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United States Domestic Policy Council

The Domestic Policy Council (DPC) is the principal forum used by the president of the United States for the consideration of domestic policy matters and senior policymaking, and includes Cabinet members and White House officials. The Council is part of the Office of Policy Development, which itself is within the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Since the establishment of the Council in 1993, under the administration of President Bill Clinton, its purpose is to coordinate the domestic policy-making process; to coordinate domestic policy advice to the president; to ensure that domestic policy decisions and programs are consistent with the president’s stated goals, and to ensure that those goals are being effectively pursued; and to monitor implementation of the president’s domestic policy agenda.

The Domestic Policy Council differs from the National Economic Council, which is used to consider economic policy for the president. The Domestic Policy Council focuses on issues of domestic policy, which exclude economic policy matters. The Council is also the principal arm of the president when coordinating domestic policy measures throughout the executive branch.

The Domestic Policy Council is headed by the assistant to the president for domestic policy and director of the Domestic Policy Council. Since May 26, 2023, that position has been held by Neera Tanden.

History and mission
The Domestic Policy Council was established on August 16, 1993 by Executive Order 12859, under President Clinton. The first director of the Domestic Policy Council was Carol Rasco, who was appointed by Clinton in 1993. The council oversees development and implementation of the president’s domestic policy agenda and ensures coordination and communication among the heads of relevant Federal offices and agencies.

Prior to the creation of the National Economic Council, economic policy staff had existed since the 1960s. President Lyndon Johnson assigned a senior aide to develop and organize domestic policy, of which economic policy was included. In 1970, President Richard Nixon issued an executive order which created the Office of Policy Development. President Clinton split the responsibilities of the Domestic Policy Council with the National Economic Council.

The Council is composed of various Cabinet officials, who advise the president on domestic policy issues and matters.

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Christophe Honoré

Christophe Honoré (born 10 April 1970) is a French writer and film and theatre director.

Career
Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in Les Cahiers du Cinéma. He started writing soon after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a film in 2002. He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s. His first play, Les Débutantes, was performed at Avignon's Off Festival in 1998. In 2005, he returned to Avignon to present Dionysos impuissant in the "In" Festival, with Joana Preiss and Louis Garrel playing the leads.

A well-known director, he is considered an "auteur" in French cinema. His 2006 film Dans Paris has led him to be considered by French critics as the heir to the Nouvelle Vague cinema. In 2007, Les Chansons d'amour was one of the films selected to be in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Honoré is openly gay, and some of his movies or screenplays (among them Les Filles ne savent pas nager, Dix-sept fois Cécile Cassard and Les Chansons d'amour) deal with gay or lesbian relations. His film Plaire, aimer et courir vite (Sorry Angel), about a writer who has contracted HIV in the 1990s, won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film in 2018. Honoré has been the screenwriter for some of Gaël Morel's films. The actors Louis Garrel and Chiara Mastroianni have each had roles in several of his films.

Honoré has also directed several operas for the stage. For the Opéra de Lyon he directed Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in 2013, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in 2015, and Verdi's Don Carlos in 2018. He also presented his production of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Edinburgh Festival in 2016, and Puccini's Tosca at Aix-en-Provence in 2019; both of these productions adopted a radical approach to traditional works.

In the summer of 2020 Honoré's rehearsals of his stage production of Le Côté de Guermantes, based on the third volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, were interrupted by restrictions to combat the COVID-19 epidemic and it became impossible to present it at the Comédie-Française as planned. With his troupe of actors he decided to make a film about the production and the uncertainties they were now facing, and the film Guermantes was released in September 2021.

Novels

 * 1995 : Tout contre Léo (jeunesse), turned into a film in 2002
 * 1996 : C'est plus fort que moi (jeunesse)
 * 1997 : Je joue très bien tout seul (jeunesse)
 * 1997 : L'Affaire petit Marcel (jeunesse)
 * 1997 : L’Infamille (Éditions de l'Olivier, ISBN 2-87929-143-7)
 * 1998 : Zéro de lecture (jeunesse)
 * 1998 : Une toute petite histoire d'amour (jeunesse)
 * 1998 : Je ne suis pas une fille à papa (jeunesse)
 * 1999 : Les Nuits où personne ne dort (jeunesse)
 * 1999 : Mon cœur bouleversé (jeunesse)
 * 1999 : Bretonneries (jeunesse)
 * 1999 : La Douceur (Éditions de L'Olivier, ISBN 2-87929-236-0)

Actor

 * 1998: Les Débutantes
 * 2001: Le Pire du troupeau
 * 2004: Beautiful Guys
 * 2005: Dionysos impuissant
 * 2012: La Faculté
 * 2012: Un jeune se tue
 * 2012: Nouveau Roman
 * 2015: Violentes femmes

Director

 * 2009 : Angelo, Tyrant of Padua by Victor Hugo, Festival d'Avignon
 * 2012 : Nouveau Roman, Festival d'Avignon, Théâtre national de la Colline
 * 2013 : Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc, Opéra National de Lyon
 * 2015 : Fin de l'Histoire by Witold Gombrowicz, Théâtre de Lorient
 * 2015 : Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy, Opéra National de Lyon
 * 2016 : Così fan tutte by Mozart, Aix-en-Provence Festival and Edinburgh International Festival
 * 2018 : Don Carlos by Verdi, Opéra National de Lyon
 * 2019 : Les Idoles by Christophe Honoré, Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe
 * 2019 : Tosca by Puccini, Aix-en-Provence Festival

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UWSA

The abbreviation or term UWSA may mean:
 * United Wa State Army, in Myanmar
 * Upper West Success Academy, former name of a school that is part of Success Academy Charter Schools, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
 * USMLE World Self Assessment - (simulated practice exams for step 1 and step 2)

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Chris Hanson (American football)

Christopher David Hanson (born October 25, 1976) is an American former professional football player who was a punter for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Marshall Thundering Herd, and was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 1999. He also played professionally for the Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, Jacksonville Jaguars, New Orleans Saints and New England Patriots. Hanson is perhaps best known for a season-ending injury sustained while swinging a motivational axe in the Jaguars' locker room in 2003. Hanson was a switch-punter, able to effectively kick with both his left and his right leg, which he alternated to reduce fatigue.

Early years
Hanson attended East Coweta High School in Sharpsburg, Georgia, where he played place kicker, punter, and receiver for head coach Danny Cronic.

College career
Hanson attended Marshall University and was a four-year letterman in football as a punter. He finished his college football career with an average of 39.9 yards per punt. Hanson helped lead the Thundering Herd to the 1996 NCAA Division I-AA national championship.

Cleveland Browns
Hanson was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Cleveland Browns following the 1999 NFL draft. He was waived by the team following training camp.

Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers signed Hanson on September 1, 1999. After punting for the Packers in their regular season opener, Hanson was released by the team and re-signed to the team's practice squad. He was waived from the Packers' practice squad on October 12, 1999.

Miami Dolphins
On December 29, 1999, Hanson signed to the Miami Dolphins' practice squad, but released from it the next day. He was later re-signed to a future contract for the 2000 season. He was allocated to the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe for the spring. After suffering an injury in the Dragons' season finale, Hanson was placed on injured reserve by the Dolphins on August 22, 2000. He was released by the Dolphins on August 14, 2001.

Jacksonville Jaguars
Four days after being waived by the Dolphins, Hanson signed for the Jacksonville Jaguars on August 18, 2001. He played in every game for the Jaguars in 2001, finishing sixth in the NFL in punt yard average. After being re-signed in the offseason, Hanson posted an NFL-best 44.2 gross punt average in 2002, earning his first Pro Bowl election. Hanson nearly matched his average during the first nine games of the 2003 season, posting a 43.5 yard average in that period. Later in the year, Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio placed a wooden stump and axe in the locker room as a symbol of his theme advising players to "keep choppin' wood". After his teammates took swings at the wood with the axe, Hanson followed and ended up seriously wounding his non-kicking foot. He was placed on injured reserve on October 10, keeping him out the rest of the season.

Hanson returned for the 2004 season, posting a 42.8 gross punting average over 16 games. Hanson was named AFC Special Teams Player of the Month in September 2005, with four punts downed inside the 20-yard line during that period. He helped the Jaguars to a 12–4 record, and a trip to the 2005 Wild-Card playoffs. However, Hanson's gross average dropped in 2006 to 40.6, and the Jaguars decided to draft a punter, Adam Podlesh, in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL draft. Hanson was released by the Jaguars shortly after the draft, on May 1, 2007.

New Orleans Saints
Hanson was signed by the New Orleans Saints on May 7, 2007, but released by the team during cutdowns on August 28, 2007.

New England Patriots
In their 2007 training camp, the Patriots' punting competition appeared to be between veteran Josh Miller and first-year player Danny Baugher. By late August, the team had released Miller, leaving only Baugher on the roster. Baugher too was released days later, with the Patriots signing Hanson to replace him. Hanson had a 41.4 punting average for the Patriots in 2007. He helped lead the 2007 Patriots to a 16–0 regular season record, an AFC Championship, and a trip to Super Bowl XLII. In 2008, Hanson finished with a 43.7 punt average and was named AFC Special Teams Player of the Week in Week 17, averaging 45 yards a punt in wind gusts up to 60 mph. Hanson finished the 2009 season with a 39.7 punt average, helping the Patriots win the 2009 AFC East Division title.

New England did not resign Hanson for the 2010 season, leaving him as a free agent.

