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Talk:Henri Estienne

Pronunciation
Is his name Stephǎus or Stephānus? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.123.252 (talk) 21:31, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Untitled
It looks like this must have been copied from something else, but not from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

If anyone knows the source, please add a note at the end of the article.

--Cam 15:58, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

The French Wikipedia has an article on Henri Estienne (not "Henry"), and that name also occurs more on Google, for what it's worth. I expect the name was Anglicised in the old book on which this article is based, and suggest we change it to the French version "Henri". 81.152.72.39 16:45, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Stephanus pagination of Plato
I have added reference this legacy of Estienne - a curious omission. The Berndogger (talk) 21:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:38, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Henry Stephens
Anything is possible, but it would be good to see evidence that he was known as "Henry Stephens". ("Henricus Stephanus" is true: there's no problem about that.) And rew D alby  12:15, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've removed the alternative name "Henry Stephens", since no citation has appeared. If I was wrong, pleae reinstate it, someone. And rew D alby  22:03, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

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Category:Servants

Articles about servants.

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User:DS1953/Welcome1

Welcome
Hello , and welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you like the place and decide to stay.

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Here are a few more good links for newcomers:
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Joseph Merrick Jones

Joseph Merrick Jones (August 20, 1902 – March 11, 1963) was an American lawyer from New Orleans, Louisiana. He served as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the U.S. State Department at the close of World War II, and was for many years the president of the Board of Tulane University.

Jones graduated from Tulane and was admitted to the bar. He built a successful law practice in New Orleans as the senior partner of Jones, Flanders & Waechter. In 1937 the firm reorganized and eventually became Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre L.L.P.

In 1942, the law practice was set aside temporarily as a number of associates joined the armed services. Jones was too old to enlist, but went to work in the state department. His gift for analysis and abilities as a speech writer let to his appointment as Assistant Secretary in 1946. He became an active supporter of the Marshall Plan, writing parts of speeches for Dean Acheson, George Marshall, and Harry S. Truman. Jones left federal service in 1948 and returned to Louisiana and the practice of law.

He was a fellow of Yale University's Department of Political Science, an editor of Fortune, and a special consultant to the United Nations.

In 1947 Jones had joined the board of Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund. He became its president and served there for the rest of his life. In early 1963 he announced that Tulane would admit black students, beginning in the spring semester. He and his wife were killed when fire swept their home in Metairie, Louisiana soon after. Arson was suspected but never proven.

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Basil Grieve

Basil Arthur Firebrace Grieve (28 May 1864 – 19 November 1917) was an English amateur cricketer who played in two retrospectively-recognised Test matches for England in 1899. Those were his only first-class appearances and he was never a member of any county team. He was born in Kilburn, Middlesex, and died in Eastbourne, Sussex.

Grieve was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast medium bowler with an underarm action. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a wine merchant by trade. He played cricket at school and took part in the Eton v Harrow match at Lord's in 1883. He became a member of Marylebone Cricket Club in 1885.

Tour of South Africa, 1888–89
In 1888, Sir Donald Currie agreed to sponsor the first English cricket team to visit South Africa. The 15-man tour party included only nine players who were registered with county clubs and had played in first-class matches. Grieve was one of six additional players who made the numbers up. The team was called Major Warton's XI after its manager, Major R. G. Warton, another occasional player. The captain was future Hollywood actor C. Aubrey Smith, who was then the captain of Sussex County Cricket Club.

Only two matches, both against a team called the South African XI, were eleven-a-side. These were subsequently recognised as the first South Africa v England Test matches. They were played at the St George's Oval in Port Elizabeth and the Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town; England won both convincingly. Harry Altham said the standard of the England team was "about that of a weak county". Grieve took part in both matches and in three innings, twice not out, scored a total of 40 runs with a best score of 14*. He did not bowl. Grieve remained in South Africa for a time after the tour ended and is known to have travelled to Johannesburg with his colleague Monty Bowden.

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User:Sqwawk

Years of Note
1968 - Born

2005 - Married

Institutes of Learning

 * The Latymer School
 * University of Warwick

Places of Residence

 * Winchmore Hill
 * Kenilworth
 * Birmingham
 * Solihull
 * Castlethorpe

Things of Interest

 * Cricket

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Category:Extreme Championship Wrestling

This category includes articles about Extreme Championship Wrestling, as well as the revived ECW brand from World Wrestling Entertainment.

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Duchess (card game)

Duchess or Glenwood is a patience or solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It has all four typical features of a traditional patience or solitaire game: a tableau, a reserve, a stock or talon and a wastepile. It is relatively easy to get out. It is a reserved packer, the same type of game as Canfield or Demon. Arnold describes it as "an interesting game with a fair chance of a favourable outcome."

History
Duchess was invented by Albert Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith for their 1950 treatise on solitaire and patience games and given the alternative name of Glenwood. It has been included in subsequent works by, for example, David Parlett, Peter Arnold.

Rules
First, four fans of three cards are set up; they form the reserve. Then a space is left for the four foundations, then four cards are placed in a row; they form the bases for the tableau columns.

To start the game, the player will choose among the top cards of the reserve fans which will start the first foundation pile. Once he/she makes that decision and picks a card, the three other cards with the same rank, whenever they become available, will start the other three foundations.

The top cards of the reserve fans and the top cards of the columns in the tableau are available for play onto the foundations or on the tableau. The foundations are built up by suit and ranking is continuous as Aces are placed over Kings. The cards on the tableau are built down in alternating colors. Ranking is also continuous in the tableau as Kings can be placed over Aces. One card can be moved at a time, but sequences can also be moved as one unit. No cards can be built on the reserve.

Spaces that occur on the tableau are filled with any top card in the reserve. If the entire reserve is exhausted however, it is not replenished; spaces that occur after this point have to be filled with cards from the waste pile or, if a wastepile has not been made yet, the stock.

The stock is dealt one card at a time to the wastepile, the top card of which is available for play. There is one redeal allowed. To prepare for the redeal, the remaining cards in the wastepile are collected and turned face down to become the new stock.

The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations.

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User:Gildemax

Monday  July, 29, 2024

My principal Wikipedia homepage is in German.

E-Mail

User pages: German Wikipedia — Portuguese Wikipedia — English Wikipedia — Spanish Wikipedia — Meta — Wikimedia Commons

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Wikipedia:Requests for comment/24.147.97.230

In order to remain listed at Requests for comment, at least two people need to show that they tried to resolve a dispute with this user and have failed. This must involve the same dispute with a single user, not different disputes or multiple users. The persons complaining must provide evidence of their efforts, and each of them must certify it by signing this page with ~. If this does not happen within 48 hours of the creation of this dispute page (which was: {insert UTC timestamp with }), the page will be deleted. The current date and time is:, 29 July 2024 (UTC).

