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website ::-:: Thai bangkaew dog http://www.chumsang.net [[Image:Bangkaew.jpg] MuangThong of Chumsagsongkram kennel Phitsanulok, Thailand เมืองทอง คอกชุมแสงสงคราม จ.พิษณุโลก

Thai Bangkaew dogs. one of Thailand 's most famous Breeds. They love bathing and Swimming Skills.

The first breeder Thaibangkaew dog in Thailand Former Vilage headman Mr. Tueng Kongcharoen Palyed a crucial role in restoring Thai Bangkaew dog breed to Phitsanulok.

"Sing" Thai Bangkaew dog on the Boat. http://www.chumsang.net

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Sarbox, please stop switching back to singular verbs in entries for bands with plural names.

Proper nouns which are plural in form take a plural verb in both American and British English.

Examples: British English: "The Clash are a well-known band." American English: "The Clash is a well-known band." Both: "The Beatles are a well-known band." British English: "New England are the champions." American English: "New England is the champion." Both: "The Patriots are the champions." 158.223.1.117 14:21, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_American_and_British_English#Singular_and_plural_for_nouns

 * Sarbox, your behavior is puzzling. Why do you keep reverting, in clear breach of the wikipedia guideline's mentioned above? Please provide a reason, here, on my talk page or at Talk:The_Decemberists, before reverting again. Brendanfox 04:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

You mentioned that you are an editor at a university newspaper. Perhaps you should look to the copyeditor of the New York Times for guidance, then. From a Times article: "It was midsummer of 1964 that the Supremes scored their first major hit". It is more likely that you are mistaken than the Times. All Music Guide, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NY Times all use plural forms when the subject is a plural band name. Please stop making these awkward grammatical changes. Rhobite 20:24, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Billbrock/MyBackPages20060902

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Cleaned up the Sam Sloan article
Bill:

This is AWM. I noticed that your version of the Sam Sloan page got an NPOV tag and I have done my best to help it get to be more NPOV and I removed the NPOV tag. My mentor on this, months ago, was User:Jnc. Jnc is a good guy. The basic philosophy is that just about every historical person has enemies and is notorious about something, so unless there were a lot of newpaper articles by professional reporters about being "notorious", then the label of notorious is crap and gets deleted (it is basically viewed as a soap opera and ignored by History). So does all the judgmental stuff. I do not think that I removed any fact about what Sam did that was already in the article. What you get is a compromise: neither you nor Sam might love it exactly, but you might both be able to agree on it.

From my point of view, anyone who has been to Sam's web site, or watched his videos, knows that he loves to joke in the style of Baron von Munchhausen. It does not help his credibility, but it seems to me that these days he only asks to be taken seriously about his knowlege of chess, Pakistan and politics. You and I both know that his current love life is his private matter until he makes it otherwise.

I am a non-custodial father (one daughter) and was sympathetic to Sam's label of kidnapping. I still disagree with Sam's losing custody or Shamema, but I felt a little betrayed when I finally read Judge Go's account, which was much more fair. Still, it has not turned me off to Sam, but I have started to take his stories in carefully controlled doses. You might want to try that technique also.

If you want to provide feedback, try amorrow@earthlink.net, or just use Talk:Sam Sloan. 172.196.184.32 02:53, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

I'll make comments here. They're public, but the locale is a bit less inflammatory.

"Notorious" was not me, IIRC--I've said much worse about him :-) would be happy to cop to that. Lots of foax, incidentally, don't seem to be aware of the pejorative connotation.

I would not care whether Sloan slept w/ three different women every night; might even send him a letter of commendation. It's the obsession with minors that's problematic: Google "japanese virgins"; one of his pages s/b in the top five hits. Or check out these curious deploymentsof Pokémon, his stated interest in these pages, and (the thing that really really irks me, because I have no objection to porn in itself), the mixing of soft porn and kid-friendly links on these pages. (Since you're a father like me, you may be aware of how popular Pokémon was a few years ago....) Or consider the Burmeseprostitute of junior high school age with whom Sloan implies sexual relations (that's statutory rape in Thailand as well as here). Sloan's allies deny the charge, but Sloan is silent. There's more that I'd be prepared to go into in a courtroom that I'm not willing to discuss publicly....

Further, if one grants the logical conclusion of the above, one might reasonably ask me, "why bother?" He's relatively old, and AFAIK even the alleged relations w/ minors involved an economic transaction. [Personal opinion self-redacted to comply with Wikipedia "no personal attacks" policy.] This is how Sloan ignores the love life of others: in this case, members of the Board of the U.S. Chess Federation. More to say, but it's late... Billbrock 08:39, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Someone who wishes not to post to this board sent me this email taking issue with the above (quoting one of several points):
 * The Burmese thing: I agree that he had some stuff on his web site
 * that should not be there, but it is mostly talking about what seems
 * to be pretty old stuff. This whole thing of the USA treating child
 * prostitution as a crime against humanity is a fairly recent
 * development. If "sex vacations" or whatever are legal or the laws in
 * the other country are poorly enforced (thus no extradition
 * proceedings are started), it is hard to get really worked up about
 * it. Look at it this way: if that girl is an active prostitute, the
 * trick she turned for Sam did not really start her down that
 * pathway. It is sickening, but perhaps it is best left as a local
 * issue to that country.

Hmm: what then if there were other prostitutes whose first customer was Mr. Sloan? Let's not forget Daa and Lim. Billbrock 17:38, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

I don't think additional criminal charges against Sloan are appropriate; I don't think a celebration of this conduct is appropriate, either.... Billbrock 17:55, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Are you from Shamokin?
Mr Brock are you from Shamokin? Coal Region? Thanks Scott 23:01, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Isn't everybody? Stan Coveleski, Jimmy Dorsey....

I thought Dorsey was from Shennandoah? That's what the old timers told me, Ella Fitzgerald born in Pottsville? Well I guess not...Getting late here, Catch up with you possibly tomorrow? Cheers and regards Scott 01:19, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Dorsey born Shen., but lived in Mt. Carmel. I cheated.

Massachusetts compromise
The article has been rewritten based on the research you did. Please check it out and reconsider your AfD vote. Thanks. howcheng  [ t • c • w •  e  ] 21:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Test (first level warning)
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 * Out of curiousity: why did I get this notice? Billbrock 03:12, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I did not post this. I realize that it looks like I posted this, but I did not. Perhaps there is a fake Sam Sloan around here too. Sam Sloan 04:04, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh. I didn't bother to look at the history. :-) Would a hypothetical child be better off in custody of hypothetical drug dealers? Perhaps.  Interesting question to be explored in amicus briefs.  Billbrock 09:30, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Your war with Sam Sloan
I highly suggest you refrain from editing the Sam Sloan article, especially if your contributions are going to be on the level of. The category is for convicted pedophiles, just as Category:Rapists is for convicted rapists (you have no idea how many times people have tried to put Kobe Bryant in there). You need to stop bringing your outside feud into Wikipedia. If this escalates, I'll have to block both of you for disrupting the community (think of it as a time out), and I would rather not have to. Calling him a pedophile serves no purpose. As WP:NPA states, "Comment on content, not on the contributor. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users." If you feel his edits violate policy, state how and limit your comments to policy only. Given what I've seen of his contributions, most editors will likely agree with you. Regards,  howch e  ng   {chat} 17:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I knew I was stepping over the level of the acceptable, but I was tired of watching him use WP to defame others.  Fighting fire with fire is appropriate in some contexts, but not the present one.  Mea culpa.  Billbrock 05:18, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

RFM
Hello, are you still interested in mediation? Please reply at my talk page. Redwolf24 (talk) 02:07, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Dispute between Sam Sloan and Howcheng
I have opened a dispute before the Arbitration Committee regarding his blanking of the Tom Dorsch Article at your request.