Coaching
Hanson was named head football coach at Trinity Christian School (Sharpsburg, Georgia) in 2011 after spending one year as an assistant under his former high school coach, Danny Cronic.

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Equirria

The Equirria (also as Ecurria, from equicurria, "horse races") were two ancient Roman festivals of chariot racing, or perhaps horseback racing, held in honor of the god Mars, one 27 February and the other 14 March.

Site
The Equirria took place in the Campus Martius outside the sacred boundary of Rome (pomerium). The exact course is debated: perhaps near the Altar of Mars in the campus; or on the Tarentum, the site of the ludi tarentini, which became the Saecular Games; or the Trigarium. When the Tiber flooded, the Equirria were transferred to the Campus Martialis on the Caelian Hill, a field without permanent structures.

On the calendar
The Equirria were said to have been founded by Romulus, the son of Mars. Both appear on the oldest Roman calendars inscribed on stone. The Equirria are part of what Michael Lipka calls "temporal focalization" in the Roman conception of deity. The festivals of Mars—the 27 February Equirria, a feria on the Kalends of March (a day sacred also to his mother Juno), Agonalia 17 March, Tubilustrium 23 March, the ritual of the October Horse 15 October, and Armilustrium 19 October—cluster at his namesake month (Latin Martius), except for festivals of Mars in October to close the military campaigning season.

In the earliest form of the calendar, the year began with March, and thus the 27 February Equirria originally preceded New Year's Day, and was the last festival for Mars of the year. The 14 March Equirria occurs the day before the Ides, when the Roman people celebrated the feast of Anna Perenna, whose name expresses her role as a goddess of the year (Latin annus; cf. English "perennial"). The March Equirria and the Regifugium ("King's Flight") are the only such festivals to fall on an even-numbered date. Despite scholarly efforts, no explanation for this displacement has found wide acceptance. Georg Wissowa thought the March Equirria had originally occurred on the Ides, and was moved up a day because of conflicts among religious events concentrated around this ritually fraught time; an alternate view is that it was placed "at some convenient day" between the Nones and the Ides. At any rate, the horse races framed the ritual turn of the year, and the difficulties of the placement of the two Equirria arise from changes made to the calendar, when January became the first month.

Significance
Originally, the Equirria may have featured races on horseback, like the archaic festivals of the Consualia and Taurian Games, rather than chariot races. The gods of the underworld (di inferi) were characteristically propitiated by horse racing in the Campus Martius with "old and obscure" festivals such as the Consualia, at sites including the Tarentum and the Trigarium. Hendrik Wagenvoort speculated that the archaic Mars "had been imagined as the god of death and the underworld in the shape of a horse."

William Warde Fowler understood the Equirria as "lustrations of the horse" for the army. They occur during what most scholars see as a general "war festival" for Mars. The end of the campaigning season was marked in October, with the ritual of the October Horse, which also involved chariot races, on the Ides, and the Armilustrium on 19 October. The paucity of evidence on the Equirria, as with other archaic festivals, may indicate that they were preserved for the sake of religious tradition, but not attended by masses of people.

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Ami Suzuki

Ami Suzuki (鈴木亜美) is a Japanese recording artist, DJ, and actress from Zama, Kanagawa, Japan. Having been discovered at the talent TV show Asayan, she was one of the most popular female teen idols in the late 1990s. However, in 2000, Suzuki faced legal problems with her management company resulting in a controversial blacklisting from the entertainment industry. Suzuki attempted to resurrect her career under her own steam with two indie singles before signing to Avex Trax in 2005. She released "Delightful", a dance song that reached No. 3 on the Japanese Oricon charts with a style similar to electronic club music, significantly different from her pop idol days. Since her appearance in the 2006 film Rainbow Song, Suzuki has gradually made a name for herself in the acting field, starring in various movies, television series, and musicals.

1998: Asayan and debut
While attending high school, Ami auditioned for Japanese talent show Asayan, which was searching for a young vocalist under the direct guidance of Tetsuya Komuro. She initially preferred athletics to auditions and was reluctant to travel from her home in Kanagawa, but was convinced by a school friend. The TV contest became very popular and the number of viewers watching it grew and grew as the series progressed; its popularity was such that soon it was aired in other Asian countries. From 13,500 contestants, only five girls were chosen to be in the final round, and 15-year-old Suzuki won the competition supported by 802,157 phone calls from the audience. She later explained her win as being down to her showing her natural-self, as opposed to rehearsing intensely like other contestants.

Sony Music signed her to the label, and producer Tetsuya Komuro sponsored her career producing all of her material, together with other members of the Komuro Family, such as Marc Panther, Cozy Cubo and Takahiro Maeda. Her debut single, "Love the Island", was released on 1 July 1998. The song was used to promote Japanese tourism in the island of Guam, with Suzuki herself starring in the TV commercials. The song was well promoted, with Ami appearing on covers of magazines like Young Jump and even traveling to Guam to promote the song live on the local version of the international music channel MTV. The single became a hit, debuting at number five on the Oricon charts. On 17 September 1998, her second single "Alone in My Room" was released. This song was also used for Guam tourism campaigns, and also did well on the charts, debuting at number three on Oricon and selling even better than its predecessor. In October 1998, Suzuki started her own radio show on Nippon Hōsō called ''Run! Run! Ami-Go!'', which topped the radio rankings in popularity. She also signed a deal with the Japanese product Kissmark for advertisements and promotion all around Asia. Sony then began promoting her third single, "All Night Long". The dance song was featured constantly at the most famous discothèque of Japan at that time, Velfarre, and was a big hit. It debuted at number 2 on the Oricon charts. Later that year, Ami Suzuki won various awards including the Japan Record Award for Best New Artist.

1999–2000: SA, Infinity Eighteen and popularity peak
In 1999, Suzuki released her first photo book, titled Ami-Go, which sold around 200,000 copies. In March, her debut album SA was released, becoming one of the Top 10 best selling albums of 1999. At the release of her seventh single "Be Together" (which was a cover of a song by TM Network), Ami competed with "rival" Ayumi Hamasaki for the first time for the top position in the charts. Ayumi released her ninth single, "Boys & Girls", on the same day. Ami went to the top position on the Oricon charts for the first time, leaving Ayumi second. However, "Boys & Girls" would go on to become a number one single itself and eventually outsell "Be Together". Her next single, titled "Our Days", also ranked number one in the charts later that year. At the end of the year, Ami released her eighth and last single in 1999 entitled "Happy New Millennium", which debuted at number 2 and sold 364,000 copies, becoming Suzuki's second lowest single in 1999.

In January 2000, Suzuki released "Don't Need to Say Good Bye" which debuted at number 5. A week later, Suzuki released her second studio album, Infinity Eighteen Vol. 1, which sold 1,063,000 copies and debuted at number one. Suzuki has said of this first period of her career that she was not free to do what she wanted and only followed what she was told, leaving her feeling "pretty disheartened and down, like there was no future.". Suzuki had been writing lyrics from an early age and passing them to her manager and producers. The first song to feature them, with the help of Mitsuko and Tetsuya Komuro, was her tenth Sony single, "Don't Need to Say Good Bye". The lyrics were influenced by events occurring in her personal life at that time, specifically her upcoming high school graduation and she has said: "it was more important to me than sales and chart rankings to know that I had put my thoughts and feelings into what I was singing." Three months after Infinity Eighteen Vol.1, Suzuki released her twelfth single, "Thank You 4 Every Day Every Body" [sic] in the beginning of April and third studio album, Infinity Eighteen Vol.2 at the end of April. "Thank You 4 Every Day Every Body" sold a total of 234,000 copies reaching number one and Infinity Eighteen Vol.2 sold a total of 427,000 copies reaching number two. "Reality/Dancin' in Hip-Hop" was Suzuki's 12th single released under the Sony Music Japan label, on 27 September 2000. It reached number 3 on Oricon weekly chart and sold a total of 211,000 copies. A compilation album of Suzuki's tracks, Fun for Fan, was released on 30 May 2001. It reached number 1 on the Oricon charts, despite the fact that by this point, Suzuki herself had vanished from the public eye and Sony had taken all of her previous singles and albums off CD shelves.

2000–2002: Legal problems and blacklisting
In 2000 Suzuki's career came to an abrupt halt when Eiji Yamada, the President of her production company AG Communication, was convicted on tax evasion charges. AG Communication had evaded tax by under-reporting their earnings, and by consequence were underpaying royalties to artists. Suzuki's parents Tadao and Miyako Suzuki sued AG Communication for termination of her contract on these grounds, and that the association would taint her squeaky clean image. They attempted to set up a subsidiary called Music Tribe to solve the problem. The Tokyo District Court found in her favor, but the lawsuit resulted in Ami Suzuki's blacklisting because of an unwritten rule of the entertainment business in Japan: artists who get into legal disputes with their agents are blacklisted. In court documents, it was revealed that AG Communication had paid her very little, to begin with: despite eight-figure record sales that year, Suzuki earned just $1500 a month at the start of her career, and a minuscule 0.4% royalty rate on CDs, raised to $9780 and 0.55% in 1999.