 * (24.147.97.230 | talk | contributions) and other IP addresses

Statement of the dispute
This is a Request for Comments about the conduct of an anonymous editor who primarily uses IP address 24.147.97.230, and also appears to use other anonymous IP address. This anonymous editor has a pattern of incivility, personal attacks, and 3RR violations in editing certain articles about US political figures.

Other addresses used by this editor (or by other anonymous editors showing a similar pattern of behavior) include:

Please provide proof of this accusation
I have no knowledge of being on any IP address than 24.147.97.230. It also seems that there are multiple users on ip address 24.147.97.230 according to this post: To any other users of this address If anyone is using this address who is not the subject of the conduct described in the RfC, please consider creating an account so as not to be blocked. Robert McClenon 16:45, 20 August 2005 (UTC)24.147.97.230 23:40, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Description
24.147.97.230 is sometimes known as the "Kennedy anon", and began editing on 8 July 2005. He has engaged in revert wars with other editors due to differences to whether material negative to Kennedy is of encyclopedic character, and has a pattern of 3RR violations, disregard for consensus, claims of censorship, incivility, personal attacks, and taunting of a type characteristic of an Internet troll.

There is a pattern of the use of multiple anonymous IP addresses as sockpuppets on pages in which this user is engaged in edit wars. These multiple anonymous addresses have apparently been used both to create the appearance of consensus when surveys were used, and to "game the system" to avoid 3RR violations.

Criticism of this editor is not intended to have to do with his political views, but his conduct and incivility. I would prefer to use the usual Wikipedia consensus process to determine what is of encyclopedic value, but this anonymous editor's pattern of incivility makes it difficult to reach consensus.

Evidence of disputed behavior
(provide diffs and links)

'''Four reverts in one day, followed by multiple fraudulent page protection requests to lock the result of the improper revert:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosemary_Kennedy&diff=21762572&oldid=21750270
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosemary_Kennedy&diff=21764464&oldid=21763951
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosemary_Kennedy&diff=21764985&oldid=21764762
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosemary_Kennedy&diff=21765477&oldid=21765246

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&diff=21762341&oldid=21759922
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&diff=21763254&oldid=21762823
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&diff=21765180&oldid=21764698
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&diff=21766247&oldid=21765451

An edit about which there had been previous controversy, followed by five reverts in the same day, on 2 September 2005, with allegations of vandalism
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22377568&oldid=22314212
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22378329&oldid=22378208
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22379347&oldid=22379241
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22379498&oldid=22379406
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22420902&oldid=22403661
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22420902&oldid=22403661

An edit about which there had been previous controversy, followed by five reverts on 22 September, some by sockpuppets, showing a knowledge of how to game the system
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23716762&oldid=23700978
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23724222&oldid=23717300
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23725678&oldid=23724801
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23726136&oldid=23725914
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23728088&oldid=23727710
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23728743&oldid=23728520

Personal attacks in edit summaries
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=prev&oldid=19181297

Report of vandalism regarding good-faith removal of paragraph
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20421592&oldid=20420643
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress&diff=prev&oldid=20426909

Another claim of vandalism, following a good-faith removal of a paragraph
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20997043&oldid=20996895
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20998739&oldid=20997043

A series of reverts using multiple IP addresses, each showing the same pattern of claiming that the opposing edits were vandalism
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=20998739&oldid=20997043
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=21000791&oldid=21000411
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=21037404&oldid=21016621
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=21037404&oldid=21016621
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=21073706&oldid=21043092

An archived talk page showing a survey in which 12 anonymous IP addresses were used to create the appearance of majority support of inclusion of a link
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ted_Kennedy/Archive_2#Running_tally

An admitted first-time use of an anonymous IP address to create an appearance of consensus on an RfC
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21252284&oldid=21252219

Altering the Description portion of an RfC, inserting material that should be an Outside View or endorsement of the Response
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21253448&oldid=21253169

Altering the Statement of the Dispute in an RfC, inserting material that should be an Outside View or endorsement of the Response
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman&diff=21253914&oldid=21253733

Vandalizing the Ted Kennedy article and numerous other articles with a vile edit summary that is an obscene personal attack on an administrator
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23018702&oldid=22950181
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=22950133&oldid=22928662

Continued accusations of vandalism in edit summaries
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Kennedy&diff=23724222&oldid=23717300

User contribution histories of User:Fishingguy99 and User:Labgal, showing that they are only used to edit the Ted Kennedy article and to sign this RfC
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Labgal
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/FishingGuy99
 * Side-remark on this last (move this if it is in the wrong place): some people may have been specifically recruited via a discussion site somewhere to participate in the TK article, so these are not necessarily sockpuppets. The involvement of single-issue Wikipedians is not necessarily bad, though it probably means that we shouldn't give their opinions on procedural matters, etc., the same weight as a more active Wikipedian's. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:16, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Applicable policies
{list the policies that apply to the disputed conduct}
 * No personal attacks
 * Civility
 * Sockpuppets

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute
(provide diffs and links)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:24.147.97.230&oldid=19181463
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:24.147.97.230&diff=20427252&oldid=20389246
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:24.147.97.230&diff=21000976&oldid=20999039
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:24.147.97.230&diff=21257369&oldid=21112414
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:24.147.97.230&diff=21265012&oldid=21258331

Users certifying the basis for this dispute
(sign with ~ )
 * Robert McClenon 16:01, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Gamaliel 17:37, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Other users who endorse this summary
(sign with ~ )
 * JamesMLane 23:13, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Voice of All(MTG) 23:50, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * And now a pair of unfounded RfCs have been filed for the two people above who signed this dispute above. Clearly a lot of the IP addresses and user names on this page need to be removed; I suspect only one actual human being would be banned, however. It is good that bad people are punished. -Ashley Pomeroy 18:20, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I am not certain of all of the details above, but it sums up pretty much what I've seen. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:42, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * This is ridiculous. · Katefan0(scribble) 02:50, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Calton | Talk 01:27, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Response
''This is a summary written by the user whose conduct is disputed, or by other users who think that the dispute is unjustified and that the above summary is biased or incomplete. Users signing other sections ("Statement of the dispute" and "Outside Views") should not edit the "Response" section.'' ''

{Add summary here, but you must use the endorsement section below to sign. Users who edit or endorse this summary should not edit the other summaries.}

Users who endorse this summary (sign with ~ ):