It is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#User:Sam_Sloan_against_User:Howcheng_regarding_Tom_Dorsch

You are invited to respond. Sam Sloan 18:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Sam Sloan announcement
"I did not 'attempt' to post 100 chess biographies on Wikipedia. I did post 100 chess biographies on Wikipedia. All but one of them is still there. I merely waited until [ Rook wave ], [ Phr ] and Louis Blair were not looking and reposted them. I added a new biography yesterday and no I am not going to tell you where it is for fear that they will vandalize it again." - Sam Sloan (samhsloan@gmail.com, NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, 11 Jul 2006 05:23:13 -0700) http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.misc/msg/f245a0650c22f010?hl=en - Louis Blair (July 11, 2006)

"My Biography of Dimitrije Bjelica" - Sam Sloan (sloan@ishipress.com, NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.199.110.255, Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:09:34 GMT) http://groups.google.com/group/samsloan/msg/eefc91bb2aeda9d0?hl=en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrije_Bjelica - Louis Blair (July 19, 2006)

Lucena position
Hello Bill, I saw your edit about building a bridge on the fifth rank in Lucena position. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the black king moves to the seventh rank after being checked, can't it harrass the rook if it is on the fifth rank? See the talk page for talk:Lucena position. Bubba73 (talk), 20:53, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

semiprotection, re Susan Polgar
Only an admin can semi-protect a page. However, putting that template in might fool an anon messing with the article. If you want to request semi-protection for the article, use WP:RFPP. But I already left a note at WP:ANI suggesting that the anon is probably User:Amorrow who has been banned, so an IP block may result. Phr (talk) 02:06, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

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Makamba, Burundi

Makamba is a city located in southern Burundi. It is the capital city of Makamba Province.

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Muyinga

Muyinga is a city located in northern Burundi. It is the capital city of Muyinga Province. It lies at an altitude of 1,731 m and has a population of 100,715.

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Muramvya

Muramvya is a city located in central Burundi. It is the capital city of Muramvya Province.

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Anabel Medina Garrigues

Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (, ; born 31 July 1982) is a Spanish tennis coach and former professional player.

As a player she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 16 in 2009, and won 11 singles and 28 doubles titles, including the 2008 and 2009 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual. Like many of her Spanish compatriots, she was a clay-court specialist who grinds to win most of her rallies. However, unlike most of her fellow Spaniards, she preferred to play on hardcourts. She won the WTA tournament in Strasbourg, beating Katarina Srebotnik in the final in May 2008, thus defending the title she won the previous year against Amélie Mauresmo. Her other singles titles came at Palermo in 2011, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2001, at Canberra in 2006, Strasbourg in 2005 and Fès in 2009.

After retirement from singles tennis (she continues playing doubles) at the end of the 2014 season, Medina Garrigues became a professional coach, gaining success while working for Jeļena Ostapenko, who won the 2017 French Open Grand Slam title. In late 2017, she was named captain of Spain's Fed Cup team. She has also become tournament organizer at Valencia Open.

2008
Together with Virginia Ruano Pascual, she won the French Open and the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics.

2011
Medina Garrigues began 2011 by losing in the first rounds of Auckland Open, Australian Open, and Copa Colsanitas and the qualifying draw of the Sydney International. She then reached her first semifinal in nine months in the Abierto Mexicano with wins over top seed Julia Görges and seventh seed Carla Suárez Navarro before losing to Gisela Dulko in straight sets. At the Indian Wells Open, she defeated Tamira Paszek before losing to Maria Sharapova.

Garrigues then qualified for the Tournament of Champions and reached the final, but she was defeated by defending champion Ana Ivanovic in two sets.

2012
Medina Garrigues reached the quarterfinals of Swedish Open in Båstad where she lost to Johanna Larsson.

2014
Medina Garrigues started 2014 at the Australian Open. She lost in the first round to lucky loser Irina Falconi.

At the Pattaya Open, Medina Garrigues was defeated in the first round by Alison Riske without winning a single game. She announced that the French Open would be her last tournament before retiring from singles tennis, though she would continue to play doubles. Medina Garrigues lost in the second round of qualifying there to Tereza Smitková in two sets, ending her singles career.

2018
Medina Garrigues entered the doubles competition at the Madrid Open, partnering fellow Spaniard Arantxa Parra Santonja. Then in August, she retired from tennis circuit.

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Ruyigi

Ruyigi is a city located in eastern Burundi. It is the capital city of Ruyigi Province.

It is served by Ruyigi Airport, a 900 m grass airstrip 1.6 km west of the town.

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Katharine Susannah Prichard

Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 1883 – 2 October 1969) was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia.

Early life
Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883 to Australian parents. She spent her childhood in Launceston, Tasmania, then moved to Melbourne, where she earned a scholarship to South Melbourne College. Her father, Tom Prichard, was editor of the Melbourne Sun newspaper. She was a governess and journalist in Victoria, then travelled to England in 1908.

Her first novel, The Pioneers (1915), won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize.

After her return to Australia, the romance Windlestraws and her first novel of a mining community, Black Opal, were published.

Political life and marriage
Prichard moved with her husband, war hero Hugo "Jim" Throssell, VC, to Greenmount, Western Australia, in 1920 and lived at 11 Old York Road for much of the rest of her life. She wrote some of her later novels and stories in a weatherboard workroom near the house. In her personal life she usually referred to herself as Mrs Hugo Throssell. Her friends called her Kattie. They had a son, Ric Throssell, later a diplomat and writer.

Prichard was a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia in 1921 and remained a member for the rest of her life. She worked to organise unemployed workers and founded left-wing women's groups. She campaigned in the 1930s in support of the Spanish Republic and other left-wing causes. Although she had frequent arguments with other Communist writers such as Frank Hardy and Judah Waten over the correct application of the doctrine of socialist realism to Australian fiction, she remained supportive of the Soviet Union and its cultural policies when many other intellectuals, such as Eric Lambert and Stephen Murray-Smith, left the party in the 1950s. Her public position as a communist and a female writer saw her harassed by Western Australian police and the federal government throughout her life. The official surveillance files opened on Prichard in 1919 were not closed until her death in 1969.

Prichard's commitment to her politics and her position as a woman in the public sphere also saw her socially isolated by the conservative social groups which dominated Perth in this period. She was the subject of constant rumours and frequent anonymous tip offs to Western Australian police of any communist activity. She was also part of a new community of free thinking public intellectuals who, among other things, challenged notions of acceptable sexuality.

Her two major novels, which were to give her national and international prominence, written in Western Australia in the early years of her marriage, were Working Bullocks (1926) which dramatised the physical and emotional traumas of timber workers in the karri country of Australia's south-west, and Coonardoo (1929),  a novel which became notorious for its candid portrayal of relationships between white men and Australian Aboriginal women in the north-west.

The far north-west of Australia provided inspiration and setting for her daring play Brumby Innes.

Most of the short stories in the first of her four collections, Kiss on the Lips (1932), were also from the 1920s, her decade of great creative activity. During this time she wrote her most adventurous novels, stories and plays.

Death of husband
While she was visiting the Soviet Union in 1933, her husband Jim Throssell committed suicide when his business failed during the Great Depression.

In 1934 her membership of the Communist Party of Australia and the Movement Against War and Fascism led her to lead the Egon Kisch welcome committee, which rapidly metamorphosed into a committee to defend Kisch from exclusion from Australia.

The novel Intimate Strangers (1937) was a turning point in her life.

Goldfields trilogy
Her extended work The Goldfields Trilogy – The Roaring Nineties (1946), Golden Miles (1948), and Winged Seeds (1950) is a notable reconstruction of social and personal histories in Western Australia's goldfields from the 1890s to 1946.

Her autobiography Subtle Flame, published a few years before her death, exhibited the complex legacy she left behind

Prichard died at her home in Greenmount in 1969. Her ashes were scattered on the surrounding hills.

Her son Ric Throssell committed suicide when his wife Dodie died in 1999. He had fought for many years to clear his name, after being accused of passing classified information to his mother, or actively spying for the Soviet Union. His 1989 book covering this was called My Father's Son.

The centenary of Prichard's birth was celebrated by UWA academics in a collection of essays.

Legacy
The home has now become the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre, a foundation promoting humanitarianism, the study of Katharine Susannah Prichard, and encouraging writing in Western Australia, where Prichard spent most of her life.

The Shire of Mundaring public library branch in Greenmount is named after her as well.

The 1996 Australian film Shine depicts the close correspondence between Prichard and Australian pianist David Helfgott. She was played by Googie Withers. Prichard helped to raise money for Helfgott, to enable him to go to London to study music.

A house at Abbotsleigh, a private school on Sydney's North Shore, has been named after her.