Having lost all of her endorsements too, Suzuki was faced with the problem of production companies refusing to sign her and tried to make a comeback in the next two years with little to no success. Her relationship with her producer, Tetsuya Komuro, also ceased. Sony also took all of her singles and albums released up to that point off CD shelves. Many people were convinced that her chances for making a comeback were nil. In 2003, Suzuki finally negotiated an out-of-court agreement with Sony. Her contract with the label was scheduled to end in December 2004. Eiji Yamada was subsequently fined for his role in the tax evasion. Government officials linked to the scandal included former Education Minister Takashi Kosugi and two other legislators, who allegedly received 34 million yen in unofficial payments for referring AG Communication and other clients seeking tax evasion. About this period, Suzuki herself has said "I really didn't know what was going on, lots of lies were being thrown about in the media. For people to hear little things on the TV and believe that to be the truth was a surprise, and I suddenly realized the kind of world I was in. What kept me going was the thought of one day being able to tell the truth myself"

2003–2004: As an indie artist
Following the blacklisting, Suzuki changed her stage name from 鈴木あみ (kanji/hiragana) to 鈴木亜美, her real name written in kanji. In April 2004, without a major record deal, the singer found "after some research, that adding a CD to a book, such as those found in language-teaching books, would be a possible alternative." She thus released a photo book called Tsuyoi Kizuna that included a CD single, published by Tokyo-based Bungei Shunju. The photobook went to sell over 150,000 copies despite the low promotion, reaching the No. 1 place of best-selling non-fiction books in Japan. In August of the same year, she released another single titled "Forever Love", this time on her own independent label Amity. The release sold quite well for an independent record, reaching number 21 on the Oricon chart and number 1 in Oricon's Indies Singles Chart. In addition, a four-track mini concert DVD titled 2004 Summer Fly Hight: Ami Shower was released on 17 November 2004. Throughout October and November 2004 she began a tour through university festivals, and in December she began another tour called Ami's Love for You – Live.

2005–2006: Comeback on Avex and Around the World
At the last venue on Suzuki's nationwide tour, Ami's Love For You – Live, held on 30 December at Tokyo Public Welfare Annuity Hall, she officially announced her transfer to Avex and her comeback to major music industry. On 1 January 2005, her official website under the Avex label was officially opened. Her first song under her new label, "Hopeful", was released virtually on 9 February, and on 25 March her first physical single, titled "Delightful", was released. The dance song was produced by German trance musician Axel Konrad and it was released in four different formats (CD, CD+DVD, CD+Photobook, CD+Illustration Essay). "Delightful" debuted at number two on Oricon's charts, and was later placed at number 97 in Oricon's Yearly Top 500 best singles of 2005. Her second single under the Avex label, titled "Eventful", was released on 25 May 2005. Also being a dance track, it had moderate sales, debuting at number nine on the Oricon charts. The third Avex single, "Negaigoto", was released on 17 August 2005, also enjoying moderate success. Its B-side, "Times", was used as the main theme of a TV commercial of N's Street Online Shopping, starring Suzuki herself. During August 2005, her new official Mobile Fan Club "Ami Sapuri" was opened, and Suzuki announced that a live tour would start in the following months. This year she also participated for the first time in A-Nation, a yearly concert of the most popular artists of Avex Trax.

Suzuki released her first studio album in five years, Around the World, on 12 October 2005, with the simultaneous release of a single of the same name. The album consisted of J-pop songs heavenly influenced by trance music, and ballads. It debuted at number five on the Oricon charts, selling 50,000 copies. In November 2005, celebrating the Japanese 55th Anniversary of Snoopy, Suzuki released a single titled "Happiness is...", which was sold exclusively at the Snoopy Life Design Happiness is the 55th Anniversary event held in Tokyo. On 7 December 2005, Suzuki released her 5th Avex single, Little Crystal. The maxi single was a four A-side single that included four different ballads arranged by four different musicians. "Crystal" and "To be Free" were the songs that had music videos made for promotion. The single debuted at number twenty-two, selling 15,000 copies in its first month. On 31 December 2005, Suzuki was awarded with the a Gold Prize for Best New Artist at the 47th Japan Record Awards.

On 8 February 2006, Suzuki released her sixth Avex single, "Fantastic", which was used as third opening theme of the TV anime series Blackjack, making this the first time that one of her songs was used in an anime. On 29 March 2006, her first remix album, titled Amix World, was released. The album included remixed made by Japanese and international producers, including Space Cowboy, Clazziquai Project, Jonathan Peters and Ferry Corsten. For her fifth single "Alright!", released on 17 May 2006, she distanced herself from her previous trance-influenced dance material and went into more mainstream J-pop themes under the arrangement of HΛL. Suzuki's eighth single on Avex, "Like a Love?", was released 26 July 2006. The song was composed by label mate Ai Otsuka, making this the first time that she offered one of her own compositions to another artist. In October of the same year, Suzuki debuted as a movie actress in Rainbow Song, directed by Naoto Kumazawa and produced by Shunji Iwai. In late 2006, Suzuki covered two Disney songs, "Beauty and the Beast" and also "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", which were at first only available on the Disney Music Store Japan's website starting on 20 December 2006.

2007–2008: The "join" project, Connetta and Dolce
In February 2007, Suzuki officially started a new project called "join", in which she would be collaborating with different artists and experimenting with various music styles. The collaboration singles with Buffalo Daughter, THC!! and Kirinji were released in a three-week period starting on 28 February to 14 March. Her "join" album and second Avex album, Connetta, was released on 21 March, and included collaborations with several artists including Hideki Kaji, Scoobie Do, Ayano Tsuji and Northern Bright. The album peaked at number twenty-six on the Japanese Oricon charts. Her acting career went more seriously at this time; she starred in the live action drama Skull Man, and also recorded the Japanese-South Korean collaboration drama Under the Magnolia, in which she starred the leading role along with Lee Wan and travelled to New York and South Korea to shoot certain scenes. She was also invited for a third time at 2007's a-nation, where she was chosen as the opening act.

A new single with electropop producer and capsule leader Yasutaka Nakata then emerged. Her fourth "join" single and first Avex double A-side single, "Free Free/Super Music Maker", was released on 22 August 2007. For this single's promotion Suzuki's image changed drastically, from a cute pop image to a more mature and erotic style. Her new look was called as "ero-pop" by herself and Japanese media, even making comparisons with label mate Kumi Koda. This single did considerably better than the previous "join" singles, debuting at number 32 on the Japanese charts, and achieving more than eight thousand copies sold, almost the three previous singles sales combined.

Suzuki's fifth collaboration single, "Potential Breakup Song", a cover of Aly & AJ's single of the same name produced by Sugiurumn, was released on 28 November 2007. Aly & AJ's version of the song was used as the theme song of horror/comedy film XX (X Cross), in which Suzuki starred as the lead role along with Nao Matsushita. Suzuki released her second "join" album and third Avex studio album, Dolce, on 6 February 2008. The album, which was much more dance-oriented than its predecessor, included collaborations with Ram Rider, Studio Apartment, Tomoe Shinohara, Captain Funk, and others. In December 2007 it was announced that Suzuki would be starring a new TV drama called Oishii Depachika, which was inspired in the anime Oishii Ginza by Ikuko Sagakawa. The TV drama premiered in January 2008 on TV Asahi.

2009–2011: Supreme Show and DJ debut
In 2008, Suzuki celebrated her tenth anniversary in the music industry, leaving behind the "join" project and working once again with producer Yasutaka Nakata. The first anniversary single "One" was released on 2 July 2008. The song was used as the theme song for the Japan 28th National High School Quiz Championship, and charted at number 17 on the Oricon charts. At the release party of the single on 5 July, Suzuki officially launched her career as a DJ, and performed live along with Nakata. The second anniversary single, titled "Can't Stop the Disco", was then released on 24 September 2008. This same month, Suzuki debuted as the main character in the Avex 20th anniversary musical, Kokoro no Kakera, along with Yu-ki from TRF. In November, Suzuki played the main role in another TV drama: this time for the 40th anniversary special remake of Ai no Gekijo's Love Letter. Suzuki played the hearing-impaired Minami Tadokoro, whose dramatic love life was explored over a 15-year period. Her tenth anniversary album, Supreme Show was released on 12 November 2008. The album was fully produced by Yasutaka Nakata.

Suzuki's 28th single, "Reincarnation", produced by Taku Takahashi of M-Flo, was released on 25 February 2009. From 27 September – 7 August 2009, Suzuki starred in her second musical: "Blood Brothers". Suzuki recorded a song called "Kiss Kiss Kiss", a cover of a song by Ananda Project which appeared on the House Nation compilation called Aquamarine released on 5 August and was later released as her 29th single on 28 October 2009. In 2010, Suzuki's cover version of Kylie Minogue's international hit "Can't Get You Out of My Head" appeared on the compilation "Tokyo Girls Collection" 10th Anniversary Runway Anthem She also collaborated with special unit Phoenix 2:00am, formed by Dj Koo from TRF and Motsu from m.o.v.e. She provided vocals for them in the song "Living in the Castle", which appeared on the compilation House Nation 3rd Anniversary. They were formed exclusively to perform the theme song of a videogame event called Sengoku Busho Matsuri held at Saitama Arena on 6 and 7 March 2010. In July 2010, Suzuki released Blooming, her first compilation album as a DJ. It was a 15-track collection of songs mixed by herself. In August 2011, Suzuki worked with her former producer Tetsuya Komuro for the first time in ten years, as she provided vocals for his song "Thx A Lot", in which the main female artists of the Avex label also collaborated and performed it live at 2010's A-Nation concerts on 28 and 29 August. In September 2010, she met with Komuro for a studio recording in Los Angeles.

