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Ashen Mortality

Ashen Mortality were a British doom metal band formed in 1993 by Ian Arkley (Seventh Angel) and Melanie Bolton. They recorded two demos, and two albums, and played gigs in England, the Netherlands and Germany. Featuring clean and growled male vocals, and female vocals, their music was heavy, slow to mid-paced, and influenced by medieval music, black, doom, death and goth. The band split up in 2005, when Arkley went on to form My Silent Wake.

Career
The first demo tape, Ashen Mortality, was recorded at The Wall, Birmingham, England, from 9–11 October 1993, and engineered by Andy Wickett. The band's first gig was with Rez Band, during November 1993 in Salford, England. During 1994, Ashen Mortality played gigs around the United Kingdom, including a show at the Brixton Academy, London, on 14 May. The second demo was recorded between 16–18 July 1994 at Attic Studios, shortly after which, Jones left the band. On 24 August, Ashen Mortality played at the Greenbelt festival with stand-in drummer, Neal Harris. Harris also played with the band during the tour of Holland and Germany from 2–29 September.

Three tracks from the second demo, "Separation", "Sleepless Remorse" and "Imprisoned", were remixed, and four new songs recorded in 1995 to form Sleepless Remorse, the band's first album. Harris played drums on the new tracks, although Jones can be heard on the remixed demo songs. The album was recorded at Attic Studios (now closed), and was produced for £400. Sleepless Remorse was released in 1996 on Forsaken Records, set up by Bolton. Neil Shilvock joined the band on drums. Ashen Mortality played many gigs in England during the year, playing with bands including: At the Gates, Serenade, Acrimony and Hecate Enthroned.

After a mini-tour to support the release of Sleepless Remorse in 1997, Shilvock left the band, and George Aytoun stepped in to help out. Ashen Mortality played at the Greenbelt festival over the August bank holiday weekend. Aytoun officially joined the band in 1998, and recorded Your Caress. The recording process took place in April 1998. The album was recorded in two days, and mixed in one by Dan Sprigg at Dep International. Shortly after this recording the band relocated to Weston-super-Mare. The band started to play local gigs again in 1999, and their website was constructed by Aytoun, and launched over the summer. Ashen Mortality appeared at the Greenbelt festival at the beginning of August. The band obtained worldwide distribution for Your Caress through Plastic Head. With the exception of a few local gigs, there was little band activity in 2000. Plans to record a third album faded away. After several years of inactivity, the band re-emerged in 2004. Having recruited a new drummer and bassist, they began rehearsing again, and played 2 live gigs.

Due to illness, Cooper was unavailable for the band's final appearances in Norway and the United Kingdom. The last performances featured Andi Lee on bass guitar and Jasen Whyte on drums. A double CD reissue of the two albums, remastered with extra tracks, was released in 2005. The band finally split up, with the original band members going their separate ways in April 2005. Ian subsequently formed My Silent Wake with ex-Ashen Mortality musicians Andi Lee and Jason Whyte, Century Sleeper with James Allin of Visionaire, and played in The Other Window with Alan Southorn. A few years later, Ian also reformed Seventh Angel. In August 2006, Tim Cooper died of leukemia.

Last Known Lineup

 * Ian Arkley - guitar and vocals (1993-2005)
 * Melanie Bolton - vocals and keyboard (1993-2005)
 * Tim Cooper - bass guitar (1993-2005) (died 2006)
 * Jasen Whyte - drums (2004-2005)

Former members

 * Ben Jones - drums (1993-1994)
 * Neil Shilvock - drums (1996-1997)
 * George Aytoun - drums (1998-2001)
 * Marcelo Lopes - drums (2001-2004)

Touring members

 * Neal Harris - drums (1994-1995)
 * Andi Lee - bass guitar (2004)

Discography

 * Studio albums
 * Sleepless Remorse (1996)
 * Your Caress (1998)

 * Demos
 * Ashen Mortality (1993)
 * Separation (1994)

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Nancy Wilson (religious leader)

Nancy L. Wilson (born 1950) is an American cleric who served as the moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Under Wilson's leadership, the denomination became known as "The Human Rights Church" in many parts of the world for its commitment to same-sex marriage, employment and housing non-discrimination laws.

Election
Wilson was elected moderator of the denomination of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) by the church's general conference in Calgary, Alberta, in July 2005. In accordance with the bylaws of the Metropolitan Community Churches, Wilson's name was placed in nomination by the denomination's Moderators Nominating Committee and her nomination was ratified with the overwhelming endorsement of the lay and clergy voting delegates to the 2005 MCC General Conference. Wilson was installed as moderator at the Washington National Cathedral in 2005. in succession to the denomination's founder, Troy Perry. Wilson retired from her position in October 2016, and was succeeded by an interim moderator, the Rev. Elder Rachelle Brown.

Under Wilson's leadership the denomination deepened its long-standing commitment to Christian social justice, becoming known as "The Human Rights Church" in many parts of the world for its human rights work in Eastern Europe, Jamaica, and Latin and South America and for its commitment to same-sex marriage, employment and housing non-discrimination laws, legal protections for persons with HIV/AIDS, and the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons within communities of faith.

Wilson is the second person, and the first woman, to serve as moderator of the Metropolitan Community Churches. The Metropolitan Community Church was founded in 1968.

Biography
Wilson has a long record of service with the Metropolitan Community Church. She was the youngest person ever elected to the MCC Board of Elders in 1976 and served on the board of elders ever since except for a break between 2003 and 2005.

Wilson resides with her wife of 33 years, Paula Schoenwether. They both actively work for same-sex marriage equality, having married each other in Massachusetts. Wilson and Schoenwether were the plaintiffs in Wilson v. Ake, 354 F. Supp. 1298, in which they asked a Florida District Court to hold that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional. The court denied relief and held that DOMA was constitutional.

Wilson attended a Methodist church and Sunday school in her youth.

Education and experience
Wilson received her undergraduate degree from Allegheny College in 1972 before going on to study at Boston University School of Theology with a Rockefeller Fellowship. She also holds an M.Div. from SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Detroit, served as Vice-Moderator of Metropolitan Community Church during 1993-2003 and has pastored Metropolitan Community Church congregations in Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, and California. She is the former senior pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of Los Angeles, the founding church of the Metropolitan Community Churches international movement. She most recently served as senior pastor of Church of the Trinity MCC in Sarasota, Florida.

In 1976 she became the youngest person ever to be elected a member of the Metropolitan Community Church Board of Elders.

Local Church Pastoral Service: 2001–2005, Senior Pastor, Church of the Trinity MCC, Sarasota, Florida; 1986–2000, Senior Pastor, MCC Los Angeles, Mother Church of MCC; 1975–1979, Senior Pastor, MCC Detroit; 1974–1975, Senior Pastor, MCC Boston, Worcester, Massachusetts; 1972–1974, Associate Pastor, MCC Boston, Worcester, Massachusetts

Ecumenical and human rights work
Wilson has a deep commitment to ecumenical work and human rights. During 1979–1999, she served as MCC's Chief Ecumenical Officer, representing Metropolitan Community Church at the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches.

She has also been active on behalf of HIV issues, prisoner treatment programs, and women's rights. She is the founder of the MCC Conference for Women in Professional Ministry.

In 1979, she participated in the first-ever meeting of gay and lesbian religious leaders at the White House with President Jimmy Carter.

On April 6, 2010, she was guest of President Barack Obama at the White House Easter Prayer Breakfast.

On February 4, 2011, Wilson was appointed by President Obama to the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships for a one-year term.

Public speaking
Wilson was the Guest Preacher at the Earl Lectures at Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley, California, January 2002) and has been a guest speaker at Harvard Divinity School, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Allegheny College, Claremont School of Theology, and the University of Southern California.

Writings
Wilson is the author of:

 * Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus, and the Bible (1995 Harpercollins Press)
 * Amazing Grace co-editor with Fr. Malcolm Boyd
 * Contributing author to Poems and Prayers in Race and Prayer edited by Malcolm Boyd and Chester Talton (Morehouse Press).
 * Contributing author to "The MisEducation Against Homosexuality In The Bible: "How The Church Got It Wrong!" (2010 New Points of View Publishing)
 * "Outing the Church: 40 Years in the Queer Christian Movement" (2013 LifeJourney Press)
 * "Outing the Bible: Queer Folks, God, Jesus, and the Christian Scriptures" (2013 LifeJourney Press)

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Hazard
Or article says it's not listed in the EU. The German article says it's labeled both as "toxic" and "radioactive". They also have a "Hazard" section in their article. Since their ref is to a German page, would anyone mind if I translated what they have and move the contrast medium part from the top to a hazard section? 71.236.24.129 (talk) 21:45, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I object! The German source is here and described a product with less than 1% thorium dioxide. It also happens to agree with the current page when it says that ThO2 is nicht klassifiziert – "Not listed" is how we translate that, it is not the same as non hazardous. The same source gives the LD50 as 400 mg/kg (oral, mouse): quite frankly, I seen more toxic substances! Given the appalling state of the Thorotrast article, I would say that what is needed is research rather than the translation of poor German articles. Physchim62 (talk) 22:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

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Asian Century

The Asian Century is the projected 21st-century dominance of Asian politics and culture, assuming certain demographic and economic trends persist. The concept of Asian Century parallels the characterisation of the 19th century as Britain's Imperial Century, and the 20th century as the American Century.