Novels

 * The Pioneers (1915) – filmed in 1916 by Franklyn Barrett and 1926 by Raymond Longford
 * Windlestraws (1916)
 * Black Opal (1921)
 * Working Bullocks (1926)
 * The Wild Oats of Han (1928) – illustrated by Elizabeth Powell
 * Coonardoo (1929)
 * Haxby's Circus (1930)
 * Intimate Strangers (1939; the basis of a 1981 miniseries)
 * Moon of Desire (1941)
 * The Roaring Nineties (1946)
 * Golden Miles (1948)
 * Winged Seeds (1950)
 * Subtle Flame (1967)

Short story collections

 * Kiss on the Lips and Other Stories (1932)
 * Potch and Colour (1944)
 * N'Goola and other Stories (1959)
 * Tribute : Selected Stories of Katherine Susannah Prichard (1988) edited by Ric Throssell

Drama

 * Brumby Innes (1929)
 * the basis of a 1973 television film)
 * Bid Me to Love (1929)

Reportage

 * The Real Russia (1934)

Poetry

 * Clovelly Verses (1913)
 * The Earth Lover and Other Verses (1932)

Autobiography

 * Child of the hurricane, (1964)

Selection from collected works

 * On Strenuous wings (1965)

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Ngozi

Ngozi may refer to:

People

 * Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 1954), finance minister of Nigeria
 * Ngozi Monu (born 1981), Nigerian swimmer
 * Ngozi Onwurah, British-Nigerian film director
 * Ngozi Ezeonu, Nigerian actress
 * Ngozi Olejeme, Nigerian philanthropist
 * Ngozi Ukazu, American cartoonist and graphic novelist

Places

 * Commune of Ngozi, Burundi
 * Lake Ngozi, a crater lake in Tanzania
 * Ngozi, Burundi, a city in Burundi
 * Ngozi Province, Burundi

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Mwaro

Mwaro is a city located in central Burundi. It is the capital city of Mwaro Province.

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Omonoia Square

Omonoia Square (Πλατεία Ομονοίας, Plateía Omonoías,, "Concord Square", often simply referred to as Omónoia ) is a central square in Athens. Forming the centre of Omonoia. It marks the northern corner of the downtown area defined by the city plans of the 19th century, and is one of the city's principal traffic hubs. It is served by Omonoia metro station.

Omonoia Square is one of the oldest squares in the city of Athens and an important shopping centre. It is located at the center of the city at the intersection of six main streets: Panepistimiou, Stadiou, Athinas, Peiraios, Agiou Konstantinou Street and 3rd Septemvriou Street.

Name
Omonia Square was constructed in 1846, with its original name being "Plateia Anaktoron" (Palace Square). The area in which the square was going to be built was intended to be used for the construction of the palace (anaktora) by architects Stamatios Kleanthis and Eduard Schaubert. Later, the square was renamed to "Othonos Square" in honor of King Otto, the first king of Greece. After Otto was dethroned, the square was renamed to "Omonoia Square" in 1862, as it was here that the leaders of the opposing political factions gave the oath of peace (omonia) to stop hostilities.

History of design changes
The fountain of Omonoia square as seen in the photo taken after the 2020 restoration. At the end of the 19th century the square underwent several formative changes. Trees were placed throughout the square, a polygonal platform was placed at the center of the square and lighting systems were installed. Omonoia Square was a center where people met and social life thrived, as it was also the railway's starting point, surrounded by numerous hotels.

From 1925 to 1930, the underground railway between Piraeus and Athens was built requiring further redesign of the square. Omonoia Square became circular and marble bars were put at the entrances of the underground railway station. The square started to resemble European prototypes and acquired an important commercial role. Due to the existence of the underground railway it was also necessary to create an underground ventilation system, and in 1931 the then Mayor of Athens, Spiros Merkouris, suggested placing eight sculptures representing the mythological Muses to cover the openings of the ventilation vents. Although the problem was resolved, the result did not satisfy Athenians’ aesthetic expectations, and the statues were removed.

The 50s were a period of modernization for Athens and consequently for many public spaces. In 1954, in the underground area of Omonoia Square banks, shops and a post office were built.

In 1958 the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works held a competition for the development of Omonoia Square. Sculptor George Zongolopoulos and architect Kostas Bitsios were awarded the project. Their proposal included a circular water system in the middle of which would be placed Zongolopoulos’ sculpture "Poseidon". The square was redesigned, although ultimately without the placement of the sculpture. Eventually, the sculpture was installed permanently in 2014 outside the Milken School of Public Health at The George Washington University, Washington D.C. in the United States. The fountain of Omonia became a famous city landmark and the square itself was depicted many times in Greek movies of the period.

In November 1992, the fountain and the sculpture "Runner" were destroyed in order to excavate the area for the construction of the new red line of the Athens Metro and the new station. In May 1994 a new "Runner" was constructed and transferred into its current location, across from the Hilton Hotel of Athens.

From mid-2019 to February 2020, the square underwent yet another major reconstruction, which became necessary after previous aesthetic and urban changes had eventually led to the degradation of this central and historical area of Athens. With public and private funding, the municipality of Athens restored the historical fountain from 1958 and replaced all pave way materials with thermoneutral materials that reduce the thermal footprint of the entire square. The redesigned square was opened to the public on May 14, 2020.

Beneath the square lies the Omonia metro station, a major transport hub with passenger traffic equal to that of the Syntagma metro station.

Celebrations
Sporting celebrations have been held at the square, including following Greece's victory in the EuroBasket 2005 finals and in winning the championship. Other sporting successes, such as the Euro 2004 tournament, when people climbed the 'Five-ring' sculpture to celebrate with national flags, have also been celebrated.

Architecture
After its transformation in 2003, the square lost some of its former value and prestige, but nevertheless continues to represent a multicultural place and point of communication as a transportation hub for thousands throughout the day.

Two of its most recognizable buildings are the old neoclassical hotels of the area; the "Bagkeion" and "Megas Alexandros", located side by side on either side of Athinas street.

The Pentakiklon ('Five-ring' sculpture) has its own story; placed in the square in 2001, it never functioned fully as initially conceived by the architect, as it was meant to be a motion sculpture when water ran in it. During the Christmas of 2008, when water ran in the sculpture for the first time, it transformed the circles into motion. After that, further time passed with the piece falling back into neglect, until it was refurbished once more and permanently restored to its initial concept of a motion sculpture, during the 2020 restoration of the whole square. At the same time the famous round fountain, which acted as a landmark for decades, was redesigned and re-installed.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shabo lexicon

 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 Transwiki/Delete. Redwolf24 01:53, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Shabo lexicon
Oops, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Transwiki and delete. Dmcdevit·t 09:01, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki and delete per nominator. Sam Vimes 08:30, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
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Guest beer

In 1989, licensing legislation passed by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government made it possible for a tied pub to stock at least one guest beer from a different brewery.

The Monopolies and Mergers Commission was concerned that the market concentration of the big six brewers at 75% represented a monopoly situation. The Supply of Beer (Tied Estate) order of 1989 (better known as the "Beer Orders") allowed publicans freedom to buy non-beer drinks from any source (not just the controlling brewery) and to sell at least one draught beer from a different brewery.

In addition to this, many of the larger brewers were forced to sell many of their pubs off, with the intention that they would become free houses or pass on to smaller brewers, hence increasing choice and free trade. One consequence of this legislation was that the brewers sold off their less-profitable pubs.

Following a Government review in 2000, the Beer Orders were revoked by early 2003. Although no longer required, it is still common for pubs offering real ale to offer rotating guest beers from breweries other than the supplier of their standard range of ales, to offer variety to their customers.

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User:Evil Monkey/Nudity

I don't want to be dragged into a debate about decency and censorship. That was never the intention of this page. But I can see that this page is being used to make a point. As such I've deleted it. Being in my user space I have every right to do this.

This notice is being left here just to make sure people don't get confused when they find the page isn't here anymore.

Evil Monkey∴Hello 09:01, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

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Crețulescu Palace

Crețulescu Palace (Palatul Crețulescu in Romanian, alternative spelling "Kretzulescu" or "Krețulescu") is a historic building near the Cișmigiu Gardens on Știrbei Vodă Street nr. 39, in Bucharest, Romania. It was built for the Crețulescu family in 1902–1904 by Romanian architect Petre Antonescu (1873–1965).

The palace was built for Elena Kretzulescu (1857–1930), the daughter of Constantin Kretzulescu (1798–1863) and Maria Filipescu (1835–1878). While she was away in Paris, Barbu Bellu lived for many years in this house.

From 1972 to 2011, the Crețulescu Palace housed the headquarters of UNESCO's European Centre for Higher Education UNESCO-CEPES (known as CEPES after its French name, Centre Europeén pour l'enseignement supérieur).

