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Talk:Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

sell Really Well!
I heard it sell like a million units. Seems to be backed up by it being 'Greatest Hits' on PS2 and 'Gamers Choice' on Gamecube. Anyone else see this?

216.18.7.4 23:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

This isn't the first time I've seen this, but IGN is in the Gamerankings database; there's no need to link both.

Bobquest3

Critics Reviews/Scores?
I have heard that this game has been panned or received insanely low scores from many critics and since some other game articles list their rating scores, it might be notable to list/include some for this as well just to document whether the game was received well or not since it seems a little POV with the Power Stone (etc.) comparisons all by themselves. 63.18.194.231 20:48, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

How about a word or two about what people who bought and played the game thought, in addition to the critics. The game is not horrible and the multiplayer is quite enjoyable in this users opinion.

gi says
game imformer issue (one with nero from devil may cry 4 an cover) says that there is a sequal planned (see good bad and the ugly section in gi)-User:blades2121
 * What's your point?-- Atomic -Super  -Suit What Have I Done?! 03:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

It's so strange that it got bad reviews... I love this game.

Comic?
Marvel Nemesis (comic) links back here, but there really isn't any information on the miniseries... 65.96.103.25 15:56, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Under the "about the game" topic, there's some information about the comic I added a while back.--Hophi 22:25, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Merge
With Marvel Nemesis 2 being cancelled there is no reason it shouldn't be merged into this article, because that article is basically just a footnote to this article. -Freak104 (talk) 18:49, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, and have merged and redirected that article into this one. Terraxos (talk) 02:36, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

The Comic
I think the comic should have a seperate article.--Yowiki (talk) 18:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Fixed some links
It seems like no one has really paid attention to this page in years other than minor clean-up. I noticed some character links to the EA-owned characters were just looping back to the page when there were minor character entries for them in the big list of Marvel Comics characters, so I redirected those links to point there. Johnny Ohm and Niles Von Whatever don't seem to have pages so I guess they're out of luck. Other than that this page is kind of a mess. The Reception section could probably use one of the standardized review score boxes that modern video game wikipedia entries have, for a start. 50.88.183.85 (talk) 06:02, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

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Overlooked Vandalism
Hello, I was just on a little nostalgia trip about this game, and when I stumbled over the wikipedia page, I was kind of shocked to see that the page lists it as being "received very well by critics". I was even more surprised to see that, in spite of this description, when I looked at the review scores listed on the page itself, those scores average out as being around 55/100, and the DS version, which is listed as having an "average" reception, has an average score of around 30/100. I looked back through the edit history for the page and found a pair of changes back in August from an unnamed user who, apropos of nothing, decided to invert every statement in the article related to the game's reception (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marvel_Nemesis%3A_Rise_of_the_Imperfects&type=revision&diff=1107063255&oldid=1097014350). There are no sources added, and no mention on the talk page here, so I assume that the user just likes the game and wanted the page to reflect their perception of it. These appear to be the only changes this user has ever made (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/76.180.74.62). In spite of taking note of this, I don't really have any experience editing wikis, so I don't know if the correct approach here is just to make a new commit that makes the inverse changes, or if there is some sort of specific tool for reverting changes. However, even if I'm not sure how to fix the issue, I wanted to make note of it here, so that the discovery isn't lost, and someone potentially more knowledgeable can fix the issue if they stumble over this talk page in the future. 2603:6011:9325:7800:5C0:87E8:D8E2:BE2D (talk) 15:00, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

 * ✅ Changed the sentences back to how they were. Ludoyo (talk) 15:46, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


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Chlorprothixene

Chlorprothixene, sold under the brand name Truxal among others, is a typical antipsychotic of the thioxanthene group.

Medical uses
Chlorprothixene's principal indications are the treatment of psychotic disorders (e.g. schizophrenia) and of acute mania occurring as part of bipolar disorders.

Other uses are pre- and postoperative states with anxiety and insomnia, severe nausea / emesis (in hospitalized patients), the amelioration of anxiety and agitation due to use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for depression and, off-label, the amelioration of alcohol and opioid withdrawal. It may also be used cautiously to treat nonpsychotic irritability, aggression, and insomnia in pediatric patients.

An intrinsic antidepressant effect of chlorprothixene has been discussed, but not proven. Likewise, it is unclear if chlorprothixene has genuine (intrinsic) analgesic effects. However, chlorprothixene can be used as co-medication in severe chronic pain. Also, like most antipsychotics, chlorprothixene has antiemetic effects.

Side effects
Chlorprothixene has a strong sedative activity with a high incidence of anticholinergic side effects. The types of side effects encountered (dry mouth, massive hypotension and tachycardia, hyperhidrosis, substantial weight gain etc.) normally do not allow a full effective dose for the remission of psychotic disorders to be given. So cotreatment with another, more potent, antipsychotic agent is needed.

Chlorprothixene is structurally related to chlorpromazine, with which it shares, in principle, all side effects. Allergic side effects and liver damage seem to appear with an appreciable lower frequency. The elderly are particularly sensitive to anticholinergic side effects of chlorprothixene (precipitation of narrow angle glaucoma, severe obstipation, difficulties in urinating, confusional and delirant states). In patients >60 years the doses should be particularly low.

Early and late extrapyramidal side effects may occur but have been noted with a low frequency (one study with a great number of participants has delivered a total number of only 1%).

Overdose
Overdose symptoms can be confusion, hypotension, and tachycardia, and several fatalities have been reported with concentrations in postmortem blood ranging from 0.1 to 7.0 mg/L compared to non-toxic levels in postmortem blood which can extend to 0.4 mg/kg.

Interactions
Chlorprothixene may increase the plasma-level of concomitantly given lithium. In order to avoid lithium intoxication, lithium plasma levels should be monitored closely.

If chlorprothixene is given concomitantly with opioids, the opioid dose should be reduced (by approx. 50%), because chlorprothixene amplifies the therapeutic actions and side effects of opioids considerably.

Avoid the concomitant use of chlorprothixene and tramadol (Ultram). Seizures may be encountered with this combination.

Consider additive sedative effects and confusional states to emerge, if chlorprothixene is given with benzodiazepines or barbiturates. Choose particular low doses of these drugs.

Exert particular caution in combining chlorprothixene with other anticholinergic drugs (tricyclic antidepressants and antiparkinsonian agents): Particularly the elderly may develop delirium, high fever, severe obstipation, even ileus and glaucoma.

Pharmacodynamics
Chlorprothixene is an antagonist of the following receptors:

 * 5-HT2, 5-HT6, 5-HT7: antipsychotic effects, sedation/anxiolysis, antidepressant effect, weight gain
 * D1, D2, D3, D4, D5: antipsychotic effects, sedation, extrapyramidal side effects, prolactin increase, depression, apathy/anhedonia, weight gain
 * H1: sedation, weight gain
 * Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors: anticholinergic effects, inhibition of extrapyramidal side effects
 * α1-Adrenergic: hypotension, sedation, anxiolysis

Because of its potent serotonin 5-HT2A and muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonism, chlorprothixene causes relatively mild extrapyramidal symptoms. This is in contrast to most other typical antipsychotics. For this reason, chlorprothixene has sometimes been described instead as an atypical antipsychotic.

Chlorprothixene has also been found to act as FIASMA (functional inhibitor of acid sphingomyelinase).

Pharmacokinetics
One metabolite of chlorprothixene is N-desmethylchlorprothixene.

History
Chlorprothixene was the first of the thioxanthene antipsychotics to be synthesized. It was introduced in 1959 by Lundbeck.

Lometraline, tametraline, and sertraline were reportedly derived via structural modification of chlorprothixene.

Brand names
Chlorprothixene is sold mainly under the brand name Truxal.

Availability
Chlorprothixene is widely available throughout Europe and elsewhere in the world. The drug was previously available in the United States under the brand name Taractan, but this formulation has since been discontinued and the drug is no longer available in this country.

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Question (disambiguation)

A question may be either a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request itself.

Question(s), The Question(s) or A Question may also refer to:

Literature

 * Question (character) or The Question, one of several DC Comics superheroes
 * Renee Montoya, The Question, heir to the original character
 * "Question" (short story), a 1955 story by Isaac Asimov
 * "A Question" (poem), a 1942 poem by Robert Frost
 * La Question (The Question), a 1958 book by Henri Alleg
 * Questions: Philosophy for Young People, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal
 * The Question, a 1979 novel by Ghalib Halasa

Albums

 * Question (EP), by CLC, 2015
 * A Question (album), by Sacred Reich, 1991
 * La question (album), by Françoise Hardy, 1971, or the title track
 * The Question (The Slackers album), 1998
 * The Question (Emery album), 2005
 * The Question, an EP by Eden xo, 2019
 * Questions (album), by Paul Bley, 1985

Songs

 * "Question" (Lloyd Price song), 1960
 * "Question" (The Moody Blues song), 1970
 * "Question!", by System of a Down, 2005
 * "Question...?", by Taylor Swift, 2022
 * ”Question”, by Alex Aiono, 2017
 * "Question", by Old 97's from Satellite Rides, 2001
 * "Question", by Stray Kids from I Am Who, 2018
 * "Question", by Uriah Heep from Sonic Origami, 1998
 * "La question", by Gaëtan Roussel from Trafic, 2018
 * "The Question" (song), by Concept of One with Noel Pagan, 1990
 * "Questions" (Chris Brown song), 2017
 * "Questions" (Tamia song), 2004
 * "Questions", by Buffalo Springfield from Last Time Around, 1968
 * "Questions", by INXS from Welcome to Wherever You Are, 1992
 * "Questions", by Jennifer Paige from Jennifer Paige, 1998
 * "Questions", by Little Big Town from Nightfall, 2020
 * "Questions", by Lost Frequencies, 2022
 * "Questions", by Manfred Mann's Earth Band from The Roaring Silence, 1976
 * "Questions", by Middle Kids from Today We're the Greatest, 2021
 * "Questions", by Moneybagg Yo from Heartless, 2017
 * "Questions", by Pop Smoke from Faith, 2021
 * "Questions", by Tommy Emmanuel from Only, 2000