On 9 February 2011, her 29-year-old birthday concert was broadcast online live via the website Nico Nico Douga. In March 2011, after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Suzuki joined Gackt's charity campaign "Show Your Heart" for collecting money for the victims. On 27 July 2011, a newly recorded version of her debut single "Love the Island" was released as a special collaboration with clothing store Resoxy, and clients could download the song for free from the store's website. On 29 July the song was released on iTunes. In October 2011, it was announced that Suzuki would be releasing her first Avex greatest hits album on 7 December. The album, titled Ami Selection, included most of her singles released under the Avex label, as well as new versions of various hit singles from the Sony era produced by Tetsuya Komuro, and her indie single "Tsuyoi Kizuna".

2012–present: Snow Ring
In 2012, Suzuki started as the host of a series of parties under the name Who's Shining??, which she organized and participated as of the DJ acts. Several artists had participated in the Who's Shining? events, including Genki Rockets, May's and others. She also took courses and started to work as food analyst, starting to become involved in the process of food production and dinner organizations for her events. In addition, in September 2012, she participated in the musical Hashire Melos along with musicians Ryuichi Kawamura, Kazumi Morohoshi, Izam and Nami Tamaki. This year Suzuki has also ventured as a designer. In July, she released a series of iPhone cases designed by herself, and along with other Japanese celebrities, she designed an android-like Hello Kitty which will be exhibited in August at a fundraising event held by Sanrio in Tokyo.

In December 2012, it was announced that Suzuki would be releasing a new song, "Snow Ring", which would be used as theme song for the smartphone game Makina x Dolls. Snow Ring was released as a mini album on 6 February 2013, and included three new songs, the cover of "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue and two remixes. The EP also included a DVD with the full Ami Suzuki 19th Anniversary Live concert.

On 2 June 2014, it was announced that Suzuki would be releasing a new single titled "Graduation", produced by Tetsuya Komuro. The song, which was meant to commemorate Suzuki's 15th anniversary since her debut, was her first new song produced by Komuro since 2000. The song was released digitally on 4 June.

Personal life
On 1 July 2016, Suzuki married a person not related to the entertainment business. They have two sons (born 12 January 2017 and 15 February 2020) and a daughter (born 15 August 2022).

Studio albums

 * 1999: SA
 * 2000: Infinity Eighteen Vol. 1
 * 2000: Infinity Eighteen Vol.2
 * 2005: Around the World
 * 2007: Connetta
 * 2008: Dolce
 * 2008: Supreme Show

Photobooks

 * AmiGo, 1999
 * Amix, 2000
 * Ami '02 Natsu, 2002
 * Ami Book, 2003
 * Tsuyoi Kizuna, 2004

Theater plays

 * Kokoro no Kakera (2008)
 * Blood Brothers (2009)
 * King of the Blue (2010)
 * Watashi no Atama no Naka no Keshigomu (2010)
 * Genghis Khan: Wa ga Tsurugi, Nessa o Shime yo (2011)
 * Hashire Melos (2012)
 * Shinshū Tenma Kyō (2013)

TV commercials

 * Guam Tourism Campaigns (June 1998 – December 1998)
 * Alpen Snowboards' Kissmark (October 1998 – January 1999)
 * PlayStation 2's Monster Rancher 2 (February 1999 – April 1999)
 * Asahi Soft Drinks's Bireley's (March 1999 – December 2000)
 * Kodak Cameras (April 1999 – March 2001)
 * MOS Burger (July 1999)
 * Kanebo Cosmetics' Prostyle (September 1999 – June 2001)
 * ECCJ's Summer/Winter Energy Saving Campaign (February 2000 – August 2000)
 * Bourbon (September 2000 – June 2001)
 * Music.jp (November 2004 – December 2004)
 * Nexus Web Marketing's N's Street (August 2005)
 * Mister Donut/Avex CD Campaign (July 2008)
 * Sanyo Shinpan Finance's Pocket Bank (May 2009)
 * Nissei Advance 10th Anniversary (Oct 2011)

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Samul nori

 is a genre of Korean percussion music. It is a modern adaptation of traditional Korean musics, namely the ritual farming music nongak and Korean shamanic music muak, for the indoor stage.

As per its name, samul nori is performed with four traditional Korean musical instruments: a small gong kkwaenggwari, the larger gong jing, an hourglass-shaped drum janggu; and a barrel drum called buk.

History
The term samul originally comes from Korean Buddhism, where it referred to four instruments considered essential for ritual use in temples: the wooden fish, the temple bell, the dharma drum, and bronze drum unpan. Samul nori is a modern adaptation of the traditional ritual music of Korean farmers, called nongak or pungmul nori, for the stage. Traditionally, such music involved elaborate costumed dances and was performed outdoors; in samul nori, emphasis is placed on the music and musicians, who are seated while performing.

In a later interview, Kim Duk-soo, the founder and artistic director of the group, claimed that the choice to adapt traditional music to indoor venues was due to political circumstances at the time. The late 1970s saw the last years of the rule of South Korean president Park Chung Hee. During that time, large public gatherings were restricted, and Korean traditional music was associated with the student protest movement. Public performers were subject to arrest.

The first ever samul nori performance was on February 22, 1978, in a small theater called in Seoul. Its original performers included Kim Duk-soo, Kim Yong-bae, Choe Jong-seok , and Choe Tae-hyeon. This group has since been dubbed the Original SamulNori Group, and a descendent of this group still performs today as SamulNori Hanulim. The group received immediate critical and popular acclaim, especially amongst the urban youth, and by the 1980s became reportedly ubiquitously featured in prominent settings.

In 1984, Kim Yong-bae brought samul nori to the South Korean National Gugak Center. Over the following decades, a number of groups developed there around the genre. There are now also a number of other unrelated samul nori troupes, some with their own significant styles.

Influences
The music of samul nori is heavily based on pungmul nori music, particularly the namsadang style. The link to namsadang is because the founders of the genre were heavily based in that style themselves, having come from families and being taught by teachers involved in the genre. For example, Kim Yong-bae's teacher and Kim Duk-soo's father, both practictioners of namsadang, were heavily involved in samul nori 's creation. They and several others traveled South Korea and gathered traditional farming melodies for use in samul nori, drawing particular inspiration from the melodies of Gyeonggi Province, Chungcheong Province, the Honam region, and of Jinju samcheonpo nongak. They took continual feedback from their research, and gradually incorporated melodies and ideas from them into their set over time.

The original group also incorporated other types of traditional Korean music, including muak: music of the Korean shamanic rituals called gut. To this end, they collaborated with Korean shamans from around South Korea, and even trained with them in camps in order to learn the music.

The concept of dualism, particularly through the lens of yin and yang, is considered important to samul nori. The genre's instruments and their uses are interpreted in various ways using this theme.

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Talk:United States Army War College

Merger With Carlyle Barracks Page

 * I think this article needs to be merged with the Carlyle Barracks page since the War College is now the Host Unit and landlord on Carlyle Barracks. SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 14:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Is there no other operation at the Carlyle Barracks aside from the War College? — Linnwood 16:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I think that because the Carlisle Barracks has a rather rich history apart from War College in addition to distinguishable activities (Health Clinic, Wellness Programs, Community Center, Retiree Support). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.85.103.16 (talk) 23:26, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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IP address 63.85.132.5 is one of two proxy servers used by students and faculty at Grove City College. The other is 63.85.132.17.

''That's not a good excuse for deleting the pertinent comment of ClockworkTroll, a Wikipedia administrator (now ClockworkSoul), from this page. Please try to exercise some control over your (student or faculty) hoaxers instead. I'm re-inserting the deleted comment below.--[[User:Bishonen|Bishonen (talk)]] 01:30, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)''

Dear proxy1-gw.gcc.edu,

I've spoken with the good people at GCC and they pointed me to this page. There is no Dr. Tanner listed there.

CONAPOR is a South American pork producers association.

I have a letter from a representative of Amtrak who says they do not dump excrement on the tracks, and posted it on the article's talk page.

Please cease this hoax. Thank you.

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I apologize for the inappropriate behavior of other Grove City College students. I must alert the Wikipedia public that one of my fellow students tells me he recently vandalized several Wikipedia pages. I am looking through recent changes by this IP and by 63.85.132.17, the other Grove City College proxy IP.

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Ghost of a Rose

Ghost of a Rose is the fourth studio album by the folk rock group Blackmore's Night, released June 30, 2003. It features covers of Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust", and Jethro Tull's "Rainbow Blues".

Background
Allusive to the alchemical feat of palingenesis by Paracelsus, the phrase "ghost of a rose" was first stated in the penultimate paragraph of the physician-philosopher Thomas Browne's 1658 discourse The Garden of Cyrus which concludes, "...and though in the Bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a Rose".

Personnel

 * Ritchie Blackmore – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, hurdy-gurdy, mandola, tambourine, Renaissance drum
 * Candice Night – chant, penny whistle, shawm, vocals, background vocals

 * Additional musicians
 * Madeline Posner (Lady Madeline) – harmony vocals ("Ghost of a Rose", "Way to Mandalay")
 * Nancy Posner (Lady Nancy) – harmony vocals ("Ghost of a Rose", "Way to Mandalay")
 * Marnen Laibow-Koser (Lord Marnen of Wolfhurst) – violin, viola
 * Robert Curiano (Sir Robert Of Normandie) – bass
 * David Baranowski (Bard David Of Larchmont) – background vocals ("All for One")
 * Mike Sorrentino – drums, percussion
 * Tim Cotov – background vocals ("All for One")

Production

 * Sascha Braun – photography
 * Michael Keel – photography
 * David Owen – photography
 * Johanna Pieterman – cover art
 * Pat Regan – mixing, producer
 * Takaomi Shibayama – design
 * Carole Stevens – photography

Covers

 * "Way to Mandalay" was recorded by Axel Rudi Pell on his 2014 album Into the Storm.