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Valentine (film)

Valentine is a 2001 slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks and starring Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, and Katherine Heigl. Loosely based on the novel of the same title by Tom Savage, the film follows a group of women in San Francisco who are stalked by a killer wearing a Cupid mask in the days leading up to Valentine's Day.

Released theatrically on February 2, 2001, the film was critically panned, with critics deeming it too similar to 1980s slasher films. The film earned $36.7 million on a $29 million budget, making it a box-office disappointment. The film's accolades, however, included nomination for three Teen Choice Awards, including in the Choice Movie — Horror/Thriller category.

Plot
At a junior high school St. Valentine's Day dance in 1988 San Francisco, Jeremy Melton, an outcast student, asks four popular girls to dance. The first three girls, Shelley, Lily, and Paige, reject him cruelly, while the fourth girl, Kate, politely responds, "Maybe later". Their rich friend Dorothy accepts Jeremy's invitation, and they proceed to make out. When the school bully Joe and his pals discover them, Dorothy falsely claims Jeremy sexually assaulted her. Joe and his pals severely beat him and his nose bleeds from distress. Jeremy is expelled and transferred to reform school and juvenile hall, due to Dorothy testifying for unwanted sexual advances; he then ended up in a mental institution.

In the present, Shelley, now a medical student, receives a threatening Valentine's card and is attacked by someone in a trench coat and Cupid mask. She has her throat slit by the killer. The killer's nose bleeds as she dies.

At Shelley's funeral, Kate, Lily, Paige, and Dorothy are questioned. Paige, Lily, and Dorothy receive threatening Valentine's cards next, each signed "JM". Meanwhile, Dorothy's boyfriend, Campbell, loses his apartment and temporarily moves in with her at her father's mansion. The girls attend the exhibit of Lily's artist boyfriend Max and meet Ruthie, who accuses Campbell of being a con artist. The killer shoots Lily repeatedly with arrows until she falls into a dumpster and dies. The police disclose that Jeremy's parents were engulfed in a house fire, and Kate finds all information about Jeremy's old persona erased. Dorothy admits to Kate and Paige that she lied about Jeremy to avoid embarrassment. Meanwhile, Kate's neighbor Gary breaks into her apartment to steal her underwear. The killer brutally beats him to death with a hot iron.

During the Valentine's Day party at Dorothy's estate, the killer murders Campbell. The others assume he has simply left Dorothy, to which she believes that they are jealous and still look at her as the "fat girl". She confesses that Jeremy never assaulted her. Ruthie and Paige are killed next. The party disintegrates when the power cuts out. Dorothy accuses Adam, Kate's recovering alcoholic boyfriend who is a journalist, of being the culprit. Kate discovers Detective Vaughn's severed head in the pond and becomes convinced that Adam is Jeremy, unrecognizable after facial surgery. She finds Adam waiting for her; when he asks her to dance, she becomes frightened and flees. The killer jumps out at her and is shot to death by Adam.

Adam pulls off the killer's mask to reveal that it was Dorothy. He explains that childhood trauma can lead to lifelong anger, referring to Dorothy. As they wait for the police to arrive, he says he has always loved Kate. When Kate closes her eyes, Adam's nose begins to bleed, revealing that he is Jeremy Melton (and the actual killer, having knocked out Dorothy and put her in the costume), who set everything up to ruin Dorothy's reputation and exact revenge. He killed the girls correspondently to the words they offended him with thirteen years ago, except for Kate, who was the only one nice to him.

Conception
While Warner Bros. had acquired the rights to the Tom Savage novel in May 1998, the project was later transferred to Artisan Entertainment with producer Dylan Sellers and writers Wayne & Donna Powers, with the latter of the two writers himself initially attached to direct.

The original script had a different tone from the book and was set on a college campus. The project went into turnaround to Warner Bros., was rewritten by Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts and Wayne Powers stepped down as director for the studio to find a suitable new director to take the helm for the film. Richard Kelly was originally offered the chance to direct, but turned the offer down to work on his own film that he wrote and directed himself called Donnie Darko and was eventually replaced by Jamie Blanks, who had also directed 1998's Urban Legend. Hedy Burress auditioned for the role of Dorothy Wheeler, and Tara Reid was considered for the role, but it was given to Jessica Capshaw instead. However, Blanks wanted Burress to star in the film and cast her as Ruthie Walker. Jessica Cauffiel originally auditioned for Denise Richards's role of Paige. In the original cast, Jennifer Love Hewitt was to play Paige Prescott.

Filming
Valentine was shot on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, with principal photography commencing on July 10, 2000, and concluding on September 8. Boreanaz shot all his scenes in less than two weeks. Katherine Heigl only had three days to shoot her scenes as she was already committed to the television series Roswell.

Release
In promotion of the film, Warner Bros.'s official website featured digital e-card valentines that visitors could send via email, and stars David Boreanaz and Katherine Heigl—both well known at the time for their roles in the series Angel and Roswell, respectively—appeared at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Festival.

Valentine had its Hollywood premiere at Hollywood Post No. 43, American Legion, on February 1, 2001. It earned $20,384,136 in the United States and Canada and a total gross of $36,684,136, allowing the film to surpass its $29 million budget.

Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 11% based on 79 reviews, with an average rating of 3.40/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Valentine is basically a formulaic throwback to conventional pre-Scream slasher flicks. Critics say it doesn't offer enough suspense or scares to justify its addition to the genre." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D+" on an A+ to F scale.

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a middling review likening to a 1980s-style slasher film, but praised the performances, writing: "Valentine isn't scary, but it is unsettling; not ultimately satisfying, but arresting in the moment. Part of the credit has to go to the ensemble. The actresses are vivid, and the characters they play are clearly delineated". Ben Falk of the BBC gave the film two out of five stars: "Let's face it - we all know what's going to happen and director Blanks (Urban Legend) offers up few surprises. There's the host of red herrings of which none really bite, creative deaths, girls running around screaming and then being incredibly thick, but a distinct lack of gratuitous nudity, which would have at least brightened up the landscape".

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, calling the film a "smart, stylish horror picture that offers a fresh twist on the ever-reliable revenge theme and affords a raft of talented young actors solid roles that show them to advantage". Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a mixed review, noting: "Looking good but lacking much in the way of personality or gray matter — rather like its characters — Valentine is a straightforward slasher pic that’s acceptably scary until a weak finale". Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide awarded the film one out of five stars, calling the film "a throwback to the formulaic, holiday-themed stalk-and-slash pictures of the early '80s — but why it took four writers to adapt Tom Savage's generic genre novel is thoroughly baffling". Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times also felt the film was formulaically structured, writing: "The worst kind of mystery is one in which nobody cares who the killer is. Even the cast of Valentine doesn't seem that concerned, and their fictional lives are at stake. When it's hard to hear the dialogue because the audience is laughing, it's clear that Valentine doesn't even succeed on its own limited terms."

In 2007, Blanks stated in an interview: "Forgive me for [Valentine]. A lot of people give me grief for that, but we did our best".

In a 2015 retrospective review for Icons of Fright, BJ Colangelo defended the spirit of the film and its thematic handling of the holiday's mythological aspects, calling it "a lot of fun and definitely one I think more people should give a chance."

Accolades
The film was nominated for three Teen Choice Awards, including in the Choice Movie — Horror/Thriller category.

Home media
Valentine was released on both DVD and VHS by Warner Home Video on July 24, 2001. Scream Factory released the film on Blu-ray on February 12, 2019.

Soundtrack
The musical score for Valentine was composed by Don Davis. The soundtrack also includes the songs "Pushing Me Away" by Linkin Park, "God of the Mind" by Disturbed, "Love Dump (Mephisto Odyssey's Voodoo Mix)" by Static-X, "Superbeast (Porno Holocaust Mix)" by Rob Zombie, "Valentine's Day" by Marilyn Manson, and "Opticon" by Orgy. This soundtrack compilation was lampooned in a sketch by Saturday Night Live, which humorously pointed out that many of the bands featured on it were not only unknown to a mass audience but have oddly nonsensical names.

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Talk:Buddy Miles

Comments
121.221.40.47 23:46, 14 August 2007 (UTC) Corrected Eric Gales to be Eric Gale

This has been burgled from

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-257903-bio--Buddy-Miles

and yahoo took it from:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:osn20r2ac489

 * I removed the offending info, and created a new stub. Econrad 16:32, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Why is there no mention of his significant time in jail? 128.135.96.226 23:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Solo material
The article doesn't really mention the solo albums he made between Electric Flag and Band of Gypsies. Somebody gave me a copy of them--Pretty good, too.

