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Eriko Imai

Eriko Imai (今井 絵理子) is a Japanese pop singer, actress and politician. She made her debut in the early 1990s as part of the group Speed, which disbanded in March 2000. Eriko began her work away from Speed during 1998, performing "Tsumetaku Shinai de", under the stage name "Eriko with Crunch", on the Speed single "All My True Love". After the group disbanded, Imai continued her career as a solo artist until Speed's reformation in 2008.

Early career (1996–2000)
Imai was born in Okinawa. She was the second-youngest member and one of the main vocalists in the female J-pop group Speed. After Speed's popularity spread widely in Japan, they were asked to act in the movie Andromedia in 1998, Eriko's first acting experience. Eriko also appeared in the drama "LxIxVxE" in 1999 with fellow Speed member Hitoe Arakaki. When Eriko began her solo career in early 2000, she teamed up with the dance group Crunch and the unit was named "Eriko with Crunch". Their first two maxi singles, "Red Beat of My Life" and "Luv is Magic" were released the same year.

Post-Speed (2000–2004)
"Eriko with Crunch" was short-lived, and Imai began her solo career with the single "In the Name of Love", released in 2000. Also during this year, Eriko participated in her first musical, Ninagawa Hi no Tori, for which she earned a "Best Newcomer in Theatre" award at the Golden Arrow Awards 2001.

Her second solo single, "Identity", was viewed as a changing point in Eriko's career. Many viewed the music as hard-core rock. The music video for her third single, "Set Me Free", was shot in Australia, and Imai performed the song in Kuala Lumpur during the 2001 Asia Music Festival. In 2001, Imai released her first album, My Place. Including her self-composed songs "Himawari" and "Dawn", it sold 93,700 copies and peaked at No. 7 on the weekly Oricon chart. During this year, Eriko performed in her second drama, , and appeared in the movie Onmyoji.

Eriko's fourth solo single, "Don't Stop the Music", was aired on Eriko's weekly Monday night radio talk show "Eriko Imai Hot Link" more than a month prior to its release in January 2002. The single was seen as a change of genre in Eriko's music. At around this time, Eriko considered changing her hairstyle to an Afro. She said that she wanted something new, but was willing to return to a more Japanese-typical hairstyle if the Afro hairstyle reduced her appeal. In July, Eriko released her fifth solo single, "Our Relation", an upbeat, high-tempo ballad. "Our Relation" was the second single to be fully produced by Hiroaki Hayama, also used as the second opening theme to Captain Tsubasa: ROAD to 2002. Also in 2002, Eriko appeared in her second musical, Footloose, with V6 member Masayuki Sakamoto, which was extremely well received.

From the end of 2002 to mid-2003, Eriko put a temporary hold on solo releases, mainly due to the temporary reformation of Speed for charity Save The Children. Speed became the ambassadors of Save The Children until the end of 2003, during which time they performed on nationwide tours and released singles and an album to raise funds for the charity. It was not until July of that year that Eriko released her sixth and last single, "Butterfly". "Butterfly" was a ballad written by Eriko under the name "Elly". This was the first time Imai officially used the name "Elly" on one of her works. The song was also the theme song for the anime movie Boku no Songokū, Eriko's first role as a voice actor. That October, Onmyoji 2 was released in Japan, with Eriko reprising her role as the magic spirit Mitsumushi.

Between February and March 2004, Eriko performed in the musical Star Tanjō with Hitomi Shimatani and Yukie Nakama. During May 2004, Eriko posted a short message on her official website to officially announce on her marriage to 175R vocalist Shogo. The message talked briefly about the marriage, and she apologised due to its sudden nature. She also mentioned a new life which would be with us on Earth in the upcoming October. Lastly in the message, Eriko asked for guidance on her change from single to a wife and a soon-to-be mother. On 9 June 2004, she and Shogo were married in a shotgun wedding. She also registered her name as Eriko Kinoshita upon the change. Their son, Raimu Kinoshita, was born on 18 October 2004 weighing 3492g. On 25 November 2004, Eriko released her first singles collection, Stairway, to mark her new life journey as a mother and wife.

As Elly (2005–2008)
On 9 June 2005, Eriko announced on her new website that she would return to the music industry as "Elly". With the new name, Imai branched out into a new genre of music. Upon returning to the music scene Eriko began writing all of her songs, which differed greatly from her former style. On 22 September 2005, Eriko performed her 'Elly Live 2005: Rebirth' concert to mark her 22nd birthday and shift to the new name. This was Imai's first public performance since her marriage and maternity leave. She also released her first indies single under as Elly, sold only at her concert venues. On 18 October 2005, the first birthday of her son, Imai released her first photobook, "Egao de Ikō", which includes autobiographical thoughts about the periods of her life and career. She also held an autograph session at Shibuya HMV on 6 November.

Elly released her second indies single, "Journey" on 13 May 2006, following up the release with a concert "Elly Live 2006: Journey" on the same day. In June 2006 Elly held a secret marriage party in Guam. Only her close friends, such as Hiro and Team-F, were invited. On 16 July, she attended Vision Festival Vol.2, where she performed her new song with Vanilla Mood. At the festival, Imai also announced to her fans that her new album Neverland was to be released on 27 September 2006. Given the lack of promotion and Imai's declining popularity, Neverland debuted at No. 149 on the Oricon charts, ultimately being placed at No. 165 on the weekly charts. She performed her "Elly Live 2006: Neverland" concert tour from October to November, of which one of the performances was attended by fellow Speed members and long-time producer Hiromasa Ijichi. During that particular live, Imai sang Speed singles "Walking in the Rain" and "White Love" with Ijichi.

In July 2007, it was reported by various sources that Eriko had separated from her husband, Shogo. Reports from TokyoGraph and J!-Ent news sources indicated the separation was due to Eriko's focus on her career and social calendar, with Shogo wanting to raise Raimu. However, this matter was not clarified by either party's management. After these media reports, Eriko posted a short and cryptic message on her official site, reading: "only believe what was seen and heard from oneself". Many fans took it as an indirect reply to the separation reports and that Eriko was trying to indicate the reports were untrue.

Also in August 2007, Imai announced she would be releasing her new single "Ude Makura" (腕枕) at a later date. The single, however, was never released, instead ending up on Imai's album Utagoe.

On 24 September 2007, Eriko and Shogo officially announced their divorce on Imai's website. According to the message, the divorce was mainly due to their divergent views and concepts about the future, and therefore leading to the inability to live together like before. Eriko was given custody of their son, but both agreed to take care of the child together. Imai performed at her mini live concert "Elly Live: Instinct" on 25 December 2007. Imai held her next live concert in 2008, "Elly Secret Live in Sabaku no Bara" on 9 February 2008. This secret performance was limited to an audience of only 100 people.

In August 2008, Imai decided to regroup with Speed for NTV's 24-hour telethon. During this time she announced that her son has a hearing disability, and wanted to take the opportunity to perform for her son for the first time, and to give hope to others who are also suffering from the same disability. She resumed activities with Speed again starting on 31 August 2008. Eriko also made her first film appearance in almost five years, in "Yuzuriha: Kimi mo Mata Tsugi no Kimi e", directed by Kentarō Hayase. The picture is a 60th-anniversary project of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf. Eriko also started a web programme called Elly ch: '...& Smile' on 18 October, in which she invites her friends as guests or shows footage of her concerts.

Return to Eriko Imai (2009–present)
Eriko released her second photobook, Kokoro no Uta: Musuko to Ayunda 4 Nenkan, Soshite Korekara, on 14 February 2009. Her new album, Utagoe, was released on 29 April. Her ex-husband, Shogo, composed the songs "Kanna" and "Hana Uta" for the album. Utagoe debuted at #31, selling 3,882 copies in its first week. On 10 May, which was Mother's Day, Eriko received a 'Best Mother' award for the second annual 'Best Mother Awards in 2009' in Japan.

In 2010, Eriko was a host in the sign language education programme NHK Minna No Showa. (Eriko has a son who is Deaf.) Eriko also made a live announcement via USTREAM on 22 September, 10.10 p.m. to announce her upcoming solo live: 'Imai Eriko live 2010 ~Your selection~' which is currently planned for November. In this concert, Eriko will perform the top 10 favourite songs from her solo careers as Eriko with Crunch, Imai Eriko and elly. Fans will get to choose the top 10 songs via a poll on her website. Follow-up announcements will be made live on USTREAM on 1 and 10 October at 10.10p.m. respectively. She also revealed a new song, temporarily titled "Cowgirl", on her last Ustream announcement. The official title will be decided once fans gave their ideas through the inquiry forms given out during her lives in November. The song was officially called "Cow☆G" during her last appearance on Ustream.

In 2011, a documentary was broadcast on NHK on 3 May 2011 documenting her life with her son over the past six years. It was broadcast as an Ear Day Special program. The show was entitled Nankurunaisaa ~Imai Eriko ga Musuko to Arunda 6 Nen. Eriko also released a new song, "Nankurunaisaa", as a digital and iTunes download on 6 April 2011. Eriko released her third book, entitled Oyako Gejiko, on 8 April 2011. Eriko continued to be a host for NHK's Minna no Shuwa on 3 April 2011.