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Talk:Serpent's Wall

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Survived. Votes for deletion/Serpent's Wall. mikka (t) 22:06, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

That they were built "supposedly" by ancestors of modern Slavs belongs to nationalist mythology, as there were no proto-Slavs in the area in 2nd cent. BC and for several centuries to come. --Ghirla | talk 16:36, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually, it is not clear, where and who were these Proto-Slavs. Your categorical statement "there was no..." is absolutely false. Vervin 21:39, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I added a after that affirmation. Back then, the area was inhabited by the Scythians, Sarmatians and other Iranian tribes. (see this map) The ancestors of the Slavs were further to the west, in what is now Poland and probably reached the area in 5th or 6th century AD. bogdan 09:21, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

 * …further to the north, in what is now Belarus, Poland and Northern Ukraine? --W.M.drossel (talk) 13:39, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

In times of the wall was built in these territories lived Baltic tribes and not slavic —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.38.58 (talk) 10:07, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

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Limpet mine

A limpet mine is a type of naval mine attached to a target by magnets. It is so named because of its superficial similarity to the shape of the limpet, a type of sea snail that clings tightly to rocks or other hard surfaces.

A swimmer or diver may attach the mine, which is usually designed with hollow compartments to give the mine just slight negative buoyancy, making it easier to handle underwater.

Types of fuses
Usually limpet mines are set off by a time fuse. They may also have an anti-handling device, making the mine explode if removed from the hull by enemy divers or by explosions. Sometimes limpet mines have been fitted with a small turbine which would detonate the mine after the ship had sailed a certain distance, so that it was likely to sink in navigable channels (to make access difficult for other ships) or deep water (out of reach of easy salvage) and making determination of the cause of the sinking more difficult.

Development

In December 1938, a new unit was created in the British military that soon became known as Military Intelligence (Research), which is sometimes abbreviated as MI(R) or occasionally as MIR. MI(R) absorbed a technical section that was at first known as MI(R)c. In April 1939, Joe Holland, the head of MIR, recruited his old friend Major Millis Rowland Jefferis as director of the technical section. Under his leadership the team developed a wide range of innovative weapons.

One of Jefferis' earliest ideas was a type of mine that could be towed behind a rowboat, which would attach itself to the hull of a ship that it passed. Getting a heavy bomb to stick to a ship reliably was a problem. The obvious answer was to use magnets, which should be as powerful as possible.

In July 1939, Jefferis read an issue of the popular magazine Armchair Science, which contained a small article on magnets:

"The most powerful permanent magnet in the world—for its size—has been developed in the research laboratories of the General Electric Company in New York. Only half the size of the eraser on a lead pencil, it will lift a flat-iron weighing 5 lb. Its magnetic attraction is several times as strong as that of any previous magnet. The strongly magnetic alloy forming the magnet can be used, too, in electrical equipment to replace electro-magnets that require current."

On 17 July 1939, Jefferis contacted magazine editor Stuart Macrae for more information about the magnets.

During World War I, Macrae had briefly worked on a device for dropping hand grenades from aircraft, and he longed for a return to working on such challenges. When Jefferis' call came, Macrae promptly undertook to perform experiments and to produce prototypes. He contacted Cecil Vandepeer Clarke, managing director of the Low Loading Trailer Company. Macrae had met Clarke a couple of years previously when he was the editor of The Caravan & Trailer magazine. He had been impressed by Clarke's work, and now he wanted his expertise and the use of his workshops in Bedford. Macrae and Clarke soon agreed to cooperate on the design of a new weapon, but they quickly abandoned a towed mine as impractical. Instead, they worked on a bomb that could be carried by a diver and attached directly to a ship. The new weapon became known as a limpet mine.

The first versions were assembled in a few weeks. Because of the time required to source the General Electric magnets from the United States, Macrae bought some toy horseshoe magnets from an ironmonger's shop, which were found to be adequate. The body of the prototype was a large metal kitchen bowl obtained from the Bedford branch of Woolworths and modified by a local tinsmith to retain the magnets around the rim. After much experimentation, it was found that the detonator could be actuated by a slowly dissolving aniseed ball sweet to provide the necessary time to escape. The sweets, which had initially been left in the workshop by Clarke's children, were the only substance tested which dissolved at a predictable rate. To protect this mechanism from damp which might cause premature detonation, it was covered by a condom which had to be removed before use. The prototype was tested in the swimming pool at Bedford Modern School, using a steel plate lowered into the deep end to simulate a ship's hull.

Just before war was declared, Macrae's name was put forward to Holland, who arranged to meet him. Holland considered that Macrae would make a good second in command for Jefferis: He saw Macrae as a capable administrator who could keep his geniuses in order. Macrae joined the War Office as a civilian and Holland saw to it that Macrae got a commission in October 1939 (backdated to 1 September).

Clarke joined the top secret Cultivator No. 6 project as a civilian and later joined the army. He served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) with Colin Gubbins and was later Commandant of one of the Secret Intelligence Service's schools. He eventually rejoined Macrae when he was transferred to MD1 in 1942.

The "rigid limpets" used by the British during World War II contained only 4+1/2 lb of explosive, but placed 2 m below the waterline they made a wide hole in an unarmoured ship. SOE agents could be provided with a 5 ft placing rod.

A smaller version named "Clam" was developed from the British limpet for use on land. It was intended for use against tanks, but before the British got a chance to deploy it, the Germans adopted Zimmerit coating on their tanks, which prevented magnetic mines from sticking to the armor. This was because the Germans were the largest user of magnetic mines during the war, such as the Hafthohlladung or Hassenhuttl, a shaped-charge anti-tank grenade which attached magnetically to a target. They feared that the Soviets would easily reverse-engineer this weapon and use it against them. In the end, the Soviets didn't care for the idea of the magnetic mine, and the Germans stopped using Zimmerit for the last year of the war. The British limpet adaptation was not the first magnetic mine and was not the reason that Zimmerit coating was developed. However, the Clam was found to be useful for sabotage and was enthusiastically adopted by the SOE. Using only an 8 oz charge, it could easily be concealed in a coat pocket and was capable of destroying a vehicle or aircraft. Some 2.5 million Clams were manufactured by M.D.1, the successor to MI(R), during the war.

Second World War
One of the most dramatic examples of their use was during Operation Jaywick, a special operation undertaken in World War II. In September 1943, 14 Allied commandos from the Z Special Unit raided Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour. They paddled into the harbour and placed limpet mines on several Japanese ships before returning to their hiding spot. In the resulting explosions, the limpet mines sank or seriously damaged seven Japanese ships, a tonnage of over 39,000 tons.

An example of the use of limpet mines by British special forces was in Operation Frankton which had the objective of disabling and sinking merchant shipping moored at Bordeaux, France in 1942. The operation was the subject of the film The Cockleshell Heroes.

Another case was the 1941 raid on Alexandria by six Italian Navy divers, who attacked and disabled two British Royal Navy battleships in the harbour of Alexandria, Egypt using limpet mines, having entered the harbor on the Maiale "manned torpedoes".

Limpet mines were used by the Norwegian Independent Company 1 in 1944 to attack the MS Monte Rosa. On 16 January 1945, 10 limpet mines were placed along the port side of the SS Donau approximately 50 cm beneath the waterline. These bombs were to detonate once Donau cleared Oslofjord and reached open sea; however, the departure time was delayed and the explosion occurred before Donau reached Drøbak.

1970s and 1980s
In the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, limpets were used by liberation fighters in Operation Jackpot. In Mongla seaport, Bangladeshi naval commandos damaged many Pakistani army support ships and gunboats.

Egyptian limpets were modified by the CIA for use by the Mujahadeen in the 1979–89 Soviet–Afghan War to be attached to Soviet trucks.

In 1980, a limpet mine was used to sink Sierra, a whaling vessel docked in Portugal after a confrontation with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Later that year, about half the legal Spanish whaling fleet was sunk in a similar fashion. There were no deaths.

Limpet mines were to be used in the plan of Operation Algeciras in the context of the 1982 Falklands War. Argentine frogmen were to place limpet mines on British ships in Gibraltar but they were discovered and the plan was foiled.

Another use was the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by French DGSE agents in the Port of Auckland on 10 July 1985, killing one person.

2019 Gulf of Oman incidents
On 12 May 2019, four oil tankers in the Emirati port of Fujairah suffered damage from what appeared to be limpet mines or a similar explosive device. Preliminary findings of the investigation by the UAE, Norway, and Saudi Arabia concluded in June 2019, show that limpet mines were placed on oil tankers to explode as part of a sabotage operation.

On 13 June two subsequent blasts in the Straits of Hormuz damaged a Japanese and a Norwegian tanker, and were blamed on Iran by the U.S. military. A video was released which, according to the United States, shows an Iranian vessel removing an unexploded limpet mine from the starboard side of the Japanese vessel, several meters forward of the damaged area. The implications of an Iranian attack are disputed by the owner of the Japanese vessel and the Japanese government. The mines seemed to have been placed many feet above the waterline. The vessel's crew reported an unknown object flying towards them, then an explosion and a breach in the vessel. After this, the crew witnessed a second shot.