Performers

 * The Questions, a Scottish pop band
 * Question?, a Japanese group promoted by Johnny & Associates

Other uses

 * an element in a questionnaire (primarily in social research)
 * an element of an exam (in educational assessment)
 * Ballot question, in a referendum
 * National question, a political and diplomatic issue regarding the status of a territory
 * Research question, a question that a research project sets out to answer
 * Questioning (infinitive form: to question), another term for police interrogation
 * Questions (game), a game played by asking questions
 * Masá’il (مسائل) or "Questions", the fifteenth month of the Bahá'í calendar

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Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache

The Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache (Dragon ) was a helicopter developed by Germany during World War II. A single 750 kW Bramo 323 radial engine powered two three-bladed 11.9 m rotors mounted on twin booms on either side of the 12.2 m cylindrical fuselage. Although the Fa 223 is noted for being the first helicopter to attain production status, production of the helicopter was hampered by Allied bombing of the factory, and only 20 were built.

The Fa 223 could cruise at 175 km/h with a top speed of 182 km/h, and climb to an altitude of 7100 m. The Drache could transport cargo loads of over 1000 kg at cruising speeds of 121 km/h and altitudes approaching 2440 m.

Design and development
Henrich Focke had been removed by the Nazi regime from the company he had co-founded in 1936. Though the ostensible reason was that he was "politically unreliable", the RLM decision to phase Focke-Wulf into the production program of the almost-ready Messerschmitt Bf 109 necessitated an influx of capital to fund the immediate expansion of the company's production capabilities. Focke-Wulf was reorganized into a limited company (G.m.b.H.) in June 1936.

After Focke-Wulf formally signed a contract to produce the Bf 109C in November 1937, the American company International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT), through its German subsidiary C. Lorenz, bought a 28 percent share of Focke-Wulf in 1938, making it the controlling interest.

However, the Air Ministry was so impressed by the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter that it suggested Focke establish a new company dedicated to helicopter development and issued him with a requirement for an improved design capable of carrying a 700 kg payload. Focke established the Focke-Achgelis company at Hoykenkamp on 27 April 1937 in partnership with pilot Gerd Achgelis, and began development work at Delmenhorst in 1938.

They first produced an enlarged, six-occupant version of the Fw 61, designated Fa 226 Hornisse (Hornet), while contracting out development of the engine, transmission, and rotor hub to BMW's Berlin works. The Fa 226 was the world's first transport helicopter and was ordered by Lufthansa in 1938.

The Fa 226 attracted the attention of the Air Ministry, who redesignated it Fa 223 in 1939 before the first prototype flew. The Navy was also interested in the Hornisse and briefly considered it as a replacement for their Schnellboote.

In September 1939 the first prototype, the V1, left the Delmenhorst factory. Now nicknamed Drache ("Dragon") it had a twin-rotor layout similar to the Fw 61, but had a fully enclosed cabin and load bay, with the single Bramo engine mounted in the middle of the tubular-steel body.

Initial hovering tests showed problems and the V1 was not to fly until 1940. The engine initially specified, a BMW Bramo 323D proved too fragile when run at high speed for any length of time, and was replaced with a more robust 1,000 hp Bramo 323Q3 in the later prototypes to improve reliability and lifting capability. The biggest problem, however, was the severe vibration caused by unbalanced driveshafts when the rotors moved out of phase, and this could only be fixed by greater attention to detail on the part of BMW.

First flight
The V1's first untethered flight was on 3 August 1940, after over 100 hours of ground and tethered testing. In October, it was flown to the test centre at Rechlin to be demonstrated, and while there set a top speed of 182 km/h, a climb rate of 528 m per minute, and a maximum altitude of 7100 m, performance far greater than had been demonstrated by any other helicopter in the world.

Despite this, the Drache was nowhere near ready for military service, and Focke-Achgelis were told to accelerate their development programme. An initial production order for 100 machines was promised. Following the helicopter's demonstration at Rechlin, the Ministry issued specifications for five variants:

On 5 February 1941, the V1 was lost in an accident following engine failure at an altitude too low for an auto-rotative landing. The second prototype (V2) was completed shortly after, featuring a fully glazed cockpit and a machine gun operated by the observer. It was, however, soon destroyed in an Allied air raid.

V3 prototype
By the time the V3 prototype appeared the Air Ministry had abandoned the idea of different variants and settled on a single multipurpose aircraft, to be designated Fa 223E, which could combine all the roles; the V3 reflected this new thinking and set the design features for all the models that followed and it incorporated dual controls and an electric winch.

Like its predecessors, the V3's body consisted of welded steel tubing covered with treated fabric to save weight and make repairs easier. Its interior was divided into four sections: the cockpit, where pilot and observer sat side by side, with the pilot on the left; the load compartment; the engine compartment; and the tail section. The engine and gearbox were centrally mounted and held in place by a series of tensioned steel cables, with the gearbox in front of the engine. Two steel tube outriggers extended out from the sides of the fuselage to carry the twin rotors, of three-bladed configuration and wooden construction with a steel spar, which were mounted 12.5 m (41 ft 0 in) apart, far enough that they did not overlap.

In 1943, an enlarged, four-rotored version of the Fa 223 was considered, but not developed beyond the construction of a centre fuselage section.

Production
Serial production of the Fa 223 began at the Focke-Achgelis factory in Delmenhorst in 1942. The site was struck in June that year by an Allied air raid and destroyed along with the two surviving prototypes and the first seven pre-production machines undergoing final assembly.

Attempts were made to restore production but were abandoned in 1943, and a new plant was set up at Laupheim, near Ulm. The first Drache to emerge from the new factory, the V11, was flown by pilot Karl Bode for a series of information films made for the Air Ministry to demonstrate the Fa 223's abilities. Loads which included a complete Fieseler Storch aircraft and the fuselage of a Bf 109 were shown being lowered with great precision on to vehicles using the Drache's winch and special quick-release electrical cargo hook.

In early 1944, a Dornier Do 217 crashed high up on the Vehner moor in Lower Saxony, between Osnabrück and Oldenburg, and it was decided to send the V11 to recover the wreckage. Unfortunately the V11 ended up crashing nearby before it could attempt to lift the Do 217's remains. It was then decided to attempt to recover both using the V14. Flown by Karl Bode and Luftwaffe helicopter pilot Helmut Gerstenhauer, the operation was begun on 11 May 1944. A small team of Focke-Achgelis men and a Luftwaffe recovery company had already dismantled the V11, and the V14 made 10 flights carrying loads beneath it in a cargo net and setting them down where they could be loaded onto road vehicles. All the major parts of the V11 and the Do 217 were retrieved, and much useful experience was gained.

Following this, the Air Ministry decided to evaluate the helicopter's potential as a transport in mountainous regions, and the V16 was assigned to the Mountain Warfare School at Mittenwald, near Innsbruck, with the V14 as a backup. The objective of the tests was to see how the Drache would perform as a general-purpose all-weather transport, and numerous landings were made at altitudes of over 1600 m above sea level, plus experimental transportation of artillery guns to mountain troops. When the trials ended in October 1944, a total of 83 flights had been made, with a total flying time of 20 hours.

Only seven machines had been constructed at Laupheim before an air raid halted production in July 1944, and wiped out the factory. At the time of the raid, the V18 prototype was ready for delivery, 13 Drachen were in assembly, and there were enough components for a further 19. Following the raid the Air Ministry decided that it was useless to pursue the project any further and following the mountain trials Focke was assigned to Messerschmitt's staff.

Only weeks later, Focke received new orders, this time to return to the Focke-Achgelis company and to move the entire operation to Berlin Tempelhof Airport where flight testing was to be resumed, and a production line established to produce 400 helicopters per month.

The V12, after completing a long cross-country flight from Germany, was flown to Mont Blanc to perform a rescue of 17 people trapped on the mountain. A mechanical link failure resulted in a rotor disintegrating, and, although the machine touched down on its wheels, it was hurled against an embankment and the crew was killed.

Danzig flight
The company had managed to keep hold of two of the five surviving Drachen and managed to produce a new example at Tempelhof in February 1945. Almost immediately it was ordered on a "special order from the Führer" to fly to Danzig on 25 February. Flown by Gerstenhauer and two copilots, the Drache took off from Tempelhof the next day. It first headed southwest in the direction of Würzburg. Gerstenhauer lost his bearings in the bad weather and had to land at Crailsheim. Once the weather improved, they set off again and landed at Würzburg to refuel, reaching Meiningen, where it stopped overnight. The next day it set off northeast and flew to Werder, a distance of 315 km. On the third day the Drache continued towards Stettin-Altdamm, but the bad weather again forced them to land, this time at Prenzlau. They attempted to resume the flight the next day, but the weather remained bad and they had to stop at Stolp, west of Danzig, for the night.