 * 1) This RfC is just more harrassment by the POV warrior bullies here to suppress anyone who doesn't endorse their pro-Kennedy POV. It is also an attempt to intimidate editors who support me in the RfC these bullies used to attack me. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agiantman). I believe 24.147.97.230 and I are the two main critics of the POV in the [Ted_Kennedy] article and we both have been subjected to this process. The bullying gang mentality by pro-Kennedy POVers is uncalled for and disgraceful. It is a clear abuse of the RfC system. I will be researching how many times User:Robert McClenon and Gamaliel have initiated or participated in RfC requests designed to harrass those that disagree with them.--Agiantman 21:31, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * 1) I am an observer right now and not a member. This is only the 2nd time I have written on wikipedia, again at the request of agiantman who is a friend from work.  Agiantman said I should become a member, but after reading this article and the one about agiantman, I don't think joining is worth the grief and harrassment.  This article about Mr.24 is clearly just retaliation against him from leaving positive comments defending agiantman on the other article.  It looks like the exact same dudes on the attack: Gamaliel, Robert McClenon, and JamesMLane.  I am sure the others will be piling on soon. It looks like it is too easy to harrass people on wikipedia, especially with these rfc pages.  If I join, I would only do it help more little guys who are getting attacked by a gang of bullies.  I don't know what criteria it takes to be an administrator, but based on Gamaliel's actions on this page and the other page, neutrality is clearly not one of them.  Like the other article, this one is another silly and mean spirited attempt to attack the guy who holds the minority position. --66.176.137.204 23:34, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

I strongly dispute this biased lynching of myself. As this seems to be driven by a "wolf pack" mentality, I have had many friends sign up as wiki members. I hope you don't mind that they vote on this issue, as members they have the same rights you do, as friends they also enjoy the same rights you do as you are allowed to have friendships. 24.147.97.230 01:20, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * See Sock puppet. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 01:34, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

This is not a proper way to treat a person who has disagreed with your POV. You are wrong to proceed with this.AngieWCoombs 01:22, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree with Angie. This is terribleJoshCoombs 01:26, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

This a a horrible way to treat a person which you simply to not agree with. I vote for 24-147-97-230. PS This is a hard system to learn, I need help! SamRCoombs 01:31, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I have been asked to join Wikipedia and vote on this. I vote to call this proceedings a sham. You are quite self serving.EdwardLCoombs 01:34, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I have just joined this Wikipedia club. I agree with my pals and you should not be doing this. The reasons have been explained to me and I see that your argument is one sided and the real reason is that you are not getting your way about making Ted Kennedy look better than the person he really is. ThomasSCoombs 01:38, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree with everyone here. As a new member of you club I look forward to learning how to edit by myself, I wrote this on my own free will but needed help with the system. You are wrong to gang up on my this user here just because he wants everyone to know just what Ted Kennedy is like. All the items you presented are either false or trivial You should want to know too.MoparDr 01:45, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

We all think this is horrible. Who do you think you are to push your opinion on others? User 24-147-97-230 did nothing wrong. Stop bothering him. PS Glad to be a new member!! FishingGuy99 01:50, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Very glad to join the Wikipedia Project. I have worked with software for years, this is a great idea. I support the user at IP address 24.147.97.230. We have been friends for years, you should really reconsider. My opinion is that your judgement is far too harsh, you also present only the facts to your advantage in this request for comments.Wikinut 01:57, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I support the user at 24,147,97,230 100%. Glad to help, LabgalLabgal 01:59, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm the last one here to join. I support the user in question after reading all the comments. I can also have my peers at work join and help on Monday. If you really want everyone to participate in this encyclopedia you need to be more open of other viewpoints. It is clear that this is the reason for this "RFC".Susanrd 02:05, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

See []
The person behind this RFC has admitted to the following, "It is true that I wrote four user conduct RfCs in 30 days" "I think that I was using the Wikipedia process as it is meant to be used,"I then posted a RfC against Agiantman. In retrospect, I recognize that I made two mistakes." "I certainly think that I was making a reasonable argument about consensus."  "As to the claim that I offered to withdraw an RfC if conditions were met, and then did not keep my word, that is not true...I admit to having made a mistake,"  "I admit to having made mistakes. We all make mistakes under stress. Perhaps my mistakes have been trying too hard to engage in dialogue with problematical editors." "I have no interest in mediation with any anonymous editor"

Gee.. Four RFCs in 30 days. That's one a week. All this while admitting to making mistakes. As you write an RFC to have me banned, you are working on three others? What is your problem? Do you see yourself as a police officer of this site? I suggest you drop them all immediately. Not only that, in your persecution of agiantman, you suddenly announce that you will take off 36 hours and then take it up again, like a mother telling a child, "wait until your father gets home". To attack another user via RFC, then hold it over his/her head for days...all the while during a period of admitted mistakes? I think your credibility is rock bottom. I don't see how you fit into this community. I suggest that you either drop all these RFCs now or stand ready to fight for your right to be here. You are nothing more than a wreckless bully of others.24.147.97.230 00:02, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Outside view
''This is a summary written by users not directly involved with the dispute but who would like to add an outside view of the dispute. Users editing other sections ("Statement of the dispute" and "Response") should not edit the "Outside Views" section, except to endorse an outside view.''

Sure are a lot of "new users" here all of a sudden who decided to come to this page first to make their first edits. Zoe 09:18, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * More new users for wikipedia! Isn't that great?--Agiantman 12:52, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Users who endorse this summary (sign with ~ ):
 * 1) Zoe 09:18, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) 206.114.20.121 18:45, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) RyanFreisling @ 19:02, 29 August 2005 (UTC) None of the sockpuppets above has performed a single additional edit besides this 'vote'. They are obvious sockpuppets who, to quote one of them directly, "have been asked to join Wikipedia and vote on this." - an obvious abuse of the sockpuppet rule. Even if they were real people, which any experienced Wikipedian would call an extreme unlikelihood, you don't encourage people to join in order to affect a vote - you ask them to join and let them make up their own minds. Since none have made any substantive contributions elsewhere on Wikipedia, (including 'SusanRD', who claims to be the wife of one of these people), I believe this attempt to stack an RfC is blatant and unacceptable. To avoid a show of what is extremely repellent bad taste (and bad faith), your 'Wikipedia club' should start on the non-political articles - that is, if you really wanna benefit Wikipedia by bringing new members in. -- RyanFreisling @ 19:02, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Discussion
All signed comments and talk not related to a vote or endorsement, should be directed to this page's discussion page. Discussion should not be added below. Discussion should be posted on the talk page. Threaded replies to another user's vote, endorsement, evidence, response, or comment should be posted to the talk page.


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User:Sydb

I am sydb and I am not an individual. Time is running out so that's that.

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Scandal Savage

Scandal Savage is a supervillain and antiheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Villains United #1 (July 2005), and was created by Gail Simone and Dale Eaglesham. She is the daughter of Vandal Savage and a member of the Secret Six.