A 2011 study by the Asian Development Bank found that 3 billion Asians (so 56.6% of the estimated 5.3 billion total inhabitants of Asia by 2050) could enjoy living standards similar to those in Europe today, and the region could account for over half of global output by the middle of this century.

Some argue that Asia's growing emphasis on solidarity, as well as maturing and progressive relationships among countries in the region, will further underpin the creation of the 21st Asian Century.

Origin
In 1924, Karl Haushofer used the term "Pacific age," envisaging the growth of Japan, China and India: "A giant space is expanding before our eyes with forces pouring into it which ... await the dawn of the Pacific age, the successor of the Atlantic age, the over-age Mediterranean and European era." The phrase Asian Century arose in the mid to late 1980s, and is attributed to a 1988 meeting with Paramount leader Deng Xiaoping of China and Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi of India in which Deng said that '[i]n recent years people have been saying that the next century will be the century of Asia and the Pacific, as if that were sure to be the case. I disagree with this view.' Prior to this, it made an appearance in a 1985 US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing. It has been subsequently reaffirmed by Asian political leaders, and is now a popularly used term in the media.

Reasons
Asia's robust economic performance over the three decades preceding 2010, compared to that in the rest of the world, made perhaps the strongest case yet for the possibility of an Asian Century. Although this difference in economic performance had been recognised for some time, specific individual setbacks (e.g., the 1997 Asian financial crisis) tended to hide the broad sweep and general tendency. By the early 21st century, however, a strong case could be made that this stronger Asian performance was not just sustainable but held a force and magnitude that could significantly alter the distribution of power on the planet. Coming in its wake, global leadership in a range of significant areas—international diplomacy, military strength, technology, and soft power—might also, as a consequence, be assumed by one or more of Asia's nation states.

Among many scholars have provided factors that have contributed to the significant Asian development, Kishore Mahbubani provides seven pillars that rendered the Asian countries to excel and provided themselves with the possibility to become compatible with the Western counterparts. The seven pillars include: free-market economics, science and technology, meritocracy, pragmatism, culture of peace, rule of law and education.

Professor John West in his book 'Asian Century … on a Knife-edge' argues:

"Over the course of the twenty-first century, India could well emerge as Asia’s leading power. Already, India’s economy is growing faster than China’s, a trend which could continue, unless China gets serious about economic reform. Further, India’s population will overtake China’s in 2022 and could be some 50% higher by 2100, according to the UN" .

In 2019 professor Chris Ogden, a Lecturer in Asian Security at the University of St Andrews, wrote that, "Although still behind relatively in terms of income per capita and infrastructure, as this wealth is translated into military, political, and institutional influence (via bodies such as the United Nations and the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), Asia’s two largest powers will gain a structural centrality and importance that will make them critical global lynchpins. Expectant populations and vocal leaders are accelerating and underpinning this criticality, and—if the existential issues of environmental pollution and corruption can be overcome—herald the emergence of an Asian-centric, and China / India-centric, world order that will form of the essential basis of international affairs for many decades to come."

Demographics
Population growth in Asia is expected to continue through at least the first half of the 21st century, though it has slowed significantly since the late 20th century. At four billion people in the beginning of the 21st century, the Asian population is predicted to grow to more than five billion by 2050. While its percent of the world population is not expected to greatly change, North American and European shares of the global population are expected to decline.

Economics

The major driver is continued productivity growth in Asia, particularly in China and India, as living standards rise. Even without completely converging with European or North American living standards, Asia might produce half of the global GDP by 2050. This is a large shift compared to the immediate post-cold war, when North America and Europe combined produced half of the global GDP. A 2011 study by the Asian Development Bank stated that: "By nearly doubling its share of global gross domestic product (GDP) to 52 percent by 2050, Asia would regain the dominant economic position it held some 300 years ago.

The notion of the Asian Century assumes that Asian economies can maintain their momentum for another 40 years, adapt to shifting global economic and technological environment, and continually recreate comparative advantages. In this scenario, according to 2011 modelling by the Asian Development Bank Asia's GDP would increase from $17 trillion in 2010 to $174 trillion in 2050, or half of global GDP. In the same study, the Asian Development Bank estimates that seven economies (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia) would lead Asia's powerhouse growth; under the Asian Century scenario, the region would have no poor countries, compared with eight in 2011.

Since China's economic reforms in the late 1970s (in farm privatisation) and early 1990s (in most cities), the Chinese economy has enjoyed three decades of economic growth rates between 8 and 10%. The Indian economy began a similar albeit slower ascent at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s, and has averaged around 4% during this period, though growing slightly over 8% in 2005, and hitting 9.2% in 2006 before slowing to 6% in 2009, then reaching 8.9% in 2010.

Both of these developments involved policy of a degree of managed liberalisation of the economy as well as a turning outwards of the economy towards globalisation (both exports and attracting inward investment). The magnitude of this liberalisation and globalisation is still subject to debate. They were part of conscious decisions by key political leaders, especially in India and the PRC. Also, the populations of the two countries offer a potential market of over two and a quarter billion. The development of the internal consumer market in these two countries has been a major basis for economic development. This has enabled much higher national growth rates for China and India in comparison to Japan, the EU and even the US. The international cost advantage on goods and services, based on cheaper labour costs, has enabled these two countries to exert a global competitive pressure.

The term Easternization has been used to refer to the spread of oriental (mainly Japanese) management techniques to the West.

The trend for greater Asian economic dominance has also been based on the extrapolations of recent historic economic trends. Goldman Sachs, in its BRIC economic forecast, highlighted the trend towards mainland China becoming the largest and India the second largest economies by the year 2050 in terms of GDP. The report also predicted the type of industry that each nation would dominate, leading some to deem mainland China 'the industrial workshop of the world' and India 'one of the great service societies'. As of 2009, the majority of the countries that are considered newly industrialized are in Asia.

By 2050, the East Asian and South Asian economies will have increased by over 20 times. With that comes a rise in Human Development Index, the index used to measure the standards of living. India's HDI will approach .8. East Asia's would approach .94 or fairly close to the living standards of the western nations such as the EU and the US. This would mean that it would be rather difficult to determine the difference in wealth of the two. Because of East Asian and Indian populations, their economy would be very large, and if current trends continue, India's long-term population could approach double that of China. East Asia could surpass all western nations' combined economies as early as 2030. South Asia could soon follow if the hundreds of millions in poverty continue to be lifted into middle class.

Construction projects
It is projected that the most groundbreaking construction projects will take place in Asia within the approaching years. As a symbol of economic power, supertall skyscrapers have been erected in Asia, and more projects are currently being conceived and begun in Asia than in any other region of the world. Completed projects include: the Petronas Towers of Kuala Lumpur, the Shanghai World Financial Center, International Finance Centre in Hong Kong, Taipei 101 in Taiwan, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE, and the Shanghai Tower. Future buildings promise to be taller, such as the PNB 118 in Kuala Lumpur and Legacy Tower in Dhaka.

Culture
Culturally, the Asian century is symbolised by Indian genre films (Bollywood, Parallel Cinema), Hong Kong genre films (martial arts films, Hong Kong action cinema), Japanese animation, and the Korean Wave. The awareness of Asian cultures may be a part of a much more culturally aware world, as proposed in the Clash of Civilizations thesis. Equally, the affirmation of Asian cultures affects the identity politics of Asians in Asia and outside in the Asian diasporas.

The Gross National Cool of Japan is soaring; Japanese cultural products, including TV shows, are undoubtedly "in" among American audiences and have been for years. About 2.3 million people studied the language worldwide in 2003: 900,000 South Koreans, 389,000 Chinese, 381,000 Australians, and 140,000 Americans study Japanese in lower and higher educational institutions.