Personal life
After Imai's shotgun wedding in 2004 to 175R's Shogo, due to her pregnancy, tabloid magazine Shukan Bunshun quoted a source known to Eriko that her management agency had stopped paying her monthly wage of 200,000 yen and promptly expelled her from the company apartment. After struggling for several months, her company relented its punishment by signing a new contract worth 20,000 yen a month.

Eriko's nickname is Mikan Seijin (Tangerine Alien). She is an accomplished guitar and flute player. She also plays the piano, as well as composing and writing songs. She is good friends with Hikaru Utada and called their father on air on behalf of their fans when they underwent ovarian cancer surgery. Eriko was once voted as the most popular artist from Japan in Hong Kong, surpassing other popular singers. Eriko began to learn sign language with her son during early 2008. She is also avid in saving the environment by doing bottle-cap collections.

In 2016, Imai became a candidate for the Japanese House of Councillors election under the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and won.

In November 2021, Imai will be releasing a memoir of her life, a member of SPEED, being a single mother, raising a son with congenital deafness, her activism for children with disabilities, being a politician and more.

Imai's son Raimu is a professional wrestler.

Albums
Eriko Imai
 * My Place (18 July 2001)
 * Single Collection: Stairway (25 November 2004)
 * Utagoe (うたごえ) (29 April 2009)

Elly
 * Neverland (27 September 2006)

Singles
Eriko with Crunch
 * Speed – All My True Love (on track "Tsumetaku Shinai de" (冷たくしないで), 28 October 1998)
 * "Speed – Breakin' Out to the Morning (on track "EVERYDAY, BE WITH YOU", 19 May 1999)
 * "Red Beat of My Life" (15 March 2000)
 * "Luv is Magic" (2 August 2000)

Eriko Imai
 * "In the Name of Love" (22 November 2000)
 * "identity" (7 March 2001)
 * "Set Me Free!" (6 June 2001)
 * "Don't Stop The Music" (23 January 2002)
 * "Our Relation" (10 July 2002)
 * "Butterfly" (2 July 2003)

Elly
 * "star" (22 September 2005)
 * "journey" (13 May 2006)

Unreleased songs

 * "Shiawase to Yobitai" (幸せと呼びたい)
 * "Good Night"
 * "Uso" (嘘)
 * "Kimi wa Kimi no Mama de" (君は君のままで)
 * "New Days"
 * "Sekai-"世界一
 * "Namidaboshi" (涙星)

DVDs
Eriko Imai
 * My Place on Films (19 December 2001)
 * Eriko Imai LIVE 2010～Your Selection」DVD (22 February 2011)

Elly
 * A Gift For You: Elly Live 2006 Neverland (14 February 2007)
 * A Gift For You Vol.2: Elly Live 2007 Instinct (14 February 2008)

Mobile download (Chaku Uta)

 * "Yukizora Letter" (雪空Letter) (18 December 2006)
 * "Hajimari no Kisu" (始まりのキス) (1 January 2007)
 * "Horonigai Chocolate" (ほろ苦いチョコレート) (7 February 2007)
 * "Nankurunaisaa" (なんくるないさぁ) (6 April 2011)

Books

 * "Egao De Ikō (笑顔でいこう) (18 October 2005)
 * "Kokoro no Uta: Musuko to Ayunda 4 Nenkan, Soshite Korekara" (ココロノウタ〜息子と歩んだ四年間、そしてこれから) (14 February 2009)
 * "Oyako Gejiko (おやこ劇場) (8 April 2011)

Movies

 * "Andromedia" (1998)
 * "Dream Maker" (Cameo, 1999)
 * "Pinch Runner" (Cameo, 2000)
 * "Onmyoji" (2001)
 * "Onmyoji 2" (2003)
 * "Boku no Songokū" (ぼくのそんごくう) (Voice and theme song ("Butterfly"), 2003)
 * "Yuzuriha: Kimi mo Mata Tsugi no Kimi e" (ゆずり葉-君もまた次のきみへ-) (2009)

Solo lives

 * Elly Live 2005: Rebirth (22 September 2005)
 * Elly Live 2006: Journey (13 May 2006)
 * Elly Live 2006: Neverland (22–28 October 2006)(12 November 2006, 22 November 2006)
 * Elly Live 2007: Soar (3 April 2007)
 * Eriko Imai Christmas Live 2007: Instinct (25 December 2007)
 * Elly Presents Live 2008 (9 February 2008)
 * Imai Eriko Live & Talk (30 September 2008)
 * Imai Eriko Live 2009: Utagoe (23–31 May 2009) -cancelled due to H1N1-
 * Imai Eriko Live 2010: Your Selection (November 2010)

Musicals

 * "Ninagawa Hi no Tori" (NINAGAWA 火の鳥) (2000)
 * "Footloose" (2002)
 * "Star Tanjō" (スター誕生) (2004)

TV

 * "LxIxVxE" (1999)
 * "Shinjuku Bōsō Kyūkyūtai" (新宿暴走救急隊) (Guest Appearance, 2000)
 * "Rouge" (2001)
 * "NHK Minna no Shuwa" (NHKみんなの手話) (4 April 2010~26 September 2010)
 * "NHK Minna no Shuwa" (NHKみんなの手話) (3 April 2011)

Radio

 * "Eriko Imai Hot Link" (2000–2003)

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Serenissima

[La] Serenissima ([The] Most Serene) may refer to:

Certain countries

 * , a name for the Republic of Venice
 * , the official Latin name of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Art, entertainment, and media

 * La Serenissima (musical ensemble), a British early music/period instrument ensemble
 * La Serenissima (album), a 1981 album by Rondò Veneziano, also released as Venice in Peril
 * "La Serenissima", a single by Rondò Veneziano, later covered by DNA and by Mike Candys
 * "La Serenissima", an instrumental track from Loreena McKennitt's release, The Book of Secrets (1997)
 * "Serenissima", a 1996 board game about 14th century Mediterranean commerce by Eurogames (game publisher)

Sport

 * Scuderia Serenissima, an auto racing team
 * La Serenissima, a nickname for the San Marino national football team

Other uses

 * La Serenísima, an Argentine dairy products maker

 * Autostrada A4 (Italy), nicknamed Serenissima after its destination, Venice

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Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway

The Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway was the first railroad to run east from Poughkeepsie, New York, and was taken over by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and assigned to the Central New England Railway in 1907.

Beginnings
The Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railroad was chartered April 13, 1866 to be built from Poughkeepsie on the Hudson River northeast to Boston Corners in Ancram, Columbia County, NY, and then southeast to the Connecticut state line, where it would connect with the Connecticut Western Railroad, which would continue east to Hartford, Connecticut.

The line opened on January 24, 1871 and ran from Poughkeepsie to Stissing. At Stissing the P&E had trackage rights to use that portion of the Dutchess and Columbia Railroad line that ran from Stissing to Pine Plains. On October 1, 1872 the remainder of the P&E line was opened from Pine Plains to the state line.

The P&E's main yard and engine facilities were at the Smith Street Yard in Poughkeepsie, where there was a passenger station, a freight house, turntable and engine house. The local trolley line on Smith St. also served the station. From the Poughkeepsie yard P&E trains traveled east through Pleasant Valley, Salt Point, Clinton Corners, Stanfordville, Stissing, Pine Plains, Boston Corners and State Line near Millerton.

It was anticipated that in addition to passenger service, the railroad would make money hauling iron ore from the ore beds of Columbia County, and milk from local dairy farms; however, revenues were not as great as expected.

Receivership
On June 24, 1874 the company went into receivership. It was sold in April 1875 and reorganized May 15 as the Poughkeepsie, Hartford and Boston Railroad. It again went bankrupt and on January 26, 1884 the Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad bought the section southeast of Boston Corners, to which they already had track rights. The rest was sold in late 1886 and on January 22, 1887 it was reorganized as the New York and Massachusetts Railway. Profit was still hard to come by, and it entered receivership for a third time in February 1893. It was sold under foreclosure March 2 and reorganized April 13 once under the name, the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway Company. Yet again, on June 17, 1898, the company went into receivership.

On July 12, 1904 P&E had a wreck at Salt Point when a passenger train was mistakenly switched to a siding where a freight train was waiting. The conductor on the passenger train was injured.

In 1907 the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad bought it and on June 25 merged it into the Central New England Railway.

The CNE had been forced to build the parallel Poughkeepsie and Connecticut Railroad in the late 1880s due to the Poughkeepsie and Eastern's refusal to sell. In 1910 the P&C was abandoned between Salt Point and Pine Plains, with trains rerouted over the P&E. With the 1925 abandonment of the P&E from Ancram Lead Mines northeast to Boston Corners, the P&C served as the sole route east of Pine Plains (it too was closed in 1932). Abandonment came in 1938 to the rest of the P&E.

Station listing
Mileages reflect those after the 1910 consolidation, with the ex-Poughkeepsie and Connecticut Railroad serving as the Poughkeepsie entry. Prior to 1910, the line used a station on its own alignment west of Smith Street in Poughkeepsie (though mileages were not substantially different). Between Stissing Junction and Pine Plains, the line used trackage rights on the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad (ND&C).