By 5 March the war situation had become very bad, and Gerstenhauer decided they had to leave Stolp before the Soviets arrived. They took off and flew directly to Danzig right over the advancing Soviet army, reaching Danzig only to find that the city was already falling. They landed outside the city to wait for further orders, which when they came directed them to return to Werder. They did this via a lengthy flight along the Baltic coast via Garz, not reaching Werder until 11 March. The twelve days of actual flight had seen Gerstenhaur and his crew cover a distance of 1675 km with a flight time of 16 hours 25 minutes.

TS/40
In January 1945, the Air Ministry assigned the other three Drachen to Transportstaffel 40 (TS/40) at Mühldorf, Bavaria, the Luftwaffe's only operational helicopter squadron, equipped with at least five Flettner Fl 282s as well as the Drachen. TS/40 relocated to various sites before ending up at Ainring in Germany, where one of the Drachen was destroyed by its pilot to prevent it being captured and the other two were seized by US forces.

Cross-Channel flight
The US intended to ferry captured aircraft back to the US aboard a ship, but only had room for one of the captured Drachen. The RAF objected to plans to destroy the other, the V14, so Gerstenhauer, with two observers, flew it across the English Channel from Cherbourg to RAF Beaulieu on 6 September 1945, the first crossing of the Channel by a helicopter. The V14 later made two test flights at RAF Beaulieu before being destroyed on 3 October in a crash where the helicopter dropped 18 metres to the ground. Every 25 hours, the steel housing securing the engine should have been tightened using a special tool, but that tool was never brought to England. Despite Gerstenhauer’s warnings, the tests had continued to be made, leading to the driveshaft failure and the crash.

Postwar production
In France, the Sud-Est company constructed the SE.3000 as a development of the Fa 223, assisted by Focke. Designed for transport purposes, it had accommodation for four passengers and was powered by a 720 hp (540 kW) Bramo "Fafnir" engine. Three were built, the first flown on 23 October 1948.

Two Fa 223s were completed by the Československé Závody Letecké (formerly Avia) factory in Czechoslovakia in 1945–1946 from salvaged components, and designated VR-1. The first flight occurred on 12 March 1948.

Variants

 * Fa 223A:for anti-submarine warfare, to carry 2 × 250 kg bombs or depth charges
 * Fa 223B:for reconnaissance missions; fitted with an auxiliary drop tank
 * Fa 223C:for search and rescue duties, fitted with a steel winch cable
 * Fa 223D:freight variant, for resupplying mountain troops
 * Fa 223E:dual-control trainer
 * Fa 223Z:A hybrid Fa 223 was proposed by Focke with two bodies joined inline to form a four-rotor heavy lift helicopter. An unfinished central joining section was found by Allied troops at Ochsenhausen.
 * Fa 266 Hornisse:proposed passenger version
 * SE.3000:postwar French production
 * VR-1:postwar Czechoslovak production

Operators

 * World War II
 * 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftwaffe
 * Transportstaffel 40

 * Post-war
 * Czechoslovak Air Force received 2 built post war, designated VR-1.
 * French Air Force received 1 built post war, designated SE-3000.
 * French Air Force received 1 built post war, designated SE-3000.
 * French Air Force received 1 built post war, designated SE-3000.

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Remington Rider Single Shot Pistol

The Remington-Rider Single Shot Derringer Parlor Pistol was made by E. Remington and Sons between 1860 and 1863. Only two hundred were produced.

Description
It is a .17 (4.3 mm) caliber pistol, featuring a three-inch (7.6 cm) brass barrel, a two-piece breech, a brass grip, wrapped in a silver plate finish. No serial numbers or barrel markings were printed on the pistols. Fewer than 40 original examples are known to exist today, including two prototypes and several larger model examples.

It is the smallest Remington Pistol ever made and was produced for only three years; the total estimated production quantity is less than two hundred. Not made for use with powder propellants, this diminutive sidearm launches 4.3 mm projectiles at surprisingly high velocities with the use of a percussion cap only.

On September 13, 1859, Joseph Rider was issued patent 25,470 for the Remington-Rider Pistol; this patent is commemorated by the gang stamp '''RIDER'S PT. SEPT 13, 1859''' on the left side of the barrel. The frame, grips, and 3-inch barrel were integrally constructed of sand-cast brass. Some of the known examples have a natural bronze or silver-plated finish; a few are engraved. Only one is known to be rifled; this one is also the most profusely engraved, inscribed and dated and is probably unique.

Purpose
These little pistols were intended to be a parlor pistol and not a defensive weapon. They are designed for use with a percussion cap and lead shot, without gunpowder. There are two types of breech-pieces, about equal in frequency in existing production guns; all known prototypes have the one-piece design, which provides no cover to enclose the cap, and its locking lever is quite short. It was also rumoured to have been used by spies. The two-piece design has a cone to hold the cap, a cover providing protection from the exploding cap, and a longer lever.

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Horten H.XVIII

The Horten H.XVIII (18) was a proposed German World War II intercontinental bomber, designed by the Horten brothers. The unbuilt H.XVIII represented, in many respects, a scaled-up version of the Horten Ho 229, a prototype jet fighter. The H.XVIII was one of many proposed designs for the Langstreckenbomber, and would have carried sufficient fuel for transatlantic flights.

Design
In recent years, software modelling has suggested that the stealth and speed of the Hortens' flying wing jet designs would have made interception, prior to bombing, difficult and unlikely.

The ability of bomber crews, in an aircraft such as the Horten H.XVIII, to attack targets in North America, might have been hampered by existing and emerging Allied air defence strategies and technologies, such as:
 * increasing air attacks on German factories and airbases;
 * intelligence gathering, especially advances in cryptanalysis;
 * ongoing improvements in radar (especially early warning and airborne radar), and;
 * high-altitude and/or long-range combat air patrols.

H.XVIIIA
The A model of the H.XVIII was a long, smooth blended wing body. Its six turbojet engines were buried deep in the wing and the exhausts centered on the trailing end. Resembling the Horten Ho 229 flying wing fighter there were many odd features that distinguished this aircraft; the jettisonable landing gear and the wing made of wood and carbon based glue, are but two. The aircraft was first proposed for the Langstreckenbomber competition initiated in late 1944 and was personally reviewed by Hermann Göring: after review, the Horten brothers (with deep dissatisfaction) were forced to share design and construction of the aircraft with Junkers and Messerschmitt engineers, who wanted to add a single rudder fin as well as suggesting underwing pods to house the engines and landing gear.

H.XVIIIB
The B model of the H.XVIIIB was generally the same as the A model, except the four (down from six) engines and four-wheel retractable landing gear were now housed in underwing pods, and the three-man crew housed under a bubble canopy. The aircraft was to be built in huge concrete hangars and operate off long runways with construction due to start in autumn 1945, but the end of the war came with no progress made. Defensive armament was considered unnecessary due to the expected high performance.

H.XVIIIC/B-2
The C model of the H.XVIII was based on the airframe of the H.XVIIIA with a huge tail. It had an MG 151 turret set in the middle rear of the wing and with six BMW 003 turbojets slung under the wings; this was designed by Messerschmitt and Junkers engineers. It is uncertain if this overall design was directly developed by the Horten brothers or their manufacturer, as there is little surviving evidence of this proposed version. It was eventually rejected by the Horten brothers, as it was not a major improvement over the Ho XVIIIA.

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Len Castle

Leonard Ramsay Castle (23 December 1924 – 29 September 2011) was a New Zealand potter.

Early life and family
Born in Auckland on 23 December 1924, Castle was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School. He went on to study at Auckland University College, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1947, and trained as a secondary school teacher at Auckland Teachers' Training College. After a period as a science teacher at Mount Albert Grammar School, he took a lecturing position at Auckland Teachers' College.

In 1959, Castle married Ruth Main. The couple had one child, but later divorced.

Pottery
Castle's first experience of pottery was as a 10-year-old, seeing Olive Jones demonstrating at the Auckland Easter Show. Castle began making his first pottery in 1947 and took night classes with Robert Nettleton Field at Avondale College, Auckland. In 1956, he moved to St Ives, Cornwall for a year to work with Bernard Leach and became a full-time potter in 1963. The same year he helped establish the New Zealand Society of Potters.

In the early 1950s, Castle met Theo Schoon and Schoon decorated the surfaces of pots thrown and fired by Castle. In the 1960s Schoon introduced him to the geothermal areas of the central North Island of New Zealand. Castle has continued to photograph this landscape area, which is also reflected in his pottery.

In the early 1960s, Castle had an architecturally designed house built in the bush of the Waitākere Ranges at 20 Tawini Road, Titirangi, with a kiln and rail system out the back, and a low basement which allowed pottery to be exhibited. Turning room for tour buses was provided in the street outside. The Boyes family, which bought the house, demolished the kiln; however, the bricks from it form the paving round the lower part of the house, and shards from discarded pottery works can still be found amongst the clay soil of the bush behind.

Castle studied pottery in Japan, Korea and China in 1966–67. He named Shoji Hamada as one of his influences. Castle built a new house in South Titirangi with a larger kiln and even more extensive railway to serve it in 1972–73, which is still operating. In 1989, along with a number of other New Zealand ceramic and glass artists, he was commissioned to supply work for the exhibition Treasures of the Underworld for the New Zealand pavilion at the World Expo at Seville in 1991. This work is now in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Castle died on 29 September 2011.

Honours and awards
In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Castle was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to pottery. Four years later, he was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. Castle was appointed as a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2004 New Year Honours, for services to pottery. In 2009, he declined redesignation as a Knight Companion when the New Zealand government restored titular honours.

In 2003, Castle received an Icon award from the New Zealand Arts Foundation.