Feng shui books topped the nonfiction best-seller lists and feng shui schools have multiplied. Major banks and multinational corporations employ feng shui consultants to advise them on the organisation of their offices. There has been a readiness to supplement Eastern forms of medicine, therapy, and massage and reject traditional Western medicine in favor of techniques, such as acupressure and acupuncture. Practices such as moxibustion and shiatsu enjoy enormous popularity in the West. So do virtually all the Eastern martial arts, such as kung fu, judo, karate, aikido, taekwondo, kendo, jujitsu, tai chi, qigong, ba gua, and xing yi, with their many associated schools and subforms.

Asian cuisine is quite popular in the West due to Asian immigration and subsequent interest from non-Asians into Asian ingredients and food. Even small towns in Britain, Canada, Scandinavia, or the United States generally have at least one Indian or Chinese restaurant. Restaurants serving pan-Asian and Asian-inspired cuisine have also opened across North America, Australia and other parts of the world. P.F. Chang's China Bistro and Pei Wei Asian Diner which serve Asian and Asian-inspired food is found across the United States and in regards for the former, in other parts of the world as well. Asian-inspired food products have also been launched including from noodle brand, Maggi. In Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the UK an Asian-inspired range of noodles known as Maggi Fusian and a long running range in Germany and Austria known as, Maggi Magic Asia includes a range of noodles inspired by food dishes found in China, Japan, Korea, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand.

Yoga has gained popularity outside India and the rest of Asia and has entered mainstream culture in the Western world. International Day of Yoga is now celebrated across the world annually on June 21 since 2015, following its inception in the United Nations General Assembly in 2014.

Though the use of English continues to spread, Asian languages are becoming more popular to teach and study outside the continent. The study of Chinese has recently gained greater attention in the United States, owing to a growing belief in the economic advantages of knowing it. It is being encouraged through the PRC's support of Confucius Institutes, which have opened in numerous nations to teach the Chinese language and culture.

Chinese has been rated as the second most used language on the internet with nearly a quarter speaking Chinese, Japanese came as fourth, and Korean as the tenth as of 2010. According to the CIA, China hosted the most users, India the third, Japan the sixth, and Indonesia as the tenth as of 2020.

India has the largest film industry in the world, and Indian Film Industry produces more films than Nollywood and Hollywood.

In the early years of the twentieth century very few people were vegetarians. The figure given for the United Kingdom during World War 2 was 100,000 out of a population of some 50 million – around 0.2 per cent of the total. By the 1990s the figure was estimated as between 4.2 percent and 11 percent of the British population and rising rapidly. As Porritt and Winner observe, as recently as the 1960s and early '70s, "being a vegetarian was considered distinctively odd," but "it is now both respectable and common place."

The spread of the Korean wave, particularly K-pop and Korean dramas, outside Asia has led to the establishment of services to sustain this demand. Viki and DramaFever are examples of services providing Korean dramas to international viewers alongside other Asian content. SBS PopAsia and Asian Pop Radio are two radio-related music services propagating the proliferation of K-pop throughout Australia. Apart from K-pop, Asian Pop Radio is also devoted to other Asian pop music originating from Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. Similarly, SBS PopAsia focuses on other East Asian pop music from China and Japan and to some extent Southeast Asian pop music in conjunction with K-pop. The rising popularity of Asian-related content has resulted in "SBS PopAsia" becoming a brand name for SBS content such as TV shows and news originating from Asia such as China, South Korea, Japan and India.

The growing awareness and popularity of Eastern culture and philosophies in the West has led to Eastern cultural objects being sold in these countries. The most well known being statues of the Buddha which range from statues sold for the garden to items sold for the house. Statues of Hindu gods such as Ganesha and East Asian iconography such as the Yin and yang are also sold in many stores in Western countries. Ishka a chain store in Australia sells many Asian-origin content particularly from India. The selling of Eastern cultural objects has however been met by criticism, with some saying many who buy these items do not understand the significance of them and that it is a form of Orientalism.

Religion
As recently as the 1950s, Crane Brinton, the distinguished historian of ideas, could dismiss "modern groups that appeal to Eastern wisdom" as being in effect "sectarian", "marginal", and "outside the main current of Western thought and feeling". Yet some Westerners have converted to Eastern religions or at least have shown an interest in them. An example is Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whom the Beatles followed, first to Bangor in Wales in 1967, and subsequently to India to study Transcendental Meditation in 1968. The Dalai Lama, whose book The Art of Happiness became a best-seller, can attract huge crowds in New York's Central Park or London's Wembley Stadium.

Buddhism in some countries is the second biggest religion. FWBO is one of the biggest and fastest-growing Buddhist organisations in the West.

Belief in reincarnation has never been a part of official Christian or Jewish teaching, or at least, in Christianity, it has been a formal heresy since it was rejected by a narrow margin at the Second Council of Constantinople in AD 553. However nearly all polling in Western countries reveals significant levels of this belief. "Puzzled People" undertaken in the 1940s suggested that only 4 per cent of people in Britain believed in reincarnation. Geoffrey Gorer's survey, carried out a few years later, arrived at 5 percent (1955, p. 262). However, this figure had reached 18 percent by 1967 (Gallup, 1993), only to increase further to a sizeable 29 percent by 1979, a good six-fold increase on the earlier "Puzzled People" figure. Eileen Barker has reported that around one-fifth of Europeans now say that they believe in reincarnation.

Karma, which has its roots in ancient India and is a key concept in Hinduism, Buddhism and other Eastern religions, has entered the cultural conscience of many in the Western world. John Lennon's 1970 single, "Instant Karma!" is credited towards the popularisation of karma in the Western world and is now a widely known and popular concept today giving rise to catchphrases and memes and figuring in other forms of Western popular culture.

Mindfulness and Buddhist meditation, both very popular in Asia, have gained mainstream popularity in the West.

Politics
The global political position of China and to a lesser extent India has risen in international bodies and amongst the world powers, leading the United States and European Union to become more active in the process of engagement with these two countries. China is also a permanent member of the UN Security Council. Although India is not a permanent member, it is possible that it will become one or at the least gain a more influential position. Japan is also attempting to become a permanent member, though the attempts of both are opposed by other Asian countries (i.e. India's bid is opposed by Pakistan; Japan's bid is opposed by China, South Korea, North Korea).

An Asian regional bloc may be further developed in the 21st century around ASEAN and other bodies on the basis of free trade agreements. However, there is some political concern amongst the national leaderships of different Asian countries about PRC's hegemonic ambitions in the region. Another new organization, the East Asian Summit, could also possibly create an EU-like trade zone.

The Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov encouraged the idea of a triple alliance between Russia, the PRC and India first formulated by Indian strategist Madhav Das Nalapat in 1983, and supported the idea of a multipolar world.

Human Capital
The 2007 World Bank Report on globalization notes that "rising education levels were also important, boosting Asian growth on average by 0.75 to 2 percentage points." The rapid expansion of human capital through quality education throughout Asia has played a significant role in experiencing "higher life expectancy and economic growth, and even to the quality of institutions and whether societies will make the transition into modern democracies".

3G (Global Growth Generators)
The Asian countries with the most promising growth prospects are: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Mongolia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Developing Asia is projected to be the fastest growing region until 2050, driven by population and income growth: 9 of 11 3G countries came from Asia. Vietnam has the highest Global Growth Generators Index, China is second with 0.81, followed by India's 0.71.

Based on a report from the HSBC Trade Confidence Index (TCI) and HSBC Trade Forecast, there are 4 countries with significant trade volume growth – Egypt, India, Vietnam and Indonesia – with growth is projected to reach at least 7.3 per cent per year until 2025

Next Eleven
The Next Eleven (known also by the numeronym N-11) are the eleven countries – Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey, South Korea, and Vietnam – identified by Goldman Sachs investment bank and economist Jim O'Neill in a research paper as having a high potential of becoming, along with the BRICs/BRICS, the world's largest economies in the 21st century. The bank chose these states, all with promising outlooks for investment and future growth, on 12 December 2005. At the end of 2011, the four major countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) also known as MINT, made up 73 percent of all Next Eleven GDP. BRIC GDP was $13.5 trillion, while MIKT GDP at almost 30 percent of that: $3.9 trillion.

Challenges to realising the Asian Century
Asia's growth is not guaranteed. Its leaders will have to manage multiple risks and challenges, particularly:

 * Growing inequality within countries, in which wealth and opportunities are confined to the upper echelons. This could undermine social cohesion and stability.
 * Many Asian countries will not be able to make the necessary investments in infrastructure, education and government policies that would help them avoid the Middle Income Trap.
 * Intense competition for finite natural resources, such as land, water, fuel or food, as newly affluent Asians aspire to higher standards of living.
 * Global warming and climate change, which could threaten agricultural production, coastal populations, and numerous major urban areas.
 * Geopolitical rivalry between China and India.
 * Rampant corruption, which plagues many Asian governments.
 * The direct impact of an ageing population on continuous economic development (e.g. declining labour force, change of consumption patterns, strain on public finances )

Criticism
Despite forecasts that predict the rising economic and political strength of Asia, the idea of an Asian Century has faced criticism. This has included the possibility that the continuing high rate of growth could lead to revolution, economic slumps, and environmental problems, especially in mainland China.