I heard that his first album 'Expressway To Your Skull' was produced by Hendrix. Can anyone confirm that?

This page needs factchecking "Miles continued to work with Hendrix during the mid and late 1970s after his "Jimi Hendrix Experience" had failed to reform to record." But Hendrix died in 1970, see your Wikipedia entry on Hendrix!

The lede: an obituary?
As it reads as of this posting, the lede reads like an obituary instead of the beginning of an encyclopedia article, which should never start with an Associated Press announcement of the subject's death. 66.217.46.93 (talk) 01:21, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Some flaws in article
I believe this paragraph misrepresents the situation somewhat:

"Soon after the release of the groundbreaking Electric Ladyland album, Noel Redding (original Experience bass player) and Mitch Mitchell (the Experience drummer) had both parted company with Hendrix, not least because of constant wrangling between Hendrix's manager (Michael Jeffery) and his producer ( Alan Douglas), both vying for control of his career. Everyone wanted a piece of Hendrix's success."

Electric Ladyland was released in October 1968. Noel Redding left in June 1969 and Mitch Mitchell was still playing with Hendrix at the end of September 1969. Thiophene222 (talk) 21:45, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[D-66]
what about buddys graet work with prince?i ain't got the details,but i've seen him play with that little fella,and itwas amaising!!!!!! why is this collaboration not mentioned??? http://www.myspace.com/d66isd77 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.152.254.93 (talk) 13:44, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

John Belushi Memorial Blues Band
Around 1986/7, after the Club Fed sessions, Miles began working with a local Marin R&B cover band called the John Belushi Memorial Blues Band. They played often at Uncle Charlie's. Any more info on this time period?

This doesn't make sense
"According to his website he died of congestive heart disease, although his publicist Duane Lee told the New York Times that Miles had been suffering recently from congestive heart failure." He died from CHF, but his publicist said he had CHF. Huh? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.7.150.214 (talk) 16:16, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Friendship and Collaboration with Hendrix section needs some heavy editing
This section seems mostly irrelevant to a page about Buddy Miles; it goes into extensive detail about Hendrix and Hendrix's state of mind, but it doesn't provide very much information regarding Buddy Miles. I really only edit for punctuation, grammar, spelling, and readability, and I don't have enough knowledge about Miles to feel comfortable changing it. Maybe someone with more knowledge of Miles's and Hendrix's friendship and collaboration could clean it up? Seems like it could be abbreviated to some extent. skatoulaki (talk) 02:53, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree. I've spent a fair bit of time copy editing the first several sections. I moved all of the Hendrix-related material into this section to get it out of the way of Miles's general biographical information. But the remaining section, as you noted, is a mess. I've been trying to locate sources, so I can accurately decide what to eliminate (most of the Hendrix-only bio info for sure) and what might be relevant to establishing Miles's legitimate relationship to Henrix. Unfortunately, reliable sources are scarce. Still, I will try to get more of this fixed over the next couple of weeks. Writeswift (talk) 16:00, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

the link to the music store
Doesn't belong, but I am not going to be the heavy.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.124.149.248 (talk) 02:11, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

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Seems strange by omission
All other bio articles of this type on Wikipedia have a "Personal" section describing wives and children, which are also normally shown in the summary block on the right side of the page.Starhistory22 (talk) 22:57, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

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Pampady

Pampady is a major town in Kottayam district of Kerala, Southern India. It lies midway between the backwaters of Western Kerala and the mountains of the Western Ghats.

Etymology
The meaning of Pampady, as per Malayalam Dictionary Sabdatharavali of Sreekandeswaram, is "Ananthasayanan" (The Land of Lord Vishnu). The area where there was a Sreekrishna Temple by Valiyamadom Potty was called Pampady according to one school of thought.

History
Vennimala, on the western boundary of Pampady, was once the Capital of Thekkumkur. Unnuneeli Sandesam written in 14th century AD, describes Vennimala and Thiruvanchiyoor in Thekkumkoor. In AD 1749, King Marthanda Varma of Venadu captured Thekkumkoor and thereafter it was a portion of Travancore. After 1956, Pampady became part of Travancore-Cochin State. The old records, dating back to ME 352 (AD 1176), kept with Kaithamattom Illam in Velloor, throws light on the history of Pampady. There was human inhabitation here about 1,000 years ago. The Subramanya temple of the Illam was old even at that time. Up until the middle of 16th Century, Pampady was under King of Thekkumkoor. Thalikotta was the capital of Thekkumkoor. Pampady was owned by Kothala Madom and later by Ambazhathunkal Kartha. Pampady had three portions-Velloor, Pampady and Thekkan Pampady. Major area of Thekkan Pampady was owned by Kongoor Pallimana and later by Arakkal and Vallatt family. Velloor was owned by Kaithamattom Illam.

Transportation
National highway 183 (earlier known as National Highway 220) passes through the heart of Pampady. It is well-connected to Kottayam, Ponkunnam, Kanjirappally, Pala, Pallickathode, and Karukachal. Nearby railway stations are Kottayam railway station (16 km) and Changanacherry railway station (22 km). Nearest international airport is Cochin International Airport (90 km)

 * Distance from major cities
 * Thiruvananthapuram 150 kilometres
 * Ernakulam/Cochin 75 kilometres
 * Kozhikode 255 kilometres

Big rock
The huge rock in Kattankunnu in Velloor is called "Pampurumpara" – the rock where snakes crawl. According to second school, from this, the name Pampady was derived. Another view is that the name was derived from Payampady (area where water is available). Vennimala Sri Rama-Laksmana temple, situated in 4th ward of Puthupally, is 2 km south to Vellor. This very old temple is on a hill 1,500 feet high from sea level. There are a number of small wells and ponds around the temple. In the month of Karkidakam, people conduct Vavubali ritual here. "Vennimal Perumal" Bhaskara Revivarma, the Cheraman Perumal built the temple. Famous sopana musician Shadkala Govinda Marar, contemporary of Swathi Thirunal was born near the temple in Pulikkal house.

Places of Worship
Cheruvallikavu Devi temple, Pampady Mahadeva temple, St.John's Orthodox Cathedral Pampady, and Alampally Sreekrishnaswamy temple are also in Pampady. St. Mary's Malankara Catholic Church, St. Mary's Simhasana Cathedral, Devamatha Syro Malabar Catholic Church, Holy Immanuel CSI Church in Pampady, St. Simon's Jacobite Church in Velloor, St. Thomas Orthodox Church, South Pampady and Martha Mariam Jacobite Church Pampady East are the other places of worship situated here.

Pampady Dayara
This is a Christian pilgrim center situated near Pampady. Pampady Dayara Chapel is the tomb church of Kuriakose Mar Gregorios (5 April 1885 - 5 April 1965) known as Pampady Thirumeni who was born in the Pezhamattom Family, the branch of Pakalomattam family at "Patham Mile" (10th Mile), North Of K K Road (Kottayam – Kumily Road) around 16 km from Kottayam town. Kuriakos Mar Gregorios (Pampady Thirumeni) was the Metropolitan of Kottayam diocese of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church from 1929 to 1965. Under Pampady Dayara, many institutions are functioning, including the renowned BMM English Medium HSS.

Education
Schools from Pampady, Kooroppada, Meenadom, Manarcadu and part of Ayarkkunnam panchayat are administered by the Block Resource Centre. There are many high schools and higher secondary schools in Pampady. Such as MGM High School, Sree Bhadra Public School, BMM English Medium HSS, Cross Roads HSS, Vimalambika HSS, Govt HSS Alampally, PTM HSS Velloor, Govt. V.H.S.S Kothala, MGM NSS HSS lakkattoor, St. Thomas HSS South Pampady, Technical High School Velloor and a number of primary schools.

The Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology was established in 1991 and is affiliated to the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU), Thiruvananthapuram, and Kuriakose Gregorios College is affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.

Cultural
The Malayalam writer Ponkunnam Varkey hails from this village. 'Navalokam', is an active cultural forum functioning from Pampady. There was the 'Pampady Arts Society' an arts society set up by the art lovers of Pampady. They used to arrange a cultural programme at the Community Hall every month. Deepa Arts Club, Pothenpuram was a very active club during the 70s. It was affiliated to the 'Manorama Balajanasakhyam'. They used to participate in the famous 'Balalokam' program of All India Radio. Surabhi Arts Club used to organize All Kerala Native Ball Tournament every year at PTM Govt High School, velloor, pampady.

