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Types of Amphibious operations
I know there are different types of amphibious operations (Assaults, Demonstrations, Raids and Withdrawals); however, I don't have an accessible source for this information, does anybody with more expertise know where to look? The fact this article dosn't discuss the strategic concept of amphibious warfare (only the highlights, 'First', 'Biggest' etc.) is a major weakness. Inane Imp 00:04, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

First?
What was the first modern assault? Beanbatch 22:44, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Probably Gallipoli; after the disasters at some of the first landings, a new armoured amphibious vessel - known as the Beetle - was employed at Suvla in August 1915, making it, probably, the first modern amphibious vessel.

 * By the way, it would be cool if someone with knowledge of ancient history could add text on amphibious warfare during those times. SoLando 03:18, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Define "modern". Many/most Americans consider our War Between the States to be the first modern war.  If one accepts that definition, then it would be one of the amphib attacks listed here. CsikosLo (talk) 16:17, 4 December 2008 (UTC

is the amphibious operations the ends of maritime Strategy?

Biggest?
Some claim Sicily, others Normandy. I guess it depends on what and who you count.Beanbatch 22:44, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Some sources say the biggest was the Mongolian Assult on Kyushu Japan. Many sources do not mention this one at all.

 * It was Normandy by a wide margin. That is why this was necessary: - there were in fact two of them, 'A' and 'B'. This is 'B'.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.148.220.121 (talk) 20:06, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Cleanup
This article looks much better now, thanks for help. Beanbatch 16:42, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * This artcile still needs alot more text:

 * ancient history
 * Succession Wars, French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars
 * WWI - tactics, type of troops used during this period
 * WWII needs ALOT - especially the development of commandos and raiding tactics.
 * Post-WWII - needs alot more on everything.

 * There needs to be alot on how tactics, equipment, troops, etc, have developed and evolved, culminating in what exists today. SoLando 22:11, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

bockspur 27th of feb 2006
helpful

 * someone with a background on viking amphibious warfare that could help iluminate more modern tactics as employed by marine raiders, seals etc..
 * someone with knowledge of warefare in far east eurasia i.e japanese invasion of korea, okinawa, formosa/taiwan, pre-dutch indonesian unification,
 * someone with a more indepth knowledge of the employment of marine infantry by the far west eurasian mercantile empires.
 * anyone with knowledge of maori amphibious warfare
 * and if anyone has any knowledge of west african maritime raiding

(note since I'm interested in only in the methodology of marathon as opposed to the effect it had on hellenic culture I use the more universal term iranian instead of persian which should only be used when discussing iran with respect to greece, parthia which should be used with respect to most of the era of the roman republic/empire etc.. )

Siege of Veracruz
If I remember my American Military Experience course from last fall right, the Siege of Veracruz led by General Winfield Scott during the Mexican-American War was the first major joint amphibious operation between the US Navy and US Army. I don't have my copy of my textbook (For the Common Defense - ISBN 0029215978) on me to expand upon this any further than memory, but perhaps someone else can add it to this article?

Also, I was planning on trying to write an article on littoral warfare, but maybe that's really just another name for this subject. If so, this link might be of some use. — MC MasterChef  ::  Leave a tip — 10:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

contradiction
15000 = fifteen hundred??
 * Fixed. CeeWhy2 11:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Merger to landing operation
Result - No clear consensus, little discussion, and too wordy to even decipher which way the consensus was leaning, no discussion here since November. - BillCJ (talk) 06:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

No. A landing operation is only a sub part of an amphibious assault, they are not the same, modern amphibious operations are combined arms affairs. A hypothetical large scale operation will include naval diver/special forces teams scouting out landing sites and calling in naval fire support (the traditional naval gunnery and with cruise missiles etc) and air support, to allow, two types of landing operations, helicopter borne forces to seize the flanks and choke points leading out of the beach head, and the traditional amphibious landing of troops onto the beach head, these initial operations will than be supported by follow on landings of heavy support weapons and ressuply of the initial assault wave.

Since the landing operation article includes airmobile operations, it should not be merged to this article.

On the topic of airmobile operations, I would dispute the fact that airmobile operations has replaced amphibious operations as the prime means of power projection and that aircraft can land any where whilst amphibious landings need an ocean facing beach. Even the USA and USSR at the height of their airlift strength could only make large scale operations with difficulty, and against contested landings major operations would be impossible. Modern amphibious forces have integrated helicopters as hovercraft into their repertoire and are no longer limited to suitable beaches. KTo288 03:07, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Those claims about the primacy of airlift were bugging me so have removed them from intro and moved to a comparison section. Kept the claims about the displacement by airmobilty as the prime means of projecting power, but have added a context to these claims. Might be useful to think in terms of air assault operations (against a hostile landing zone) and airbridge operations (reinforcement into a friendly airfield), and equally of amphibious assault, and amphibious reinforcement. KTo288 01:47, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Not only Allies conducted amphibious assaults in WWI
What about Operation Albion? Large, successfull landing and no mention at all.