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Abraham, Martin and John

"Abraham, Martin and John" is a 1968 song written by Dick Holler. It was first recorded by Dion, in a version that was a substantial North American chart hit in 1968–1969. Near-simultaneous cover versions by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and Moms Mabley also charted in the U.S. in 1969, and a version that same year by Marvin Gaye became the hit version in the UK. It was also a hit as part of a medley (with "What the World Needs Now Is Love") for Tom Clay in 1971, and has subsequently been recorded by many other artists.

The song itself is a tribute to the memory of four assassinated Americans, all icons of social change: Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. It was written in response to the assassination of King and that of Robert Kennedy in April and June 1968, respectively.

Lyrics
Each of the first three verses features one of the men named in the song's title, for example:

Anybody here seen my old friend Abraham? Can you tell me where he's gone? He freed a lot of people, but it seems the good, they die young; I just looked around and he was gone.

After a bridge, the fourth and final verse mentions "Bobby" (referencing Robert F. Kennedy), and ends with a description of him "walking over the hill" with the other three men.

Dion recording
The original version, recorded by Dion, featured a gentle folk rock production from Phil Gernhard and arrangement from John Abbott. The song features a flugelhorn, an electric organ, bass, and drums.

Although it was quite unlike the rock sound that Dion had become famous for in the early 1960s, and even more unlike Holler and Gernhard's previous collaboration in the 1966 novelty smash "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron", "Abraham, Martin and John" nonetheless was a major American hit single in late 1968. It reached number 4 on the Hot 100 and number 1 on Chicago station WLS and was awarded an RIAA gold record for selling a million copies. In Canada, it topped the charts, reaching number 1 in the RPM 100 on November 25, 1968. In 2001, this recording would be ranked number 248 on the RIAA's Songs of the Century list. The record was also popular with adult listeners, reaching number 8 on the Billboard Easy Listening survey. The personnel on the original recording included Vinnie Bell and Ralph Casale on guitar, Nick DeCaro on organ, David Robinson on drums, Gloria Agostini on harp, and George Marge on oboe and English horn.

Later recordings and performances

 * Smokey Robinson & the Miracles recorded a version that became an American Top 40 single in 1969, reaching number 33 while reaching number 16 on the US R&B charts
 * Marvin Gaye, with an orchestral arrangement by Norman Whitfield, also recorded a version in 1969 that became a top-ten hit (reaching number 9) in the United Kingdom in 1970 (Gaye's version was never released in the U.S. as a single but was featured on his 1970 album, That's the Way Love Is, and was one of his first experiments with social messages in his music which would culminate in his 1971 album, What's Going On.)
 * Comedian Moms Mabley performed a completely serious version that hit the U.S. Top 40. It reached number 35 in July 1969 and number 18 on the R&B charts, making Mabley (at 75) the oldest living person to have a U.S. Top 40 hit.
 * Ray Charles recorded his version of the song on his 1972 album A Message from the People.
 * Marillion released two versions in 1999. A live recording was on their Unplugged at the Walls album, and a studio version on their fan club Christmas CD the same year.
 * Whitney Houston performed the song in her live concert in 1997 that aired on VH1 and HBO as Whitney Houston: Live Washington DC.
 * Wilson Pickett recorded a variation of the song, "Cole, Cooke & Redding" (US number 91 / Canada number 58), as the B-side of his 1970 version of The Archies' hit "Sugar, Sugar". His version altered the lyrics to eulogize the titular three deceased icons of black music.
 * Harry Belafonte recorded the song in his 1970 album Belafonte By Request, released by RCA Records
 * Bob Dylan and Clydie King in the Dylan concert movie Trouble No More, released by Columbia/SME in 2017
 * Leonard Nimoy included this song on his 1970 LP, The New World of Leonard Nimoy.
 * Beverly Knight performed the song with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Gaye's 1969 recording on the 2021 album Motown with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: A Symphony of Soul (Motown/Island Records/UMC)
 * Rosey Grier, who had been one of Robert F. Kennedy's bodyguards and helped subdue Sirhan Sirhan after he shot Kennedy, recorded a version that appeared on his 1986 gospel album Committed.

As part of medleys
The song is also featured on Tom Clay's 1971 "What the World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin, and John", a medley combining Dion's recording with Jackie DeShannon's recording of Burt Bacharach's "What the World Needs Now Is Love", along with vocals by The Blackberries. Clay's recording features narration (an adult asking a child to define several words associated with social unrest), sound bites from speeches given by President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., along with sound bites from the live press coverage of Robert Kennedy's assassination, and his eulogy by his brother Edward M. Kennedy. It reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 14, 1971 and number 32 on the R&B charts. It reached number 3 in Australia.

Emmylou Harris performed it as the second part of a medley with Nanci Griffith's song "It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go" with her acoustic band, the Nash Ramblers, in the early 1990s. The medley was released on their 1992 live album At the Ryman.

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You should tell us where you live! :-) -- Jehoshaphat 18:29, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Help with Translation!?
Can you help translate this for me to swedish? Many thanks in advance!

''Albania built its first railroad in 1947, and 40 years later Tiranë was linked to all other major industrial centres in the country. The highway network has been extended even to remote mountain villages. Air transport, however, remains largely underdeveloped. There is no scheduled domestic air service.''

--Armour 10:34, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Patronymic
Hi, can you please see the discussion at Patronymic? If you know the subject, can you please make corrections accordingly? Thanks.

(I'm sending this to several Danish speakers - whoever gets there first, wins :) )--Amir E. Aharoni 15:25, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

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Men's Olympic football
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Suggestion for a move
G'day, This page title seems to cover a lot of ground.... Most of which is covered already. Unless we are going to add something other than engineering technologists I'm going to re-direct this to the technologist page. Flehmen Work with me 18:29, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

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Bird Island, Seychelles

Bird Island is the northernmost island in the Seychelles archipelago, 100 km from Mahe. The 0.94 km2 coral island is known for its birdlife, including sooty terns, fairy terns and common noddies, and for hawksbill and green turtles. It is now a private resort with 7 chalet-villas It also contains a small weather station and a small landing strip Bird Island Airport which connects the island with Mahe.

Bird Island used to be known as "Île aux Vaches" due to the numerous dugongs (sea cows) that lived in nearby waters. Between 1896 and 1906, 17,000 tons of guano was removed from the island and exported to Mauritius as fertilizer. The island has been a coconut plantation, and for growing cash crops such as papaya and cotton.

In 1808, the French ship Hirondelle sank on a cliff off the northeast coast of Bird Island. Half of the 180 people on board died. The other half reached Bird Island. Six of them managed to reach Mahé. The others were then rescued and shifted to Mahé. In 1882, a passing British ship found two Africans living on the island, salting fish and birds in what must have been the loneliest of existences.

Since 1967 it has been privately owned by a Seychellois accountant named Guy Savy. Conservation measures have taken place such protection of birdlife and hawksbill turtle nesting sites, the eradication of feral rats and rabbits and the translocation of a population of Seychelles sunbird.

Bird Island is named in honour of its spectacular colony of around 700,000 pairs of sooty tern that nest on the island. The birds arrive from late March, laying eggs in May and remaining until October before leaving the island. Another phenomenon especially in October to December arises from the geographical location of Bird Island on the northern edge of the Seychelles Bank. This means it is the first landfall for migratory Eurasian birds and Seychelles Bird Records Committee has recorded here many species new to the country.

The world's biggest and heaviest free-roaming tortoise, Esmeralda, lives on this island. It weighs over 670 pounds (304kg) and is thought to be as much as 170 years old. Esmeralda was named by Lyall Watson.

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Lynsey Baxter

Lynsey Baxter (born 7 May 1959) is an English actress.

She was born in London on 7 May 1959. She began as a child actress in 1974, and later trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She has worked in theatre, television, film, radio and voiceover.

Baxter trained in reflexology in 1998, while appearing in the television series Dangerfield, and in her spare time worked in hospitals. She was also reported to be a trained remedial masseuse and transpersonal counsellor.

Radio

 * Kind Hearts and Coronets, BBC Radio (1995), as Sybella
 * Abelard and Heloise, BBC Radio (1999)

Awards

 * Most Promising Newcomer, Plays and Players Award
 * Best Actress, Monte-Carlo Film and Television Festival 1991, as Elizabeth in ScreenPlay: Starlings (1988).