The book Len Castle: Potter, published by Ron Sang Publishing, won a 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Award for non-fiction. Six years later, Lopdell House Gallery's Making the Molecules Dance won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for best illustrative non-fiction.

Works

 * Works in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Tiloukaikt

Tiloukaikt (also Tilokaikt or Teelonkike) (d.1850) was a Native American leader of the Cayuse tribe in the northwestern United States. He was involved in the Whitman Massacre and was a primary leader during the subsequent Cayuse War.

The Cayuse, and their neighbors the Nez Percé, identified the Walla Walla Valley of the Oregon territory as their primary homeland. When approached by Presbyterian missionary Marcus Whitman in 1835, Tiloukaikt and other Cayuse leaders consented to the establishment of a mission in the valley. Sometime later, Whitman and his wife Narcissa created the mission and school at Waiilatpu, in the Walla Walla Valley. A number of Cayuse children attended the school and were taught by Narcissa Whitman. The mission served as a way station for travelers along the Oregon Trail.

Early relations between the Cayuse and Nez Perce and the missionaries throughout the region were generally peaceful. However, tensions between Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries and the increasing number of white adventurers and settlers in the territory led to misunderstandings and disagreements.

The growing white population also brought disease to the Pacific northwest and its native peoples. Measles and scarlet fever broke out among both white and native populations. Whitman, a trained physician, treated both Indians and whites. However, due to the lack of immunity in the native population, more Indians than whites died. When the number of dead Cayuse children began to rise, some Cayuse became suspicious that Whitman was poisoning his patients rather than treating them. Contemporary accounts suggest that some white settlers encouraged the Cayuse in this belief.

During a measles epidemic in 1847, suspicion and ill feeling came to a head. During a November 29 visit to the mission for medicine, Tiloukaikt had words with Whitman. While they were talking, a warrior named Tomahas struck Whitman from behind, inflicting several wounds with a tomahawk. Other Cayuse fell on the mission occupants, killing Narcissa Whitman and twelve others. Another fifty three men, women and children were captured and held as hostages.

Settlers in the nearby Willamette Valley, led by fundamentalist clergyman Cornelius Gilliam, raised a volunteer militia for a rescue attempt. A peace commission, headed by Joel Palmer, was established to meet with neighboring tribes in hopes of avoiding an escalation of violence. However, the hostages were actually saved through the actions of Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson's Bay Company, who negotiated and paid for their release.

However, Gilliam and his militia attacked an encampment of uninvolved Cayuse, which led to a period of violence between the Cayuse and Palouse people and the settlers and militia. This became known as the Cayuse War. Eventually, the white militia withdrew and the area settled into an uneasy peace. However, if a real peace was to be established, white settlers demanded that those who had killed Whitman and the other mission residents should be punished. Two years later, five Cayuse, including Tiloukaikt, surrendered. They were taken to Oregon City, tried and sentenced to hang; see Cayuse Five. Before his execution on June 3, 1850, Tiloukaikt accepted Catholic last rites while refusing to deal with the Presbyterian missionaries. Defiant and angry, Tiloukaikt spoke on the gallows, "Did not your missionaries teach us that Christ died to save his people? So we die to save our people."

The death of the five Cayuse did not significantly reduce tensions in the area. Raids, initiated by both whites and natives, continued. Eventually, most surviving Cayuse left the Walla Walla area and joined neighboring tribes including the Nez Perce, Umatilla and Yakama.

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Commander of the Canadian Army

The Commander of the Canadian Army (commandant de l'Armée canadienne) is the institutional head of the Canadian Army. This appointment also includes the title Chief of the Army Staff (chef de l'état-major de l'Armée) and is based at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario.

History of the position
Prior to 1904, militia forces in Canada were commanded by senior British Army officers appointed as General Officer Commanding the Canadian Militia. British regular forces in the Dominion had their own commander until the withdrawal of the last British garrison in 1906. From 1903 to 1904, the Canadian Militia embarked on a new period of modernization that included the creation of a new office of Chief of the General Staff. Between 1904 and 1964, eighteen officers held the position of Chief of the General Staff, with the last of these, Lieutenant General Geoffrey Walsh, having officially stood down the appointment on 31 August 1964 following the official integration of the three armed services into a single Canadian Armed Forces.

Following the unification of Canada's military forces in February 1968, the majority of Canada's land element was assigned to the newly created Force Mobile Command and the senior Canadian army officer was then known as Commander of Mobile Command from 1965 to 1993. The command was renamed Land Force Command, and its senior officer was known as Chief of the Land Staff from 1993 to 2011. Land Force Command was officially re-designated as the Canadian Army in 2011, at which time the appointment was also renamed Commander of the Canadian Army to reflect this.

Appointees
The following table lists all those who have held the post of Commander of the Canadian Army or its preceding positions. Ranks and honours are as at the completion of their tenure:

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Nabiel Makarim

Nabiel Makarim (9 November 1945 – 22 October 2021) was Indonesia's Minister of the Environment and Forestry from 2001 to 2004.

Early life
Makarim graduated from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, where he received his Master of Public Administration (MPA) in 1984. Makarim also received his master's degree in Management (MBA) from the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1985.

Career
As minister, Makarim developed the Good Environmental Governance (GEG) program, which rates the environmental performance of cities and local environmental agencies. Makarim has spent most of his professional life in the environmental field; however, he was one of eleven members of the Indonesian Commission for Business Supervision (KPPU) that was appointed by the President in June 2000.

From 1990 to 1999, he was the Deputy of Pollution Control for the Indonesian Environmental Protection Agency (Bapedal). In 1995, Makarim created and launched the Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER) to collect and disseminate information about the environmental performance of leading private-sector polluters.

Makarim worked for Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) as a policy analyst from 1986 to 1989. At the same time, he also taught a graduate level economics course at the University of Indonesia (UI) in 1986 to 1989. He was the Assistant Minister of Environment from 1989 to 1992 in the office of the Ministry of the Environment.

Awards
He won an award from the United States Association of Environmental Engineers in 1993. He won the award for his invention and his successful implementation of the Clean River Program (Prokasih). To this date, the program was adopted in many countries.

Personal
Makarim married Ainun Makarim, also a Harvard University graduate from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. They had two children, Leila Veruschka and Lutfi Heikal.

Makirim died on 22 October 2021 in his home in South Jakarta. He was buried the following day in the Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery in South Jakarta.

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Huang Meigui tea

Huang Meigui (pronounced ) is a relatively new Wuyi oolong tea, developed c. 2002. It has a highly aromatic fragrance and a lighter floral taste than most other Wuyi oolongs.

The colour of the steeped leaves is a very light green, much greener than other Wuyi teas.

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Category:Puerto Rican cartoonists

 * This category lists articles about Puerto Rican ' who were born in ' and or who are of . These are visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.

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Robert Trebor

Robert Trebor (born Robert Schenkman; June 7, 1953) is an American character actor, known for starring as Salmoneus in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess.

Early life
Trebor was born and grew up in Northeast Philadelphia. He is of Jewish descent. He first showed signs of interest in acting around age 13. He was soon taking acting classes and participating in local theater groups. He also won several filmmaking awards from Kodak short film competitions, and the local ABC Philadelphia and PBS affiliates for a short black and white film called Communicate!?.

His first lead role on the stage was as Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying for the St. Joseph's Summer Music Theatre Festival. He also won several national awards from Scholastic Magazines for writing film and theatre reviews. One of his award-winning reviews was for John Frankenheimer's The Fixer; years later he would appear in Frankenheimer's 1986 film 52 Pick-Up. After a brief focus on oratory, he returned to acting, majoring in theater at Northwestern University. He returned to Philadelphia to star with Bill Irwin in a revival of George Gershwin's Strike Up The Band for the inaugural season of the American Music Theatre Festival at the historic Walnut Street Theatre.

The pseudonym he chose for himself has the particularity of being a palindrome.

Film and television
Trebor played the Son of Sam killer in Out of the Darkness. He plays a killer in the 1987 American comedy horror film My Demon Lover. On television, after playing Waylin the slave in Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, the second of five TV movies, Trebor rose to fame playing the merchant Salmoneus, a character originating on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and making occasional crossovers to sister show Xena:  Warrior Princess. He appeared in the 2016 Coen Brothers film Hail, Caesar!.

Theatre
In 2007 Trebor performed in the one-man show The Return of Brother Theodore. The Los Angeles Weekly gave the show its prized "GO" recommendation and said, "actor Robert Trebor reincarnates Gottlieb in a 45-minute late-night solo performance that paints Brother Theodore's belligerent reflections on a twisted life with broad yet powerful comedic strokes." The production was nominated by The LA Weekly for Best Solo Performance of 2007. Trebor starred as the Russian Major Viktor Davidykov in the drama Ravensridge by TS Cook. His performance praised by Variety.

Author
Trebor is the author of The Haircut Who Would Be King which parodies Donald Trump and his relationship with Vladimir Putin.