 * Please feel free to add it. Nick-D (talk) 03:07, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Marathon not really an Amphibious Operation
IMO, the Battle of Marathon cited in the article was not an "amphibious operation", but rather a standard off-loading of an invading army followed by a standard land-battle upon the beach where the Persians were backed up to the sea, but in this respect is no different than any other number of battles throughout history where one side had its back "against a wall" (or mountain, cliff, river, whatever). I feel the reference should be removed, but as I'm not a naval historian do not feel comfortable making this edit myself, so instead I put it up for discussion.Rezdave (talk) 19:25, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Image replacement
Why I replaced an image in the post-WW2 section (Falklands). We already have a couple of pictures of post-WW2 US forces (we had two pictures of modern USMC on exercise - kept one at top), so makes it a little more international. And the Falklands War was one of the most significant amphibious ops post WW2. Chwyatt (talk) 10:42, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Defination and the Future
Some will argue that of most western nations, no opposed major amphibious operation will ever again occur. The first paragraph lacks a reference as to if projection of "power" transport method from the sea to the land of the combatant is via helicopter or other aerial vehicle- is that still an amphibious warfare/assault or something different by definition? (Could a qualified / knowledgeable USMC or Royal Marine answer the question by their definitions?)

For United States of America- most assault craft are of a design that only a small percentage of the worlds coastline is a manageabl beachhead. For the LCAC- hovercraft - their design increases this percentage quite a bit.

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Doomdark's Revenge

Doomdark's Revenge is a role-playing and wargame video game developed by Mike Singleton and published by Beyond Software for the ZX Spectrum in 1984. It is a sequel to Singleton's 1984 seminal The Lords of Midnight and has similar game mechanics but adds more detail and complexity with the number of characters and locations increased.

In Doomdark's Revenge, the hero of the first game, Luxor the Moonprince, goes into the savage wastes of Icemark to rescue his son Morkin and defeat the evil Empress Shareth, daughter of his enemy Doomdark. Despite the title, Doomdark - who was killed in the first game - does not return in the sequel.

Like its predecessor, Doomdark's Revenge was a major critical success and a commercial hit. Ports to the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 were released in 1986. It was supposed to be followed by a sequel titled The Eye of the Moon in 1989, which was never finished. Another sequel, Lords of Midnight: The Citadel, was eventually released in 1995. A remake of Doomdark's Revenge was released in February 2014.

Gameplay
Luxor's Moonring allows the player to view the world through the eyes of any character that is already in alliance or who has been recruited to Luxor's cause and, in each game day, the player may select characters in turn and move them around the Icemark, seeking objects, allies or enemies.

The game has five factions to be recruited or fought: the Fey, Barbarians, Dwarfs, Giants, and Icelords. The main difference between Revenge and The Lords of Midnight is that the lords now all move and react independently, no longer content to sit in their castles and wait to be recruited. The enemy leader, Shareth, also moves around, attempting to recruit armies and lords to her cause, so a major part of the game involves recruiting sufficient forces to counter hers. This makes the relationship between lords very important, as some are vassals of others, and may only be recruited by their lieges. Recruiting a liege does not automatically recruit all his vassals, nor their respective vassals but it offers additional armed strength as well as access to the Lord's city or fortress. Lords may also cooperate, recruit and fight each other independently, making the world much more dynamic than the previous game. Hostile fortresses or cities may be sacked and taken ownership of, which become important sources of manpower as they slowly generate troops that can be used to replace those lost in battle elsewhere.

The Icemark is a varied environment with forests, mountain ranges, plains and hills, all of which offer some resistance to the distance which may be travelled in each game 'day'. The land also features pits, palaces, huts, temples, gates and fountains which may contain creatures or magic that harms the player or provides respite and refreshment. These features may also provide access to the underground tunnel world beneath the Icemark which would otherwise inaccessible.

Within the Icemark, there are many magic items to be found, most belonging to a single lord and having 'power in battle'. Also, there are useful objects in the form of magic crowns, which may aid in the task of recruiting Lords. Runes may provide protection or the ability to be swifter in travel; in some cases, these objects may summon enemies or allow travel to a particular location.

Doomdark's Revenge reverses the first game's victory conditions by giving the computer only a single goal, the death of the main protagonist Luxor. The player has many possible levels of victory, ranging from the simple rescue of Luxor's son Morkin from Shareth's spell of enchantment and retreat to Midnight, to the complete destruction of Shareth and the safe return home of Luxor, Morkin, as well as Luxor's companions Rorthron and Tarithel.

Plot
After Doomdark the Witchking was destroyed in the first game, word reaches his daughter, Shareth the Heartstealer, the dreaded Empress of the Frozen Empire of Icemark who is as evil as she is beautiful and powerful. Enraged by the news, she decides to take revenge on the chief architect of her father's downfall, Luxor the Moonprince, by bewitching and kidnapping his son Morkin. The game revolves around Luxor and his companions Rorthron the Wise and Morkin's beloved Tarithel the Fey, and their attempts to rescue Morkin and defeat Shareth.

Canonically, Tarithel found Morkin and broke Shareth's spell with a single kiss. Shareth's armies have been defeated and she herself has been slain in the great final battle. However, Shareth's and Morkin's union has created a son named Anderlane, who was later born from a surrogate mother.