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Bridge dates

 * 1970: over FM 1585
 * 1970: over 114th
 * 1970: over 98th
 * 1970: over 82nd (1)
 * 1988: under SL 289 and frontage roads (1A)
 * 1988: under SL 289 east to I-27 north ramp (1A)
 * 1988: braided ramps (1A)
 * 1988: under 66th
 * 1988-89: under US 84 and frontage roads (1B)
 * 1992: under ped bridge
 * 1992: under 50th
 * 1992: under 42nd
 * 1992: over 34th (2)
 * 1992: over turnaround
 * 1992: over US 62 (3)
 * 1990: braided ramps (3/3A)
 * 1990: over Broadway Avenue (3A)
 * 1990: over US 82 (4)
 * 1990: east frontage over creek
 * 1990: over Municipal Drive (5)
 * 1990: west frontage over creek
 * 1990: under railroad
 * 1990: under Erskine Street
 * 1988: west frontage over SS 326 (6A)
 * 1988: under SS 326 (6A)
 * 1966: over ditch
 * 1990: under SL 289 and frontage roads (6B)
 * 1978: over creek
 * 1978: braided ramps (6B/7)
 * 1978: under Yucca Lane (7)
 * 1978: over ditch
 * 1978: over FM 2641 (8)
 * 1978: over ditch
 * 1978: over airport (9)
 * 1978: over Keuka Street (10)
 * 1978: over FM 1294 (11)
 * 1978: over railroad
 * 1978: over CR 58 (12)
 * 1967: over SL 461 (13)
 * 1967: over FM 1729 (14)
 * 1967: over SL 461 (15)
 * 1980: under CR 53 (17)
 * 1980: over FM 597 (20)
 * 1980: under FM 2060 (21)
 * 1962: over SL 369 (22)
 * 1981: over FM 54 (24)
 * 1981: under CR (27)
 * 1982: under FM 37 east (31)
 * 1982: under FM 37 west (32)
 * 1982: over FM 1424 (36)
 * 1962: over Main Street
 * 1982: under FM 1914 (37)
 * 1962: over 12th Street
 * 1982: under CR (41)
 * 1982: over creek
 * 1982: under FM 2337 (43)
 * 1986: under BL 27 (45)
 * 1986: under FM 3466 (48)
 * 1986: over creek
 * 1967: over US 70 (49)
 * 1986: under 24th
 * 1986: over SH 194 (50)
 * 1986: under Quincy Street (51)
 * 1986: under BL 27 (53)
 * 1984: under FM 3183 (54)
 * 1984: under FM 788 (56)
 * 1986: under US 87 (61)
 * 1986: under FM 145 (63)
 * 1986: under CR
 * 1987: over creek
 * 1986: under FM 928 (68)
 * 1987: over ditch
 * 1987: under CR
 * 1987: over ditch
 * 1987: under CR
 * 1987: over creek
 * 1987: under SH 86 (74)
 * 1987: over ditch
 * 1987: under 6th (75)
 * 1987: over ditch
 * 1987: over US 87 (77)
 * 1987: over creek
 * 1987: under FM 214 (82)
 * 1987: over creek
 * 1987: under FM 2698 (83)
 * 1987: under CR
 * 1983: under FM 1881 (88A)
 * 1983: under US 87 (88B)
 * 1983: over creek
 * 1983: under FM 1075 (90)
 * 1983: over drain
 * 1983: under Haley Road (92)
 * 1983: over creek
 * 1983: under FM 285 (94)
 * 1981: over drain
 * 1981: under Dowlen Road (96)
 * 1981: under Hungate Road (99)
 * 1981: under Cemetery Road (103)
 * 1986: over drain
 * 1986: over SH 217 (106)
 * 1986: under FM 3331 (108)
 * 1986: over fork Red River
 * 1986: under railroad
 * 1986: under Buffalo Stadium Road (109)
 * 1986: under US 60/US 87 (110)
 * 1959: under Rockwell Road (111)
 * 1959: under FM 2219 (112)
 * 2005: over McCormick Road (113)
 * 1986: under Sundown Lane (115)
 * 1986: over SL 335 (116)
 * 1983: over Bell Street (117)
 * 1985: over Hillside Road (119A)
 * 1961: over Western Street (119B)
 * 1961: over 45th (120B)
 * 1961: over Georgia Street (121A)
 * 1958: over Parker Street (122A)
 * 1958: over FM 1541 (122B)
 * 1989: under Tyler Street (122C)
 * 1989: under 34th Street (122C)
 * 1958: over 26th Avenue (123A)
 * 1965: under I-40 east ramps
 * 2001: under IH 40 (123B)
 * 1965: under I-40 west ramps
 * 1994: over 15th
 * 1960: split
 * 1961: Taylor over railroad
 * 1931: Fillmore under railroad
 * 1996: Pierce over railroad
 * 1936: Buchanan under railroad
 * 1963: split north of downtown

Some suggestions before a GAN review is started
I downgraded the assessment to C-Class temporarily. Once most of these items are addressed, I would be willing to come back and revert that change.  Imzadi 1979  →   21:55, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The references need updating. Several have dead links that need repair.
 * The citations should all be updated as well to make them consistently formatted.
 * Online citations should have access dates; if they do, we can attempt to resurrect them through Internet archival services when they go dead.
 * Maps should indicate that they are maps and which is the publisher and which is the cartographer.
 * Certain titles should be placed in italics, some should be in quotation marks.
 * The exit list doesn't conform to the latest requirements of MOS:RJL.
 * There ideally should be a milepost column.
 * The exit number column should be titled "Exit", not "#" because that symbol isn't universally recognized as a shortcut for number, nor does it provide enough context as to what is being numbered.
 * Once expanded, this table will need the missing table footer to provide the conversion formula for miles to kilometers for our international readers.
 * The lead doesn't summarize the History or Future sections, a failure to meet minimum criteria for Good Articles.
 * Speaking of the Future section, how current is the information there? Does it need to be updated?
 * The prose is going to need some copy editing just to update it to modern expectations. Things like highway designation abbreviations should be used consistently are currently they are not.
 * There are disambiguation links that need repair.

Photos
I'd like to echo something brought up in the GA review. The reviewer mentioned that the scope of the images needs to be broadened (i.e., more images from outside the Lubbock area). I'd like to reinforce that by pointing out that neither of the photos in this article focus on the subject of the article; in one, I-27 is not even visible, and in the other, the only bits of I-27 you can see are the Jersey barrier and a sign (that isn't an I-27 sign, and is at a rather oblique angle that makes it hard to see). They both feel like they were meant to be Lubbock skyline shots that were selected for this article because I-27 just happened to be near where the camera was. Images in a road article should be of the road—and if you can get one with an I-27 shield present somewhere (here is one way to do it), so much the better! —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 15:03, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

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Auxiliary Routes
It is likely too early to create separate articles for the proposed auxiliary routes that was announced in 2023. I thought I could bring it up. I-227 and I-327. Source: https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2023/03/28/cruz-cornyn-introduce-legislation-to-name-i-27-extension-project/70056698007/ Cwater1 (talk) 02:36, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

 * The auxiliary route suggestions have changed to I-27E, I-27W, and I-27N; the last one should honestly stay as the original suggestion of I-327, but what do I know? Chess  Eric  21:36, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

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Denis Island

Denis Island is the second northeasternmost island in the Seychelles. It is 60 km north of Mahé and lies at the northern edge of the Seychelles bank, along with the nearby Bird Island, which is the northernmost Seychelles island. The 1.4 km2 coral island was named after the French Navy officer Denis de Trobriand, who explored it in 1773. Denis Island is privately owned and has a short airstrip. It has a holiday resort with 23 guest chalets.

A lighthouse built in 1910 still stands on the northern edge of the island. There is also a chapel named Chapel St. Denis.

The island has an abundance of coconut palms, Takamaka and Casuarina trees. In 2004, 47 Seychelles fodies from Fregate Island and 58 Seychelles warblers from Cousin Island were relocated to Denis as part of a Nature Seychelles conservation project.

The island has been designated a cay, in the Seychelles Archipelago.

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Battle (British band)

Battle were a UK indie rock band. They came to some prominence with a sound consisting largely of post-punk, spacious guitar hooks and dance-orientated beats, and have been compared to The Cure, and New Order/Joy Division. Later recordings have grown increasingly organic and atmospheric and reveal a kinship with The Smiths, Remain in Light era Talking Heads and Arcade Fire. The name Battle can be seen as an incitement for the individual to fight for their passions. Many of the band's lyrics revolve around this central theme. The band broke up around October 2007.

Formation
Singer Jason Bavanandan and guitarist Jamie Ellis met at school in Lewisham, South East London in the mid-nineties. Having completed school, they both enrolled at the University of Kent at Canterbury, with the intention of forming a band. The resulting band was Casper Jack. The music of Casper Jack was heavily informed by artists such as Oasis and the Small Faces. When the group's original bassist left, Ellis was introduced to Tim Scudder, at which point the band's sound began to change. Influences such as The Strokes, Joy Division and Pixies began to inform the songwriting process. During this period, the band's keyboardist was dismissed, and the drummer left. The next academic year saw drummer, Oliver Davies join the band. The band changed their name first to Morphic Fields, and later to Killing Moon.

Early singles
Their first single, "Isabelle" was released on 24 April 2005 on Fierce Panda Records. Their next single, "Demons", was released on 26 September 2005 by their permanent label, Transgressive Records and sold out its 1,500 copies in a day. After the free-download "Wicked Owl", the chart eligible "Tendency", reached No. 37 in the UK Singles Chart. Next single "Children", was championed by Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, and was 'hottest record in the world today' on his show.

Back to Earth - Mini-album
On 23 October 2006, Battle released the seven-track mini-album, Back to Earth, which featured new versions of "Wicked Owl" and "Tendency". The mini-album was critically acclaimed but not commercially successful. Several of the tracks were produced by Gareth Jones and originally intended for the band's full debut album. "I Never Stopped" and "Easy to Listen to" were produced by the band and Jeff Knowler in June 2006. "Beautiful Dynasty" was released as a vinyl-only single in conjunction with Back to Earth.