Filmography

 * Face of Fire (1959)
 * Magnum Force (1973) - Reporter (uncredited)
 * Gorp (1980) - Rabbi Blowitz
 * The First Time (1983) - Joel
 * Turk 182 (1985) - Copy Boy
 * The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) - Reporter
 * The Sex O'Clock News (1985) - Mr. Rajah
 * Out of the Darkness (1985) (TV) - David Berkowitz
 * 52 Pick-Up (1986) - Leo Franks
 * Making Mr. Right (1987) - Tux Salesman
 * My Demon Lover (1987) - Charles
 * Talk Radio (1988) - Jeffrey Fisher / Francine
 * Universal Soldier (1992) - Motel Owner
 * The Nutt House (1992) - Buddy
 * Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994) (TV) - Waylin
 * The Shadow (1994) - Harried Man in Taxi (uncredited)
 * Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999) (TV series) - Salmoneus / B.S. Hollingsfoffer, Studio Head
 * Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001) (TV series) - Salmoneus / Marco / Lord Seltzer
 * Dying on the Edge (2001) - Mel Weiner
 * Wedding Daze (2004) (TV) - Rabbi Feldman
 * Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004) - Jay Schiffer
 * Raise Your Voice (2004) - Mr. Wesson
 * Meet Market (2004) - Director Dick
 * The Devil's Rejects (2005) - Marty Walker (uncredited)
 * Hail, Caesar! (2016) - Producer of 'Hail, Caesar!'

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Heart of the Comet

Heart of the Comet is a novel by David Brin and Gregory Benford about human space travel to Halley's Comet published in 1986. Its publication coincided with the comet's 1986 approach to the Earth.

Written in the third person, the perspective alternates between the three main characters, the "spacer" Carl Osborn, the computer programmer Virginia Herbert and the doctor and geneticist Saul Lintz.

Overview
The novel tells the story of an expedition beginning in the year 2061 to capture Halley's Comet into a short period orbit so that its resources can be mined. The discovery of life on the comet and the subsequent survival struggle against the indigenous lifeforms and the illnesses and infections they cause leads to a breakdown of the expedition crew and the creation of factions based around political beliefs, nationality and genetic differences between the "percells"—genetically enhanced humans—and the "orthos"—unmodified humans. As well as the fighting between these factions, Earth rejects the mission due to fear of contamination from the halleyform life and attempts to destroy the comet and those living upon it. Eventually the mission crew on Halley are forced to accept that they can never return to Earth and create a new biosphere within the comet's core and in some cases evolve into symbiotic organisms with the halleyform life.

Subplots within the novel include the love triangle between the three major characters, Saul's quest for immortality through the creation of clones of himself and Virginia's development and nurture of the bio-organic stochastic computer JonVon, into whom Saul eventually transfers her consciousness before her brain dies as a result of an accident. The description of many of the interactions with JonVon and this final transference of consciousness is similar to the descriptions of the matrix in the William Gibson novel Neuromancer.

Main

 * Carl Osborn - spacer, percell
 * Virginia Kaninamanu Herbert - computer programmer, percell
 * Saul Lintz - doctor and geneticist, ortho

Minor characters

 * Miguel Cruz-Mendoza - Captain of the Edmund Halley, ortho
 * Otis Sergeov - Spacer Second Class, percell
 * Joao Quiverian - astronomer, ortho
 * Lt. Col. Suleiman Ould-Harrad - spacer, ortho
 * Lani Nguyen - spacer, ortho
 * Jeffers - spacer, percell
 * Akio Matsudo - doctor
 * Bethany Oakes - doctor
 * Nickolas Malenkov - doctor
 * Marguerite van/von Zoon - doctor
 * Jim Vidor - spacer
 * Ingersoll - percell
 * Linbarger - doctor, ortho
 * Keoki Anuenue - med-tech, ortho

Background characters

 * Simon Percell - geneticist
 * JonVon - quasi-sentient computer personality

Themes
As an example of the hard science fiction subgenre, the story is meant to be scientifically plausible. Social and political issues such as racism and diaspora are also present, as well as social arguments surrounding issues such as genetic engineering and cloning and exploration of more philosophical subjects such as immortality and transhumanism.

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Squint (disambiguation)

A squint is the action of tightening of the muscles around the eye.

Squint may also refer to:

 * Squint, a term for strabismus
 * Squint (album), a 1993 album by Steve Taylor
 * Squint (antenna), an angle of transmission offset
 * Squint (opening) (hagioscope), an opening through the wall of a church in an oblique direction
 * Squint Entertainment, a record label
 * Squint Lake, a lake in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
 * Squint Phares (1915–1974), American basketball player
 * Squint Hunter, coach for the Saint Louis Billikens men's basketball team, 1926–1927

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History of Ann Arbor, Michigan

The recorded history of Ann Arbor began with settlers from various eastern states in early 1824.

Founding
The original founders were John Allen from Virginia and Elisha Rumsey from New York. On May 25, 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as "Annarbour"; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.

Their wives' names were both Ann (in the latter case, either Ann Rumsey or Ana Rumsey, depending on the text consulted). One account states that Allen and Rumsey decided to name the settlement "Annarbour", for their spouses (after discarding the alternative names Allensville and Annapolis) and for the stands of bur oak in the 640 acres (2.6 km2) of land they had purchased for US$800 from the federal government. The Native Americans of the region knew the settlement as Kaw-geesh-kaw-nick (Ojibwe: Gaa-giishka'aanig [syncope: Gaa-giishkhaanig], "saw-milling place"), after the sound of "mill" of Allen's grist mill.

Rumsey died in 1827; Allen eventually became the town's postmaster, newspaper publisher, village president, and all-around promoter.

The 19th century
Several mills, a tannery, and a general store flourished in the settlement. The general store (or tavern, again depending on the source) was painted bright red and the corner on which it was established, at Huron and Main, became known as Bloody Corners. In 1836, Ann Arbor lost a bid to be established as the state capital. However, in 1837 Ann Arbor won a bid to be the new site for the University of Michigan when it offered forty acres (160,000 m2) of land for the site. The Michigan Central Railroad arrived in 1839, making the town a major regional transportation hub.

Ann Arbor became the seat of Washtenaw County in 1827, incorporated as a village in 1833, and was chartered as a city in 1851, which was also the year that John Allen died. The town became home first to large numbers of German immigrants from the state of Württemberg and escapees from the Great Irish Famine (1845-1849), though Canadians accounted for the largest percentage of Ann Arbor's immigrants during most of the 19th century.

The 20th century and progressivism
During World War I, Germans became targets of animosity because of their alleged sympathy for the German state, and four professors in the university's German department were dismissed because of what was alleged by the regents to be an "excess" of faculty in the department.

During World War II, Ford Motor Company's nearby Willow Run plant turned out B-24 Liberator bombers and the population of Ann Arbor exploded with an influx of military personnel, war workers, and their families.

East Ann Arbor incorporated as a city from portions of Pittsfield Township in 1947 and was named due to its proximity to Ann Arbor. In 1957, Ann Arbor annexed the city into its boundaries, and East Ann Arbor ceased to exist.

In 1960, Ann Arbor was the site of major speeches by both major presidential candidates, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. On October 14, 1960, Kennedy outlined his proposal for what would become the Peace Corps on the front steps of the Michigan Union (a plaque still marks the spot). On May 22, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his Great Society initiative during a University of Michigan commencement address.

During the 1960s, Ann Arbor became a focus for both the American civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement. It was, for example, the site of the first major meetings of Students for a Democratic Society in 1960. After a number of protests and an extensive public campaign, the city passed its first fair housing ordinance in 1963.

In June 1969, students and protesters took over portions of South University Avenue over the course of three days of protests and rioting. However, the police, drawn from many surrounding communities, and many with their names and badges covered up, took back the streets with the use of tear gas, police dogs, and the threat of firearms. Between 1972 and 1976, the city council went through a period in which three members of the Human Rights Party (HRP) were elected and fought for several measures that at the time seemed radical, including a pioneering anti-discrimination ordinance, an ordinance reducing penalties for possession of marijuana (the famous "five-dollar pot law"), and a rent control ordinance. In 1973, Kathy Kozachenko was elected to the Ann Arbor city council, becoming the nation's first openly gay candidate to run successfully for elected office.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ann Arbor was home to many influential rock bands, such as the MC5, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Brownsville Station, George Clinton, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Mitch Ryder, and The Rationals. Madonna was a dance major at the University of Michigan in the late 1970s. In 1969, avant-garde jazz bandleader Sun Ra and his Arkestra spent about a month living in an Ann Arbor frat house, with poet-impresario John Sinclair and his radical White Panther Party for next-door neighbors.

Four years after leaving the White House, Gerald R. Ford – a former student and college football player at Michigan – opened his Presidential Library in Ann Arbor. His Museum is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The economy of Ann Arbor underwent a gradual shift from a manufacturing base to a service and technology base over the course of the 20th century, a shift which accelerated in the 1970s and 1980s. As of 1999, Ann Arbor was home to 25 research centers and libraries.

During the same period, land values have increased and the city has gentrified. Some long-time residents have been driven out by high prices.

Conservative groups and movements have also started within the city. The Word of God, a charismatic Christian movement of global scope, started in 1967. Ann Arbor also became the site of the Thomas More Law Center, a leading religious-conservative advocacy group founded in 1999.

The 21st century
On November 2, 2004, a proposition to legalize medical marijuana was passed by a margin of 74% to 26%. Though the city attorney and police chief subsequently declared the law unenforceable, possession of marijuana for personal use has been essentially decriminalized in Ann Arbor for three decades, punishable only by a $25 civil-infraction fine and no criminal record. However, the much harsher state law applies to possession on university property (see Cannabis laws in Ann Arbor).

The same day, voters approved a greenbelt plan: the city government would acquire development rights to agricultural land bordering Ann Arbor to prevent sprawling development. Since then, local debate has hinged on whether (and how) to accommodate development within city limits. The Greenbelt has, at times, been controversial because if other planned measures (like increasing the city's density) stall, already high property values could rise further, pushing low and middle income residents to new exurbs beyond the greenbelt.

In September 2020, Ann Arbor had decriminalized the non-psychoactive drug called psilocybin.