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Talk:Caransebeș

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You have changed the date of the admission of Caransebes into Romania from 1918 to 1920. Is there a source for this? I only have a passing understanding of the matter, but the Union of Transylvania with Romania article mentions exclusively 1918. Also, you have little understanding of the English language, please, do not you dare revert my corrections.--Adûnâi (talk) 02:54, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

 * Please read the Treaty of Trianon, this defined new borders between Hungary and Romania, the article you mention is about the National Assembly of Romanians, it did not transfer territories between the two countries. Excuse me, it is true that I am not native English speaker, but it is not true I would have a little understading of the English language, on the contrary. Excuse me, WP is not working like dare to revert or such intimidations. We are struggling for accurate content, we are discussing, please also read WP:AGF. Thank You(KIENGIR (talk) 08:46, 1 April 2020 (UTC))

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dartmouth billiards club

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The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 03:22, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Dartmouth billiards club
Non-notable college club. A billiards club at a single college. No doubt intersting to those involved, and maybe to those on campus. not encyclopedic. DES (talk) 22:09, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Dartmouth lists numerous organizations of theirs on their website; I'll put it into the discussion over there to see whether they want to incorporate it. (I doubt it.)  Otherwise, delete.  JDoorjam 22:15, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect after boiling down to a short paragraph. Welcome back, Big Green... please ask your classmates to have a look at User:Dpbsmith/Dartmouth.
 * Comment: VfD discussants, this is very likely a product of Peter C. Wayner's class project, which last year netted some 500-600 decent articles and about fifty that ended up on VfD. Most of the latter ultimatedly ended up being merged into Dartmouth College. This year's assignment is due tomorrow, and we will probably see a few articles on trivial aspects of Dartmouth student life. I hope everyone will be courteous to our guests. Dpbsmith (talk) 22:37, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonas In The Desert

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The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 03:26, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Jonas_In_The_Desert
Film not notable. Google search returns very limited info. IMDB has not a single review. Format of article suggestive of possible copyvio. Contents of article not focused on fact. David Henderson 22:09, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Soltak 22:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Nicholas Zedd's astrological relevance not withstanding. JDoorjam 22:24, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete there is a documentary by that name from 1994, but it has nothing to do with this nonsense, which I can't make sense of. -- Etacar11   00:39, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:The Seeds

Move to The Seeds

 * Rename page to The Seeds

Support

 * 1) Support. Niteowlneils 22:55, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Comments
This article has been renamed after the result of a move request. Dragons flight 03:08, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

Mothers of Invention?
Something about their being contemporary with and influencing the Mothers of Invention? Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage" quoting "pushing to hard on me"?

Legacy
Hello... I wanted to make a couple of suggestions regarding the "Legacy" portion of this page. I wanted to get these suggestions out there to be opposed or supported before just making a change to the page. The Seeds' song "No Escape" was never a big hit for the band, but exercised its own influence in that it was covered by 2 other notable bands. The influential industrial (and later electronic) band Cabaret Voltaire covered "No Escape" on their debut album, "Mix-Up," which was released in 1979. (This cover version is how a lot of indus. music fans such as myself first heard anything by the Seeds!) Additionally, the first-wave all-female punk group the Lou's are probably best known for their cover of "No Escape," of which a version can be found on the album recorded live in 1978 to document the nascent French punk scene of the era, "La Nuit Punk à l'Olympia." It seems that this song is energetic enough to be popular for cover versions. There may in fact be other cover versions of "No Escape" of which I am unaware, but for now, I propose that the Wikipedia article be expanded by a discussion of these covers, which I'd be happy to write. Thanks. Catbot79 (talk) 20:33, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

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Joshua Fineberg

Joshua Fineberg (born July 26, 1969) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

Biography
Joshua Fineberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He began his musical studies at the age of five. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory with Morris Cotel where he won first prize in the bi-annual Virginia Carty de Lillo Composition Competition.

Music career
He has worked with many leading composers in the United States and France, including: George Crumb, Jacob Druckman, Robert Hall Lewis, Philippe Manoury, and André Boucourechliev. In 1991, he moved to Paris and studied with Tristan Murail. The following year he was selected by the Ensemble InterContemporain reading panel for the course in composition and musical technologies. In the fall of 1997, he returned to the US to pursue a doctorate in musical composition at Columbia University, which he completed in May 1999. After teaching at Columbia for a year, he went to Harvard University where he served as the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities until 2007. In 2007 he joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Music and became the director of their electronic music studio. In 2012, he became the founding director of the Boston University Center for New Music.

He has collaborated with IRCAM as a lecturer for seminars and as compositional coordinator for their 1996 four week summer course. Besides his compositional and pedagogical activities, he has collaborated with computer scientists and music psychologists to develop tools for computer assisted composition and in music perception research. He has worked with performing ensembles as artistic director for recordings of many European ensembles and soloists, and during the 1999–2000 season directed both Speculum Musicae (New York City) and the Columbia Sinfonietta (Boston). Fineberg edited two issues of the Contemporary Music Review on spectral music" (vol. 19, pt. 2 & 3). From 2003 to 2009 he served as the US editor of the Contemporary Music Review.

Fineberg's works include Recueil de Pierre et de sable for two harps and ensemble (commissioned by Radio France and premiered by Continuum), Veils (commissioned by Thomas Forrest Kelly and premiered by Robert Levin), and Shards (commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation and premiered by the New Millennium Ensemble). He worked on an evening-length modern dance/theater piece with the Belgian choreographer Johanne Saunier and founding member of the Wooster Group Jim Clayburgh based on Nabokov's Lolita.

A monographic CD of his music recorded by the Ensemble Court-Circuit was released in 2002 as a part of Universal France's Accord/Una Corda collection, another CD recorded by the Ensemble FA was released by Mode Records in June 2009, and in 2012 a CD with his complete works for piano, performed by Marilyn Nonken, was released by Divine Art/Métier. Sonic Fictions, a new CD of his works was released in 2018, also by Divine Art/Métier. Major projects include an "imaginary opera" based on Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita for actor, dancers, video, ensemble and electronics realized in collaboration with JOJI; Speaking in Tongues, a concerto written for Les Percussions de Strasbourg's 50th anniversary tour, Objets trouvé written for the ensemble Court-circuit and La Quintina for string quartet and electronics written for the Arditti Quartet and premiered at the Ultraschall festival in Berlin that marked the first co-realization between the ExperimentalStudio in Freiburg and IRCAM in Paris. In June 2017, Chicago's Dal Niente Ensemble and Mocrep premiered his take my hand..., an evening-length immersive musical theater that explores ecstatic states.

Awards and critical acclaim
He has won various prizes, fellowships and scholarships including: ASCAP Foundation Grants to Young Composers Competition; Ars Electronica special jury mention; Rapoport Prize in Composition from University; Arnold Salop Composition Competition; the Palache Scholarship, a scholarship to study at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau; yearly ASCAP Awards from 1991 until he left ASCAP to join the French society SACEM in 1994; and the Randolph S. Rothschild Award in Composition. In 2011, he was named an artist fellow by the Massachusetts cultural council and in 2016 France named him a Chevalier in arts and letters.

In 1992, his work for large orchestra ORIGINS was selected by the international jury of the Gaudeamus Foundation as a finalist for the Gaudeamus International Composers Award and was premiered by the Radio Symfonie Orkest of the N.O.S. during the 1992 Gaudeamus Music Week.

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Talk:Quasiperiodic tiling

This should probably just be a subheading in the Tessellation page (or a mathematical tiling page should be created..) --Caliprincess 22:10, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:School of Advanced Military Studies

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Please if you wish to re-insert the 'attention' tag, explain why it need IMMEDIATE attention. (Or better still, expand the article!) Buckshot06 05:52, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Interested in possible rewrite / cleanup
I've been thinking about possibly rewriting this page. However, I am pretty unexperienced at writing here. I've been reading the rules and guidelines and such, and it has occurred to me that a lot of the content of such rewrite might be original research unless I could find it published somewhere. If these publications exist, I'll find them, an immediate family member has been an employee for over 20 years (which might conflict with me being eligible to do such a rewrite). Anyways, its something I'm interested in possibly doing if I can, maybe if anyone else was interested, in a collab.

 * Feel free to have a go at it. Most of the content came from me, and admittedly I mostly cribbed from the School's website.  Just don't overly plagiarize, or if you do include quoted text, cite at least in coarse terms that you are doing so ("according to so-and-so, the school's cirriculum includes...") and you'll do fine. Whiskey Pete 02:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I did some expansion. There is no conflict with you adding material. There would only be a conflict if you were writing an article about yourself or another such narrow topic.
 * The web sources I used should meet the WP:RS requirements, for the most part. There's nothing overly contentious, so I don't think that people will ping editors here for more reliable sources.
 * I did a rough rewrite. Much more polishing is possible. The current version is about B-class quality now. --Airborne84 (talk) 03:41, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I've done a bit more cleaup. IMO, the only major issues remaining are the lack of inline citations and references for the section on the Advanced Military Studies Program, as well as information on the other program within SAMS.
 * There is room for expansion, such as the proportion of officers in the two respective programs within the school. Ideally, this would come from a reliable source as opposed to inserted from firsthand knowledge. --Airborne84 (talk) 05:46, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

FAC issues
Hi there. Firstly can I send my apologies for the last minute oppose. I was leaning to that persuasion anyway but there was just too many issues. I agree with every thing and  found all of which were among my issues so rather than write them out again I will list them here. The eighteen issues were mainly the over use of quotes, so rather than list them all individually, I have covered them under one point listed below. So this bring the eighteen down a bit. Here goes:

 * Some unsourced material - for example, "SAMS' leaders view..." should include a citation to where these leaders said this

 * Manual of Style editing needed - WP:OVERLINK, don't begin section headings with "The", etc

 * Tone problems, ex. "continued to morph to meet the demands of a changing world"

 * Over use of quotes, see WP:QUOTEFARM. Some not referenced.

