction, after-school sports, and school rallies.

The school earned a Guinness World Record in 2005 for collecting 372,000 pounds (168,736 kg) of food from the local community for its annual canned food drive. The collected food was donated to Second Harvest Food Bank and Samaritan House, which provides to all of the needy families all throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties during the holiday season.

Campus
The school moved twice in 1903, and then to Baldwin Avenue in 1911, before moving to its present location on Delaware Street in 1927. In 2001, the school demolished and entirely replaced the original building in an effort to meet modern earthquake safety requirements. Dedicated in August 2005, the new building strongly echoes the design and materials of the original in part due to strong public outcry about the decision to demolish the structure. On February 10, 2006, the campus quad was dedicated to alumnus Merv Griffin, who donated $250,000 to the school ($125,000 of which was intended for the performing arts department). The Merv Griffin Quad sits squarely in the center of the campus and student life at San Mateo High. It includes an amphitheater built in the Greek-style and the Thomas Mohr clock tower, named after a longtime district superintendent and reminiscent of the tower and chimes that were removed from the building during the 1934–1935 structural reinforcements. The courtyard is a popular gathering place for students during lunchtime and rallies.

Efforts to improve the school's educational facilities, while preserving its unique heritage, are ongoing. The Performing Arts Center, which is shared with county-wide performing arts groups and seats 1,540 people, completed a $26.5 million renovation in 2013. The smaller Flex Theatre was built with District and Drama Booster funds in 1993.

During the 2005 rebuilding process, the original library was recreated, maintaining its signature fireplace and mantel and high ceilings. It affords a panoramic view of the center courtyard of the school.

Other improvements to the school have occurred since the 2002 Centennial including transformation of the main athletic stadium with all-weather surfaces for football and soccer and an eight-lane all-weather track, remodeling of the swimming pool in 2003–2005, an expanded weight room, and the building of a joint-use Community Gym housing the wrestling and dance rooms and a full-court basketball area.

Academic reputation
In 2017, San Mateo High School was ranked the 50th best high school in California by Niche In 2015 it was ranked the 216th best public high school in the country by Newsweek.  In 2013 it was ranked 376th nationally by The Washington Post's ranking of "America's Most Challenging High Schools."

Demographics
2017-2018
 * 1,665 students: 832 male (50.0%), 833 female (50.0%)

Approximately 36.5% of the students at San Mateo High are served by the free or reduced-price lunch program.

Biotechnology program
San Mateo High School has a recognized biotechnology program. The recently built $9.2 million biotechnology wing features 9000 sqft of instructional space on the ground floor, an 18-station laboratory, a bio-manufacturing room and independent research laboratory, a plant tissue culture facility, a chemical stockroom and storage area, a bio-imaging room, computer research area, and a student conference area. The second floor boasts a 4000 sqft conference room and distance learning facility to host guest speakers and facilitate video conferencing. Upstairs also has a spot for a greenhouse, long-term storage and staff offices.

Journalism program
The San Mateo Hi is San Mateo High School's school print publication. It is one of the longest-running student journalism programs on the West Coast and prints 16 broadsheet pages once every month. In its 2008–2009 run, the paper won numerous accolades at the Peninsula Press Club High School Newspaper Competition.

In addition to the Hi, Mateo Journalism also maintains an award-winning website, the "Bearcat".

Music
San Mateo High School has Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Marching Band, Advanced Orchestra (Bella Sinfonia), and Choir courses available.

Sports
The school's traditional arch-rival is Burlingame High School, which originated as a branch of San Mateo High in 1923. Near the end of the football season, the two schools hold an annual "Little Big Game," patterned after the collegiate Big Game. In 2023 San Mateo won "The Paw" trophy back, reclaiming it after 14 years. As of November 2023, Burlingame leads the series record 59–33–4.

After a move to the Bay Division, the varsity soccer team won its first Division II CCS title in history in 2012 as well as the league championship.

Notable alumni

 * Walter Afanasieff, Grammy-winning music composer and producer
 * George Archer, Professional Golfer winner of the 1969 Masters Tournament
 * David Binn, 1990, 18-season NFL player
 * Keith Birlem, American football player
 * Jonah Blechman, 1993, actor, This Boy's Life
 * Barry Bostwick, 1964, actor and singer, Spin City
 * Arvin Chin, 1996, film director
 * Ted Dabney, 1955, co-founder of Atari
 * Eric Dane, 1991, actor, Euphoria & Grey's Anatomy
 * Richard K. Diran, expatriate adventurer, photographer
 * Fred Dutton, 1941, Democratic Party political advisor, originator of the idea for Earth Day
 * Phil Goldman, 1982, WebTV founder
 * Merv Griffin, 1942. entertainment producer and former talk show host
 * Dennis Haysbert, 1972, actor of film and television, 24
 * Claire Giannini Hoffman, 1922, first woman to serve on the boards of Bank of America and Sears, Roebuck & Company
 * Wagner Jorgensen, football player
 * Kris Kristofferson, 1954, writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician
 * Lee Mendelson, five-time Emmy-winning producer of Peanuts
 * Bill Neukom, 1959. Managing General Partner of the San Francisco Giants
 * Arron Oberholser, professional golfer
 * Amanda Perez, 2012, professional football player, Mexico
 * Bob Peterson, NBA player
 * Alicia Silverstone, Actress, Clueless
 * Michael Allen, Professional golfer, Winner 2009 Sr PGA Championship
 * Peter Thiel, (1985), tech startup entrepreneur, billionaire, co-founder of PayPal
 * James Swett, (1939), U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot; awarded Medal of Honor, 1943
 * Debi Thomas, (1985), bronze medalist in figure skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics
 * Cal Tjader, 1943, Latin jazz musician