Timeline

 * 25 May 1824: Annarbour, Wayne County, Michigan Territory.
 * 1827 - 1832: Annarbour, Township of Ann Arbour, Wayne County, Michigan Territory.
 * 1833 - 26 January 1837: Village of Ann Arbour, Township of Ann Arbour, Washtenaw County, Michigan Territory.
 * October 1835: Village of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw County, 'de facto' State of Michigan.
 * 14 December 1836: Following the Toledo War, the Frostbitten Convention in Ann Arbor concedes the Toledo Strip and accepts the western three-fourths of the Upper Peninsula, allowing the State of Michigan to become a U.S. state.
 * 26 January 1837: U.S. Congress recognizes the State of Michigan and dissolves the Territory of Michigan. Village of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw County, State of Michigan, United States of America.
 * 1837: University of Michigan received land.

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Containment (disambiguation)

Containment is a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy.

Containment may also refer to:

 * Containment (computer programming), a form of object composition
 * Containment (documentary), a 2015 film about nuclear waste
 * Containment (film), a 2015 British film
 * Containment (TV series), a 2016 American series
 * Containment building, a structure enclosing a nuclear reactor
 * Containment (set theory), another term for a subset

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Talk:Aljunied

Boundary of Aljunied
Aljunied is bounded by PIE in the north, and Paya Lebar Rd in the East. What should be the boundary in the South: --Vsion 05:43, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sims Ave,
 * Geylang Rd,
 * Guillemard Rd, or
 * Kallang basin river?
 * Aljunied got boundary one meh? :D--Huaiwei 05:49, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * What about unofficial demarcation? The residents probably would not like to include the area below Sims Ave to be consider as Aljunied, ;-) . That area however was included in the Aljunied URA planning subzone (1996)  --Vsion 06:40, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Haha...hmm...I would think for general placenames like this one (and also for Ang Mo Kio), it may be better to use a general indicator rather than one with a specific boundary, since their usage has been historically fluid? How about a red circle with a solid centre and which fades out gradually towards the edge? Sounds like chocolates. :D --Huaiwei 06:50, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, you mentioned this before. How about something like the left image below, as compared to the right image (based on planning area)?

The placement of the circle is arbitrary though, especially for fairly large regions that come in different shapes. --Vsion 08:53, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Oooo yes! Thats satisfactory. Dont worry too much over the placement, because it may be sufficient to simply have a bigger circle should the name cover a larger area...say Changi. The idea is for it to be a rough guide only. ;) Anyhow, thanks again for the marvellous creations. :D --Huaiwei 09:32, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * The dot-type locator map is easy to create and others can do it also. I will continue to focus on creating those boundary-type maps for regions where the boundary is known, because in doing so I'm also plotting out the major roads. I will leave it to the articles' contributors to decide which type of locator map they want to use. --Vsion 05:13, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmmm...come to think of it, would you like to share with us your template so that we can assist you in the simpler tasts? ;)--Huaiwei 04:56, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * What I have is a large copyrighted reference map, from which I trace out the various boundaries. With the data that I now have (mainly: expressways and MRT lines), I can produce a free-license high-res. base map. Currently some inland features (reservoir and rivers, etc.) are not accurate, so let me touch up abit before sharing it out. This however will not include the regions boundary just yet, because the available URA planning map is not accurate enough, so I'm drawing out the regions incrementally as you can see. By the time I finished, hopefully ;-), we will have a base map with most of the major regions, and it will be helpful for anyone who want to make derivative maps. --Vsion 08:26, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is a symphony orchestra based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the smallest of the six orchestras established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

History
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra was established in 1948, and gave its first concert on 25 May in the Hobart Town Hall, conducted by Joseph Post. The soloist was the Tasmanian-born pianist Eileen Joyce, who performed the Piano Concerto in A minor by Edvard Grieg.

From 1973 to 1998 its home was the Odeon Theatre, a renovated former cinema built in 1916 as a replica of New York's Strand Theater. It has now moved to the Federation Concert Hall. In 1998, a 50th anniversary concert was held in the original venue, the Town Hall, under its then chief conductor David Porcelijn.

The TSO was the first Australian orchestra to have its own radio program, Journey into Melody, which was broadcast weekly from 1956 to 1969.

By the late 1960s, there were far more subscribers per head of the state population (1 in 144) than in any of the other capital-city based ABC orchestras. In 1995, when funding cuts threatened to downsize the orchestra from 47 players, a petition was launched by the Friends of the TSO that gathered 35,000 signatures, the largest petition in Tasmanian history.

In 1998, A Taste of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra was published. This was a cookbook that included recipes contributed by members of the orchestra, guest conductors and visiting artists. It sold far more than anticipated, including healthy sales on the Australian mainland.

It receives government funding from both the Tasmanian and Australian governments. The orchestra performs at a number of concert venues both in Tasmania and interstate, including Federation Concert Hall, Tolosa Park in Glenorchy, Princess Theatre and Albert Hall both in Launceston, Burnie Town Hall, Devonport Entertainment Centre, Wrest Point Entertainment Centre in Sandy Bay and the City Recital Hall in Sydney. Major sponsors of the orchestra include Hydro Tasmania, Bass and Equitable Building Society and the Hobart City Council.

Amongst the orchestra's recordings are the complete works of Ignaz Moscheles for piano and orchestra, for which the soloist and conductor was Howard Shelley.

The TSO has toured to Israel, Greece, South Korea, Indonesia, Argentina, United States, Canada, China and Japan as well as widely throughout Australia. It won the 1996 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, and a documentary on Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose, which featured the TSO, won the Best Biography Profile at the New York Festival International Television Programming Awards.

With Trisha Crowe, Michael Falzon, Amanda Harrison, Lucy Maunder, Andy Conaghan, Jacqueline Dark and Toni Lamond, the TSO recorded I Dreamed a Dream: The Hit Songs from Broadway for ABC Classics, which was released on 21 June 2013. Falzon and Crowe joined TSO and conductor Guy Noble for TSO Goes to Broadway on 20 (Hobart) and 22 (Launceston) June 2013. to coincide with the launch of the album.

Chief conductors

 * Kenneth Murison Bourn (1962)
 * Thomas Matthews (1962–1968)
 * Thomas Mayer (1970–1974)
 * Vanco Cavdarski (1974–1980)
 * Barry Tuckwell (1980–1983)
 * Geoffrey Lancaster
 * Nicholas Braithwaite
 * Dobbs Franks (1989–1991)
 * David Porcelijn
 * Ola Rudner (2001–2003)
 * Sebastian Lang-Lessing (2004–2011)
 * Marko Letonja (2012–2020)
 * Eivind Aadland (2020–present)

Concertmasters

 * Lionel Hickey (1948–1962)
 * Leon La Gruta
 * Wilfred Jones
 * William Hennessy
 * Barbara Jane Gilby
 * Jun Yi Ma
 * Emma McGrath

AIR Awards
The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.

! Ref.
 * 2023
 * Nightlight
 * Best Independent Classical Album or EP
 * Nominated
 * Nominated

APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards
The APRA-AMC Classical Music Awards are presented annually by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australian Music Centre (AMC).

 * rowspan="2"| 2005 || Concerto for Guitar and Strings (Ross Edwards) – Karin Schaupp, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Won
 * Australian Music Program 2004 – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Outstanding Contribution by an Organisation || Won
 * rowspan="3"| 2006 || Blue Rags (Ian Munro) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Orchestral Work of the Year || Nominated
 * Cello Dreaming Orchestral Version (Peter Sculthorpe) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Orchestral Work of the Year || Won
 * Quamby (Peter Sculthorpe) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Orchestral Work of the Year || Nominated
 * rowspan="2"| 2007 || Tivoli Dances (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Nominated
 * Australian Composers' School – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education || Nominated
 * 2008 || Cantilena Pacifica (Richard Meale) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Erica Kennedy (violin), Richard Mills (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Nominated
 * rowspan="3"| 2009 || Tivoli Dances (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Won
 * Palm Court Suite (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Nominated
 * TSO Australian Composers' School – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education || Nominated
 * rowspan="2"| 2007 || Tivoli Dances (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Nominated
 * Australian Composers' School – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education || Nominated
 * 2008 || Cantilena Pacifica (Richard Meale) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Erica Kennedy (violin), Richard Mills (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Nominated
 * rowspan="3"| 2009 || Tivoli Dances (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Won
 * Palm Court Suite (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Nominated
 * TSO Australian Composers' School – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education || Nominated
 * rowspan="3"| 2009 || Tivoli Dances (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Won
 * Palm Court Suite (Graeme Koehne) – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills (conductor) || Orchestral Work of the Year || Nominated
 * TSO Australian Composers' School – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education || Nominated
 * TSO Australian Composers' School – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education || Nominated
 * TSO Australian Composers' School – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra || Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education || Nominated

ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

! Ref.
 * 1990
 * Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
 * rowspan="2" |Best Classical Album
 * Won
 * rowspan="2" |
 * 1997
 * Peter Sculthorpe: The Fifth Continent (with David Porcelijn)
 * Nominated
 * 2002
 * Symphony of Lullabies (with Sean O'Boyle)
 * Best Children's Album
 * Nominated
 * 2003
 * Mozart Arias (with Niki Vasilakis & Teddy Tahu Rhodes)
 * rowspan="5" |Best Classical Album
 * Nominated
 * rowspan="5" |
 * 2006
 * Mendelssohn, Bruch, Ravel (with Niki Vasilakis & Sebastian Lang-Lessing)
 * Nominated
 * 2008
 * Baroque Guitar Concertos (with Slava Grigoryan & Benjamin Northey)
 * Nominated
 * 2014
 * Mozart Arias (with Emma Matthews & Marko Letonja)
 * Nominated
 * 2018
 * Into Silence: Pärt, Vasks, Górecki, Pelecis (with Tamara-Anna Cislowska & Johannes Fritzsch)
 * Nominated
 * Nominated
 * 2014
 * Mozart Arias (with Emma Matthews & Marko Letonja)
 * Nominated
 * 2018
 * Into Silence: Pärt, Vasks, Górecki, Pelecis (with Tamara-Anna Cislowska & Johannes Fritzsch)
 * Nominated
 * Into Silence: Pärt, Vasks, Górecki, Pelecis (with Tamara-Anna Cislowska & Johannes Fritzsch)
 * Nominated

National Live Music Awards
The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) commenced in 2016 to recognise contributions to the live music industry in Australia.