Release
The game's publisher Beyond Software offered a prize - models of the major characters in an Icemark setting - to the first player who revealed the "Watchwords of Midnight", an inscription on Luxor's Moon Ring that would be shown upon ultimate victory. The conditions for this to happen was if the player could bring all the major characters including Morkin to the Gate of Varenorn and eliminate Shareth. The first to do so was then-15-year-old Richard Harris from Lowestoft in November 1984. Harris, however, had to wait for the models for 14 months - until January 1986 - because the publisher had not expected anyone to "finish the game so quickly".

Doomdark's Revenge was adapted into a Fighting Fantasy-style gamebook type game by Beyond Software's Clive Bailey and Terry Pratt that was serialized in three parts in Computer and Video Games magazine. The first part, published in the December 1984 issue, follows Luxor to the Frozen Gates that lead into Icemark. In the second part, Tarithel makes her way through Icemark to the pit of Alazorne, where Morkin is held captive. In the final part, the freed Morkin sets on his own quest to find and kill the evil Shareth.

A novelisation of Doomdark's Revenge by Drew Wagar was published in December 2021.

Reception
Doomdark's Revenge was very well received by game critics and public alike. Amstrad Action gave it a review score of 95%, making it their ninth best game of all time. In 1993, readers of Your Sinclair voted it the 71st best game of all time.

The Eye of the Moon
Originally the series was conceived as a trilogy, with the third part titled The Eye of the Moon. The sequel is even mentioned in the game's manual: "The third part of the trilogy, possibly the most exciting yet, is still to come, when Mike will send Morkin down to the warmer lands which lie below Midnight itself, to find the Eye of the Moon". The Eye of the Moon was to be a magical crystal, or jewel, that allowed its owner to look into the future. According to Singleton: "Luxor is dying, it's some years on and he's reached the end of his tether, and he wants to see what is going to happen to Midnight in the future. So Morkin goes off in search of the magical jewel called the Eye of the Moon which enables people to see into the future, so that Luxor can then rest in peace". Some of Singleton's plans included a game canvas four times bigger than the original Lords of Midnight, divided into twelve kingdoms set south-west of the original game, dynamic full-color graphics with black masking to hide any color clashes, unique graphics for all castles, unique, generated, full-scale facial graphics for all characters, a more convincing name generator, interior scenes of keeps and citadels, et cetera. There were even tentative plans to implement a multiplayer mode, using the already existing mic/ear sockets to exchange data. Despite having already created a substantial amount of new game code, Singleton was involved in numerous other game projects at the time and thus put the game on hiatus.

In an article published in July 1985 in Computer Gamer, Singleton disclosed quite a lot of details of the game. The game was to have 16,000 locations and 131,000 unique views, created with a new technique called Randscaping. The Randscaping engine made every view unique. In multiplayer mode, the two players would each control either Morkin or Tarithel on their quest to find the fabled jewel. His new Midnight Identikit could create personalized faces for all the 256 NPCs roaming the canvas. Some of the NPCs were to have unique capabilities; for instance, one character would have the magic ability to flatten mountains, and was to be a critical recruitment for one of the mini-quests, allowing the player access beyond an impassable mountain range to retrieve an item. Another NPC could control the weather, and so on. At the start of the game, the player(s) would only be able to control Morkin and Tarithel, recruiting more characters to their cause as the game progresses. The recruited characters could be made part of teams headed by a character chosen by the player, making moving the characters around the playing field a lot easier. The last attempt by Singleton to get the game released was in April 1989.

Today there exists no authentic material for The Eye of the Moon. Some presentation mock-ups were created by Singleton; all still available screenshots—if any—are from these faked mock-ups. While the most serious intention of both Singleton and publisher Domark indeed was to create this third part, the sequel was later indefinitely shelved, partly due to Mike Singleton's other commitments and partly due to the original publisher being bought out by Telecomsoft. Because of this, the new management wanted to change the terms of agreement, demanding two distinct versions of the game - 8-bit and 16-bit versions - instead of one. Singleton refused the new agreement. The Eye of the Moon has since been mentioned for a possible upcoming release. With Mike Singleton again involved, a significant amount of work had already taken place. However, with the death of creator Singleton, all developments on the possible sequel have ceased, with the consensus that "it shall always remain a myth or a legend". Doomdark's Revenge would, however, be followed many years later by another sequel, Lords of Midnight: The Citadel.

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Your photos
Hi there! I'm sorry to bother you, but I was the one who tagged your images. In a nutshell, I saw this Flickr account, but even though your username (net_efekt) was consistent between Wikipedia and Flickr, neither account declared a connection between the two, so I erred on the side of caution (most of your images on Flickr are under a noncommercial, BY-NC-SA license that isn't compatible with Wikipedia). If you haven't already, please send an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org confirming your identity, and confirming that the images in question are under whatever license you've selected. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience. --Gyrobo (talk) 17:06, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your confirmation. --Gyrobo (talk) 01:24, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Keeping Children Safe

A tag has been placed on Keeping Children Safe, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Category:Iranian provincial capitals

Capital cities (otherwise known as Provincial centres) of the Provinces of Iran.