Health care
The Govt Taluk Hospital is located near Alampally. There are many clinics and ayurvedic dispensaries are also functioning in Pampady.

Government Institutions
The Pampady Block situated at Pallickathode about 9 km from Pampady city. Pampady having many other govt and semi government institutions such as Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology (Government Engineering College, Kottayam), Police Circle Inspector Office, BSNL exchange, Panchayath office, KSEB Sub-station, etc.

Notable people

 * Ponkunnam Varkey, writer
 * Pampady John Joseph, Dalit activist and the founder of the socio-religious movement Cheramar Mahajan Sabha
 * Thomas Kurian, business manager and CEO of Google Cloud
 * George Kurian, CEO of NetApp
 * Baiju N Nair, prominent automotive and travel journalist

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Nuria Llagostera Vives

Nuria Llagostera Vives (born 16 May 1980) is a Spanish former tennis player. In June 2005, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 35. In November 2009, she peaked at No. 5 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Professional career
Llagostera was born in Palma, Majorca on the Balearic Islands. In her career, she won two singles and 16 doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also won the silver medal at the 2005 Mediterranean Games, losing the final to compatriot Laura Pous Tió.

She was the doubles champion at the 2009 WTA Tour Championships, playing with María José Martínez Sánchez. They defeated Serena and Venus Williams en route to a three-set victory over top seeds Cara Black and Liezel Huber.

On 11 November 2013, it was announced that she would be suspended until 7 September 2015 after testing positive for Dextroamphetamine at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford. She subsequently announced her retirement from professional tennis on 20 November, as a result of the ban ending her hopes to play at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Shinobu Asagoe

Shinobu Asagoe (浅越しのぶ) is a Japanese former tennis player. She turned professional in 1997, and retired in 2006.

Career
2000 was the first year in which she finished in the WTA top 100 (No. 72). At the US Open that year, she defeated Patty Schnyder, a top-50 player. She also reached her first WTA Tour quarterfinal that year at the Princess Cup at Tokyo, defeating Ai Sugiyama and losing to Monica Seles. She also represented Japan at the Sydney Olympics. In 2003, she reached her first WTA singles final. In 2004, she reached her second career singles final in Hobart, as well as her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the US Open. In April 2005, Asagoe reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 21. In May of the following year, she reached her career-high doubles ranking (13th).

Asagoe appeared in one WTA Tour final, in Auckland 2003, where she lost to Katarina Srebotnik in three sets. She held a 4–0 lead in the second set when Srebotnik took an injury timeout. From there, Strebotnik played "all in" tennis and won the match, in what was an agonising result for Asagoe.

Her most memorable match was a second-round marathon at Wimbledon 2003, when her stressed-out opponent, Daniela Hantuchová, melted down well on the way to what looked like a routine two-set win. Eventually, after nearly three hours, Asagoe won the contest 12–10 in the third set.

She played doubles with Katarina Srebotnik. At the 2006 Australian Open, they reached the semifinals by beating Cara Black/Rennae Stubbs 6–3, 4–6, 6–0. They lost to eventual champions Yan/Zheng in the semifinals.

At the US Open that same year, she lost her first-round match in straight sets to Jelena Kostanić. She had announced, the US Open would be her last tournament. In doubles, with Akiko Morigami, they won their first-round match 6–1, 6–3, and they were to play against the 14th seeds, Marion Bartoli/Shahar Peer. Bartoli/Peer were up 6–4, 5–2, before Shinobu and Akiko won four straight games to make it 6–5. They held many set points at 6–5, but could not convert, thus forcing a tiebreaker; they were down 2–6, but won six straight points, thus taking the tiebreaker, saving four straight match points. They took the final set 6–4.

Asagoe retired at the 2006 US Open, after losing her third-round doubles match (with Morigami) to the world's top-ranked team Lisa Raymond/Samantha Stosur.

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Talk:Royal Victorian Chain

Non-Christian awardees?
The following statement appears in the text relating to the Royal Victorian Chain: "The Chain can be conferred upon men and women, both British and foreign: for example, it can be conferred upon non-Christian foreign monarchs, who are usually ineligible for the Order of the Garter". This statement seems inaccurate. Various Japanese Emperors and Shahs of Iran have been Knights of the Garter as were the Sultan of Turkey and the Emperor of Ethiopia.
 * Those cases have been exceptions from the general rule. Furthermore there was no Royal Victorian Chain when the Sultans and Shahs were made the Knights of the Garter, the last Shah received the Royal Victorian Chain instead of the Order of the Garter, and the Emperor of Ethiopia was a Christian who had the Royal Victorian Chain as well. But the Emperors of Japan seem to enjoy a kind of a special position. I wonder whether a non-Christian monarch can be invested as an Extra Knight of the Thistle... Mapple 19:55, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * you are right: I am enormously impressed by your comment. I wonder however whether there is a rule that the Garter can only be given to Christians. I agree that the Emperors of Japan seem to have a special position.

 * Thank you. :-) As to the Order of the Garter, the rule is unwritten. It exists at least since the 1920s, when King George V and his Foreign Secretary denied the award to the Shah of Iran (the last of Qajars, I suppose). Nevertheless, the King was compelled to appoint Hirohito to the Order in 1929. The Emperors of Japan... They are the only ones left, aren't they? :-) Mapple 12:14, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

continuing ...
I was wondering if e.g. the Kings of Nepal received the Chain or the King of Jordan, Sultan of Oman, ruler of Brunei etc.? If so, then one might see a pattern. What do you think? :-)
 * A pattern? I think it is safe to say that the heads of state who have some kind of a special relationship with the UK and/or the British Sovereign receive the Chain. Kings Mahendra and Birendra of Nepal (the Gurkhas etc.) were awarded the Chain and became honorary British Field Marshals. King Hussein of Jordan received the Royal Victorian Chain, too... Unfortunately I cannot find the comprehensive list of all the recipients of the Chain. Mapple 14:40, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Picture
In the picture of George V, I count no fewer than 17 awards being worn. Is it possible to have a picture of the award (for instance, the picture on medals.org.uk)? 12.96.87.102 (talk) 16:49, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Hereditary knighthood ranked after baronet and knight bachelor doesn't exist
At the bottom, in Orders and Honours of the UK, in the other Other Honours section, you have hereditary knighthood. I thought the only hereditary knighthood was a baronetcy. So what is this other one, and why would it be ranked lower than a bog-standard knight bachelor? Indeed here it says that a Bart is the only hereditary honour that's not a peerage, which is what I thought. Where there any hereditary knighthoods that aren't baronetcies? Are any extant? If not, it shouldn't be in the list. And if there are, why would they rank lower than a knight bachelor? Please advise. Ganpati23 (talk) 21:19, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It would appear as though you are correct, but the proper place to talk about that would be the talk page for that template. Achowat (talk) 21:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Infobox
You started an RfC on this matter and it has not reached its conclusion. ₪  MIESIANIACAL  05:30, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * It's good you agree that this page is covered by that RFC. Though, I think you've linked to the wrong change. GoodDay (talk) 05:33, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

is king charles granting himself the chain?
We have known that the chain was worn by the King REF: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=900070198344067&set=pcb.900070278344059 However no legal letters nor announcements were there. But soon we will see him wearing that again.We have to place him on the list. Him9 (talk) 15:29, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

 * The king is the sovereign of every UK order including the Royal Victorian Chain, a position he inherited the moment he became the king. He didn’t award it to himself, he’s the head of it and therefore can wear it at anytime, likewise the Royal Victorian Order. Nford24 (PE121 Personnel Request Form) 15:32, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * RVC is an order? 218.102.117.127 (talk) 15:50, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

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Donald H. Tuck

Donald Henry Tuck (3 December 1922 – 11 October 2010) was an Australian bibliographer of science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction. His works were "among the most extensive produced since the pioneering work of Everett F. Bleiler."

Biography
Tuck was born in Launceston, Tasmania, but his family soon moved to Hobart, where his father was associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tasmania.

From a young age Tuck was interested in all aspects of science. In his teens he discovered the gaudy American science fiction magazines on sale in local department stores and began collecting them. He located other SF fans in Hobart and together they produced the first Tasmanian science fiction fanzine, Profan, which had three issues between April and September 1941. Each included an author's biography and index to their published stories, demonstrating Tuck's early interest in bibliography.