Publication history
Scandal first appeared as a shrewd businesswoman in Villains United #1 (July 2005) where she was created by author Gail Simone and artist Dale Eaglesham. Within this run her character was developed and revealed by the author to be as deadly a character as any of the others in Secret Six, where she unveiled her trademark "lamentation blades" and battle outfit. In Villains United #6, the character was officially confirmed to be among the few lesbian supervillains in the DC Universe.

The character subsequently appeared in the Secret Six miniseries later in 2006, as written by Gail Simone which would embellish upon the relationship between the character and her father Vandal Savage. In Simone's final run on Birds of Prey as part of the "Whitewater" story arc, she saw a crossover between the titular Birds of Prey and the Secret Six. When Tony Bedard assumed control of Birds of Prey, the characters of Knockout and Scandal continued to appear in issue #109 which followed from the conclusion of "Whitewater". Tying into the upcoming Salvation Run miniseries, the character would appear again immediately following Birds of Prey #109, in Checkmate #18 as part of an emerging build up towards Salvation Run.

Fictional character biography
Scandal Savage is the daughter of immortal Vandal Savage and an unknown Brazilian woman, who apparently raised the child in her home country, though trained in combat by her father from childhood on. In an attempt to destroy an alternate Lex Luthor's plans, the real Lex Luthor, under the alias Mockingbird, blackmailed Scandal and five other villains into antagonizing the Secret Society of Super Villains. Despite being severely outnumbered, Scandal and the rest of the Secret Six were able to thwart the Society on a number of occasions. Eventually Luthor granted the Six their freedom, telling them the safeguards placed against their rebellion were lies.

While working with the Six was originally all about saving her mother, Scandal eventually grew to care about her teammates, and is actually in an intimate lesbian relationship with one of the other members. During Villains United, Scandal positioned her lover Knockout as a mole in the Society. During one of the attacks by the Society, Knockout revealed her true allegiances by saving Scandal during a fight with Talia al Ghul. Knockout then became an official member of the Six.

While the two were vacationing in Bangkok, Knockout was almost killed when she was shot with a Thanagarian sniper rifle by Pistolera. The shot implanted a bomb in her skin and when Scandal refused to leave her side, Knockout threw herself from the blast range telling her they would meet again in the afterlife. After the bomb went off, Scandal scrambled through the garbage to find Knockout miraculously still alive. Scandal vowed revenge on Pistolera for hurting Knockout, and soon would have it. The Secret Six managed to capture Pistolera and Scandal took pleasure torturing the hired gun. Ultimately, Scandal could not kill the person who almost took her beloved from her, so her teammate, Deadshot, stepped in and did the deed for her. Knockout recovered from her injuries soon after.

It has recently been revealed that Vandal Savage was responsible for the attacks on Knockout and the rest of the Six, as a warning of what will happen if Scandal doesn't bear an heir for him. However, Scandal "killed" her father and escaped with the rest of the Six (minus the Mad Hatter).

Following this, the Secret Six were hired for mercenary work by a Russian mobster to protect a Rocket Red suit that was revealed to be occupied by the presumed-dead super-hero Ice. During the battle against the Birds of Prey for the suit and Ice, Spy Smasher made Deadshot accidentally shoot Scandal in the back. She appeared to be fine, but was too weak to continue the fight.

Following Knockout's murder by an unknown assailant, a drunk and distraught Scandal is kidnapped by Bronze Tiger and Rick Flag on the orders of Amanda Waller. King Faraday offers her a place in a revived Suicide Squad, but she refuses and promises to kill him. Faraday then orders her to be shipped off to an unknown location (see Salvation Run).

She was briefly seen attacking Bolt for groping her. She was also shown to at some point have gotten another tattoo underneath her left eye.

In the new Secret Six series (September 2008), Scandal was shown to still be drunk and depressed over the death of Knockout. Catman and Deadshot tried to cheer her up by having a naive stripper dressed like Knockout jump out of a cake for her, with one guest calling the sad display "morally indefensible". Scandal declined the stripper's advances, and managed to pull herself together for the Six's new mission. During that time, the Six's new member Bane developed a paternal affection towards Scandal, much to her discomfort and later acceptance. Following the mission's success, Scandal encountered the stripper she had rejected at a supermarket and learns her name is Liana Kerzner. Despite trying to turn her down again the stripper talks her into a double-date. After resurrecting Knockout with Neron's "Get Out of Hell Free" card, Scandal proposes a polygamous marriage among all three women, which both her lovers accept. The Secret Six are ultimately defeated and captured by an army of superheroes, with most of the team's fates (including Scandal's) left unrevealed due to the September 2011 reboot.

During the next Secret Six series set in the New 52, both Scandal and Knockout are shown to be perfectly healthy and living in freedom instead of prison, and are still happily together with Liana. The three make plans to have a child together, and Scandal has even chosen the man she wants to be the donor.

Scandal eventually re-emerges during the Gotham War with a disguised appearance and fake identity of "Marquise", now unwillingly serving her father by working for Catwoman and gaining her confidence as part of Vandal's larger plan for Gotham City and against Batman. At the endgame of his plans, Vandal betrays and nearly kills Scandal, but she's saved by Catwoman and Batman.

Powers and abilities
The full extent of Scandal's powers has yet to be revealed, although it would appear that, owing to her father's immortality, she is incredibly resilient to harm. She claims to be "damned hard to kill" at the least. In Birds of Prey #107, she took a bullet from Deadshot and was capable of regrowing her damaged organs, talking to and carrying Knockout several minutes later with no apparent ill effects. In Checkmate (vol. 2) #18, it is speculated that she may be immortal like her father. She also took several rounds from a machine gun to the chest and legs and still considered herself combat ready (threatening to kill her assailants). She and other people have made comments that imply that her life had been or will be longer than average. She has proven herself to be a vicious fighter, capable of holding her own against the likes of Fatality, Hawkgirl, and Talia al Ghul.

In combat, she often employs a set of retractable, wrist-mounted blades - the Laminas Pesar or "Lamentation Blades", which Scandal claims have been in the family for a long time. The blades have two settings. One is a pair of long, awl-like blades designed for stabbing. The other is three knife-like blades designed for slashing. She was also seen riding a motorcycle and seemed to be capable of combat while still riding this (though this was never seen).

Television

 * A daughter of Vandal Savage named Cassandra Savage appears in Legends of Tomorrow, portrayed by Jessica Sipos. She hails from the year 2166 and serves as one of Vandal's key lieutenants before the Legends reveal he killed her mother and convince Cassandra to betray him.
 * Several offspring of Vandal Savage appear in Young Justice, with his daughters Cassandra and Olympia Savage (voiced by Zehra Fazal and Jenifer Lewis respectively) appearing in season three, Outsiders, and his sons Ishthur and Nabu appearing in flashbacks depicted in season four, Phantoms. Additionally, in the latter season, it is revealed Homo magi and Atlanteans are descended from Vandal through his grandson Prince Arion.