Others
Speeches and Political Statements Forecasts Criticism
 * "Strong China-India relations to usher in true Asian century: Premier Wen" Comment by PRC Premier Wen Jiabao
 * "President Addresses Asia Society, Discusses India and Pakistan" US President George Bush calls 21st century not Asian Century, but Freedom's Century
 * "India's power is infinite" PRC Commerce Minister Bo Xilai the future growth and cooperation of India and mainland China, 2006
 * NIC 2020 Mapping the Global Future
 * BRIC Thesis-pdf
 * "Welcome To The Asian Century..." by Jeffrey Sachs
 * "China, India Superpower? Not so Fast!"
 * "Asian Century" an editorial contrasting the American Century versus the Asian Century.
 * "An all-new flavour? Australia’s Asian Century" an article on cultural aspects of the Asian Century on Erenlai.

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Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
I really can't understand your objection to RSDG being included. I accept that it is not an official abbreviation (I am fully aware of the peculiarities of the British Army), but it is still the case that it is commonly used - in fact, I have seen it used far more often than ScotsDG, and that's in Army publications as well as civilian/civil service. And if it is used then it is appropriate to include it in the article. I have noted that it's incorrect, but I fail to see your objection to information being included. This is an encyclopaedia, not a propaganda document for official policy of the British Army. Our aim is to provide as much information as possible, not to stick rigidly to official usage and not mention anything unofficial. That would just be ridiculous and would stifle a free flow of knowledge. Unofficial abbreviations and nicknames are included in other articles - why so sensitive about this one? -- Necrothesp 11:34, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

ScotsDG abbreviation
My primary objection about RSDG is giving it any form of offical status - it is incorrect, and I know that the RSDG abbreviation can be a particular bugbear with members of the regiment.

To be completely honest, I have never given the ScotsDG abbreviation a moment's thought - the regiment are always, and have always been, referred to to as the ScotsDGs, and anyone using RSDG is quickly corrected. I served in the cavalry so, not surprisingly, everyone has always used ScotsDG, with RSDG limited to new REME (etc) attachments, who quickly change, and journalists, who rarely seem to bother to check, for example, a regiment's correct name, the post-nominals for a particular honour, etc. Personally, I think that ScotsDG has so much more character than (the frankly rather bland) RSDG, and is also much easier to say (especially after a couple of beers...), that I cannot see why anyone would want to use anything else!

But actually looking at it now, it is an anomaly - the abbreviated version of virtually every other regiment is simply it's initials possibly preceded by it's number. I think this anomaly, like every other in the Army, should be highlighted - why is it ScotsDG and not RSDG??

I have e-mailed several ScotsDG friends and will see if they can shed any light on it. In the meantime, until we have an explanation that can be included, I am happy to leave the current wording, which makes clear that RSDG is incorrect.

Best wishes

alexmb

 * It does also seem rather odd to miss off the abbreviation for the royal prefix, which regiments are usually rather proud of. We both know how idiosyncratic regiments can be, but it's odd nonetheless. -- Necrothesp 22:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

SCOTS DG
What a saga this has turned out to be!! It turns out that the ScotsDG abbreviation is also incorrect(!), and that the official abbreviation is SCOTS DG (all capitals with a space). I ended up talking to the SCOTS DG's Regimental Secretary, who stated that 'it is a matter that raises much difficulty at Home HQ and sometimes with the Regiment in Germany'. He does not know why this abbreviation was used, and is thus going to make it an Archive question - 'a good task for someone'...!! I have put this all into a new section otherwise it will dominate the initial overview paragraph.

Order of the Bath
'The Order ranks sixth in the British Orders of Chivalry, after The Most Noble Order of the Garter, The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick (now in disuse), The Order of Merit, and The Order of the Companions of Honour.' I cannot find a source confirming your rankings; on the contrary, as I noted more than a week ago on the relevant talk page, the Cabinet Office ( http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ceremonial/honours/chivalry.asp ) and the Select Committee on Public Administration of the House of Commons ( http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmpubadm/212/21204.htm#a3 ) both provide the tables of the British orders, in which the Order of Merit is placed after the Order of the Bath, and the Order of the Companions of Honour -- after the Order of the British Empire. Mapple 04:45, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Actually your two links don't agree: the first shows: Garter, Thistle, Merit, Victorian, Bath, Michael & George, etc. The table at the bottom doesn't include Knight Batchelor, so cannot be said to be complete.

I can't actually remember where the original list came from, but when the New Years Honours are published, I think they are in a fairly definitive order......
 * I referred to the tables, that do agree; the omission of Knight Bachelor is, I think, due to the fact that it is not an order of chivalry by any definition. I also do not think that it is common for OM to be announced in the New Year Honours list. Mapple 16:13, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

The original rankings I think (?) came from the royal family's site. Look at http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page490.asp. I am not going to touch the order you have changed it to until we can find a definitive list - there must be one....??!!

I think I have found a definitve list for precedence (http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ceremonial/honours/wear.asp). It is for the order in which honours / medals should be worn: Order of Merit : immediately after Knights and Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath [ie: after GCB, but before KCB] Order of the Companions of Honour : immediately after Knights and Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire [ie: before GBE, but before KBE] This could explain the variety of orderings on other sites - including the royal family's. Interestingly, if you look at the London Gazette for the Birthday Honours list for 2005 and the New Years Honours list for 2002, the CH is listed above the order of the British Empire in the former and below in the latter, as the latter list includes a GCB award, but the former does not. see http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/download.asp?docid=857057 and http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/download.asp?docid=532848

 * Ah, thank you very much! Indeed, this list seems to be the definitive one. And the Gazette lists are strange -- they commence with Knight Bachelors, who cerainly do not outrank, for example, KCB holders. Mapple 17:21, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style

The following is style advice for those who edit Numismatic-related articles under WikiProject Numismatics. Please remember, this is simply advice, and may change depending on Wikipolicy or participant consensus. For site-wide style guidelines, please see WP:Manual of Style.

Article titles

 * An article should be titled according to the key subject of the article.
 * Lists should be named "List of...x". For example, List of currencies.
 * If possible, make the title the subject of the first sentence of the article (as opposed to putting it in the predicate). In any case, the title should appear as early as possible in the article – preferably in the first sentence.
 * The first time the title is mentioned in the article, put it in bold using three apostrophes. Here is an example:  produces article title . You should not put links in the title.
 * Do not capitalize second and subsequent words unless the title is a proper noun (such as a name) or is otherwise almost always capitalized (for example: Canadian "Loonie", but British pound sterling). This especially applies to denominations, which are unit of measurement and not proper nouns, (e.g., euro, kwacha, peso, yen). Non-currency units have been decapitalized too, even where they are derived from a proper noun. The SI unit of a force is a "newton", the SI unit of electric potential is a "volt", and the CGS unit of magnetic flux density is a "gauss".
 * In general only create page titles that are in the singular (Greek drachma not Greek drachmas).
 * Except in titles of works or in official names, avoid the definite ("the") and indefinite ("a"/"an") articles at the beginning of a page name. This applies even if the subject of the page is usually preceded by the definite article "the" in speech or writing: Thus, for example, Denarius is preferred over The Denarius.

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General rule

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Body Parts (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

"Body Parts" is the 97th episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the 24th episode of the fourth season.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on the space station Deep Space Nine. This is one of several episodes that focus on the Ferengi, a species known for their devotion to earning profit. The Ferengi bartender Quark, believing himself to be terminally ill, auctions off his remains; when he discovers that the diagnosis was incorrect, he must either breach the contract, or end his life in order to deliver the merchandise.

The episode also writes actress Nana Visitor's real-life pregnancy into the story by having the pregnancy of the character Keiko O'Brien transferred to Visitor's character, Major Kira Nerys, following an accident.

Plot
Quark learns from his doctor that he has a rare disease that will kill him within a week. To raise money to pay his debts before he dies, he auctions off his remains, accepting an anonymous bid for 500 bars of gold-pressed latinum. A few hours later, he finds out that his medical exam was in error, and he is not about to die.

The bidder turns out to be Quark's old adversary Brunt, an agent of the Ferengi Commerce Authority. Brunt demands that Quark fulfill his end of the contract by providing his own remains, ignoring Quark's protests that he will live. Quark faces the options of killing himself, having someone kill him, or breaking the contract—an act that will lead to the loss of his business license, confiscation of his family's property, and ostracism by other Ferengi.