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Joseph Eggleston

Joseph Eggleston (November 24, 1754 –February 13, 1811) was an American farmer, soldier, and politician from Amelia County, Virginia. He represented Virginia in the U.S. Congress from 1798 until 1801.

He was the uncle of William S. Archer.

Biography
Joseph Eggleston was born in Middlesex County to Joseph (1721–1792) and Judith (Segar, 1729–1806) Eggleston. In 1759 his parents moved to the newly built plantation house named Egglestetton in Amelia County. Joseph was tutored at home and then attended William and Mary College where he graduated with honors in 1776.

Revolutionary War
That same year he joined American Revolutionary War in the cavalry commanded by Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee.

Eggleston became a captain when Lee organized his own irregular unit (Lee's Legion) of the Continental Army in 1778. He served with them throughout the war, but earned distinction in the Southern Campaign. He was cited for gallantry for his actions in the Battle of Guilford Court House on March 15, 1781. He won praise again in the siege of Augusta in June, as well as a promotion to Major.

The initial American success in the Battle of Eutaw Springs in September came from Major Eggleston's attack of the British advance units. Unfortunately the outcome of the battle was indecisive, even though the British casualties were twice those of the American forces.

Personal life
After the war Eggleston returned home to Egglestetton, and on February 23, 1788 he married Sarah "Sally" Meade. They had three children: Joseph Everard (1790), Charles (1791) and William (1792). When his father (Joseph Sr.) died in 1792 he inherited the family seat and 400 acre. Over the years he would buy land and expand his holding to 730 acre.

Sally Eggleston died in 1794. In 1798, Joseph remarried, to his first cousin, Ann Cary Eggleston (daughter of his uncle John). She gave him two more children: Francis (1798) and Sarah Meade Eggleston (1802, named after his first wife.

Egglestetton was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Political career
Eggleston was elected to the Virginia state House of Delegates several times as a representative for Amelia County. In all he served thirteen years in the House (1785–88 and 1791–99). He was in the state Senate when U.S. Congressman William B. Giles resigned that post on October 2, 1798. In a special election, Eggleston won the rest of the term. Then he won the regular election for the next term, to serve in the U.S. House in the Sixth Congress.

Congress
Eggleston declined to be nominated in 1800, so his service in Congress extended from December 3, 1798 to March 3, 1801.

Later career and death
He returned home, but was made a Justice of the Peace for Amelia County, and held that post until he died in 1811. Joseph died at home and was buried in the Churchyard of St. John's Episcopal Church. The church was also known as St. John's of Grub Hill, and the cemetery is now known as the Grub Hill Cemetery.

Legacy
The main house at Egglestetton still stands in Egglestetton Road (Route 630) about 4 km north of Amelia Court House. The home is on the National Register of Historic Places but is a private residence. The Civil War general, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, was named for him, since Johnston's father had served in Eggleston's command in the Revolution.

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John Guinness

Sir John Ralph Sidney Guinness CB (23 December 1935 – 27 July 2020) was a British civil servant and businessman.

Education and family
Guinness was educated at Rugby School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

In 1967 he married Valerie Susan North of Rougham Hall, Norfolk. The couple had three children, a daughter Lucy and sons Rupert and Peter. She died in March 2014.

Career
Guinness had previously been a member of HM Diplomatic Service and had worked in the Cabinet Office (inter alia involved in the setting up of the National Heritage Memorial Fund) and had been Permanent Secretary of the Department of Energy from 1991 to 1992 and Chairman of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd from 1992 to 1993.

Honours
In 1985 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath. In the 1999 New Year Honours list he was appointed a Knight Bachelor.

Heritage interests
He was a trustee of the Royal Collection Trust and a governor of Compton Verney.

Guinness was a member of the National Portrait Development Committee and had a deep interest in and knowledge of portraiture, particularly British historical portraits. He was also a member of the East Anglia Regional Committee of the National Trust from 1989 to 1994.

For many years he lived at the Tudor palace of East Barsham Manor, near Fakenham in Norfolk, selling it on his wife's death.

He died on 27 July 2020.

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