Film
Scandal Savage appears in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, voiced by Dania Ramirez. She initially works under Vandal Savage until he attempts to have her girlfriend Knockout killed while retrieving a "Get Out of Hell Free" card for him. Scandal later sells him out to the Suicide Squad before standing vigil over a hospitalized Knockout.

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Saint Gerard

Saint Gerard or Gérard may refer to:

People

 * Gérard of Brogne (c. 895–959), abbot in Belgium
 * Gerard of Toul (935–994), bishop of Toul, now in France
 * Gerard of Csanád (980–1046), bishop of Csanád
 * Gerard of Potenza (died 1118), bishop of Potenza in Italy
 * Gerard of Clairvaux (died 1138), French monk
 * Gerard of Lunel (1275–1298), French saint
 * Gerard Majella (1726–1755), Italian saint

Other

 * St. Gerard Majella Annual Novena, Dundalk, Ireland
 * Saint-Gérard, Belgium, a village in Wallonia

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Jabal al-Nour

Jabal al-Nour (جَبَل ٱلنُّوْر or 'Hill of the Illumination') is a mountain near Mecca in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia. The mountain houses the grotto or cave of Hira (غَار حِرَاء), which holds tremendous significance for Muslims throughout the world, as it is here where the Islamic prophet Muhammad is said to have received his first revelation of the Quran, which consisted of the first five ayat of Surah Al-Alaq from the angel Jibra'il (as is pronounced in certain Quran recitation schools and some Arab tribes; also known as Gabriel). It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Makkah. The mountain itself is barely 640 m tall; nonetheless one to two hours are needed to make the strenuous hike to the cave. There are 1750 steps to the top which, even for a fit individual, can take anywhere between half an hour and one-and-a-half hours.

Etymology
This is where Muhammad is said to have had his first revelation and received five verses of the Quran, the mountain was given the title Jabal an-Nūr ("Mountain of the Light" or "Mountain of the Enlightenment"). This experience is sometimes identified with the beginning of revelation; hence the present name. The date of the first revelation is said to have occurred on Laylat al-Qadr, one of the last 10 nights of Ramadan, suggested to have been around August of 610 A.D.

Appearance
One physical feature that differentiates Jabal al-Nour from other mountains and hills is its unusual summit, which makes it look as if two mountains are on top of each other. The top of this mountain in the mountainous desert is one of the loneliest of places. However, the cave within, which faces the direction of the Kaaba, is even more isolated. While standing in the courtyard back then, people could only look over the surrounding rocks. Nowadays, people can see the surrounding rocks as well as buildings that are hundreds of meters below and hundreds of meters to many kilometers away. Hira is both without water or vegetation other than a few thorns. Hira is higher than Thabīr (ثَبِيْر), and is crowned by a steep and slippery peak, which Muhammad with some companions once climbed.

Geology
The mountain is composed of intrusive igneous rocks, predominantly Precambrian aged coarse grained hornblende tonalite, with subordinate granodiorite.

Cave of Hira
The Cave of Hira was of minor significance before Islam, its name comes from hira (jewels). Taking 1750 walking steps to reach, it is about 12 ft in length and 5 ft in width. It is at a height of 270 m. During the Hajj (pilgrimage), an estimated five thousand visitors climb to it daily to see the place where Prophet Muhammad is believed to have received the first revelation of the Quran on the Laylat al-Qadr (night of power) by the angel Jibreel (Gabriel). Most Muslims do not consider visiting the cave an integral part of the Hajj. Nonetheless many visit it for reasons of personal pleasure and spirituality, and though some consider it a place of worship, this view conflicts with Salafist interpretations of Islamic ritual. While the cave plays an important role in As-Sīrah an-Nabawiyyah (prophetic biography), it is not considered as holy as other sites in Mecca, such as the Al-Haram Mosque, and so under most interpretations of Islam, the same reward is received for praying here as any other place in Mecca.

Before Prophet Muhammad's first revelation, he had transcendental dreams, in which were signs that his prophethood had begun and that the stones in Mecca would greet him with the salaam. These dreams lasted for six months.

An increasing need for solitude led Prophet Muhammad to seek seclusion and meditation (Muraqabah) in the rocky hills which surrounded Mecca. He retreated to the cave for one month each year, engaging in seclusion (Tahannuth). He took provisions and fed the poor who came to him. Before returning home to his family for more provisions, he would circumambulate the Kaaba seven times.

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List of New Zealand ODI cricketers

This is a list of New Zealand One-day International cricketers. A One Day International, or an ODI, is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). An ODI differs from Test matches in that the number of overs per team is limited, and that each team has only one innings. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his first ODI cap. Where more than one player won his first ODI cap in the same match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname.

Players
Statistics are correct as of 23 December 2023.

Notes:
 * 1 Chris Cairns, Stephen Fleming and Daniel Vettori also played ODI cricket for ICC World XI. Only their records for New Zealand are given above.
 * 2 Luke Ronchi also played ODI cricket for Australia. Only his records for New Zealand are given above.
 * 3 Mark Chapman also played ODI cricket for Hong Kong. Only his records for New Zealand are given above.

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Kan ar Bobl

Kan ar Bobl (Breton for Song of the people) is a Breton music competition created in 1973, that takes place in Lorient as part of the Festival Interceltique de Lorient. It was the brainchild of Polig Montjarret.

Presentation
At the time of the festival's inauguration, Celtic music was quite popular, with Alan Stivell, Dan Ar Braz, Glenmor and Gilles Servat being big names in the field. Quickly, its success had put pressure on the organisers to hold local heats all over Brittany before the final (1975). This formula is still in use today, and offers the advantage that only the best musicians can play at the final. Since 1993, the festivities have been held in Pontivy (Morbihan), and in 1997 it was passed into the hands of its eponym. Since 1990, a "Grand Prix of Kan ar Bobl" is given to the winners of different competitions. In 2005, the Kanit ta bugale trophy was set up, in honour of Polig Montjarret, who died in 2003.

The Kan ar Bobl festival marks an important date in the Breton cultural diary as it boasts a meet-up of hundreds of musicians and singers in the region who play an active part in the conservation of Brittany's rich musical heritage. Many bands have been formed after meeting there, including Storvan, Denez Prigent, Yann-Fañch Kemener and Ar Re Yaouank.