 * Coverage. Lots of pictures but not much text in relation to the physical campus.

 * Images: File:Combined Arms Research Library in Eisenhower Hall, at US Army Command General Staff College is tagged as lacking author and date information. Missing Army-specific template for Army images too.

 * Sourcing: formatting issues. Publications should always be italicized, missing information (ex. Bower 2011 is missing publication/publisher), generally inconsistent formatting

 * Most of the article's references are to public relations products produced by the US military, many of which are directly related to the institution. These obviously aren't neutral.

 * Related to this, the article reads like something written by the military and contains no criticisms of the institution or its products. The graduates are only associated with successes for the military.

 * As an example, the article states that "SAMS students from the 2002 and 2003 classes participated as "reach" planners in the preparations for the invasion of Iraq, as well as the "post-hostility plan for the occupation of Iraq"." - given that this planning is widely regarded as being deeply flawed, this suggests that there might be problems with what SAMS is producing. This should be discussed. Likewise, the invasion of Panama is not normally regarded as a military masterpiece.

 * The article doesn't really explain what it is that SAMS teaches and how this is delivered - when this is discussed its centred on quotes written in military jargon.

If you can fix these, then list at PR, it may be easier and quicker for you. I would also consider listing on WP:FAR when your ready. All the best! Cassianto (talk) 01:26, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Many thanks!! --Airborne84 (talk) 01:52, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Reading list
I moved the "reading list" here because (1) it has no source, and (2) there is no date. The reading list likely changes over time, so there is no telling when this list was current. Please readd only with a reliable source and date. Airborne84 (talk) 21:17, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Reading List

 * Roots of Strategy: Book 1 (Bk. 1) by Brig.Gen. Thomas R. Phillips
 * The Art of War (Smithsonian History of Warfare): War and Military Thought by Martin L. Van Creveld
 * The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third (Johns Hopkins Paperbacks) by Edward N. Luttwak
 * The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) by Fred M. Kaplan
 * Roots of Strategy: Book 2 by Curtis Brown
 * Roots of Strategy Book: 4 Military Classics : The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, Some Principles of Maritime
 * Strategy, Command of the Air, Winged Defense by Col. David Jablonsky
 * Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian) by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
 * The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolò Machiavelli
 * On War, Indexed Edition by Carl von Clausewitz
 * The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
 * The Art of War by Sun Tzu
 * Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
 * History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
 * Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
 * The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare (Cambridge Illustrated Histories) by Geoffrey Parker
 * Understanding Terror Networks by Marc Sageman
 * On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
 * The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy by Robert Audi
 * Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Vol 7&8 in One Book by Paul Edwards
 * How We Think by John Dewey
 * The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
 * The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer
 * Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (Longman Classics in Political Science) by Joseph S. Nye
 * The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
 * The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War by Robert D. Kaplan
 * Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lecture on American Civilization) by John Lewis Gaddis
 * American National Security by Amos A. Jordan
 * The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War by Williamson Murray
 * Bounding the Global War on Terrorism by Jeffrey Record
 * Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic, and Postmodern Perspectives by Mary Jo Hatch
 * Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning by Henry Mintzberg
 * Causality and Explanation by Wesley C. Salmon
 * Causality and Modern Science: Third Revised Edition by Mario Bunge
 * Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference by Judea Pearl
 * The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
 * Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions by Edward R. Tufte
 * Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941 by David C. Evans
 * Harnessing Complexity by Robert Axelrod
 * Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics by Todd Landman
 * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig


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Rush (1991 film)

Rush is a 1991 American crime drama film directed by Lili Fini Zanuck and based on a novel written by Kim Wozencraft. It stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Patric as two cops in the 1970s who go undercover on a case. They become drug addicts themselves and, under pressure from the chief of police, falsified evidence in some cases. The book and film are both based on a 1978-79 drug scandal involving the Tyler, Texas police department and Smith County, Texas Sheriff's Office. An FBI investigation led to the book's author and her partner pleading guilty to perjury, serving time in federal prison, and testifying in a federal civil rights case against Tyler, Texas police chief Willie Hardy, who was found not guilty by a jury of his peers in Smith County, Texas.

Plot
Seasoned undercover narcotics officer Jim Raynor is told by his superior, Lt. Dodd, to choose a partner from a group of recent police academy graduates for a planned undercover investigation. Raynor chooses the only woman applicant, Kristen Cates. Though uneasy, Dodd approves Raynor's choice.

Raynor explains to Cates that they will be deep undercover, dependent on each other to try not to get killed during the investigation. Though initially startled by Raynor's intensity, Cates insists she is capable of doing whatever it takes to get the job done. Later at Raynor's apartment, he teaches Cates how to inject drugs, claiming that he is using a harmless powder for demonstration purposes. Raynor informs Cates that she will be put in situations where she will have to take the drugs in order to convince dealers she is not a cop. He insists that if she tries to fake drug use in front of dealers, she will get both of them killed.

The main target of the operation is a local bar owner and pornographer, Will Gaines. The chief of police insists that Gaines is the main drug boss in the town, but Gaines is deeply mistrustful of Raynor and Cates.

As Raynor predicted, Cates is put into a position where she is forced to inject drugs in front of a dealer. Over the course of the investigation, buying drugs all over town, Cates and Raynor begin using drugs for more reasons than maintaining their cover.

Though they have successfully infiltrated the town's drug underworld, Raynor and Cates are unable to make a buy from Gaines. Under pressure from the chief and sergeant, they falsify evidence against Gaines in order to secure his arrest.

The night before Gaines trial is to begin, Cates is startled awake by a double barrel shotgun caressing her face. A gunfight ensues, in which Raynor is shot in the thigh, striking his femoral artery. Cates returns fire and runs to a neighbor's house shouting for help, then returns to the trailer to find Raynor barely conscious. He dies in her arms.

At the grand jury, Cates is on the witness stand. During her testimony, she mentions that she has resigned from the police force. Her testimony sticks to the fabricated story Raynor and she concocted. Gaines is later indicted. However, at trial, Cates takes the stand to testify. When she looks directly at Gaines, he slides two fingers down the bridge of his nose, mimicking the movement of the shotgun that eventually killed Raynor. Stunned, Cates retracts her statements about Gaines's involvement in the drug trade, and testifies that they were ordered to fabricate evidence by the Chief of Police. This secures Gaines's acquittal.

Freed from police custody, Gaines gets into his car a few nights later. As he drives down the road, he notices someone hiding in the backseat. Gaines pulls over, and as he turns to confront them, he is killed by a double barrel shotgun blast to the face. The killer is never shown, but it is implied that it is Cates.

Soundtrack
Eric Clapton's Grammy-winning song "Tears in Heaven" is featured in the film. Clapton wrote the film's score and performed on it. The soundtrack includes Clapton's guitar and vocals on "Tears in Heaven" and "Help Me Up"; Clapton and Buddy Guy perform "Don't Know Which Way to Go" as well. It was mastered by Ted Jensen.

Other songs featured in the film (but not on the soundtrack album) include Charlie Terrell's version of the Willie Dixon classic "Wang Dang Doodle", Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" (composed by Bob Dylan), Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird", Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls", Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs", The Ohio Players' "Love Rollercoaster", and Johnny Winter's "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" (composed by Rick Derringer).

Reception
The film was met with generally positive reviews, with a 71% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews with an average score of 6.2 out of 10.

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
 * 2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
 * "Tears in Heaven" – Nominated

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Legends of Catherine the Great

During and after the reign of the Empress Catherine II of Russia, whose long rule led to the modernisation of the Russian Empire, many urban legends arose, some legends based on true events, concerning her sexual behaviour.

Catherine had about 22 male lovers throughout her life, some of whom would reap political benefits from their relationship with her, and many of whom were relatively younger. In addition to her sexual relationships, her multiple relationships with Russian nobles, as well as unfounded allegations of her being a nymphomaniac or a libertine, and unfounded rumours that she liked to collect erotic furniture, and an atmosphere of palace intrigue cultivated by her son Paul I of Russia, led to negative portrayals of Catherine.

Some called her the "Messalina of the Neva", while others termed her a nymphomaniac. There is also a legend that she died while having sex with a horse.

Personal life narratives
Rumours of Catherine's private life had a small basis in the fact that she took many young lovers, even in old age. (Lord Byron's Don Juan, around the age of 22, becomes her lover after the siege of Ismail (1790), in a fiction written only about 25 years after Catherine's death in 1796.) This practice was not unusual by the court standards of the day, nor was it unusual to use rumour and innuendo of sexual excess politically. One of her early lovers, Stanisław August Poniatowski, was later supported by her to become a king of Poland. This would not be the first nor last instance where the Queen would promote one of her lovers to political positions in order to solidify her own position and strengthen her support. For example, Grigory Orlov, an artillery officer from St. Petersburg; helped the queen in the coup against Peter III, and when the Queen took power, she rewarded him by making him a count, as well as naming him General-In-Chief.