Break the Banks
In June 2006, copies of the Gareth Jones sessions were leaked in plain black cases under the title Break the Banks. This was reputedly originally intended to be the band's debut album. The album was never released, though several tracks were included on Back to Earth. The band put the absence of a full-debut down to a marked improvement and prolificness in their song-writing. A new album, also titled Break the Banks was released on 3 September 2007, preceded by a single, "The Longest Time", released on 2 July 2007. Another single, "Paper Street", was released on 13 September 2007. The majority of the album was reputedly written in the six months preceding its recording.

Band members

 * Jason Bavanandan – vocals, guitar
 * Oliver Davies – drums
 * James (Jamie) Ellis – guitar
 * Tim Scudder – bass

Albums

 * Break the Banks (3 September 2007)

EPs

 * Back to Earth (23 October 2006)

Singles

 * "Isabelle/Feel the Same" (24 April 2005) UK: No. 98
 * "Demons" (26 September 2005)
 * "Tendency" (13 March 2006) UK: No. 37
 * "Children" (5 June 2006) UK: No. 60
 * "The Longest Time" (2 July 2007)
 * "Paper Street" (13 September 2007)

Artwork
The cover art for Battle's first four singles and full-length album was painted by Bavanandan's younger sister, Melissa.

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Do not remove VfD tags from articles; doing so can result in being blocked from Wikipedia. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 18:30:22, 2005-08-31 (UTC)

Don't worry too much about it -- everybody makes mistakes -- but the notice does say "don't remove this." Anyway, you're more than welcome to head over to the deletion discussion and post in favor of your articles. That said, Wikipedia has established guidelines for band inclusion (see WP:MUSIC) and PD doesn't look to measure up. Based off the "I want a place for fans to find info" post on the PD talk page, which I'll assume is you, you should also check that WP:ISNOT a promotional tool. The best place for fans to find info is on your own website.

Regardless, please don't feel as though the community is trying to boot you out the door -- I just feel that these articles don't mesh with Wikipedia's goals or purposes. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 18:45:37, 2005-08-31 (UTC)

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Henry Reed (character)

Henry Reed is the main character and narrator of a series of five children's novels by Keith Robertson. The first four novels were illustrated by Robert McCloskey but he declined to handle the last one because production of the fourth disappointed him deeply. It was published in 1986 without any illustrations but the dustjacket by Gail Owens.

Four of the five novels share a similar premise: Henry, the son of an American diplomat, lives abroad with his parents. He spends summer vacation with his aunt and uncle in the small town of Grover's Corner, New Jersey, where his mother grew up. (Uncle Al is Henry's mother's brother.) Henry is a serious, entrepreneurial boy, and most of the books concern his efforts to earn money by starting some kind of business. All of the novels are told as a series of Henry's journal entries recounting his day-by-day adventures throughout the summer. As he explains in his first book, his journal is not a diary.

Margaret "Midge" Glass, a year younger than Henry, is the only person in the neighborhood close to his age. She becomes his friend and business partner throughout the series. Midge is somewhat tomboyish and more spontaneous and free-spirited than Henry, which he sometimes finds annoying. Their relationship sometimes resembles a screwball comedy minus the romance.

In all of the books, events spiral out of control, leading to chaotic and humorous misadventures. Henry and Midge are usually the unintentional cause of these adventures, although they're not deliberately mischievous.

Henry Reed books
In the first book, Henry Reed, Inc. (November 7, 1958, paperback reissue ISBN 0-14-034144-7), 13-year-old Henry meets his aunt Mabel and uncle Al; adopts a stray beagle, Agony; and makes friends with Midge. Henry turns an old family barn into the headquarters for Henry Reed, Inc., a research service. Henry attempts to make money by drilling for oil, hunting for truffles, and experimenting with a homemade weather balloon, among other efforts. His main foils throughout the book are Mr. and Mrs. Apple, who live in the house next door and have an extreme aversion to anyone entering their yard.

The second book in the series, Henry Reed's Journey (January 1, 1963, paperback reissue ISBN 0-14-034145-5), is the only one not set in Grover's Corner. Instead, Henry meets Midge and her parents in San Francisco, California, and they drive across the United States to New Jersey.

The third book, Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service (April 20, 1966, paperback reissue ISBN 0-14-034146-3), is set during the same summer. Henry and Midge decide to become baby-sitters. The Apples have moved away, so Henry and Midge have to deal with the older, disdainful children who moved in next door.

Henry Reed's Big Show (October 30, 1970, paperback reissue ISBN 0-440-43570-6), the fourth book, involves Henry and Midge's efforts to become showbiz entrepreneurs.

In Henry Reed's Think Tank (1986, paperback reissue ISBN 0-440-40104-6), the fifth book, Henry and Midge return to their roots and set up a think tank to help solve the problems of Grover's Corner residents. This book is set just after the events of Big Show. This is the only book in which Robertson reverts Henry's age — he had gone from 13 to 15 in the previous books, but Robertson makes him 13 again in this novel, presumably to keep him interesting for the younger readers for whom the books were written.

Awards

 * Henry Reed, Inc. received the William Allen White Children's Book Award in 1961
 * Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service received the William Allen White Children's Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award in 1969

Both annual awards are administered by public library systems and judged by schoolchildren.

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Silhouette Island

Silhouette Island lies 20 km northwest of Mahé in the Seychelles. It is the third largest granitic island in the Seychelles. It has an area of 20.1 km2 and has a population of 200, mostly workers on the island. The main settlement is La Passe, where Hilton Hotel is located. The name Silhouette was given after Étienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), the French minister of finances under Louis XV.

Geography
The island is mountainous with five peaks over 500 m in elevation; Mont Dauban 751 m, Mont-Pot-a-Eau 621 m, Gratte Fesse 515 m, Mont Corgat 502 m and Mont Cocos Marrons 500 m. As such, it has some of the most dramatic scenery of the islands.

Though superficially similar to neighbouring islands, much of Silhouette is made up of younger syenite dated from 63 million years ago. Between Point Ramasse Tout and Point Zeng Zeng lies the only surface volcanic ash in Seychelles.

Demographics
The population of 200 lives in 3 villages, Grand Barbe (no longer inhabited), which is on the west coast, Anse Mondon (no longer inhabited) and La Passe on the east coast.

History
The crew of an English East India Company vessel, the Ascension, were the first humans known to step ashore on Silhouette, in 1609. The island was visited by Charles Oger, who took possession of it in the name of the King of France on 28 January 1771. Graves discovered at Anse Lascars were thought to be evidence of earlier visitors, possibly of Arabic origin (hence the name "Lascars", which is the local term for an Arab). However, when bones from the graves were taken for investigation, they were dated to around 1800, around the time of the first settlement. Also, there is a legend in the Seychelles that the corsair Jean-François Hodoul buried his treasure on Silhouette Island.

From the mid-19th century until 1960, the island was owned by the Dauban family, who were originally from France but had settled in Mauritius in 1830. The Dauban family were responsible for developing extensive plantations on Silhouette. There is a mausoleum built in the style of La Madeleine in Paris, Église de la Madeleine, where a number of the family members are buried, including Auguste Dauban, whose business ventures were so extensive he earned the nickname "the Rothschild of the Indian Ocean". The Dauban era came to an end when Henri Dauban sold the island to a French group. Following the purchase of the island by the Seychelles government in 1983, a small hotel was constructed. This was later replaced by the larger Labriz Resort which was then bought by the Hilton hotel group. The Dauban plantation house has recently been restored, and now is a museum which contains many original photos of the Dauban family.

Flora and fauna
Silhouette Island is one of the richest biodiversity points in the western Indian Ocean with many endemic and threatened plant and animal species. Among the most important is the Critically Endangered Seychelles sheath-tailed bat. Two roosting caves have been located, part of a single system of passages in a boulder field. Another roost complex was discovered in 2005 and 32 bats recorded. Most of the 75 or so endemic plants of the granitic islands of Seychelles are found on Silhouette, some of them unique to the island. One of the rarest of these is the Critically Endangered Impatiens gordonii, a white-flowered relative of the well-known garden plant Busy Lizzie, only ever recorded on Mahe and Silhouette. In 1987 the surrounding waters were declared a Marine National Park. In 2010, Silhouette National Park was created protecting 93 percent of the landmass. The island is also an Important Bird Area and is considered by the Alliance for Zero Extinction to be an important site for the survival of Critically Endangered species. Conservation of the island is managed by the Island Conservation Society.

Species of interest

 * Seychelles sheath-tailed bat
 * Seychelles giant tortoise
 * Astropanax procumbens
 * Seychelles kestrel
 * Seychelles blue pigeon
 * Lychas braueri

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Fiction

 * different background color/template to separate fictional article subjects from the rest
 * careful screening of fictional universes and character; a "(fiction)" suffix when appropriate...

Style

 * Unified style guidelines for
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 * c) editors/writers adding content of various types [we've made a good headstart here],
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 * Pages : by namespace; each has its own style.
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 * Coordination with good social software. Matching of interests, work habits, schedules.  Elegant, granular privacy control.  Replace the growing "List of wikipedians who..." with cats in this system.