The competition
The Kan ar Bobl's aim is to conserve and transmit musical patrimony throughout different areas of Brittany, but also to inspire new original forms. The heats take place in different areas of Brittany, and the participants must perform in front of judges. The musicians may compete in more than category, and may even perform in different locations if needs be.

The chosen artists take part in the final, held in Pontivy where they must perform again.

Main categories

 * Traditional song
 * Creation
 * Tales
 * Duets
 * Solo Instruments
 * Music groups
 * School groups

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Ruth Behar

Ruth Behar (born 1956) is a Cuban-American anthropologist and writer. Her work includes academic studies, as well as poetry, memoir, and literary fiction. As an anthropologist, she has argued for the open adoption and acknowledgement of the subjective nature of research and participant-observers. She is a recipient of the Belpré Medal.

Life and work
Behar was born in Havana, Cuba in 1956 to a Jewish-Cuban family of Sephardic Turkish, and Ashkenazi Polish and Russian ancestry. She was four when her family immigrated to the US following Fidel Castro's gaining power in the revolution of 1959. More than 94% of Cuban Jews left the country at that time, together with many others of the middle and upper classes. Behar attended local schools and studied as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, receiving her B.A. in 1977. She studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University, earning her doctorate in 1983.

She travels regularly to Cuba and Mexico to study aspects of culture, as well as to investigate her family's roots in Cuba. She has specialized in studying the lives of women in developing societies.

Behar is a professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her literary work is featured in the Michigan State University's Michigan Writers Series. A writer of anthropology, essays, poetry and fiction, Behar focuses on issues related to women and feminism.

Lucky Broken Girl
Lucky Broken Girl (2017) is multicultural coming-of-age novel for young adults, based on the author's childhood in the 1960s. Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro's Cuba to New York City. Just when she's finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English –and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood's hopscotch queen – a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthie's world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger and she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times. Writing for Cuba Counterpoints, Julie Schwietert Collazo writes, "Behar, without fail, always seems to be writing with the goal of honoring her own history, experiences, and feelings, without ever denying or excluding those of others, and in Lucky Broken Girl the achievement of this goal is evident on every page." Professor Jonda C. McNair also highlights the importance of Ruth Behar using her personal experience as a Cuban American of Sephardic Turkish, Ashkenazi Polish and Russian ancestry to write stories that are culturally authentic.

Traveling Heavy
Traveling Heavy (2013) is a memoir about her Cuban-American family, descended from both Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews in Cuba, as well as the strangers who ease her journey in life. Her probings about her complicated Jewish Cuban ancestry and family's immigration to America explore issues about identity and belonging. Kirkus Reviews described her book as "A heartfelt witness to the changing political and emotional landscape of the Cuban-American experience." Behar studies the revitalization of Cuban Jewish life as an anthropologist, but her personal journey back to the island she left as a little girl is the heart of this "memoir I snuck in, between journeys."

An Island Called Home
An Island Called Home (2007) was written in Behar's quest for a better understanding of Jewish Cuba and particularly her family's roots. She noted, "I knew the stories of the Jews in Cuba, but it was all about looking at them as a community". Traveling the island, Behar becomes the confidante to a host of Jewish strangers, building connections for further anthropological research. Conducting one-on-one interviews, combined with black-and-white photography, she builds readers an image of the diasporic thread connecting Cuban Jews to one another.

Beginning with Jewish immigrants of the 1920s, who fled unrest in Turkey, Russia and Poland, she moves on to stories of later immigrants, Polish and German Jews who fled to Cuba in the 1930s and 1940s in order to escape persecution and the concentration camps of the Nazis. In Cuba immigrants opened mom-and-pop shops, peddled, and gradually adopted Spanish while still speaking Yiddish, settling into Latino life in La Habana Vieja. In the early part of the century, many Jewish immigrants worked in the Cuban garment industry. More than 94% left during and after the 1959 revolution. As her family was among those who left Cuba, Behar intertwines her personal thoughts and feelings with her professional, analytical observations of the current society.

The Vulnerable Observer
The Vulnerable Observer recounts Behar's passage to integrating subjective aspects into her anthropological studies. Suffering her grandfather's death while on a field trip to Spain to study funeral practices, she decided the ethnographer could never be fully detached, and needed to become a "vulnerable observer". She argues that the ethnographic fieldworker should identify and work though, his or her own emotional involvement with the subject under study. She strongly critiques conventional ideas of objectivity. She suggested that the ideal of a "scientific," distanced, impersonal mode of presenting materials was incomplete. Other anthropologists, including Claude Levi-Strauss, Georges Devereux, and Clifford Geertz, had also suggested that the researcher had to claim being part of the process more openly. Behar's six personal essays in The Vulnerable Observer are examples of her subjective approach.

Behar's grandparents emigrated to Cuba from Russia, Poland and Turkey during the 1920s. In 1962 they fled Cuba to escape Castro's communism. At the age of nine, Behar suffered a broken leg from the crash of her family's car. She was immobilized for a year. The experience and recovery period led her to the recognition that "the body is a homeland" of stored memory and pain.

Translated Woman
In 1985, Behar was working in Mexico when she befriended an Indian witch working as a street peddler. Townspeople said the witch, Esperanza Hernandez, had used black magic to blind her ex-husband after he regularly beat her and then left her for his mistress. Behar's portrayal of Esperanza's story in Translated Woman suggests she alienated her own mother, inspiring Behar to portray Esperanza as a feminist heroine. Esperanza claims she found redemption in a spiritualist cult constructed around Pancho Villa. She blamed pent-up rage about her husband and life as the reason for the deaths in infancy of the first six of her 12 children. Esperanza's rage led her to beat up her husband's lover, throw her son out of the house, beat a daughter for refusing to support her, and disown another son for having an affair with an uncle's ex-mistress because she considered it to be incestuous. Behar reflects on her own life and begins to think that her Latina-gringa conflicts result from a feeling of loss after having tried to model herself according to the American Dream, thus losing some sense of her Cuban Jewish family's past in that island nation. Esperanza's odyssey examines physical borders, margins and separations. Translated Woman contributes to the feminist argument that studying women in anthropology has been undervalued due to traditional academic prejudices that view women-centered analysis as too personally biased.

Awards and honours

 * In 1988, Behar was the first Latina woman to be awarded a MacArthur fellowship. *In 2011 she gave a Turku Agora Lecture.