Quark decides to honor his contract and attempts to hire ex-spy Garak to kill him. However, he is afraid to approve any of the killing methods that Garak proposes. That night, Quark has a dream in which he meets Gint, the first Grand Nagus of the Ferengi and the author of the sacred Rules of Acquisition. Explaining that the Rules were intended as suggestions for how the Ferengi should live, and that they were named "Rules" only for marketing purposes, Gint advises Quark to break the contract.

The next morning, Quark refunds Brunt's latinum and breaks the contract. Brunt immediately revokes Quark's business license and seizes all of his assets. To Quark's astonishment, his customers and the crew of Deep Space Nine come to his aid by carrying in all the supplies and equipment he needs to resume operations, on the pretext of using the bar to store furniture while portions of the station are under repair. Even though Quark is cut off from Ferengi society (except for his brother Rom), he is back in business and feeling richer than before due to the friends he never imagined he had.

Meanwhile, the pregnant Keiko O'Brien is injured in a runabout accident; to save both her and the pregnancy, Dr. Bashir performs emergency surgery to transfer the fetus into Major Kira's body. Kira has no problem with being a surrogate mother, but Keiko and her husband Miles are at first uncomfortable with the thought of another woman carrying their child. They eventually come to terms with it, and ask Kira to move in with them so they can be closer to the child.

Production
The writers had learned that Nana Visitor was pregnant and were not sure how to work her pregnancy into the show. They had already made Keiko O'Brien pregnant and did not want to have two visibly pregnant characters, but they did not want to limit Kira Nerys either by hiding her behind a desk, as they had done with Gates McFadden's character in Star Trek: The Next Generation during her pregnancy. Ira Behr mentioned this to his wife Laura and she simply suggested they move the baby from Keiko to Kira. Science consultant André Bormanis thought the idea strained credulity, but it was his job to make it at least sound plausible. Bormanis consulted with a pathologist John Glasco who thought it was implausible although maybe not impossible with the help of future technology.

"Body Parts" was directed by Avery Brooks, the actor who portrayed Sisko.

Reception
The episode received a Nielsen rating of 5.1 on its initial airdate.

A 2014 retrospective by Keith R. A. DeCandido praised the episode and scored it an 8/10. DeCandido wrote that the acting for the Ferengi characters, in particular Max Grodénchik (Rom), was excellent, and supported an interesting exploration of both how Quark was similar and also differed from Ferengi culture as a whole. While he thought the Kira-Keiko pregnancy subplot was obviously artificial, it was clearly there to service a real-world need, did not take up too much time, and enabled later episodes to use Visitor in an unrestricted fashion without need for tricky camera angles.

In 2018, SyFy recommend the episode in an abbreviated watch guide for episodes featuring the character Kira Nerys.

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Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics

This is a partial list of notable historical figures in U.S. national politics who were members of the Ku Klux Klan before taking office. Membership of the Klan is secret. Political opponents sometimes allege that a person was a member of the Klan, or was supported at the polls by Klan members.

Politicians who were active in the Klan
In 2018, The Washington Post reported that, by 1930, the KKK, while its "membership remained semi-secret, claimed 11 governors, 16 senators and as many as 75 congressmen. It was falsely claimed that the membership was “roughly split between Republicans and Democrats” when in fact the Klan the was vastly dominated by Democrats (see below). The actual names were never released. The Washington Post also reported that the 1924 Democratic National Convention was not called a "Klanbake," and the KKK did not control the Democratic Party in 1924, contrary to false claims made in the 21st century.

Hugo Black
In 1921, Hugo Black (D) successfully defended E. R. Stephenson in his trial for the murder of a Catholic priest, Fr. James E. Coyle. Stephenson's daughter had converted to Catholicism and married a man of Puerto Rican descent, and Coyle had conducted the wedding. Black got Stephenson acquitted in part by arguing to the jury that Puerto Ricans should be considered black under the South's one drop rule. Black joined the Ku Klux Klan shortly afterwards, in order to gain votes from the anti-Catholic element in Alabama. He built his winning Senate campaign in 1926 around multiple appearances at KKK meetings across Alabama. Late in life, Black told an interviewer: "'At that time, I was joining every organization in sight! ... In my part of Alabama, the Klan was engaged in unlawful activities ... The general feeling in the community was that if responsible citizens didn't join the Klan it would soon become dominated by the less responsible members.'" News of his membership was a secret until shortly before he was confirmed as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1937. Black later said that joining the Klan was a mistake, but he went on to say, "I would have joined any group if it helped get me votes." On the Supreme Court, Black wrote the opinion in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Black also wrote the opinion in Everson v. Board of Education, a key case about the separation of church and state. Some have argued that his views on the separation of church and state were influenced by the Klan's anti-Catholicism. Despite his former Klan membership, Black joined the Supreme Court's unanimous decisions in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), which outlawed judicial enforcement of racially restrictive covenants, and Brown v Board of Education, which outlawed school segregation. Justice William O. Douglas would write years later that at least three (and possibly as many as five) justices were originally planning to rule school segregation constitutional, but Black had actually been one of the four justices planning to strike down school segregation from the beginning of the Brown case.

Theodore G. Bilbo
Theodore G. Bilbo (D), the U.S. Senator for Mississippi, stated he was a member of the KKK.

Joseph E. Brown
Joseph E. Brown (D), the U.S. Senator for Georgia, was a key supporter of the KKK in his home state.

Robert C. Byrd
Robert C. Byrd (D), the U.S. senator for West Virginia, a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he later said he officially left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group's Imperial Wizard stating "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd attempted to explain or defend his former membership in the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old. Byrd, a Democrat, eventually became his party leader in the Senate. Byrd later said joining the Klan was his "greatest mistake," and after his death, the NAACP released a statement praising Byrd, acknowledging his former affiliation with the Klan and saying that he "became a champion for civil rights and liberties" and "came to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda". In a 2001 interview, Byrd used the term "white niggers" twice during a national television broadcast. The full quote ran as follows: "My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much." Byrd later apologized for the phrase and admitted that it "has no place in today's society," and did not clarify the intended meaning of the term in his context.

John Brown Gordon
John Brown Gordon (D), the U.S. Senator for Georgia, was a founder of the KKK in his home state of Georgia.

James Thomas Heflin
James Thomas Heflin (1869–1951) (D), the U.S. Senator for Alabama, was suspected of being a member of the KKK.

Rufus C. Holman
Rufus C. Holman (R), the U.S. Senator for Oregon, was an active member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Oregon, serving as an officer in that organization.

Rice W. Means
Rice W. Means (R), the U.S. Senator for Colorado, was the directing head of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado.

John Tyler Morgan
John Tyler Morgan (D) (June 20, 1824 – June 11, 1907, the U.S. Senator for Alabama (March 4, 1877, to June 11, 1907), was the Grand Dragon of the KKK in Alabama.

Edmund Pettus
Edmund Pettus (July 6, 1821 – 1907) (D), the U.S. Senator for Alabama (1896 to 1907), was also a Grand Dragon of the KKK in Alabama.

William Bliss Pine
William Bliss Pine (1877–1942) (R), the U.S. Senator for Oklahoma (March 4, 1925, to March 3, 1931), was a Klansman, according to historian Chalmers and the Eufaula Indian Journal.

Lawrence C. Phipps
The Klan helped elect Lawrence C. Phipps (1862–1958) (R), U.S. Senator for Colorado.

Owen Brewster
Republican Owen Brewster (1888-1961) received crucial support from the Klan in his election as Governor of Maine (1925-1929), and went on to become a U.S. Congressman, and then U.S. Senator (1941-1952). In the last position he was a close ally of Joseph McCarthy. Former Maine Republican governor Percival Baxter accused Brewster of having been actually inducted into the Klan.

Daniel F. Steck
Daniel F. Steck (1881–1950) (D), of Iowa, in 1925, with the help of the Klan, defeated Senator Smith W. Brookhart (1869–1944) (R), a progressive. Because the vote was close, there was a recount, and Steck was the victor. Brookhart contested it. Steck reportedly had no Klan connections, except that he enlisted the Klan's top lawyer and legislative expert, William Francis Zumbrunn (1877–1930), to secure his seat in the 69th Congress (1925–1926). Earlier, Zumbrunn – with lawyer William Pinkney McLean, Jr. (1872–1937) of Fort Worth – helped seat Klan Senator from Texas, Earle Mayfield.

Frederick Steiwer
In the 1926 Oregon election, the Ku Klux Klan, under the auspices of The Oregon Good Government League, helped Frederick Steiwer (1883–1939) win the Republican primary by spreading word that it was supporting the reelection of his opponent, Senator Robert N. Stanfield (1877–1945) (R). The effort was fueled by White Supremacist (anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic) groups in Oregon in support of the state's Compulsory Education Act, enacted in 1922, mandating education; which would have taken effect in 1926; but the Supreme Court, in 1925, struck it down in Pierce v. Society of Sisters.