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Public records

Public records are documents or pieces of information that are not considered confidential and generally pertain to the conduct of government.

Depending on jurisdiction, examples of public records includes information pertaining to births, deaths, marriages, and documented transaction with government agencies.

Attitudes and expectations about what information should be made public have been studied.

History
Since the earliest organised societies, with taxation, disputes, and so on, records of some sort have been needed. In ancient Babylon records were kept in cuneiform writing on clay tablets. In the Inca empire of South America, which did not have writing, records were kept via an elaborate form of knots in cords, quipu, whose meaning has been lost.

In Western Europe in the Late Middle Ages public records included census records as well as records of birth, death, and marriage; an example is the 1086 Domesday Book of William the Conqueror. The details of royal marriage agreements, which were effectively international treaties, were also recorded. The United Kingdom Public Record Office Act, which formalised record-keeping by setting up the Public Record Office, was passed in 1838.

Public records

 * Records of law court proceedings
 * Marriage records
 * Mug shot

Access to public records
Although public records are records of public business, they are not necessarily available without restriction, although Freedom of Information legislation (FOI) that has been gradually introduced in many jurisdictions since the 1960s has made access easier. Each government has policies and regulations that govern the availability of information contained in public records. A common restriction is that data about a person is not normally available to others; for example, the California Public Records Act (PRA) states that "except for certain explicit exceptions, personal information maintained about an individual may not be disclosed without the person's consent". For example, in California, when a couple fills out a marriage license application, they have the option of checking the box as to whether the marriage is "confidential" (Record will be closed, and not opened to public once recorded) or "public" (record will become public record once recorded). Essentially, if the marriage record is public, a copy of the record can be ordered from the county in which the marriage occurred.

In the United Kingdom, Cabinet papers were subject to the thirty-year rule: until the introduction of FOI legislation, Cabinet papers were not available for thirty years; some information could be withheld for longer. the rule still applies to some information, such as minutes of Cabinet meetings.

Some companies provide access, for a fee, to many public records available on the Internet. Many of them specialize in particular types of information, while some offer access to different types of record, typically to professionals in various fields. Some companies sell software with a promise of unlimited access to public records, but may provide nothing more than basic information on how to access already available and generally free public websites.

Each year news media, civic groups, libraries, nonprofits, schools and other interested groups sponsor "Sunshine Week." Sunshine Week occurs in mid-March, coinciding with James Madison's birthday and National Freedom of Information Day on the 16th. The purpose of the week is to highlight the idea that "government functions best when it operates in the open."

In many states, state legislatures are often exempt from public-records laws that apply to state executive officials and local officials. In 2016, the Associated Press made a request for the emails and daily schedules of state legislative leaders (speakers of state Houses and presidents of state Senates) in all 50 states; a majority denied the request.

Court records
Of particular significance was the evolution of the common-law right "to access court records to inspect and to copy". The expectation inherent in the common law right to access court records is that any person may come to the office of the clerk of the court during business hours and request to inspect court records, with almost instantaneous access. Such right is a central safeguard of the integrity of the courts. Any decision to conceal court records requires a sealing order. The right to access court records is also central to liberty: There is no conceivable way to exercise the Habeas Corpus right, deemed by the late Justice Brennan as "the cornerstone" of the United States Constitution, absent access to court records as public records.

In the United States the common law right to "access court records to inspect and to copy" was reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Nixon v Warner Communications, Inc (1978), where the court found various parts of the right to access court records as inherent to the First, Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. In the United States access to court records is governed by Civil Rights in the Amendments to the United States Constitution, not by the Freedom of Information Act.

As court records become increasingly more accessible online, concerns about the undermining of private information has become a significant issue. In the past, obtaining court records required people to physically go to a courthouse and request documents. However, with the relative ease at which people can now access these records, highly sensitive information (i.e. victim names, social security numbers, etc.) are at risk of being publicly exploited.

In the United States
Access to U.S. national public records is guided by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Requests for access to records pursuant to FOIA may be refused by federal agencies if information requested is subject to exemption, or some information may be redacted (deleted).

In addition to the national FOIA, all states have some form of FOI legislation. For example, Colorado has the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA); in New Jersey the law is known as the Open Public Records Act (OPRA).

There are many degrees of accessibility to public records between states, with some making it fairly easy to request and receive documents, and others with many exemptions and restricted categories of documents. One state that is fairly responsive to public records requests is New York, which utilizes the Committee on Open Government to assist citizens with their requests. A state that was fairly restrictive in how they respond to public records requests is Pennsylvania, where the law formerly presumed that all documents are exempt from disclosure, unless they can be proven otherwise. This was changed by a 2008 bill that went into effect in 2009. The California Public Records Act (California Government Code §§6250-6276.48) covers the arrest and booking records of inmates in the State of California jails and prisons, which are not covered by First Amendment rights (freedom of speech and of the press). Public access to arrest and booking records is seen as a critical safeguard of liberty.