One unfavourable rumour was that Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov and her later lovers were chosen by Prince Potemkin himself, after the end of the long relationship Catherine had with Potemkin, where he, perhaps, was her morganatic husband. After Mamonov eloped from the 60-year-old Empress with a 16-year-old maid of honour and married her, the embittered Catherine reputedly revenged herself of her rival "by secretly sending policemen disguised as women to whip her in her husband's presence". However, another account claims that there is no truth in this story. Another unfavorable rumor concerned the legitimacy of her children. Many suspected that the queen's children were not in fact fathered by Emperor Peter III, but in fact by some of the lovers she had taken. It was rumored that her children Ana, and Alexei were illegitimate. However, some historians even question the legitimacy of Paul I, due to the fact he was conceived so late into their marriage.

According to some contemporaries close to Catherine, Countess Praskovya Bruce was prized by her as "L'éprouveuse", or "tester of male capacity." Every potential lover was to spend a night with Bruce before he was admitted into Catherine's personal apartments. Their friendship was cut short when Bruce was found "in an assignment" with Catherine's youthful lover, Rimsky-Korsakov, ancestor of the composer; they both later withdrew from the imperial court to Moscow.

In his memoirs Charles François Philibert Masson (1762–1807) wrote that Catherine had "two passions, which never left her but with her last breath: the love of man, which degenerated into licentiousness, and the love of glory, which sank into vanity. By the first of these passions, she was never so far governed as to become a Messalina, but she often disgraced both her rank and sex: by the second, she was led to undertake many laudable projects, which were seldom completed, and to engage in unjust wars, from which she derived at least that kind of fame which never fails to accompany success".

Death while having sex with a horse
Several stories about the circumstances of her death at age 67 in 1796 originated in the years following her death. An urban legend claims that she died as a result of her attempting sexual intercourse with a stallion—the story holds that the harness holding the horse above her broke, and she was crushed.

Death while in the bathroom
Another story claiming that she died on the toilet when her seat broke under her is partly true, in that she did collapse in a bathroom from a stroke, and died in her bed a day later.

This tale was widely circulated and even jokingly referred to by Aleksander Pushkin in one of his untitled poems. ("Наказ писала, флоты жгла, / И умерла, садясь на судно."—literal translation: "Decreed the orders, burned the fleets / And died boarding a vessel," the last line can also be translated as "And died sitting down on the toilet.") There existed also a version on alleged assassination, by spring blades hidden in a toilet seat.

The erotic cabinet
An urban legend states that an erotic cabinet was ordered by Catherine the Great, and was adjacent to her suite of rooms in Gatchina. According to said urban legend, the furniture was highly eccentric with tables that had large penises for legs. Penises and vulvae were carved out on the furniture, the walls were covered in erotic art, statues of a naked man and woman inside, and some versions of the legend state that some erotic artifacts from Pompeii were even brought into Russia to augment this collection.

There are unconfirmed reports of photographs of this cabinet. The rooms and the furniture were allegedly seen in 1940 by two Wehrmacht officers during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, but even if that were true, the rooms and furniture seem to have vanished since then. The account says the Wehrmacht officers filed a report, but no report has ever been found, nor any other records from anyone from before, during, or after the World War II, other than the aforementioned legend. Also, the account says the rooms and furniture were seen in 1940, during the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany, but the invasion did not start until 22 June 1941. For this reason, historical experts challenge the veracity of such claims. But as all of these stories did not even originate until some years after Catherine the Great's death, it is most likely the cabinet never existed, and the whole story was fabricated as another bawdy tale.

Other narratives

 * A long-surviving legend about the Potemkin villages was false, even though it became eponymous. It states that Potemkin built fake settlements with hollow facades to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea and New Russia, the territories Russia conquered under her reign. Modern historians, however, consider this scenario at best an exaggeration, and quite possibly simply a malicious rumor spread by Potemkin's opponents.
 * Not a native speaker of Russian, Catherine misspelled eщё ( 'more'), written with three letters, as истчо, consisting of five letters, and that allegedly gave rise to a popular Russian joke: how can five mistakes occur in a word of three letters? (The letter ё was not widely accepted until the 1940s).
 * After Catherine granted to Kazan's Muslims the right to build mosques, the city's Christian leadership decided that mosques were being built too high—higher than churches. They sent a petition to Catherine asking her to prohibit the construction of high minarets. As the legend goes, Catherine replied that she was the tsarina of the Russian land and that the sky was beyond her jurisdiction.
 * The Polish-Jewish religious leader Jacob Frank spread the rumour that his daughter Eve Frank was Catherine's illegitimate daughter.

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Talk:Romanian humour

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Why are there Albanian jokes? Is there Albanians in Romania at all? Or the jokes are imported from Serbia?

Dunno, the real question would be why are there Scottish jokes, LOL...Voievod 01:43, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

Growing up in Israel, I heard the the joke about the Russian and the vodka, as well as the jokes about the Somalians (along with many other ones in the same vein), many times. I don't recall anything that suggested that these jokes had Romanian origins (or any other specific origin). Dorfl 13:53, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

What's with the "joke" about Avram Iancu's statue and hanging Hungarians? That's not funny, it's downright evil. There's no reason why such a "joke," which supports an ethnic divide, should be representative of any country's humour. I will delete it. Have a nice day, Hobbitte (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Get the fuck out, that's one of the best Romanian jokes. "supports an ethnic divide" is bullshit - every people on Earth has jokes about minorities and no one gets offended. 193.230.230.101 (talk) 11:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I've restored it. 193.230.230.101 (talk) 11:35, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Scottish? What the fuck?
Why the fuck would Romania tell jokes about Scotland? Telling jokes about a small country within a country on the other side of Europe is akin to us telling a joke about Vojvodina. Alan McBrazil Burger (talk) 20:50, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Regions of Romania
What about the Dobrujans? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.228.110.131 (talk) 09:37, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

 * Hello IP176.228.51.29 (previously working from IP 84.228.110.131). I'm happy to answer your valid question, so there's no need to delete it. The article is about Romanians as an ethnic group, while Dobruja was and is a region predominantly inhabited by other ethnicities. The basis of your query is highly pertinent, however. The entire article simply isn't reliably sourced. I don't think the regions section should exist as it's heftily WP:UNDUE. It has been tagged for sourcing for a year, and I think it's high time that it gets pruned back to a stub. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedic resource, not a repository for original research. Iryna Harpy (talk) 10:27, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

Copied from here:
http://europeisnotdead.com/disco/expressions-of-europe/european-jokes/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.168.223.232 (talk) 15:21, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Fort Huachuca

SIGINT MI AIT location
This specifies Fort Huachuca as the location of non-SIGINT MI AIT, which begs the question: where is SIGINT MI AIT? Mike Wilson 07:47, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

 * →Goodfellow Air Force Base --Easter Monkey 17:18, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Controversy
As the place where U.S. Army interagators are trained, protests against torture sometimes occure outside the gates of Ft. Huachuca. Instead of including information regarding one of these events under Signal, I moved it to it's own section and corrected information which stated Priests were arrested for praying, priests were arrested for tresspassing when they refused to depart the instilation. Reference to tortureontrial.org link was also broken, so I decided to use an article on the subject found in CommonDreams. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.27.1.3 (talk) 23:00, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 17:35, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Pronouncement
How do you pronoucne the fort?--BigMac1212 (talk) 04:16, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

"Wah-CHOO-kah", more or less. In my day it was nicknamed "Fort Sneeze". I suspect that is still the case, it's a little too convenient to toss. MrG 70.59.6.183 (talk) 00:08, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Saying about going AWOL from Ft Huachuca
The article gives a quote to the effect that a soilder going AWOL from Fort Huachuca could still be seen three days later still leaving. Showing a certification was needed. This quote as shown is basically correct. My father was stationed at Ft. Huachuca from 1959 to 1961, we lived on base and I lived in and around Sierra Vista until 1966. The quote about going AWOL and still being seen three days later is correct. In those days it ended like this: "you could still see them going." Basically the same statement.

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Base Reopened by Air Force or Army Corps of Engineers?
I have a few contradictory sources. While the official Fort Huachuca History page states that during the Korean War, the base was reopened by the Army Core of Engineers in January 1951. Fortwiki.com says the same thing, though it probably retrieved the wording from the official site, given the wording. Meanwhile, Militarybases.com is the one to state that the base was reopened by the Air Force. The fact that the former is reported by the official Fort Huachuca site leads me to regard it with more legitimacy, though it's certainly possible that both statements are true, somehow. Someone should look into this a little more, if they have the time.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Potato (Game)

 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 03:26, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Potato (Game)
This is a game invented by the Milton Bradley Company, but I don't see it as something encyclopedic. There are some Google hits, but I don't think it's worth mentioning on Wikipedia. — Stevey7788 (talk) 22:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, of course, you're right. Delete. Why are you dragging Milton Bradley into it, though? DS 22:27, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Because Milton Bradley is one of the largest producers of board games. See the MB article (Milton Bradley Company). — Stevey7788 (talk) 22:35, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, there is Category:Board games. There are a number of Google hits, but because MB games are some of the most popular around, I don't know whether to keep or delete. — Stevey7788 (talk) 22:37, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - is it even a MB game? Mr. Potato Head is MB, but I didn't find any hits that refered to what this article describes.  I don't think we even meet the WP:V test, here. -Satori 23:34, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - I don't see how this has anything to do with MB. There is nothing in this game to sell, it's just trying to get someone to say the word "potato". Also, I doubt this line is valid "This strategy was first used by Alfonso Gracia-Saz back in the year 1012". --Aqua 00:39, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
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