Arthur Raymond Robinson
Arthur Raymond Robinson (1881–1961) (R), of Indiana, was, on November 2, 1925, characterized by Time magazine was follows: "The New Man. Arthur R. Robinson is only 44. He is an Indianapolis attorney, a 'good Republican' but of no particular political importance. He is said to be a good orator. Against him politically is the fact that he supported Governor Jackson in the last election and so, justly or unjustly, he is considered a 'Klan man."

Frank Willis
According to historian Chalmers, "the Klan supported Frank B. Willis (1871–1928) (R) [of Ohio] not because it liked him, but because it disliked his anti-Klan opponent, Atlee Pomerene (1863–1937) (D), more.

Clifford Davis
Clifford Davis (D), U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 9th and 10th congressional districts was an active member in Tennessee.

George Gordon
George Gordon (D), U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 10th congressional district, became one of the Klan's first members. In 1867, Gordon became the Klan's first Grand Dragon for the Realm of Tennessee, and wrote its Precscript, a constitution setting out the organization's purpose, principles, and the like.

William David Upshaw
William David Upshaw (D), U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, was an active member in Georgia.

Homer Martin Adkins
Homer Martin Adkins (D), (1890 – 1964) the Governor of Arkansas, was a supporter of the Klan in his home state of Arkansas.

Bibb Graves
Bibb Graves (D), (1873 – 1942) was the Governor of Alabama. He lost his first campaign for governor in 1922, but four years later, with the secret endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan, he was elected to his first term as governor. Graves was almost certainly the Exalted Cyclops (chapter president) of the Montgomery chapter of the Klan. Graves, like Hugo Black, used the strength of the Klan to further his electoral prospects.

Edward L. Jackson
Edward L. Jackson (R), (1873 – 1954) was the Governor of Indiana in 1925 and his administration came under fire for granting undue favor to the Klan's agenda and associates. Jackson was further damaged by the arrest and trial of Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson for the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer. When it was revealed that Jackson had attempted to bribe former Gov. Warren T. McCray with $10,000 to appoint a Klansman to a local office, Jackson was taken to court. His case ended with a hung jury, and Jackson ended his political career in disgrace. There is, however, evidence that Jackson joined the KKK himself.

Clarence Morley
Clarence Morley (R),(1869 – 1948) the Governor of Colorado, was a KKK member and a strong supporter of Prohibition. He tried to ban the Catholic Church from using sacramental wine and attempted to have the University of Colorado fire all Jewish and Catholic professors.

Tom Terral
Tom Terral (D), ( 1882 – 1946) the Governor of Arkansas, was a member of the KKK in Louisiana.

Clifford Walker
Clifford Walker (D), (1877 – 1954) the Governor of Georgia, was revealed to be a Klan member by the press in 1924.

Elmer David Davies
Elmer David Davies (D), a federal judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, was a member of the KKK while at university.

Lee Cazort
Lee Cazort (D), the Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, was active in the Klan, and openly endorsed the Klan's platform.

John W. Morton
John Morton (D), the Tennessee Secretary of State, was the founder of the Nashville chapter of the KKK

William L. Saunders
William L. Saunders (D), the North Carolina Secretary of State, was the founder of the North Carolina chapter.

Local officials
A notable number of local officials were also Klansmen, resulting in such as the "reign of terror" inflicted by Louisiana by crony "exalted cyclops": Bastrop mayor, John Killian Skipwith, known as Captain J. K. Skipwith, and Mer Rouge mayor, Bunnie McEwin McKoin, MD, better known as Dr. B. M. McKoin (and whose surname was variously misreported as McCoin, M'Koin and McKoln in media).

John Clinton Porter
John Clinton Porter (D), was mayor of Los Angeles and an early supporter of the Klan in the 1920s.

Benjamin F. Stapleton
Benjamin F. Stapleton (D), was Mayor of Denver in the 1920s–1940s. He was a Klan member in the early 1920s and appointed fellow Klansmen to positions in municipal government. Ultimately, Stapleton broke from the Klan and removed several Klansmen from office.

Kaspar K. Kubli
Kap Kubli (R) Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1923 to 1924

David Duke
David Duke (D/R), a politician who ran in both Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, was openly involved in the leadership of the Ku Klux Klan. He was founder and Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the mid-1970s; he re-titled his position as "National Director" and said that the KKK needed to "get out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms". He left the organization in 1980. He ran for president in the 1988 Democratic presidential primaries. In 1989 Duke switched political parties from Democrat to Republican. In 1989, he became a member of the Louisiana State Legislature from the 81st district, and was Republican Party chairman for St. Tammany Parish.

Warren G. Harding
The consensus of modern historians is that Warren Harding was never a member, and instead was an important enemy of the Klan. While one source claims Warren G. Harding, a Republican, was a Ku Klux Klan member while President, that claim is based on a third-hand account of a second-hand recollection in 1985 of a deathbed statement made sometime in the late 1940s concerning an incident in the early 1920s. Independent investigations have turned up many contradictions and no supporting evidence for the claim. Historians reject the claim and note that Harding in fact publicly fought and spoke against the Klan.

The rejected claim was made by Wyn Craig Wade. He stated Harding's membership as fact and gives a detailed account of a secret swearing-in ceremony in the White House, based on a private communication he received in 1985 from journalist Stetson Kennedy. Kennedy, in turn had, along with Elizabeth Gardner, tape recorded some time in the "late 1940s" a deathbed confession of former Imperial Klokard Alton Young. Young claimed to have been a member of the "Presidential Induction Team". Young also said on his deathbed that he had repudiated racism. In his book, The Strange Deaths of President Harding, historian Robert Ferrell says he was unable to find any records of any such "ceremony" in which Harding was brought into the Klan in the White House. John Dean, in his 2004 book Warren G. Harding, also could find no proof of Klan membership or activity on the part of Harding. Review of the personal records of Harding's Personal White House Secretary, George Christian Jr., also do not support the contention that Harding received members of the Klan while in office. Appointment books maintained in the White House, detailing President Harding's daily schedules, do not show any such event.

In their 2005 book Freakonomics, University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner alluded to Warren Harding's possible Klan affiliation. However, in a New York Times Magazine Freakonomics column, entitled "Hoodwinked? Does it matter if an activist who exposes the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan isn't open about how he got those secrets?", Dubner and Levitt said that they no longer accepted Stetson Kennedy's testimony about Harding and the Klan.

The 1920 Republican Party platform, which essentially expressed Harding's political philosophy, called for Congress to pass laws combating lynching. Harding denounced lynching in a landmark 21 October 1921 speech in Birmingham, Alabama, which was covered in the national press. Harding also vigorously supported an anti-lynching bill in Congress during his term in the White House. His "comments about race and equality were remarkable for 1921."

Payne argues that the Klan was so angry with Harding's attacks on the KKK that it originated and spread the false rumor that he was a member.

Carl S. Anthony, biographer of Harding's wife, found no such proof of Harding's membership in the Klan. He does however discuss the events leading up to the period when the alleged Klan ceremony was held in June 1923:

"[K]nowing that some branches of the Shriners were anti-Catholic and in that sense sympathetic to the Ku Klax Klan and that the Klan itself was holding a demonstration less than a half mile from Washington, Harding censured hate groups in his Shriners speech. The press 'considered [it] a direct attack' on the Klan, particularly in light of his criticism weeks earlier of 'factions of hatred and prejudice and violence [that] challeng[ed] both civil and religious liberty'."

In 2005, The Straight Dope presented a summary of many of these arguments against Harding's membership, and noted that, while it might have been politically expedient for him to join the KKK in public, to do it in private would have been of no benefit to him.

It was falsely rumored, in his lifetime, that Harding was partly of African-American descent, so he would have been an unlikely recruit for the Ku Klux Klan.

Calvin Coolidge
One common misconception is that President Calvin Coolidge was a Klan member, a claim that Klan websites have spread. In reality, Coolidge was adamantly opposed to the Klan. According to Jerry L. Wallace at the Coolidge Foundation, "Coolidge expressed his antipathy to the Klan by reaching out in a positive, public way directly to its victims: Blacks, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants, with whom he had good relations—especially so for Irish Catholics—going back long before the rise of the Invisible Empire . . . [and] sought to highlight their positive achievements and contributions to American life." Ironically, many Klan members voted for the Republican Coolidge in the 1924 presidential election because the Democratic presidential nominee John W. Davis denounced the Klan at the party's convention.

Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman, the Democratic politician who became president in 1945, was accused by opponents of having dabbled with the Klan briefly. In 1922, he was running for eastern judge, this being the position for one of three court judges in Jackson County, Missouri. His friends Edgar Hinde and Spencer Salisbury advised him to join the Klan. The Klan was politically powerful in Jackson County, and two of Truman's opponents in the Democratic primary had Klan support. Truman refused at first, but paid the Klan's $10 membership fee, and a meeting with a Klan officer was arranged.

According to Salisbury's version of the story, Truman was inducted, but afterward "was never active; he was just a member who wouldn't do anything". Salisbury, however, told the story after he became Truman's bitter enemy, so historians are reluctant to believe his claims.

According to Hinde and Margaret Truman's accounts, the Klan officer demanded that Truman pledge not to hire any Catholics or Jews if he was reelected. Truman refused, and demanded the return of his $10 membership fee; most of the men he had commanded in World War I had been local Irish Catholics.

Truman had at least one other strong reason to object to the anti-Catholic requirement, which was that the Catholic Pendergast family, which operated a political machine in Jackson County, were his patrons; Pendergast family lore has it that Truman was originally accepted for patronage without even meeting him, on the basis of his family background plus the fact that he was not a member of any anti-Catholic organization such as the Klan. The Pendergast faction of the Democratic Party was known as the "Goats", as opposed to the rival Shannon machine's "Rabbits". The battle lines were drawn when Truman put only Goats on the county payroll, and the Klan began encouraging voters to support Protestant, "100% American" candidates, allying itself against Truman and with the Rabbits, while Shannon instructed his people to vote Republican in the election, which Truman lost.

Truman later claimed that the Klan "threatened to kill me, and I went out to one of their meetings and dared them to try", speculating that if Truman's armed friends had shown up earlier, violence might have resulted. However, biographer Alonzo Hamby believes that this story, which is not supported by any recorded facts, was a confabulation based on a meeting with a hostile and menacing group of Democrats that contained many Klansmen, showing Truman's "Walter Mitty-like tendency ... to rewrite his personal history". Sympathetic observers see Truman's flirtation with the Klan as a momentary aberration, point out that his close friend and business partner Eddie Jacobson was Jewish, and say that in later years Truman's presidency marked the first significant improvement in the federal government's record on civil rights since the post-Reconstruction nadir marked by the Wilson administration.

News media
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 * (taped March 2, 2001; posted to YouTube January 17, 2009).
 * (Alexander Posey; 1873–1908; was founder of the ) }} {{nowrap|LCCN {{URL|https://www.loc.gov/item/sn96087901/|sn96087901}}; {{OCLC|34998711 |show=all}}.
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Kingsport Times, July 13,|1939|p=}} |last1=Kingsport Times, The |date=July 13, 1939 |title=Davies Opposition Grows in Senate – Confirmation of Tennessean for U.S. Judge Recalled by Committee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/591531364/ |work= |language=en-US |volume=24 |issue=168 |edition=Home |location=Kingsport, Tennessee |pages=1 & 16 |access-date=September 7, 2017 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription}}(Davies joined the KKK while in Louisiana and attended a meeting while at Vanderbilt University). |author1-link=The Kingsport Times
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|NAACP, June 29,|2010|p= }} |last1=NAACP |date=June 29, 2010 |title=NAACP Mourns the Passing of U.S. Senator Robert Byrd |url=http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/naacp-mourns-the-passing-of-u.s.-senator-robert-byrd/ |language=en-US |publisher=NAACP Press Room |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707183755/http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/naacp-mourns-the-passing-of-u.s.-senator-robert-byrd/ |archive-date=July 7, 2010 |access-date=August 27, 2016 |author1-link=NAACP }}
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Nashville Tennessean, November 21,|1914|p=}} |last1=Nashville Tennessean |date=November 21, 1914 |title=John W. Morton Passes Away in Shelby |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/119557576/ |type=obituary |language=en-US |volume=8 |issue=194 |edition=Home |pages=1–2 |access-date=September 25, 2016 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |quote=To Captain Morton came the peculiar distinction of having organized that branch of the Ku Klux Klan which operated in Nashville and the adjacent territory, but a more signal honor was his when he performed the ceremonies which initiated Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest into the mysterious ranks of the Ku Klux Klan |author1-link=Nashville Tennessean }}
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|News & Observer, March 26,|2014|p= }} |last1=Stancill |first1=[Margaret] Jane |date=March 26, 2014 |title=Crowd Pushes UNC to Rename Hall |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/652579933/ |language=en-US |volume=2015 |issue=85 |location=Raleigh, North Carolina |pages=1 & 6 (section A) |access-date=February 20, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |work=The News & Observer }}
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|New York Times, Apr 19,|1923|p=}} |last1=New York Times, The |date=April 19, 1923 |title=Warrants Out for Klan in Morehouse – Captain Skipwith, Exalted Cyclops, Charged with Conspiring to Murder – Nearly a Score Accused – Jeff Burnett and Dr. Mckoln Among Alleged Men Rouge Hooded Kidnappers Sought |work=The New York Times |url=https://nyti.ms/3fKpqyL |department= |type= |series= |language=en-US |volume=73 |issue=23826 |page=21 (column 3) |access-date=January 25, 2021 |via=TimesMachine |url-access=subscription |author1-link=The New York Times }}.
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|New York Times, August 11,|1924|p=}} |last1=New York Times, The |date=August 11, 1924 |title=Klan in Southwest Faces Another Test – Hopes to Nominate Its Candidate for Governor in Arkansas Primary Tomorrow |work=The New York Times |url=https://nyti.ms/3fKpqyL |department= |type= |series= |language=en-US |volume=73 |issue=24306 |page=2 (column 3 of 8) |access-date=May 19, 2021 |via=TimesMachine |url-access=subscription |author1-link=The New York Times }}.
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|New York Times, August 14,|1924|p=}} |last1=New York Times, The |date=August 14, 1924 |title=Klan Loses in Arkansas – Terral Leads Cazort in Race for Nomination for Governor |work=The New York Times |url=https://nyti.ms/3wotGdX |department= |type= |series= |language=en-US |volume=73 |issue=24309 |page=2 (column 3 of 8) |access-date=May 19, 2021 |via=TimesMachine |url-access=subscription |author1-link=The New York Times }}.
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|New York Times, November 6,|1924|p=1}} |last1=''New York Times, The |author-link1=The New York Times |date=November 6, 1924 |title=Victories by Klan Feature Election – Order Elects Senators in Oklahoma and Colorado, Governors in Kansas, Indiana, Colorado – All on Republican Ticket – Only Setback for Ku Klux Was Triumph of Mrs. Ferguson as Democratic Governor of Texas |work=The New York Times |url=https://nyti.ms/3m8mSPo |language=en-US |volume=74 |issue=24388 |page=1 (column 7) & p. 3 |access-date=August 13, 2021 |via=TimesMachine |url-access=subscription }}
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|New York Times Magazine, August 14,|1946|p=}} |last=Hinton |first=Harold B |date=August 14, 1946 |title=Bilbo KKK Avowal Stumps Mississippi – Between 'Why Not?' of Friends and 'He's Clowning' of Foes Is a Fear He Calls Turn |url=https://nyti.ms/3bG9Rqx |work=New York Times, The |language=en-US |volume=95 |issue=32344 |page=14 |access-date=May 19, 2021 |via=TimesMachine |url-access=subscription}}.
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|New York Times Magazine, January 8,|2006|p=}} |last1=New York Times Magazine |last2=Dubner |first2=Stephen Joseph |author-link2=Stephen J. Dubner |last3=Levitt |first3=Steven D. Levitt |author-link3=Steven D. Levitt |date=January 8, 2006 |title=The Way We Live Now: 01-08-06: Freakonomics – Hoodwinked? |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/magazine/hoodwinked.html |department= |work= |type=Sunday supplement of The New York Times |language=en-US |volume= |issue= |edition=National |pages=26–28 (section 6) |access-date=January 17, 2006 |author1-link=New York Times Magazine }}{{space|1}}→ Dubner and Levitt, co-authors of Freakonomics – A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005), review their own book.
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|New York Times, August 18,|2015|p=}} |last1=New York Times, The |last2=Baker |first2=Peter |author-link2=Peter Baker (journalist) |date=August 18, 2015 |title=White House Memo – DNA Shows Warren Harding Wasn't America's First Black President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/us/politics/dna-that-confirmed-one-warren-harding-rumor-refutes-another.html |work=New York Times, The |language=en-US |volume= |issue= |page= |access-date=December 22, 2020 |via= |url-access= |author1-link=The New York Times }} {{ProQuest|1714233466}} (U.S. Newsstream database).
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Philadelphia Inquirer, January 10,|1923|p= }} |last1=Philadelphia Inquirer |date=January 10, 1923 |title=Ku Klux Unmasked at Torture Probe by Defiant Victims |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8171737/the-philadelphia-inquirer/ |series= |language=en-US |volume=188 |issue=10 |pages=1 & 2 |access-date=January 25, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access= |author1-link=Philadelphia Inquirer }}
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Roseburg News-Review, August 16,|1926|p= }} |last1=Roseburg New-Review |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=August 16, 1926 |title=U'Ren Charges Corruption in Steiwer Ranks |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/93550449/ |type=AP |language=en-US |volume=27 |issue=214 |location=Roseburg, Oregon |page=1 |access-date=May 25, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription }} {{OCLC|52498570|show=all}}.
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Straight Dope, November 8,|2005|p= }} |last1=The Straight Dope |last2=Corrado |first2=John |date=November 8, 2005 |title=Was Warren Harding Inducted Into the KKK While President? |url=https://www.straightdope.com/21343365/was-warren-harding-inducted-into-the-kkk-while-president |type=A Staff Report From the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board |language=en-US |location=Chicago |publisher=Creative Loafing Media, Inc. |access-date=February 8, 2009 |author1-link=The Straight Dope }}
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Washington Post, June 19,|2005|p= }} |last1=Washington Post, The |last2=Pianin |first2=Eric [Stuart] |date=June 19, 2005 |title=A Senator's Shame – Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105.html |type=review of Byrd's 2005 autobiography: Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields |language=en-US |edition=Final |page=1A |access-date=July 11, 2006 |quote=During his [1958] Senate campaign, he [Byrd] told a newspaper reporter that he personally felt the Klan had been incorrectly blamed for many acts committed by others. |author1-link=The Washington Post }} {{ProQuest|409811201}} (U.S. Newsstream database).
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Washington Post, March 18,|2018|p=}} |last1=Washington Post, The |last2=Mendelsohn |first2=Jennifer |last3=Shulman |first3=Peter A. |date=March 18, 2018 |title=How Social Media Spread a Historical Lie |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/03/15/how-social-media-spread-a-historical-lie/ |work= |type=blog |language=en-US |access-date=January 26, 2021 |author1-link=The Washington Post }} {{ProQuest|2014080716}} (U.S. Newsstream database).
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Washington Post, June 21,|2020|p= }} |last1=Washington Post, The |last2=Robenalt |first2=James D. |author-link2=James Robenalt |date=June 21, 2020 |title=The Republican President Who Called for Racial Justice in America After Tulsa Massacre – Warren G. Harding's Comments About Race and Equality Were Remarkable For 1921 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/21/warren-harding-tulsa-race-massacre-trump/ |language=en-US |access-date=June 26, 2020 |author1-link=The Washington Post }}
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Straight Dope, November 8,|2005|p= }} |last1=The Straight Dope |last2=Corrado |first2=John |date=November 8, 2005 |title=Was Warren Harding Inducted Into the KKK While President? |url=https://www.straightdope.com/21343365/was-warren-harding-inducted-into-the-kkk-while-president |type=A Staff Report From the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board |language=en-US |location=Chicago |publisher=Creative Loafing Media, Inc. |access-date=February 8, 2009 |author1-link=The Straight Dope }}
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Washington Post, June 19,|2005|p= }} |last1=Washington Post, The |last2=Pianin |first2=Eric [Stuart] |date=June 19, 2005 |title=A Senator's Shame – Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105.html |type=review of Byrd's 2005 autobiography: Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields |language=en-US |edition=Final |page=1A |access-date=July 11, 2006 |quote=During his [1958] Senate campaign, he [Byrd] told a newspaper reporter that he personally felt the Klan had been incorrectly blamed for many acts committed by others. |author1-link=The Washington Post }} {{ProQuest|409811201}} (U.S. Newsstream database).
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Washington Post, March 18,|2018|p=}} |last1=Washington Post, The |last2=Mendelsohn |first2=Jennifer |last3=Shulman |first3=Peter A. |date=March 18, 2018 |title=How Social Media Spread a Historical Lie |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/03/15/how-social-media-spread-a-historical-lie/ |work= |type=blog |language=en-US |access-date=January 26, 2021 |author1-link=The Washington Post }} {{ProQuest|2014080716}} (U.S. Newsstream database).
 * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Washington Post, June 21,|2020|p= }} |last1=Washington Post, The |last2=Robenalt |first2=James D. |author-link2=James Robenalt |date=June 21, 2020 |title=The Republican President Who Called for Racial Justice in America After Tulsa Massacre – Warren G. Harding's Comments About Race and Equality Were Remarkable For 1921 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/21/warren-harding-tulsa-race-massacre-trump/ |language=en-US |access-date=June 26, 2020 |author1-link=The Washington Post }}
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Books, journals, magazines, papers, websites