Uses of public records
With the advent of the Internet and the information age, access to public records in the United States to anyone who wishes to view them has dramatically increased. Third parties such as the information broker industry make regular use of public records to compile readily accessible profiles on millions of people, and may make a profit from the service of recompiling and mining the data.

Public record data is used for multiple purposes, such as ensuring that child support payments are made as determined by the courts, assisting credit bureaus in keeping accurate data and helping to pay pension benefits to retirees.

Access to criminal records in the United States
Individual criminal histories are generally considered to be public records in the United States and are often accessed via criminal history background checks, but "access and use of FBI-maintained criminal history record information has been traditionally limited and controlled in large measure to protect the privacy of the individuals to whom the records pertain." The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act imposes "fair information-practice requirements by consumer reporting agencies that report public record information, such as criminal history records, for employment purposes", and some state consumer-protection laws impose more restrictive regulations.

According to the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press, in the United States, arrest records "are generally open to the public unless they concern an active or ongoing investigation. A few states restrict the information that can be obtained from an arrest record, especially when it concerns individuals who were never charged, were acquitted or had their records expunged. Again, the determination will often result in a balancing test comparing the public's interest in disclosure against the individual privacy interest." By contrast, protective custody and juvenile delinquency records are exempted from most state open-records laws, such that access is "limited to the juvenile, his or her parents or guardians, or other parties directly involved in a legal matter."

Destruction of public records
In early 2018, the National Archives put up a webpage, "Unauthorized Disposition of Federal Records", to publish all instances of investigations into possible unauthorized destruction of records.

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

The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:56, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Deviloution
Doesn't meet WP:MUSIC, demo out in 2005. Not notable. feydey 22:48, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Feydey. They get over 7000 Google hits too, but only 30 are displayed, and only a few have to do with the band. --Idont Havaname 00:57, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete bandity. --TheMidnighters 01:40, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn band vanity. -- Etacar11   03:46, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Not band vanity For example. Slayer, Iron Maiden, both of which are bands, however both of which are famous bands. In this case, it is still information regarding a band. An encyclopedia is a repository of information, such as this place. Is an article valid only when someone else cares about it? --neuralfraud 20:26, 26 August 2005.
 * Delete - Not notable - Tεx  τ  urε  21:10, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
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Blue Bulls Rugby Union

The Blue Bulls Rugby Union, previously Northern Transvaal Rugby Union, is the governing body for rugby union in Pretoria, two neighboring municipalities in Gauteng Province, and all of Limpopo Province, in South Africa. The union's headquarters and home stadium is Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria.

The union operates teams in United Rugby Championship (the Bulls), and in South Africa's domestic Currie Cup and Rugby Challenge competitions (both the Blue Bulls). For sponsorship reasons, the teams are currently called the Vodacom Bulls and Vodacom Blue Bulls (Afrikaans: Vodacom Blou Bulle).

History
The Blue Bulls (Blue Bulls Rugby Union) or Blou Bulle (Afrikaans) was formed in 1938 as the Northern Transvaal Rugby Union (N.T.R.U.). Prior to the formation of the union, the region's clubs were under the jurisdiction of the then Transvaal Rugby Union (now Golden Lions Rugby Union). Northern Transvaal (under the NTRU), captained by Danie Craven, played its first home game as an independent union on 28 May 1938. The game against the Orange Free State team ended in a draw, 11:11. In its first 75 years, the team competed for the Currie Cup in 55 seasons, and won 23 Currie Cup titles in 53 finals. In the same period 127 Springboks hailed from the Union, and it won 3 Super Rugby titles.

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Good Weird Feeling

Good Weird Feeling is the third studio album by Canadian rock band Odds. The album featured the singles "Truth Untold", "Eat My Brain", "Satisfied", "Mercy To Go" and " I Would Be Your Man".

Critical
Good Weird Feeling was nominated for "Favourite New Release" at the 1995 CASBY Awards. Music journalist Larry LeBlanc included the album in his list of Top 10 records of 1995, ranking it #5. The album was nominated for "Best Rock Album" at the 1996 Juno Awards.

Commercial
Good Weird Feeling became the most commercially successful album by Odds, being certified Platinum in Canada. By November 1996, the album had sold 130,000 units in Canada.

Track listing

 * 1) "Truth Untold" (3:54)
 * 2) "Smokescreen (Come and Get Me)" (3:46)
 * 3) "Radios of Heaven" (4:08)
 * 4) "I Would Be Your Man" (3:26)
 * 5) "Satisfied" (3:00)
 * 6) "Break the Bed" (5:13)
 * 7) "Oh Sorrow, Oh Shame" (4:29)
 * 8) "Eat My Brain" (4:25)
 * 9) "The Last Drink" (3:09)
 * 10) "Anybody Else But Me" (3:50)
 * 11) "Mercy to Go" (5:17)
 * 12) "Leave It There" (6:25)
 * 13) "We'll Talk" (4:16)

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Gerald Smedley Andrews

Gerald Smedley Andrews, (December 12, 1903 – December 5, 2005) was a Canadian frontier teacher, land surveyor, and soldier.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he was educated in Vancouver, Toronto, Oxford, and Dresden. From 1922 to 1930, he was a school master at Big Bar Creek and Kelly Lake. In 1930, he became a land surveyor until World War II. During World War II, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. From 1946 to 1950, he served as Chief Air Survey Engineer for British Columbia. From 1952 to 1968, he was the Surveyors General of the Province of British Columbia and Director of Mapping and Provincial Boundaries Commissioner.