Interfaces [Ice]

 * Social software . (see Community)  Extra user-page ice, more refined talk-page ice.
 * User-page - interests, other freeform groups, access to centralized user-stats.
 * Group-page - notice-boards (regional, by wiki-job, other), affinities (list of wpans who, some wikiprojects), projects (wikiprojects, other wp: namespace pages), SIGs (groups with charters, or pursuing fixed tasks, or holding regular meetings, or issuing regular reports)
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 * Options -- to show names or not; alt text "New messages:"

 * Login screens.
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 * Encourage acct linking, for new-messages patch.  Ice to see all accounts.
 * Options: User-page / talk-page templates. Prefs template.  (applied on demand)
 * Acct screen : show user/talkpage existence on all langs/projs, recent talk activity (like souped-up RC)
 * Acct linking : "add acct" (where names are different); adds onto sth like the current name-change request queue (think ar:, zh:, ja:, en:)

 * Translation tools.
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 * Translation can take a while; better conflict-mgmt, or optional edit-locking, would be helpful here.

 * Conflict resoultion and autosaving
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 * Temporary autosaves
 * Provide an autosave option; if you turn it on, your edits are autosaved every N minutes. Once you actually save successfully, they are deleted.

Softness

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 * Have a queue for diff-name/same-email, same-name/diff-email, or (rarely) diff-/diff-.

 * Translation/content-linking patch.
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 * Provide a simple way to link articles : let someone to say "A:P.R(X) was synched with the content of B:P'.S(Y)"
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Praslin

Praslin is the second largest island (38.5 km2) of the Inner Seychelles, lying 44 km northeast of Mahé. Praslin has a population of around 7,533 people and comprises two administrative districts: Baie Sainte Anne and Grand' Anse. The main settlements are the Baie Ste Anne, Anse Volbert and Grand' Anse.

It was named Isle de Palmes by explorer Lazare Picault in 1744. During that time it was used as a hideaway by pirates and Arab merchants. In 1768 it was renamed Praslin in honor of French diplomat César Gabriel de Choiseul, duc de Praslin.

Praslin is known as a tourist destination with several hotels and resorts, as well as a number of beaches such as Anse Lazio and Anse Georgette.

It has substantial tracts of tropical forests with birds such as the endemic Seychelles bulbul and the Seychelles black parrot. The Vallée de Mai Nature Preserve, established in 1979, is known for the unique coco de mer and vanilla orchids. It has been reported that General Charles George Gordon of Khartoum (1833–1885), an ardent Christian cosmologist, was convinced that Vallée de Mai was the Biblical "Garden of Eden".

Praslin is home to Praslin Island Airport, while surrounding islands include Curieuse Island, La Digue, Cousin Island, Cousine Island and Aride Island. There are a few near offshore islets including Round Island (0.193 km2) and Chauve Souris (0.007 km2), both of which have hotel accommodations.

A large area in the south of the island has been designated as Praslin National Park and surrounding areas Important Bird Area.

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The Claim (2000 film)

The Claim is a 2000 Western romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, Sarah Polley, Nastassja Kinski and Milla Jovovich. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman. The film did poorly at the box office and was received as an average film by critics.

Plot
Daniel Dillon is an Irish immigrant who settles in the high mountains of California during the Gold Rush of 1849. It is now 1867, and Dillon has a vault filled with gold and a town of his own, named Kingdom Come. Dillon owns nearly every business of consequence in the town; if someone digs for gold, rents a hotel room, opens a bank account, or commits a crime, they will have to deal with Dillon.

Donald Dalglish is a surveyor with the Central Pacific Railroad, which wants to put a train either through Kingdom Come, or somewhere in the vicinity. He is here to decide the route. Dillon is anxious to ensure that the railway line is routed through "his" town, as this will bring more business.

Among the travelers who arrive in town with Dalglish are two women, the beautiful but ailing Elena Burn and her lovely teenage daughter Hope. The presence of these women is deeply troubling for Dillon, for they are the keys to a dark secret Dillon has kept from the people of Kingdom Come for nearly twenty years. Dillon had come to these mountains with his Polish wife Elena and their months-old baby, Hope. On a cold and snowy night they happen upon a shack named Kingdom Come, owned by a disillusioned '49er named Burn. Like Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge, Dillon sells Elena and Hope to the prospector in exchange for the small gold claim that would later flourish and make Dillon so wealthy. Burn has died, and Elena has come to find Dillon because Burn left her with nothing, she is dying, and she wants Dillon to give her $200 per year so that she can "do right by Hope".

Dillon tells Lucia that they have to end their relationship and gives her some gold bricks and the deeds to her home, the saloon/brothel, and the tobacco house. Lucia is heartbroken, wanting Dillon and not his money. Dillon tells Elena that he never married anyone else because he was always married to her. The two renew their marriage but their time together is short, filled with Dillon's efforts to find a cure for her illness and ending with her death.

Elena's death coincides with the decision to route the railway some distance from the town for easier passage and construction. Lucia moves the girls, the booze and the tobacco house to the valley, effectively moving the entire population of Kingdom Come to her new town of Lisboa, named for her father's home in Portugal, to be near the railroad. Following Elena's funeral, Hope tells Dillon that she is leaving to find Dalglish and start a life with him. Dillon takes her up to the original shack Kingdom Come, showing her a picture of their family when she was a baby, and revealing the deal made right on that spot between him and Burn. Hope leaves him and goes to the new Lisboa.

Dillon is thus faced with the loss of both Elena and Hope, and his town. He sets fire to all the buildings in Kingdom Come. The smoke attracts the people of Lisboa, who find Dillon's frozen body in the snow near his original shack. Lucia is devastated, crying over the frozen body as it is brought back to the ruins of Kingdom Come. While many of the 'former' townspeople rush to find Dillon's stockpile of gold in the burned out vault, Hope and Dalglish choose instead to follow Dillon's body as Lucia and others continue with it down the mountain.

Cast

 * Peter Mullan as Daniel Dillon
 * Milla Jovovich as Lucia
 * Wes Bentley as Donald Dalglish
 * Nastassja Kinski as Elena Dillon/Burn
 * Sarah Polley as Hope Dillon/Burn
 * Julian Richings as Frank Bellanger
 * Shirley Henderson as Annie
 * Sean McGinley as Sweetley
 * Tom McCamus as Burn
 * Karolina Muller as Young Elena
 * Barry Ward as Young Dillon
 * Duncan Fraser as Crocker

Filming
Primary filming took place at the Fortress Mountain Resort in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada. Near the end of the film, in a scene where the character of Dillon is standing in the street and throws an oil can onto a burning building, you can see the tower, cables and chairs of a modern ski lift in the background. The decision to have the film's dramatic burning of the entire town of Kingdom Come also served as a first step to fulfill the producer's commitment to return the site to its original natural condition.

Some secondary filming took place in Colorado. The town that Lucia creates in the valley below Kingdom Come is not to be confused with the real town of Lisbon, California (now the unincorporated community of Arden-Arcade), located on the route of the Sacramento Northern Railway which started operation in 1918.

Soundtrack
The Claim is Michael Nyman's first (and, as of 2008, only) score for a Western, and his second collaboration with Michael Winterbottom. In it, in particular, in "The Shootout," Nyman pays homage to Ennio Morricone's Western scores. "The Shootout" also incorporates material from A Zed & Two Noughts and Prospero's Books in a layered manner with elements of the main themes of the score and a Morricone-style trumpet motif. The score includes the principal scalar riff that appears in numerous Nyman works, including Out of the Ruins, String Quartet No. 3, À la folie, Carrington, the rejected score from Practical Magic, and The End of the Affair. The Claim marks Michael Nyman's last use of this musical material (as of 2008).

Portions of the score appear as solo piano works on Nyman's 2005 album, The Piano Sings, which features Nyman's personal piano interpretations of music he had written for various films.

Track listing

 * 1) The Exchange
 * 2) The First Encounter
 * 3) The Hut
 * 4) The Explosion
 * 5) The Recollection
 * 6) The Fiery House
 * 7) The Betrothal
 * 8) The Firework Display
 * 9) The Train
 * 10) The Shootout
 * 11) The Death Of Elena
 * 12) The Explanation
 * 13) The Burning
 * 14) The Snowy Death
 * 15) The Closing

Production details

 * Artists: The Michael Nyman Orchestra
 * Composed and conducted by Michael Nyman
 * Orchestration: Gary Carpenter/Michael Nyman
 * Programmer and music editor: Robert Worby
 * Auricle Operator: Chris Cozens
 * Engineer: Austin Ince
 * Assistant Engineers: Simon Changer and Ryu Kawashima
 * Recorded, mixed and edited at Whitfield Sterret Studios, London, September 2000
 * Music published by Northlight Music Ltd. (BMI)
 * Design/Illustration: Dave McKean at Hourglass

Reception
Robert Roten writing for Laramie Movie Reviews found the film to be watchable though very slow in narrative pace stating, "It reminded me of the scene in Aguirre, The Wrath of God where the boat is dragged through the jungle. If the story was as crisp as the snow, and the plot advanced faster than a glacier, this might have been a better film. I'm glad I didn't spend more than a dollar on this. It rates a C." Roger Ebert gave The Claim a strong review, praising the film for its direction and cinematography.