Books

 * The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village: Santa María del Monte (1986)
 * Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (1993; second edition, Beacon Press, 2003 ISBN 978-0-8070-4647-0)
 * Bridges to Cuba / Puentes a Cuba, editor, University of Michigan Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-472-06611-7
 * Women Writing Culture Editors Ruth Behar, Deborah A. Gordon, University of California Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-520-20208-5
 * The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart, Beacon Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8070-4631-9
 * An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, Rutgers University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8135-4189-1
 * The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World, Editors Ruth Behar, Lucía M. Suárez, Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 978-0-230-60477-3
 * Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys, Duke University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8223-5720-9
 * Lucky Broken Girl, Nancy Paulsen Books, 2017, ISBN 978-0399546440
 * Letters from Cuba, Nancy Paulsen Books, 2020, ISBN 978-0525516477
 * Tia Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2022, ISBN 978-0593172414
 * Across So Many Seas, Nancy Paulsen Books, 2024, ISBN 978-0593323403

Film

 * Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love): A Cuban-American Woman's Search for Sephardic Memories (2002)

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Thomas B. Jones

Thomas B. Jones was an American businessman and politician, serving on the city council then becoming mayor of Newport News, Virginia from 1926 to 1930.

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Peisander

Peisander (Πείσανδρος) of Camirus in Rhodes, Ancient Greek epic poet, supposed to have flourished about 640 BC.

Biography
Peisander was the author of a Heracleia (Ἡράκλεια), in which he introduced a new conception of the hero Heracles' costume, the lions skin and club taking the place of the older armor of the heroic era. He is also said to have fixed the number of the labors of Heracles at ten. The work, which according to Clement of Alexandria (Stromata, yr. ch. 2) was simply a plagiarism from an unknown Pisinus of Lindus, enjoyed so high a reputation that the Alexandrian critics admitted the author to the epic canon. From an epigram (22) of Theocritus we learn that a statue was erected in honor of Peisander by his countrymen. He is to be distinguished from Peisander of Laranda in Lycia, who lived during the reign of Alexander Severus and wrote a poem on the mixed marriages of gods and mortals, after the manner of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.

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EMD SD40X

An EMD SD40X is a 6-axle experimental diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between 1964 and 1965. 9 examples of this locomotive were built for test purposes to test the new 645-series prime mover 16-645E3. After testing, eight were sold to the Union Pacific Railroad and one example to the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. This locomotive is an experimental testbed for the production SD40, but built on the shorter SD35 frame. This locomotive was also known as an SD35X.

The designation SD40X was also given to an experimental version of the SD50, built by EMD on an SD40-2 frame. 4 examples of this SD40X were built in 1979 and were delivered to the Kansas City Southern as KCS 700-703.

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Simone Niggli-Luder

Simone Niggli-Luder (born 9 January 1978) is a Swiss orienteering athlete who has twice won (in 2003 and 2005) all four women's competitions at the world championships. She is widely seen as one of the greatest orienteers of all time.

Personal life
Born as Simone Luder, she grew up in Burgdorf in the Canton of Bern. She studied biology at the University of Bern, where she graduated in 2003. That same year, she married Matthias Niggli, also a Swiss orienteering athlete. They currently live in Münsingen near Bern and in Ulricehamn, Sweden.

Orienteering achievements
She began competing in orienteering early on, joining the Swiss club OLV Hindelbank; at the age of ten, she participated in her first competition. Since then, her palmarès has been impressive: she won a gold medal at the junior world championships in 1997, has been 20 times Swiss champion, won the Finnish championships once and the Swedish championships nine times, has won the world cup five times, and won seven gold medals at European championships and a total of 23 gold medals at world championships.

In 2003, she won all four women's competitions of the world championships held at Rapperswil in Switzerland (sprint, middle, and long distance, and— together with Birgitte Wolf and Vroni König-Salmi— the relay). She managed to repeat this extraordinary feat two years later at the world championships in Aichi, Japan.

At the European Championships in 2006 in Otepää, Estonia, she won gold in the sprint and long distance competitions, and finished fifth in the middle distance competition. The Swiss team finished second in the relay, beaten only by the Finnish team. At the world championships 2007 in Kyiv, Ukraine, she again won gold on the middle and sprint distances and finished third on the long distance, behind two Finnish athletes who shared first place.

Niggli-Luder took time off from competitive orienteering in 2008 to give birth to her first child and again in 2011, twins. She made a successful return to the international orienteering scene in 2009 by winning bronze medals in the middle and sprint distances at the World Orienteering Championships in Miskolc, Hungary, and the gold medal in the long distance. At the World Championships 2013 at Vuokatti, Finland, she won all three single competitions (sprint, middle, and long distance) and finished third in the team relay event (together with Sara Luescher and Judith Wyder).

In 2001, she spent one year in Finland, running for the Finnish club Turun Suunnistajat, and won the Finnish championship. She ran for the Swedish club Ulricehamns OK after July 2003. In September 2013, Niggli-Luder announced that she was retiring from elite orienteering at the end of the year, after the last World Cup race in New Zealand. Niggli holds over 60 World Cup race victories.

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Damophon

Damophon (Δαμοφῶν; fl. 2nd century BC) was an ancient Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic period from Messene, known for his many acroliths found in Messene, Megalopolis, Aegium, Lycosura and other cities of the Peloponnesus. Other cities beyond the Peloponnese that Damophon was admired include Leucas, Cephallenia, Kynthos, Melos and Oiantheia.

There has been some debate surrounding the dating of Damophon's statues with historians attributing him to anywhere between the 4th c. BC to the 2nd c. AD. However, recent work at Messene where others of Damophon's sculptures have been found, indicate a date around 180 BC for his floruit.

While much of Damophon's life remains unknown, Pausanias writes of his prevalence in Greek sculpture well into the 2nd c. CE. More information about the life of Damophon, and about his work for various other Greek cities, has been provided by an inscription found at Messene, which was uncovered by archaeologists in two parts, in 1972 and 1989.

Works
All of the discovered works attributed to Damophon are cult acroliths. Damophon did not sign his any of his sculptures, inscribing them with dedications to the Gods. Most works attributed to Damophon were mentioned in Pausinias' Description of Greece, including acroliths of Apollo and the Muses, Herakles, Hermes, and Aphrodite among others. Written of by Pausanias and discovered at a sanctuary of the Goddess Despoina on the site of Lycosura in Arcadia in 1889, significant fragments, including three colossal heads from a collection depicting Demeter, Persephone, Artemis and the Titan Anytos are attributed to Damophon. Utilizing a neoclassical style, these fragments are all of a religious purpose and are made of marble instead of the commonly used bronze. They were preserved in part in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and partly at a small museum on the archaeological site. Damophon is also known for his restoration of Phidias' statue of the Greek god Zeus at Olympia, which had been damaged in an earthquake around 183 BC.

Inscriptions
Several inscriptions have been found on a Doric column in Messene, praising Damophon for his contributions to various cities. Never taking payments for his works and using materials provided to him, Damophon was celebrated for his piety and humility. In return for his repeated kindness and public service in his artwork, the cities of Lycosura, Kythnos, Leucas, and Oiantheia deemed Damophon proxenos.