For his services, during World War II, he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. In 1990, he was awarded the Order of British Columbia and was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He died at age 102.

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Talk:Cheese/Gruyere

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Wuthering Heights (song)

"Wuthering Heights" is a song by English singer Kate Bush, released as her debut single on 20 January 1978 through EMI Records. Inspired by the 1847 Emily Brontë novel of the same name, the song was released as the lead single from Bush's debut studio album, The Kick Inside (1978). It peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks, making Bush the first female artist to achieve a number-one single with an entirely self-penned song. It also reached the top of the charts in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, and Portugal.

"Wuthering Heights" received widespread critical acclaim and continues to be highly regarded; in 2016, Pitchfork named it the fifth-greatest song of the 1970s, and in 2020, The Guardian ranked it as the 14th-best UK number-one single. The song has been certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), for sales and streams of over 600,000 units in the United Kingdom. In addition, a remixed version of the song, featuring re-recorded vocals, was included on Bush's first compilation album, The Whole Story (1986). This version appears as the B-side to her 1986 single "Experiment IV".

Composition
Bush wrote the song aged 18, in a few hours late at night on 5 March 1977. She was inspired after seeing the 1967 BBC adaptation of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She subsequently read the book and discovered that she shared her birthday with author Emily Brontë.

"Wuthering Heights" is sung from the perspective of the Wuthering Heights character Catherine Earnshaw, pleading at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in. It quotes Catherine's dialogue, including the lyrics "I'm so cold", "let me in", and "bad dreams in the night". Cathy is in fact a ghost, which the listener may only realise upon reading the novel. Critic Simon Reynolds described it as "Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody". The music and lyrics establish a duality between the real world and the afterlife. The real world is associated with the past tense and a tonic of A major, whereas Cathy's afterlife is associated with the present tense and a tonic of D♭ major. The song also makes use of unusual harmonic progressions and irregular phrase lengths.

Bush recorded her vocal in a single take. Her performance uses manipulations in soft palate to produce changes in vocal timbre, a technique popular among Indian playback singers and in Peking opera. The guitar solo is played by Ian Bairnson, who said that he initially disliked the tone for many years due to "purely guitarist reasons". Bairnson played the solo with a broken arm. Engineer Jon Kelly said he regretted not placing the solo louder in the mix. The production team, with Bush, began mixing at midnight and stayed until "five or six in the morning".

Release
Bush's record company, EMI, originally chose another track, "James and the Cold Gun", as the lead single, but Bush was determined to use "Wuthering Heights". The single was initially scheduled for 4 November 1977, however, Bush was unhappy with the cover and insisted it be replaced. Some copies of the single had already been sent out to radio stations, but EMI relented and put back the single's launch until 20 January 1978.

The single cover artwork mirrored that used for the album cover which featured a photograph of Bush, "clinging to a large painted dragon kite, gliding across a vast, all-seeing eye", taken by Jay Myrdal.

"Wuthering Heights" entered the charts in the week ending 11 February 1978 at No. 42. The following week it rose to No. 27, and Bush made her first appearance on Top of the Pops. The song was finally added to BBC Radio 1's playlist the following week and became one of the most-played records on radio. In 1986, the first pressings of her first compilation album The Whole Story erroneously stated the release date for this single as 4 November 1977.

Music videos
Two music videos with similar choreography were created to accompany "Wuthering Heights". Bush created the choreography and dance moves to suggest her character is a ghost (as in this scene in the novel), without explicitly stating as much. In the first version, known as the indoor version, made for the UK and European release, Bush is shown performing the song in a dark room filled with white mist while wearing a white dress. Critics have described this video as a milestone in the history of music videos before the MTV era, with Pitchfork putting it on number three on the list of greatest music videos from the 70s.

In the outside version, Bush is shown dancing—'out in the wily, windy moors'—in a grassy area located on Salisbury Plain (inspired by the novel's moors) with Scots pine trees in the background, on an overcast day, while wearing a flowy red dress. The exact location is called "Baden's Clump" near Sidbury Hill, close to the town of Tidworth in Wiltshire. This video was filmed on the morning of 26 October 1977. The red dress has been referenced numerous times in popular culture and similar dresses have been worn by her fans at events such as "The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever" where her dance routine is recreated.

Chart performance
After being delayed for two months, "Wuthering Heights" was officially released in early 1978 and entered the top forty in the official singles chart in the United Kingdom at number twenty-seven on 18 February. It rose to number one three weeks later dethroning ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me" from the top spot. Bush became the first female artist to have an entirely self-penned number one hit in the UK. The single release unwittingly pitted Bush against another female vocalist also charting with her first UK hit: Debbie Harry with her band Blondie and their single "Denis", which stalled at number two. "Wuthering Heights" remained at number one for a month until it was replaced at the top by Brian and Michael's celebration of the then-recently deceased artist L. S. Lowry, "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs". Bush's début single finished the year as the tenth highest-selling and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting sales of over half a million.