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I've always seen his nickname being "the Restorer". john k 18:35, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Removed out-of-date notice about Arabic in lead paragraaph; someone's put it in. --Carl Turner 09:58, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, he restored the Ottoman State but his nicname Kirisci has a different story. According to the legend, in a time period, he had to work in constructuon sites because of the conflicts between him and the other royal family members that also wanted to be the new Sultan. It is just like a secret identity for him to be the Kirisci. With respect, the supporter of Nihal Atsız, Deliogul 22:21, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source on that? john k 22:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, according to Necdet Sakaoglu, there are two possible reasons for this nickname. Maybe other members of the royal family tried to kill him with a bow string(Kiriş in Turkish) or most commonly accepted possibility is the one I wrote on the top. The construction worker theory. With respect, Deliogul 17:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * As I said before, his nickname, Kirisci, wasn't given to him because he was a Executioner. So I'm deleting it. With respect, Deliogul 17:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I have looked at the Sakaoglu reference as well and must revise the statement above. But before that I have looked at the Redhouse Buyuk Elsozlugu which gives the meanings of kiris as "(1) joist, beam, rafter, girder (2) catgut...(3) bowstring (of a shooting bow) 4...tendon". Thus the word kirisci refers to makers of bowstring and catgut (definitely not to joist etc. making at construction sites!!) According to Sakaoglu the reasons for getting the nickname of "kirisci" are "either when he was a young prince someone wanted to strangulate and kill him with a catgut-bowstring or that in order to hide himself from the threat of being killed by his brothers he got apprenticed with a bowstring maker". These have nothing to do with being a construction worker or executioner!! Sakaoglu states that his other nickname may be "kiri" which may be because "he was a good wrestler when young".Noyder (talk) 17:08, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Mahomet or Mehmet
In the text, one can read: Mahomet I. also completed the vast and magnificent mosque at Bursa, which his grandfather Murad I. had commenced

Are Mehmet and Mahomet the same? I would appreciate any reference to that effect. Thanks. Sphinxx 15:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Mehmet is the Turkish translation of the name Muhammed and there is not a name like Mahomet in Turkish. With respect, Deliogul 17:26, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Date of birth
There is a controversy about the date of birth of Mehmed I. There are various dates suggested. This article has three dates 1382/1387/1389 with 1389 emphasized. One authoritative Turkish historian, Necdet Sakaoglu, puts the birth date as early as 1373 and mentions that other suggested dates are 1375, 1379, 1386, 1390, 1391. This is curious since none of these are the dates stated in this article!! (Sakaoglu, N. (1999), Bu Mulkun Sultanlari Istanbul: Oglak p. 63). However, that same authority concludes that "it would be correct to admit that we do not know exactly the birth dates of Yildirim and his sons". Given this I have deleted the mention of his age at his death.Noyder (talk) 16:28, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Sitti Mukrime Hatun
Sitti Mukrime Hatun (born 1453) was the wife of Mehmed II not the wife of Mehmed I. Mehmed I had been dead for 32 years before she was even born. I 'll correct this in the article. She is also confused again with Emine Hatun as Mehmed I's wife and mother of Murad II in the Dulkadir article. Ibrahim4048 (talk) 19:13, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

1382, NOT 1389!
Mehmed I was born in 1382. Böri (talk) 11:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Cilicia
In section His reign it is claimed that he conquered the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from the Mamelukes. Armenian kingdom was destroted in 1375 by Ramazanoğlu in the name of Egyptian Mamluk. But Ottomans annexed the territory in 1516-1517, approximatelly one century after Mehmet I. I'll call the editor. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 02:01, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Mustafa
Can anyone provide sources on that Mustafa was heir appearant after Ertugrul's death? Suleiman was the eldest brother, wasn't he the one?103.147.163.6 (talk) 11:34, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

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Paul Rein

Paul Rein (born Pauli Kaj Olavi Reinikainen, May 20, 1965) is a Swedish songwriter and music producer based in Stockholm. He was also a singer in the 1980s. He released italo disco singles such as "Lady-O", "Hold Back Your Love", "Stop (Give It Up)" and "Touch".

Rein is well known within the music industry for his hit songs which have enjoyed success on the Billboard charts, performed by vocalists such as Christina Aguilera ("Come On Over"), Jessica Simpson ("I've Got My Eyes On You"), Victoria Beckham, Mandy Moore, H & Claire, No Angels and Nikki Webster.

Early life
Rein was born in Danderyd, and he has Finnish roots in Jyväskylä.

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La Digue

La Digue is the third most populated island of the Seychelles, and fourth largest by land area, lying east of Praslin and west of Felicite Island. In size, it is the fourth-largest granitic island of Seychelles after Mahé, Praslin, and Silhouette Island. It has a population of 2,800 people. Most of the inhabitants live in the west coast villages of La Passe (linked by ferry to Praslin and Mahé) and Anse Réunion. There is no airport on La Digue, so to get there from a foreign country, one must fly to Victoria and continue by ferry, usually via Praslin. It has an area of 10.08 km2, making it relatively easy to travel by bike or on foot.

La Digue was named after a ship in the fleet of French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, who visited Seychelles in 1768.

History
According to modern historians, La Digue was first sighted by the French navigator Lazare Picault in 1742, but it was not named until 1768. The first people settled on the island in 1789, when French colonists arrived with enslaved people from Africa. Most of them went back to France, but some people were left and some of today's inhabitants carry their names. Later, more French deportees arrived, followed by a large number of liberated slaves and Asian immigrants. In 1854, the first Catholic chapel was built on La Digue by Father Theophile. Most inhabitants of the island are of the Catholic faith. French colonists on La Digue manufactured coral lime, and they are believed to be responsible for the decline of the island's coral reefs. They also made copra out of coconuts, and they planted vanilla on their plantations. This tradition has been continued.

Climate
Seychelles generally has warm temperatures throughout the year. They get frequent and sometimes heavy rainfall. On La Digue, rainfall can be very heavy, but it usually lasts for one hour or less. Daytime temperatures on La Digue normally range from 24 °C to 32 °C; nighttime temperatures are slightly colder. The months with the heaviest rainfall are October to March, with monthly precipitation of 402.6 mm in January. The month with the least precipitation is July, with only 76.6 mm of rain.

Culture
The inhabitants of La Digue are called Diguois. The first inhabitants arrived in 1798, exiled from Île Bourbon (now named Réunion) for taking part in a political rebellion there. They were supposed to be sent to the East Indies but bribed the captain to ship them to Seychelles instead where many had relatives. The population of La Digue is mostly Catholic and the island's feast day on 15 August is a national holiday.

Politics
There is no separate government of La Digue, so it follows the laws and legislation set by the government in Victoria. Seychelles has a president and the main political sides are the PP and SNP. The law system of Seychelles is modelled on European legal systems.

Government services
Being an island with a population of only 2,800 people, there are few government buildings or services. For many services, people have to go to Praslin. La Digue has a post office which is closed on Sundays. There is a small police station that was mainly set up for tourists. There is a small hospital, although some inhabitants prefer to visit the hospitals in Praslin and Victoria. Women usually go to the hospital in Victoria to give birth.

Tourism
Today, the island's main industry is tourism, and it is known for its beaches, especially Anse Source d'Argent and Grand Anse. La Digue, along with the rest of Seychelles, saw a major increase in tourism numbers in the late 20th century, which greatly impacted the economy of Seychelles. Before 1960, copra and vanilla production were the mainstays of the local economy, which are commemorated in the island's museum.

The Veuve Nature Reserve, in the island's interior, is home to the rare black paradise flycatcher, of which there are only about 100 in existence. La Digue's tallest peak, Belle Vue (Eagle's Nest Mountain), is in the central part of the island, with a summit more than 300 m above sea level. La Digue's wide variety of underwater creatures including fish, sharks, and rays also attracts many tourists for diving trips. The island has plenty of accommodations and activities for tourists, including more than twenty guesthouses and hotels, restaurants, and a dive centre. One can go on a boat trip or a diving trip around La Digue for half or full days. Furthermore, the Veuve Reserve offers tourists hiking trips with guides.

Transport
The primary means of transportation is still the bicycle. It is possible to rent bicycles near the ferry pier. There are a few privately owned vehicles, but most cars and buses belong to hotel companies. Another method of transport on La Digue is the ox-cart, which has a slow pace suited to the island.

Cuisine
Since La Digue is an island inhabited by many ethnic groups, the local cuisine is a mix of world cuisines, with a specific focus on fish. With abundant seafood, the Seychellois people have developed hundreds of recipes using a variety of fish. One can have fish curry, fish fillets, raw fish with lemon, grilled fish, steamed fish, cooked fish, and so on. The inhabitants of La Digue also make fried octopus, lobster with garlic and their biggest specialty – bat curry. A commonly used ingredient is ginger. The most popular alcoholic drink on La Digue is palm wine, which most Seychellois people like to make themselves by fermenting the inside of a coconut.

Wildlife
La Digue is the home to the critically endangered paradise flycatcher. However, other rare and endangered animals live on this island. Since Seychelles is detached from the rest of Africa, many of the species are endemic to La Digue. There is a significant population of giant tortoises that come from the island Aldabra. The subspecies that lived on La Digue is extinct. From the arthropod group there is, for example, the Seychelles coconut crab which likes to dig holes in the backyards of the Seychellois people. Among others, there are fodies, sunbirds, terns, fruitbats, sheath-tailed bats, and geckos.