! Ref.
 * rowspan="1" | 2023
 * Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
 * Best Classical Act
 * Won
 * rowspan="1" |
 * rowspan="1" |

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Wikipedia articles related to the city of Honolulu.

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Wild duck

The wild duck is the non-domesticated ancestor of the domestic duck.

Wild duck may refer to:

 * Mallard
 * Muscovy duck

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Scrotum Nightmare

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

The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 01:39, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

The Scrotum Nightmare
Gave this one the benefit of the doubt...but 'tis another Zero Google Orphan! - Lucky 6.9 05:48, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. This alone is why there should be a speedy criterion for bands.   ral  315  06:19, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unless some form of notability, other than appearing in a magazine I've never heard of, is apparent. Alf 21:45, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Funny, my vote also has a "screaming grind-core breakdown, which segues into a clean, trip-hop inspired segment": DeleleleleleeeeleeleleleeeeLEELELEELELEELEELEELEEDELEELEELEELEELELEELEEEEEEteeteeteeteeteeteettteteteteteteteteeee........ band vanity.  Thank you!  Goodnight everybody! JDoorjam 22:47, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * LOL!! The Scrotum Nightmare has LEFT THE BUILDING! - Lucky 6.9 23:32, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * -Splash 02:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn band vanity. -- Etacar11   23:09, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * '''Deletelll nnandity. -Splash 02:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as above. --Agamemnon2 15:05, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
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1980 American League Championship Series

The 1980 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff that featured the American League West champion Kansas City Royals against the American League East champion New York Yankees. This was the fourth matchup between the two teams in the past five seasons, and Kansas City got a measure of revenge by beating the Yankees in three straight to advance to their first ever World Series.

Game 1
The series opener saw the Yankees throw their ace, Ron Guidry, against the Royals' Larry Gura. In the top of the second, the Bronx Bombers jumped out to a 2–0 lead when Rick Cerone and Lou Piniella smacked back-to-back home runs. However, in the bottom of the inning, the Royals struck back. Amos Otis singled to center and stole second, and John Wathan walked. A wild pitch moved Otis to third and Wathan to second, and Frank White doubled both men home to tie the game.

The Royals moved ahead in the third, when George Brett walked and moved to third on a ground-rule double by Otis. A single by Willie Aikens plated both Brett and Otis, chasing Guidry from the game. Brett added a home run off Ron Davis in the seventh, and a Willie Wilson double off Tom Underwood in the eighth scored Darrell Porter and White to give Kansas City a 7–2 lead. The Yankees, meanwhile, could not score against Gura after the back-to-back home runs of the second inning, and the Royals' hurler went the distance as his team drew first blood in the series with a 7–2 victory.

Game 2
Game 2 proved to be much more exciting after the Royals blowout of Game 1. For this contest, the Yankees sent Rudy May to the hill to face the Royals' Dennis Leonard.

Kansas City opened the scoring in the bottom of the third, as Darrell Porter and Frank White reached base with consecutive singles. Willie Wilson followed with a triple to right to bring both runners in, and then scored himself on a double to center field by shortstop U L Washington. The Yankees came back with two in the fifth, with Graig Nettles hitting an inside-the-park home run and Willie Randolph lashing a double to right to score Bobby Brown.

The eighth inning, however, proved to be the most memorable inning of the game, with the Royals clinging to their 3–2 lead and the Yankees threatening. Willie Randolph singled, and with two outs Bob Watson ripped a liner to deep left field. Confident in Randolph's speed, Yankee third base coach Mike Ferraro decided to wave Randolph home. Left fielder Willie Wilson overthrew his cutoff man, Washington, but third baseman George Brett made a heads-up play by backing up Washington. He then whirled and threw Randolph out at the plate. Television cameras panned the stands where Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner and General Manager Gene Michael were sitting. A furious Steinbrenner appeared to shout Ferraro's name as he turned to Michael. The Royals ended up winning that game by a 3–2 margin and Steinbrenner continued to fume over the play.

Game 3
With a 2–0 series lead, the Royals headed to Yankee Stadium for Game 3. The Royals led 1-0 on Frank White's fifth-inning homer until the bottom of the sixth inning when Oscar Gamble hit a ground ball up the middle with Reggie Jackson on second. Eventual ALCS MVP Frank White ranged far to his right to field the ball, and knowing he could not throw out Gamble at first, attempted an off balance throw to third to hopefully catch Jackson rounding the bag. However, the throw by White, a multiple Gold Glove winner, was too high and Royals third baseman George Brett could not catch it. Jackson scored on the play and Gamble was given third base after the ball rolled into the dugout. Gamble later scored on a single by Rick Cerone and the Yankees gained a 2–1 advantage.

Holding on to a 2–1 lead in the seventh inning, pitcher Tommy John gave up a two-out double to Willie Wilson. Yankee manager Dick Howser brought in hard-throwing Goose Gossage, who gave up a single to U L Washington, bringing up George Brett. Brett had wowed the majors during the year, flirting with a .400 batting average, holding an average above .400 as late as September 19 before finishing the year at .390. Brett blasted a Gossage fastball into the upper deck, a three-run home run which stunned the Yankee Stadium crowd. The Royals had a 4–2 lead with All-Star reliever Dan Quisenberry on the mound.

The Yankees mounted a major threat in the eighth, loading the bases with no one out. Quisenberry then got Rick Cerone to line into a double play and the next batter to ground out to close out the inning. The ninth went one-two-three as the Royals and the long-suffering Kansas City baseball fans finally won the American League Pennant, getting revenge on the team that had eliminated them for three straight years.

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1980 ALCS (3–0): Kansas City Royals over New York Yankees

Aftermath
Dick Howser was fired shortly after the conclusion of the 1980 ALCS. Ironically, Howser would go on to win the 1985 World Series as manager of Kansas City. After losing the 1981 World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers (whom they had beaten in consecutive World Series in and  after besting the Royals for the American League crown), the Yankees would not again appear in the Fall Classic until winning in  under veteran manager Joe Torre—in a coincidental twist, their best subsequent opportunity prior to 1996 was also during a strike-shortened season: when the 1994 season prematurely ended, the Yankees had the best record in the American League, which was also the second best in baseball.

This would also be the last time the Yankees would be swept in a postseason series for 32 years.

Four men involved with the 1980 ALCS — Yankees manager Dick Howser, outfielder Bobby Murcer, and catcher Johnny Oates; and Royals pitcher Dan Quisenberry — subsequently died of brain cancer. (Tug McGraw and John Vukovich of the Philadelphia Phillies, who defeated the Royals in that year's World Series, also succumbed to the disease, as did Ken Brett, who pitched for Kansas City in the 1980–81 regular seasons.)


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Tavík František Šimon

Tavík František Šimon (13 May 1877 in Železnice, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) – 19 December 1942 in Prague), was a Czech painter, etcher, and woodcut artist. Born František Šimon, he later adopted the additional name 'Tavík', which was his mother's maiden name, generally signing his work T. F. Šimon. Largely ignored during the Communist era in Czechoslovakia, his work has received greater attention in recent years.

Life and career
Šimon was born in Železnice (known at that time as Eisenstadtl) near Jičín. As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, he received a stipend that allowed him to travel to Italy, Belgium, England and France. He had his first solo exhibition in Prague in 1905, and a Paris exhibition in 1906. His extensive travels would eventually also bring him to New York City, London, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, and Japan, images of all of which appear in his work.

After spending 1904–1914 based in Paris, Šimon returned to Prague and became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1928. In 1917, he became a founding member of the Hollar Association of Czech Graphic Artists, which he later chaired.

Many of his most notable images are of Prague, Amsterdam, New York, and Paris, but also include portraiture and self-portraiture and images of the Czech and Slovak countryside. Šimon's style was strongly influenced by the French Impressionists and, perhaps through them, by Japanese printmaking techniques, in particular color aquatints with soft ground etching. Šimon was also a master of the mezzotint but completed very few prints in this difficult medium, most of them being female nudes in subtle tones of black.

Voyage Around the World 1926–1927
Šimon was 49 years old when he undertook the journey of his lifetime, sailing literally around the world departing Cherbourg in September 1926 and travelling through the US, crossing the newly built Panama Canal to sail the Pacific to the Far East and then back home to Europe via Ceylon and the middle East.

On his return, he compiled his correspondence and released the book Listy z cesty kolem světa (Letters from Around the World), published by J. Otto, Prague in 1928.