"Wuthering Heights" also hit number one in Ireland, in Italy, in New Zealand, where it spent five weeks at number one and achieved platinum status, and in Australia, where it stayed at the top of the charts for three consecutive weeks and achieved gold status. It proved to be one of the biggest hits of 1978 in Denmark. It reached the top ten in Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, as well as the top twenty in Austria and West Germany. Bush had performed the song on the first episode of the West German music talk show Bio's Bahnhof on 9 February 1978.

Following the live performance of the song by Laura Bunting on The Voice in Australia, "Wuthering Heights" re-entered the country's top 40 in 2012, 34 years after its original release in 1978.

Legacy
A remixed version, featuring rerecorded vocals, was included on the 1986 greatest hits album The Whole Story. This version also appeared as the B-side to her 1986 hit "Experiment IV".

Pat Benatar recorded a version for her 1980 album Crimes of Passion.

Brazilian power metal band Angra recorded a version for their 1993 debut album Angels Cry.

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain included a version on their 1994 album A Fist Full Of Ukuleles and later made a music video of the song.

In 2018, as part of the Bradford Literature Festival, it was announced that Bush had been invited to write an epitaph to Emily Brontë, which would be inscribed on one of four stones erected near the Brontë's home in Haworth, West Yorkshire. Commenting on the unveiling of her poem, entitled Emily, Bush said "to be asked to write a piece for Emily's stone is an honour and, in a way, a chance to say thank you to her".

A flashmob event known as the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever was officially created in 2016 and is held annually. Fans gather in locations around the world to recreate the "red dress" video. Upon seeing a video clip of the event, Bush said that she found it "very touching and sweet".

The song has been interpreted by comedians Steve Coogan and Noel Fielding, on two occasions, as part of the BBC fundraising telethon Comic Relief. Coogan sang the song in the 1999 show as part of a medley of other Bush material in character as Alan Partridge. Fielding performed to the song in the 2011 series of Let's Dance for Comic Relief, placing in the final of the competition.

The song is referenced in the 2019 novel Bunny by Mona Awad.

Personnel
Credits sourced from Sound On Sound
 * Kate Bush – lead vocals, piano
 * Andrew Powell – arrangements, bass guitar, celesta
 * Duncan Mackay – Hammond organ
 * David Paton – 12-string acoustic guitars
 * Ian Bairnson – electric and acoustic guitars
 * Stuart Elliott – drums
 * Morris Pert – crotales
 * David Katz – orchestral contractor

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Pejman Akbarzadeh

Pejman Akbarzadeh (, born 1980) is a Persian-Dutch pianist, journalist, music historian and documentary maker.

Early life
Born in Shiraz in 1980, Akbarzadeh had his first music lessons at the age of nine from Gholam Loghmani and later from Bahram Nasrollahi. In 2001 moved to Tehran and continued his piano studies under Farman Behboud.

"Persian Musicians" project
At age fifteen he started to research the works and activities of twentieth-century Persian (Iranian) composers and conductors. Three years later he published the first volume of his projected four-volume work, Persian Musicians which became a source for various publications such as Encyclopedia Iranica.

Journalism

Pejman Akbarzadeh has written articles in both Persian and English, mostly on cultural topics, which have been published in BBC Persian Service Online, "Persian Heritage Magazine" (New Jersey), "Shargh Newspaper" (Tehran), "Rahavard Quarterly" (Los Angeles), "Gooya.com" (Brussels), "Payvand.com" (San Francisco)... and Yas-e-no Daily, which was banned in Iran in 2003.

Persian Gulf studies
From 2002 to 2006 Akbarzadeh was the representative of Persian Gulf Online organization in Tehran. He has published various articles about this waterway in both English and Persian. He also lectured at the Persian Studies Foundation conference in Shiraz and Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran. The text of most of these lectures were published in "Shargh" daily.

Move to the Netherlands
In 2006, Akbarzadeh moved to the Netherlands, citing restrictions on musical life and freedom of speech in Iran. For seven years he was a senior producer at Radio Zamaneh in Amsterdam. Currently he contributes to BBC Persian TV and website.

In March 2008 he performed the first Persian piano recital in Amsterdam. The sold-out concert at Bethanienklooster resulted in further invitations to perform in Europe. In August 2008 Pejman dedicated his recital at the University of Cologne to Ahmad Batebi, symbol of pro-democracy movement of Tehran University students, who fled to the United States after nine years of imprisonment in the same year. In 2012 he performed at Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

In 2008 Pejman also finished the first documentary about the legendary Persian diva Hayedeh who died in exile in 1990. The film was premiered on 24 January 2009 in Amsterdam and nominated as the "best documentary" at Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles. In the same year Pejman Akbarzadeh introduced Persian piano music at the Netherlands' Radio 5 (OBA Show) and in 2012 at Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

In Summer 2009 following the pro-freedom demonstrations in Iran which turned to blood, Pejman Akbarzadeh joined the solidarity events in Europe with the people of his homeland; performing at Holland's Iranian Artists Eve in Amsterdam, "International Solidarity Conference with Iran's Students" at the University of Delft, Human Rights and Press Freedom Conference at Amsterdam's Tropen Theatre and cooperation with UNITED4IRAN demonstrations were among them.