 * (9 publications)
 * From the Collection: The Presidents → The televised portion of the series, "Ulysses S. Grant", was first aired May 5, 2002..
 * , ISBN 0-6880-7794-3,.
 * , ISBN 0-1950-7814-4
 * ; ISBN 978-0-3855-0625-0;.
 * (prepared under the direction of Sheila P[atricia] Burke; burn 1951). ;.
 * (publication); (article).
 * , ISBN 0-8223-0730-8,.
 * (jacksonianamerica.com is a website maintained by the author)
 * ; ISBN 0-8050-6956-9;.
 * ; ISBN 0-8759-5263-1;.
 * "Justice Hugo Black explained in a 5–4 decision why this wall did not stand in the way of a New Jersey law covering the bus fares of Catholic-school students. (This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Cross Roads").
 * ; ISBN 0-8173-0983-7;.
 * , ISBN 0-8262-1202-6,.
 * ; ISBN 0-1952-0635-5 (full set, Vol. 23); (Vol. 23).
 * (article).
 * ; ISBN 0-2520-0848-0;.
 * ; ISBN 0-8719-5196-7;.
 * , ISBN 0-1950-4546-7,.
 * (reprint from an earlier post → link).
 * . → Subtitle: "In the 1920s, during what historians call the KKK's 'second wave,' Klan members served in all levels of American government."
 * , ISBN 0-6714-5654-7, . (see ).
 * , ISBN 0-6794-3180-2,.
 * (see )., ISBN 978-0-7864-7774-6,.
 * ; ISBN 978-0-8214-1818-5;.
 * ; ISBN 0-9304-6600-4 (full set); ISBN 0-9304-6601-2 (Vol. 1);.
 * ; ISBN 0-19-504487-8;.
 * , ISBN 0-6880-0005-3,.
 * → Alternate transcript. (publication).
 * , ISBN 0-6880-0005-3,.
 * ; ISBN 0-6714-1476-3;.
 * ; ("Political Party Platforms").
 * ; ISBN 0-8828-9817-5;.
 * ; ISBN 0-8719-5196-7;.
 * , ISBN 0-1950-4546-7,.
 * (reprint from an earlier post → link).
 * . → Subtitle: "In the 1920s, during what historians call the KKK's 'second wave,' Klan members served in all levels of American government."
 * , ISBN 0-6714-5654-7, . (see ).
 * , ISBN 0-6794-3180-2,.
 * (see )., ISBN 978-0-7864-7774-6,.
 * ; ISBN 978-0-8214-1818-5;.
 * ; ISBN 0-9304-6600-4 (full set); ISBN 0-9304-6601-2 (Vol. 1);.
 * ; ISBN 0-19-504487-8;.
 * , ISBN 0-6880-0005-3,.
 * → Alternate transcript. (publication).
 * , ISBN 0-6880-0005-3,.
 * ; ISBN 0-6714-1476-3;.
 * ; ("Political Party Platforms").
 * ; ISBN 0-8828-9817-5;.
 * ; ISBN 0-19-504487-8;.
 * , ISBN 0-6880-0005-3,.
 * → Alternate transcript. (publication).
 * , ISBN 0-6880-0005-3,.
 * ; ISBN 0-6714-1476-3;.
 * ; ("Political Party Platforms").
 * ; ISBN 0-8828-9817-5;.
 * ; ("Political Party Platforms").
 * ; ISBN 0-8828-9817-5;.

Sources by the Klan or known exponents of the Klan

 * (microfilm & digital);.
 * → "Illustrated with photographs, prints and drawings by A[rthur] I. Keller".
 * → Printed secretly in the office of the Pulaski Citizen by its publisher, Lapsley D. McCord (1847–1920) (Horn). → This copy of the Prescript was formerly the property of Col. Martin Luther Stansel (1822–1902), a lawyer from Pickens County, Alabama, and one of the organizers of the original Ku Klux Klan → reprinted 1903 → revised 1904.