"He shall be a proxenos and benefactor of the city of Kythnos, both himself and his descendants; and they shall have the right to own both land and buildings; and they shall have freedom from taxes, and inviolability both in war and in peacetime, and the other privileges that are given to the other proxenoi and benefactors of the city. The ephors with . . . shall inscribe this award of proxeny on a stone stele, and they shall set it up in the temple 120 of Aphrodite."

All of the Inscriptions include an instruction that a bronze statue or stone stele be placed at a prominent temple to honor his award of proxeny. The column itself was a tribute to Damophon and likely supported a statue.

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John Melville Turner

John Melville Turner (born September 24, 1922 – January 20, 2013) was a Canadian politician in the province of Ontario. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1975, and again from 1977 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He was the Speaker of the Ontario Legislature from 1981 to 1985.

Background
Turner was born and educated in Peterborough, Ontario. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Pilot Officer from 1942 to 1945, and later worked as a business manager. He was an alderman for Peterborough, Ontario City Council from 1969 to 1971, and also served on the city health board. On March 31, 2014, Jeff Leal, Peterborough MPP and Minister of Rural Affairs announced that 55 km of Highway 115 from Peterborough to the 401 MacDonald-Cartier Freeway was dedicated as the John M. Turner Memorial Highway in honour of Turner's service to his country, province and community. Turner was a member of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Peterborough Rotary Club.

Politics
In 1971, Turner was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election, defeating New Democratic Party incumbent Walter Pitman by 590 votes in the Peterborough constituency. He served as a backbench supporter of Bill Davis's government for the next four years, and lost to NDP candidate Gillian Sandeman by 505 votes in the 1975 election.

Turner defeated Sandeman by 2,648 votes in the 1977 election. He defeated Liberal Party candidate Peter Adams by 6,699 votes in the 1981 election. He was appointed as Speaker of the Legislature on April 21, 1981.

The Progressive Conservatives were reduced to a tenuous minority government under Frank Miller's leadership in the 1985 provincial election. Turner was re-elected in Peterborough, but was replaced as Speaker by Liberal Hugh Edighoffer when the Tories lost control of the legislature after the election. Turner served as an opposition member for the next two years, and did not seek re-election in 1987.

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Robert Livingston (1688–1775)

Robert Livingston (July 24, 1688 – June 27, 1775) of New York, known as Robert of Clermont, son of Robert Livingston the Elder and father of Robert Livingston. He was a member of New York colonial assembly from 1726 until 1727.

Early life and family
Robert Livingston was born on the afternoon of July 24, 1688, at his father's Albany, New York townhouse, at "Elm Tree Corner", the intersection of State and Pearl Streets and one of early Albany's principal crossroads. He was the fifth child, and third son, of Alida (née Schuyler) Van Rensselaer Livingston and Robert Livingston the Elder, who was downriver in New York engaged in business with Governor Dongan at the time of Robert's birth. Among his eight siblings were elder brother Philip Livingston and younger brother Gilbert Livingston.

His maternal grandfather was Philip Pieterse Schuyler (1628–1683) and his paternal grandfather was Reverend John Livingston, a Church of Scotland minister who died in exile in 1673. His mother, Alida, had previously been married to Nicholas van Rensselaer, but after his death, she married Robert Livingston in 1679. Alida taught her children to read and write both English and Dutch. At the invitation of his brother William, Robert the Elder sent his eleven-year-old son, Robert, to Scotland to be educated at the Latin school in Leith. Later he studied at the High School in Edinburgh. He went to London for the completion of his education and studied law there at the Temple. Upon reaching the age of twenty-five, he returned to America and opened a law office in Albany. He abandoned the profession in 1713 to move to New York and begin a mercantile career. However, he returned to Livingston Manor to help with the management thereof.

Clermont
Following the death of his father, the first Lord of Livingston Manor, in 1728, most of the manor was inherited by the eldest surviving son Philip, but 13,000 acres (53 km²) south of the Roeliff Jansen Kill was willed to Robert. Known as the "Lower Manor", Robert named his estate "Ancram", after the parish where his grandfather, Rev. John Livingston had served. It was also the same name his brother Philip had given to the ironworks at Livingston Manor.

Around 1730, Robert built a large stone and brick Georgian house, and sometime after 1740 renamed the estate "Clare Mount" ("clear mountain"), a reference to the view of the Catskills that rise across the river from the front door of the house. At that time Robert was heavily involved in land speculation in the Catskill Mountains land, and would eventually own nearly 500,000 acres.

After the house was burned by the British in 1777, the family adopted the name Clermont. The house was rebuilt by his daughter-in-law, Margaret Beekman Livingston, wife of Judge Livingston, and is today a state park and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Personal life
In 1717, he married Margaret Howarden (1693–1758), at the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. His mother, Alida, did not attend. Margaret was the daughter of a wealthy English merchant in New York and granddaughter of Captain Bethlow, a Huguenot after whom Bedloe's Island is named. Bedloe's Island, in New York harbor is now known as Liberty Island and the site of the Statue of Liberty. Their only child was:

 * Robert R. Livingston (1718–1775), who married Margaret Beekman, daughter of Henry Beekman and Janet Livingston.

Margaret died in December 1758 and was interred in a burial vault constructed 200 yards north of the Livingston family home at Clermont. Livingston died on June 27, 1775, at the age of 87 and was buried with his wife in the family vault. Upon his death, the "Lower Manor" became the property of his only child, Robert R. Livingston, or Judge Livingston as he was known in Provincial New York.

Descendants
His grandson, Edward Livingston (1764–1836) described Robert of Clermont at eighty-four as: "... a gentleman... tall and somewhat bent, but not emaciated by age which had marked, but not disfigured, a face once remarkable for its regular beauty of features, and still beaming with the benevolence and intelligence that had always illuminated it. He marked the epoch at which he retired from the world by preserving its costume: the flowing wool powered wig, the bright brown coat, with large cuffs and square shirts, the cut velvet waistcoast, with ample flaps and the breeches scarcely covering the knee, the silk stocking, rolled over them with embroidered clocks, and shining square-toed shoes, fastened near the ankle and small embossed gold buckles. These were retained in his service, not to affect a singularity, but because he thought it ridiculous at his time of life to follow the quick succession of fashion." He always rose at five and read until breakfast. The year before his death, he took up the study of German and spoke it fluently.

"The patriarch of Clermont was in many ways the spoiled younger son of the self-made man. A failure in the law, in business, and in the eyes of his own parents, he nonetheless entered his final years with the satisfaction that he had not only maintained the estate passed on to him by his father, but had increased it 40-fold through his speculation in Catskill Mountain lands."

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