During the war, Tuck trained as a radio technician before serving in the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Corps on Horn and Thursday Islands in the Torres Strait. Afterward he completed his science degree at the University of Tasmania and then joined EZ Industries (EZ) at Risdon, near Hobart. Starting as a technical librarian, Tuck would spend his entire career with this company, rising through the ranks.

He maintained his interest in SF as a correspondent and collector. A list of paperbacks sent to him by Perth fan Roger Dard inspired Tuck to begin compiling a card index to SF, fantasy and weird literature published in various forms. Acquiring bibliographic data from contacts around the world, Tuck expanded his card index and self-published it as a book titled A Handbook of Science Fiction and Fantasy in January 1954. It received enthusiastic reviews in the three leading SF magazines of the day.

Tuck married Audrey Jean Cranston in May 1954. He continued to expand his Handbook; the second edition was published in 1959 and received a "Special Hugo" at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1962.

The couple established a home in Lindisfarne, on Hobart's eastern shore, and had a son in 1961. The Tucks hosted regular informal gatherings by local and visiting SF fans at Lindisfarne for the next 20 years, with regular visitor A. Bertram Chandler commemorating the locale by naming one of the spaceship bases in his novels after it.

The culmination of Tuck's efforts was the publication of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: a bibliographic survey of the fields of science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction through 1968 by Advent:Publishers in three volumes between 1974 and 1983. His work continued to win recognition: the annual Big Heart Award for service to the SF community in 1975, a special World Fantasy Award in 1979 for volumes 1 and 2, and the Hugo Award for Best Nonfiction Book in 1984 for volume 3. Volume 2 also placed second and volume 3 third for the Locus Awards to the year's best nonfiction or reference book.

Tuck was also invited to be Australian Guest of Honour at the first Aussiecon in 1975. A very private person, he was initially reluctant, but did accept the invitation. As the date of the convention approached, however, commitments arose which he felt required his presence at Electrolytic Zinc. He was Acting Head of Industrial Services at the Risdon plant at this time and drastic falls in zinc prices had led to job losses and industrial action. His decision proved controversial, overshadowing his hosting several groups of fans in Hobart after the convention. (During one visit he was presented with the E.E. Evans Memorial Big Heart Award for 1975 by Forrest J. Ackerman).

Tuck retired from the zinc factory in 1982 and dispatched his extensive SF collection to university libraries in Perth and Brisbane. The Tucks moved to Melbourne and enjoyed an active retirement before Audrey died in August 2010 and Don followed her six weeks later.

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Jeffrey Daniels

Jeffrey Daniels may refer to:

 * Jeffrey Daniels (architect) (born 1953), American architect
 * Jeffrey Daniels (author), author and professor
 * Jeff Daniels (born 1955), American actor
 * Jeff Daniels (director) (born 1978), American/Australian documentary film-maker
 * Jeff Daniels (ice hockey) (born 1968), retired professional ice hockey player
 * Jeff Daniels, pseudonym used by country singer Luke McDaniel (1927–1992)

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Orzeł incident

The Orzeł incident occurred at the beginning of World War II in September 1939, when the interned Polish submarine ORP Orzeł (1938) escaped from Tallinn, in neutral Estonia, to the United Kingdom. Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union used the incident as one of the pretexts to justify its eventual military invasion and occupation of Estonia in June 1940.

Background
Orzeł was docked at Oksywie when Nazi Germany attacked Poland and began World War II. The submarine at first took part in Operation Worek but withdrew from the Polish coast on 4 September as the situation evolved. Damaged by German minesweepers and leaking oil, it headed for Tallinn, which it reached on 14 September 1939 at about 01:30. Lieutenant-Commander Henryk Kłoczkowski, the commanding officer, was taken to a hospital the next day for treatment of an unidentified illness from which he had been suffering since 8 September.

The Hague Convention of 1907 enjoined signatories, including Germany, from interfering with the right of enemy warships to use neutral ports within certain limits. Initially, Estonia was quite accommodating of Orzeł and helped with the repair of a damaged compressor. However, probably because of German or Soviet pressure, Estonian military authorities soon boarded the ship, declared the crew interned, confiscated all the navigation aids and maps and started to dismantle the armaments. An Estonian officer removed the naval ensign from the submarine's stern.

Escape
The crew of ORP Orzeł conspired to escape under the new command of its chief officer, Lieutenant Jan Grudziński, and its new first officer, Lieutenant Andrzej Piasecki. That started with Grudziński's sabotage of the torpedo hoist on 16 September, which prevented the Estonians from removing the six aft torpedoes. Since it was a Sunday, another could not be immediately acquired. Meanwhile, Boatswain Władysław Narkiewicz took a small boat around the harbour. Under the guise of fishing, he covertly measured the depth of the planned escape route.

Another sailor sabotaged the submarine's mooring lines.

On 18 September 1939, at around midnight, the portlights suffered an unexplained malfunction. Seizing the opportunity, Lieutenant Grudziński prepared the submarine for departure. The crew was forced to delay by the arrival of an Estonian officer. After a 30 min inspection, he deemed nothing to be out of the ordinary and bid the Poles goodnight. The crew resumed with their plans. Two Estonian guards at the dock were lured aboard and nonviolently taken prisoner, the lighting in the port was sabotaged and the mooring lines were cut with an axe. Both engines were started, and the submarine made her escape in the darkness.

Estonian spotlights began sweeping the harbour from buildings to the quay until they finally found Orzeł. The Estonians opened fire with machine guns and light artillery, which damaged the conning tower. Heavier guns supposedly failed to open fire for fear of damaging other ships. At the mouth of the harbour, the submarine briefly ran aground on a sandbar but quickly managed to get free and escape to the Baltic Sea.

At sea
Lieutenant Grudziński intended to seize the maps of a German vessel, as all of the navigational aids of Orzeł, except for a guide of Swedish lighthouses, had been confiscated. No German merchant ships were ever sighted, however. After three weeks of searching, it was decided to leave the Baltic and head for Britain. It took two days to pass through the heavily-guarded entrance. The only references that the Poles had were the lighthouse guide and a rudimentary map that had been drawn by the navigation officer.

The German and Estonian press covering the incident first suggested that the two captured guards had possibly been killed by the Polish sailors. It later turned out that they had been released off of the coast of Sweden in a rubber dinghy and provided with clothing and food for their safe return home. The guards were also given 50 US dollars each, as the Polish crew believed that those "returning from the underworld deserve to travel first class only".

Orzeł arrived off the coast of Scotland on 14 October 1939. The crew sent out a signal in broken English, and a Royal Navy destroyer came out and escorted them into port. The arrival of Orzeł surprised the British Admiralty, which had long presumed the submarine to be lost. ORP Orzeł (1938) was subject to a refit and subsequently brought into service alongside the Royal Navy in the 2nd Submarine Flotilla in mid-January 1940 to patrol the North Sea.

Diplomatic crisis and aftermath
After the submarine's escape from Tallinn, the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) "reported" that the Estonian government had "deliberately" allowed Orzeł to escape and that "other Polish submarines were hiding" in ports throughout the Baltic countries.

Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, having invaded Poland on 17 September 1939, accused Estonia of conspiring with the Polish seamen along with "aiding them to escape" and challenged the neutrality of Estonia. Orzeł sank no enemy vessels during her journey from Estonia to the United Kingdom, but the Soviet government also blamed the Polish submarine and Estonia for the alleged loss of the Soviet tanker Metallist in Narva Bay in Estonian territorial waters on 26 September 1939. The Soviets demanded to be allowed to establish military bases on Estonian soil and threatened full-scale war if Estonia did not comply with the ultimatum. Accusations related to the submarine incident served as a political cover for Stalin's actions, since in the secret clauses of the August 1939 German-Soviet Pact Nazi Germany already provided implicit approval for the Soviet takeover of Estonia, Latvia and Finland. The Orzeł incident was used by Stalin to force the "treaty of defence and mutual assistance" on Estonia, which was signed on 28 September 1939 and allowed the Soviets to establish several military bases on Estonian soil. The Soviet troops occupied the whole territory of Estonia in June 1940.