His notes and letters home reveal a world that was unknown by those in Old Europe – a challenging new mechanistic society in America, a transforming Empire in the Far East, and an untouched paradise in the island of Ceylon. His glimpses into the past provide us with a view of history, through the eyes of a painter, that takes us back to a time when neon lights were marvels, when geisha were icons, before commercial air travel and when the only way to share your adventure with loved ones and family was through sending letters home.

Arriving in New York, he wrote, "The ship’s orchestra was playing as we slowly approached the port of New York City in the morning. In the distance we could see the outlines of skyscrapers drowning in a silver haze then, as we came closer, rising and standing, etched against the shimmering background of the rising sun. A shiver went up and down my spine as we entered the huge harbour whose backdrop of slim buildings was interspersed with the rising smoke from factories".

In 2014 his book was translated and published for the first time in English as 'Letters from a Voyage Around the World' with an introduction by the artist's grandson Michal Šimon.

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Mike E. Clark

Michael Earl Clark (born December 25, 1962) is an American record producer and DJ from Michigan, best known for working with Kid Rock, Insane Clown Posse, Prozak and Mickey Avalon. Clark has also worked with George Clinton, Patti Smith and R.L. Burnside.

Biography
Clark was born on December 25, 1962, and raised in Roseville, Michigan, He took an early interest in music and the first album Clark received was a greatest hits compilation by Sonny & Cher as a Valentine's Day gift from his mother. Clark later discovered Warren Zevon, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols and The Stooges. After graduating from high school, Clark took classes on music production at the Recording Institute in Eastpointe, Michigan, and soon got a job at The Disc Ltd.

Clark worked as an assistant engineer on Patti Smith's "Wild Leaves", the B-side of the single "People Have the Power", which appeared on Smith's 1988 album Dream of Life. During this period, Clark met Kid Rock, and helped produce demos that led to Jive Records signing the aspiring rapper. Clark's talent for producing hip hop music earned him the nickname "The Funky Honky". In 1989, he helped engineer (and played keyboard on) the debut album of Esham.

For Kid Rock's debut album, Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast, Clark produced the single "Yo-Da-Lin In The Valley". During the recording of Insane Clown Posse's Carnival of Carnage, the group's manager, Alex Abbiss, hired Clark to produce the album, which featured appearances from Esham and Kid Rock. Clark continued to work with the group and various associated acts on its label, Psychopathic Records. Clark has been involved with the production of albums by George Clinton, R. L. Burnside, and Primal Scream.

In 2000, Clark began working on Dark Lotus' debut album, Tales from the Lotus Pod, and Insane Clown Posse's sixth and seventh albums, Bizzar and Bizaar, but had a falling-out with members Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. According to Clark, "It seemed like too much was going on, and I wasn't sure about the material. I needed a break. I was frazzled, we weren't getting along, so that was it." Clark produced four songs for Tales from the Lotus Pod; the album's production was completed by Twiztid producer Fritz the Cat.

In 2001 Clark then started his own record label B4 Records producing records for local acts Dead By 28 and Abstrakt Intellekt. Unfortunately these bands proved to be unprofitable.

Clark and rapper Prozak formed the group Project: Deadman, releasing its debut album, Self Inflicted, in 2004, and touring the United States for six months. That year, Clark became a full-time engineer for Kid Rock. Clark contracted pneumonia, but ignored the illness, and began coughing severely as he awoke, leading to a three-month stay in Mount Clemens General Hospital, during which one of his lungs collapsed three times.

As the result of his near-death experience, Clark decided to reconcile with J and Shaggy. Phone conversations between Clark and Insane Clown Posse led to Clark producing Utsler's 2006 solo album F.T.F.O. In 2007, Clark produced the Kid Rock single "All Summer Long", which was musically based upon a mash-up of Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama". The same year, Clark produced Insane Clown Posse's tenth album The Tempest, but did not work with the group directly.

In 2009, Clark produced the group's eleventh studio album, Bang! Pow! Boom!, the first album that Clark worked on directly with J and Shaggy since Bizzar and Bizaar. Three years later, Clark produced the group's twelfth studio album The Mighty Death Pop!, as well as the bonus albums Smothered, Covered & Chunked, Freaky Tales, & Mike E. Clark's Extra Pop Emporium.

Music and production style
Mike E. Clark is known for providing an eclectic musical approach in his hip hop production. In Barry Walters' Rolling Stone review of The Amazing Jeckel Brothers, Walters wrote that Clark's production incorporates elements of "carnival organ riffs, power chords and shotgun blasts...banjolike plucking and Van Halen-esque guitar squeals." Allrovi writer David Jeffries called Clark's production style a fusion of electro, funk and "Oingo Boingo-like mad-clown melodies", comparing Clark to George Clinton and Danny Elfman.

Clark has cited numerous influences on his music, including punk and heavy metal artists such as Rob Zombie, Black Sabbath, The Cramps, The Clash, Fugazi, and System of a Down, funk musicians Rick James, Prince, James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, blues, jazz and R&B musicians like Serge Gainsbourg, Al Green, Billie Holiday, Curtis Mayfield, Buddy Miles, Bessie Smith and Howlin' Wolf, alternative musicians like Beck, Faith No More, Hüsker Dü, Pixies and Ween, progressive rock artists Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa, and hip hop artists such as Beastie Boys, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Busta Rhymes, Geto Boys, Grandmaster Flash and N.W.A, as well as artists David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Bob Marley, Klaus Nomi, War, Yoko Ono and Warren Zevon, and producers Rick Rubin and Phil Spector.

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Redundancy
"Thus, Point Counter Point could be best described as a novel of ideas." Redundant? I'm removing this. Ph33rspace (talk) 00:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Why redundant? If someone doesn't know it is, then it may be a helpful characterisation. Ammimajus (talk) 20:01, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Accuracy
This article needs to be rewritten without the author's opinion included. --24.92.28.176 05:52, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Marjorie is Walter Bidlake's wife. He is cheating on her with Lucy Tantamount. Marjorie isn't cheating on anyone. She did divorce someone before the book started. I'm reading the book now and will try to do a bit of a punch up on this. Though because it is a novel of ideas a summary is hard. Squanderdalfast 09:08, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Are you sure? I thought Marjorie's husband didn't divorce her, for religious reasons. - mako 21:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I didn't change it. I just finished it. I am going to look for the point where it says she was married. Yes, you are right. She is married to Carling, (last name.) I'm sorry for the confusion. It is stated on the first page of the book. Squanderdalfast 19:52, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

She didn't divorce her husband because he was being stubborn and wouldn't do it.

I just finished reading this book and am not aware that John Bidlake died, although he had wanted to at one point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.215.98.147 (talk) 03:21, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Rare?
I found a copy of this book at an estate sale. It's a first edition, printed in New York by Double Day and Doran Company 1928. Any info on it would be greatly appreciated.

Roman á clef
I'm going to attempt to update this--with sources--over the weekend. Anyway, my main concern is that this article should reflect the fact that Huxley's characters are all based on real people. Rampion=D.H. Lawrence, Burlap=John Middleton Murry, Lucy Tantamount=Nancy Cunard, etc. Like I said, I'll do it myself, but if you happen upon this and would like to help, my thanks in advance. L Glidewell 02:34, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

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Potent Counter-Potent
There is a fur in heraldry called "Potent Counter-Potent" in which the heads of crutches (potent is an old name for a crutch) touch each in the centre of the shield. Perhaps the idea of mutually supporting cripples is in the title too. Ammimajus (talk) 20:04, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Mosley
The introductory section says that Everard Webley is modelled on Sir Oswald Mosley, but later it's shown that he wasn't, and couldn't have been. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:5602:2301:11E8:C09D:DE04:247B (talk) 22:46, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

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Hunz

Hunz is an electronic pop music group from Brisbane, Australia. The name Hunz can refer to either the group or its composer, keyboardist and vocalist, Hans van Vliet.

The group was formed in 2005 by Johannes (Hans) van Vliet (born 15 December 1976), who is better known by his pseudonym Hunz. Hunz was raised in Brisbane, Australia and began working on tracker music in his early teens using Protracker, Fast Tracker 2, and Jeskola Buzz. Hunz is noted for being one of the first trackers to make the unconventional move of adding vocals to his compositions. He was also affiliated with the tracking groups Heretics, Analogue, Five Musicians (FM) and Hellven.

From 1999 to 2002, Hunz toured the United States as vocalist for the band Beanbag, who released two albums, Free Signal (2000) and Welladjusted (2001), on American label Inpop Records following their Australian independent debut, Guttersnipe (1998). The group disbanded in 2002 after a van accident that left Hunz hospitalized for three days with lung damage.

Hunz returned to the music community in 2005 with When Victims Fight, which was his first release under the Hunz moniker. The album was released on Apegenine Recordings on 20 June 2008 and was accompanied by a promotional video that displayed Hunz's motion design and visual art. When Victims Fight was critically acclaimed by Cyclic Defrost, Tokafi and Brisbane street press Time Off.

In February 2009, Hunz entered the RPM Challenge, in which musicians across the world attempt to write and record an album within a month. Second album Thoughts That Move was Hunz's RPM Challenge submission, which was independently released in May 2009 as a free high-quality download on Bandcamp. Hunz also included the Renoise (.XRNS) source files, which allows Renoise users to see how each of the album's ten tracks were arranged. The track Soon, Soon was included with the release of digital audio software application Renoise version 2.1. Thoughts That Move received positive reviews on Australian music site FasterLouder.com.au, Brisbane music blog Before Hollywood and in Brisbane street press Rave Magazine.

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Alfani

Alfani can refer to
 * Domenico Alfani, 16th century Italian painter
 * Orazio Alfani, Domenico's son, also a painter

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