Works
Book Film (Documentary)
 * Persian Musicians Volume 1 (Moosighidanane Irani, Jelde 1). Navid Publications, Shiraz/Tehran, 2000.
 * Persian Musicians Volume 2 (Moosighidanane Irani, Jelde 2). Roshanak Publications, Tehran, 2002, ISBN 964-93867-3-4
 * Persian Musicians Volume 3 (Moosighidanane Irani, Jelde 3). Iran Heritage Society (US) / Roshanak Publications, Tehran, 2008, ISBN 964-93867-3-4
 * A Century of Cello Music from Persia (ed). Persian Dutch Network, Amsterdam, 2022. (2022)
 * Hayedeh: Legendary Persian Diva (2009)
 * Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture (2017)
 * Derbent: What Persia Left Behind (2022).

Music (released pieces)
 * Persian piano music: "Fable", based on a piece by Homayoun Khorram; live Performance Amsterdam (iTunes 2009)

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Talk:Angel's trumpet

I have a pest eating away my small angel trumpet plants! They were planted during Feburary (in live in Georgia) from small but strong clippings. We have had lots of rain and my yard does tend to have standing water at times when the rain is very heavy; also, the soil is mostly clay and some other DIRT! I had to mix some peat moss in but I don't think it was enough! The poor things are blooming; however, the heat (no shade as yet), the rain, and the soil have all added to there stunted growth (I'm certain)! I am not a GARDENER, I simply LOVE flowers and gardens so my hobby is planting! These poor struggling plants have managed to bloom; however, the PEST of recent have managed to eat all of the leaves and they are now just stalks!!!!!!!! I'm crazy with anger and don't know what in the world to do!!! I have tried siven (? spelling) and another spray on (attach the bottle to end of hose type) pesticide was used but, nothing is working!!! PLEASE HELP! I can't describe them cuz I never see them; apparently, they feed at night!?!!?!

Thanks.......Cheryl michaudc@itc-2.com
 * That's kind of a surprise, they being pretty toxic... If all the leaves are eaten all I can think of are deer or something. Or else the neighborhood teenagers who are smoking them.... I find these to be enormously vigorous plants. Mine are growing out of a hairline crack between two driveways, up the side of a chainlink fence, with no maintenance or agriculture, even watering, on my part; they are definitely a hot weather plant, in warm climates they are perennial, but in the north (I live in CT) they die out every winter. Being that my guys are rooted under the driveway, I can't tell whether they are the same plants coming back each year or new ones reseeding in the crack. Anyway, they love the hot weather, don't bloom until August up here, and don't mind the drought. Sorry I can't figure out who would eat the leaves, though. Gzuckier 15:04, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

In NH 2008 I have seen these giant worm caterpillar looking things that eat the angels trumpet leaves. They are the same color as the leaves and are hard to spot even though they are very large. They look very similar to the big green thing that eats tomatoe plants, green horned something?

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User:Khaosinfire

About Me
I am 31 years old and male from the united states in the state of michigan. I am heavy into philosophy, theory and intellectual thought, my influences are Ayn Rand, Zecharia Sitchin, Jason Martell among many others. One of my goals here is to work on articles such as Satan, Christianity, Catholicism and God so they reflect the truth on these subjects instead of popular and un-educated myths, being most people are tricked into believeing in such things without knowing the facts, origins, history or premise of such ideas.

Interest
My main interest include esoteric works, computers, music, reading and studying ancient iraq (mesopotamia). Other interest include, science, technology, reverse engineering, quantum physics, creation theory and ancient knowledge.

Quotes

 * Individuality often referred to as being egotistic, self centered and conceited is of very important virtue in the finding of ones true nature and distinction from other human beings.

 * Individuality is a basic human right in the fundamentals of ones ideology and beliefs. Without Individuality one is not allowed to act, think or believe on a independent level, thus making one a slave to the will of others idea's, philosophies, beliefs and core values.

 * The onset of a collective society detroys distinction, will, self-esteem and the very spirit of man, thus making him a mere puppet and piece of intellectual propery rather than free to make choices & decisions.

 * The Christian says the road to God is hard & full of challenges, and the road to Satan is smooth & easy, I say the road to conformity is smooth & easy, but the road to ones self is long and painful.

 * It is time for the rising of a new way & a new power of superior domination, it is time for the return to the ancient path & to serve reverence to the ancient ones that died for what they believed.

 * People are looking for something besides what they have already when it comes down to spirituality, they are looking for something new because the lies of the modern socially accepted premise of God no longer works for them, I am the way of they're broken hope & spirituality, I am the way of truth & not lies or deceit.

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