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Talk:Settler

==Commentary= is an encyclopedia, not the place to vent your political ideology, however real you think it is... Esthurin 09:47, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * NPOV is fine, except sometimes there isn't an NPOV on the subject in question. That's reality, however problematic it may be in your eyes. --217.132.188.8 (talk) 00:21, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * hi 75.25.170.33 (talk) 23:20, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Picture
the picture here is interesting, since the russian family appears to be from russia...and i dont think russia militarily controlled pennsylvania in 1910 !! the point here is that these are truly settlers, but i think the modern definition in the opening sentence cannot be correct....please let others add their thoughtsAnlace 06:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

 * True. Perhaps just "migrant" is a sufficient definition. The article may need additional clean-up/pruning, maybe even transfer of sections over to Human migration. Any thoughts on this? "Settler" seems to carry the meaning of permanent settlement of sedentary populations in an area that was previously mostly home to (semi-)nomads, e.g. Lapland, Patagonia or Newfoundland. //Big Adamsky 12:49, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

hi big A: i generally concur with your comments. we probably do need a page on "settler" because it links to many other sites here on wikipedia. perhaps the settler article needs division into categories of settlers: prehistoric migrants, colonial settlers who really didn't arrive usually under protective military cover and modern settlers such as gaza settlement who did have military cover. let me know what you think, best regards, michael Anlace 00:07, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I support the suggestion to structure the article with sections along the lines described above by Anlace. Please also leave open the possibility of future settlers, e.g. a space colony or settlments in places on Earth that are currently uninhabited. Sdsds 20:16, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I added section breaks throughout the article. I am concerned that there are no citations used throughout the article, particularly when citing specific examples. Please add inline citations where possible. – Freechild (BoomCha) 05:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Settler state
Should there be an article settler state? BobFromBrockley 15:29, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Settling
Do we have an article about the activity/process of human settling? Settling article is concerned with a geological activity. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 15:44, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Ensconced redirect
This is an unusual redirect that seems to be out of context. Perhaps someone picked up "settled comfortably" in ensconced and made a leap. Cellmaker (talk) 13:30, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Colonists and Settlers
Surely a colonist is not the same as a settler? As Colonist redirects here, should the article not define the difference? Mbwa mwitu (talk) 21:21, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree. Does colonist imply some form of state backing?Padres Hana (talk) 17:14, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Relevant move request
There is a move request at Talk:Settle that watchers of this article may be interested in. Egsan Bacon (talk) 17:34, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Neutrality
Parts of this article were written by someone displaying obvious emotional and ideological investment in the topic while writing it, and by that I mean that some parts of the article remind me of what a random teenager on an online crusade against white people would post on TikTok. There should be a warning telling people that the neutrality of this article is disputed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:14C:658C:4E84:3C40:A720:28D3:3EEC (talk) 00:51, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Emerging Shift in connotation of 'Settler'
So in Canada the word Settler has recently been adopted in social studies to describe immigrant groups in positions of power as opposed to 1) indigenous groups and 2) power-excluded immigrant groups. Wondering how to incorporate these ideas as the word 'settler' and its meaning continues to change. — Muckapedia (talk) 21 e mai 2021 14h10 (−4h)

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Dairy Flat

Dairy Flat is a northern rural district located 8 km south of Orewa in the North Island of New Zealand and 28 km north of central Auckland. Until the early 1990s most of the district was in dairy farms of 40 to 60 hectares (100 to 150 acres), but with the growth of Auckland and the extension of the Northern Motorway into the area, these are being gradually overtime subdivided into lifestyle blocks of around 2 to 5 hectares (5 to 12 acres), many of which are grazing sheep, horses, beef cattle or deer. Although it still retains a rural character, it is counted as part of the Auckland urban area in official statistics.

Geography
'Dairy Flat' lies within the Rodney ward on State Highway 1 and the former State Highway 17. There is a small village shopping centre and the Dairy Flat Primary School. A major facility is the North Shore Aerodrome owned and operated by the North Shore Aero Club. In addition to aero club and private aircraft, the field is used by Barrier Air to run a scheduled air service in passenger aircraft to Great Barrier Island, some 40 nautical miles (75 km) offshore of the coast.

History
In the 1850s, Maurice and Mary Kelly established a dairy farm in the area, likely at the location of the North Shore Aerodrome. They named the adjacent stream Dairy Stream, and Dairy Flat was in turn named after the stream. The first known references to the name Dairy Flat come from 1865. The area was a plentiful source of kauri gum, which was sold at the local kauri gum camps: Bull Town on Poyntons Farm, Tiger Camp, and Horse Shoe Bush/Nanahu. Maurice Kelly took over the family timber felling business in the 1860s and 1870s. In 1878, Dairy Flat School was established.

In 1931, local residents lobbied for the area's name to be changed from Dairy Flat to Pine Valley, but this measure was not successful. The area started to be used for flights in the early 1960s, an in 1963 the North Shore Aero Club was established, operating from North Shore Aerodrome.

The planned Auckland Surf Park is a heated artificial surfing lagoon set to be located in Dairy Flat when it opens between 2026 and 2027.

Demographics
Dairy Flat covers 64.15 km2 and had an estimated population of as of  with a population density of  people per km2.

Before the 2023 census, Dairy Flat had a larger boundary, covering 69.17 km2. Using that boundary, Dairy Flat had a population of 4,827 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 399 people (9.0%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 1,071 people (28.5%) since the 2006 census. There were 1,557 households, comprising 2,403 males and 2,424 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.99 males per female, with 846 people (17.5%) aged under 15 years, 1,017 (21.1%) aged 15 to 29, 2,403 (49.8%) aged 30 to 64, and 561 (11.6%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 85.0% European/Pākehā, 6.2% Māori, 1.4% Pacific peoples, 12.8% Asian, and 1.9% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 32.4, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 59.4% had no religion, 30.8% were Christian, 0.1% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.4% were Hindu, 0.5% were Muslim, 0.9% were Buddhist and 1.7% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 1,041 (26.1%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 414 (10.4%) people had no formal qualifications. 1,041 people (26.1%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 2,115 (53.1%) people were employed full-time, 696 (17.5%) were part-time, and 108 (2.7%) were unemployed.

Education
Dairy Flat School is a coeducational contributing primary (years 1-6) school with a roll of as of  The school was established in 1878.

The notable secondary schools that are currently serving Dairy Flat are Orewa College, Westlake Boys High School, Westlake Girls High School, Long Bay College and Rangitoto College.

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Talk:Gepps Cross, South Australia

Started to make this a bit more than a stub. Also added first reference and reflist to the page template. Ausresearch (talk) 06:18, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

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AGM-76 Falcon

The AGM-76 Falcon was an air-to-surface anti-radiation missile developed by the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. Intended as a conversion using off-the-shelf parts, it did not go into operational service.

Overview
During 1966, the United States Air Force began development of a heavy anti-radiation missile for use against surface-to-air missile radars in Vietnam. Using existing airframes from the cancelled AIM-47 Falcon heavy air-to-air missile project combined with the seeker head of the AGM-45 Shrike anti-radiation missile, the AGM-76A was fitted with a 250 lb warhead of the type used in the Mark 81 bomb. Test-firings of AGM-76As were conducted from McDonnell F-4D Phantom II, Republic F-105F Thunderchief, and US Navy Grumman A-6B Intruder aircraft, however the missile was not put into production, the AGM-45 and AGM-78 Standard ARM becoming the standard anti-radiation missiles used by the United States.

Operators

 * 🇺🇸: The United States Air Force cancelled the AGM-76 prior to service entry.

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Talk:AMA

Should we really have the mention of the Association of Members' Advocates in the article space? --Merovingian (t) (c) 09:18, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * Why not? (I don't know; I'm just asking.)

 * Atlant 12:24, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

ama should redirect here
If you search for "ama," in lowercase, it does not take you here.

AMA can also stand for Asset Management Account. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.49.97.44 (talk) 20:56, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Dont merge
I'd have to say don't merge. Ama contains articles and names that contain the exact word Ama. Due to limitations of the wiki software, you can't redirect all lowercase "ama" to this page. I've put a notice at the top of the other disambiguation page. —Malber (talk • contribs • game) 14:38, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge Merging such disambiguation pages is very commonly done, see, say, AMB, to pick one at random.—Ketil Trout 01:39, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It is different; Ama is a name in itself. AMB only lists abbreviations and acronyms. —Malber (talk • contribs • game) 22:05, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree that there is a difference between Ama words and A.M.A. words. There should be two pages, both disambiguation pages, with links to each other for clarity.--Bill.albing 13:57, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

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