The reefs and lagoons of La Digue offer a large amount of flora and fauna. Green sea turtles live on the very edges of the coral reefs, and they sometimes venture closer to the island. There are butterflyfish, eagle ray, moray eel and many other species of fish. Divers and snorkellers may be lucky enough to see blacktip reef sharks or even whale sharks, which come mainly in the winter but can be seen all year round.

Sadly, the animals that have traditionally lived on La Digue are threatened by animals that were brought there by the first inhabitants: rats, dogs, cats, etc. The rat population was probably the first animal that was brought to Seychelles. It quickly made many birds extinct by eating their eggs and threatening their nests. The dog and cat population is not nearly as much of a threat, but it still is something that the original species of Seychelles are not used to.

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David Allen (cricketer)

David Arthur Allen (29 October 1935 – 24 May 2014) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire between 1953 and 1972. He also played 39 Test matches for England between 1960 and 1966.

Life and career
A right-arm off-break bowler, using a very short run, Allen was first selected for England in 1959 and in 1960 was selected as the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year. Allen toured all the then-current Test-playing nations. He was a decent bat, his Test average higher than the all-rounders Fred Titmus and Ray Illingworth, and in the 1963 Lord's Test against the West Indies, he notably played out the final two balls of Wes Hall's last over for a draw. Allen had protected Colin Cowdrey at the other end, who was pressed in to bat with his broken arm in plaster. In the 1965–66 Ashes series Allen made 50 not out in the Third Test at Sydney, adding 93 for the last two wickets, and took 2/42 and 4/47 as England won by an innings and 93 runs.

Allen was also famous for being taken off against Australia. In the decisive Fourth Test at Old Trafford in 1961 he took three quick wickets to have Australia nine wickets down, but Alan Davidson hit him for 20 runs in an over and Peter May took him off. Davidson and Graham McKenzie added 98 for the last wicket and Australia won by 54 runs. Nevertheless, in six winters, Allen completed the set of playing against all the other Test playing nations of the time. In India and Pakistan in 1961–62, he bowled 482 overs in the eight Test matches alone.

Allen came close to developing into an all-rounder on the level of his contemporary Fred Titmus. Playing fairly regularly for England throughout the first half of the 1960s, after 1966 he found it increasingly difficult to score enough runs or get enough bowling at county level as trends changed. Gloucestershire used three spin bowlers from the 1950s onwards but by the end of the 1960s Mike Bissex and Allen were effectively doing the work of one bowler. Though Bissex lost form, the advent of Sadiq Mohammad, a useful leg spinner, saw Allen fade away from the county side in 1972. Cricket commentator Colin Bateman noted that "towards the end of his 20 summers at Bristol his relationship with skipper Tony Brown, with whom he had grown up on a cricket field, became strained. Allen even found himself left out of his own benefit match".

After he retired from cricket, Allen worked as an area manager for the Bristol wine merchants Harveys and then for Allied Domecq. He was a member of the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club committee, and was elected club president in 2011. He died in May 2014, survived by his wife Joyce and their son and daughter.

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The History of Rock with Chris Langham

The History of Rock with Chris Langham was a BBC radio comedy broadcast in the United Kingdom in 1984. It was narrated by Chris Langham, and was broadcast as three half-hour episodes.

Across the three episodes the show documented the progression of rock music in a comedic manner, detailing fictional stories about famous musicians and the way rock music evolved through the twentieth century. Langham's narration let the story unfold, and there were frequent impersonations of rock stars and their songs, parodying the styles of artists such as Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

As well as Langham, the show was voiced by Mark Arden, Janice Kramer, Steve Frost and Philip Pope (the latter of whom collaborated with Steve Brown in writing and performing the musical material). It was written by Roger Planer with additional material from Mark Smith and Arnold Brown, and produced by Jamie Rix.

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Buqa Temür

Buqa Temür (Cyrillic Mongolian: Бөхтөмөр, not to be confused with Tuka Timur, son of Djötchi, brother of Batu) was Khan of the Chagatai Khanate (1272?-1282). He was the son of Qadaqchi.

Sometime around 1272 Buqa Temür killed Negübei, who had risen in revolt against Kaidu. Perhaps as a reward for this, Kaidu appointed him as head of the Chagatai Khanate. Soon after, he was stricken by illness, and the rest of his reign was marked by a failure to impose his authority. He was helpless against the raids of the sons of Alghu and Baraq, as well as forces of the Ilkhanate. In 1282 he was replaced by Duwa.

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Curieuse Island

Curieuse Island is a small granitic island 1.13 sqmi in the Seychelles close to the north coast of the island of Praslin. Curieuse is notable for its bare red earth intermingled with the unique coco de mer palms, one of the cultural icons of the Seychelles, only growing on the two neighboring islands.

History
Originally named "Ile Rouge" due to its red coloured soil. In 1768 the French claimed possession of the island, naming it after the schooner "La Curieuse", a ship that was under the command of explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne. Like a number of islands in the Seychelles, there was a native giant tortoise population that was quickly extirpated.

In 1829, Curieuse was first used as a leper colony, and it functioned in this capacity until 1965. This helped protect the ecosystem from human influence. Today, ruins of the leprosarium remain, as well as the former physician's residence at Anse St. Joseph (now an educational center and museum).

Conservation
In 1967 a fire destroyed much of the vegetation on the island, including more than 150 coco de mer palms. Following this event, the government took ownership of the island and introduced various restoration and conservation projects.

In 1979, Curieuse and surrounding waters were declared the Curieuse Marine National Park in order to protect the native wildlife. Between 1978 and 1982, a conservation project relocated Aldabra giant tortoise from Aldabra to Curieuse. Today, it is the home of more than 300 Aldabra giant tortoise, some staying around the Ranger's Station and the rest roaming around elsewhere on the island.

On the southern part of the island is a mangrove swamp that is traversed by a walkway for park visitors. The island is also known for coco de mer palms, giant takamaka trees, a large hawksbill turtle rookery and several bird species, such as the rare Seychelles black parrot Coracopis nigra barklyi, a parrot found only here and on Praslin. Though black parrots are found here, it is worth noting no breeding has been recorded to occur. Instead it is recorded in the mature palm forests of Praslin. Among the plant species on the island, several are native and endemic to Curieuse; Porcher (Cordia subcordata), Bois Chandelle (Dracaena), Lalyann dile (Secamone schimperiana, Bwa bannann (Gastonia sechellarum) and Bois Cassant de Bord Mer (Guettarda speciosa)

There is also currently a satellite camp for the Seychelles branch of Global Vision International, a volunteer group that focuses on conservation of the island and surveys local fish, coral, turtle and coco de mer numbers.

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Du rire aux larmes

Du rire aux larmes (French for 'from laughter to tears') was the 2001 debut album by the French hip hop group Sniper. It was published on the Desh Musique record label. The album contained the track La France, which was later fiercely attacked by the French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy.

Track listing

 * 1) "Intro" – (1:32)
 * 2) "Sniper processus" – (4:18)
 * 3) "Pris pour cible" – (4:04)
 * 4) "Faut de tout pour faire un monde" – (4:48)
 * 5) "Intro Le crew est de sortie" – (0:29)
 * 6) "Le crew est de sortie" – (4:31)
 * 7) "Intro Tribal poursuite" – (0:41)
 * 8) "Tribal poursuite" – (4:41)
 * 9) "La France" – (6:18)
 * 10) "Intro Du rire aux larmes" – (1:04)
 * 11) "Du rire aux larmes" – (5:01)
 * 12) "Aketo vs Tunisiano" – (4:04)
 * 13) "La sentence" – (4:01)
 * 14) "Quand on te dit" featuring J-Mi Sissoko - (3:56)
 * 15) "Aketo solo" – (4:15)
 * 16) "Fait divers" – (5:01)
 * 17) "La rumba" – (4:19)
 * 18) "On s'en sort bien" – (4:05)

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Aride Island

Aride Island is the northernmost granitic island in the Seychelles (Bird Island is the northernmost Seychelles island overall). A nature reserve, it is leased and managed by the Island Conservation Society of Seychelles.

History
The name ‘Aride’ first appears on nautical charts after French voyages of exploration in 1770 and 1771. The first written account was in 1787 by Jean-Baptiste Malavois, French commandant of Seychelles, who described it as being “…no more than a pile of rocks covered with a few bushes.” Between 1817 and 1829 Aride was possibly an unofficial leper colony. In 1868, the Irishman Perceval Wright, who gave his name to Aride's unique gardenia and one of its endemic lizards, visited Aride. In 1883, the British artist Marianne North painted a scene on the island, reporting just one large tree, beneath which the island staff sheltered from the sun. Coconut palms were planted over much of Aride and copra production became important economically. Dogs, pigs, cats and chickens were introduced, though fortunately rats never arrived.

The wooden plantation house on Aride, overlooking the small settlement, is one of the last buildings of its type to survive in Seychelles.

For almost a century sooty tern eggs were cropped with up to 220,000 being removed each season. Not surprisingly the number of nesting seabirds declined and all endemic land birds were wiped out. However, in 1967, the island's owner, Paul Chenard, ceased egg collection and declared the island a reserve. In 1973, Mr. Christopher Cadbury purchased Aride for the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves (now Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts). In 1979 it was declared a Special Reserve under Seychelles law, to include a marine zone of 200m around the island, with penalties including imprisonment for killing or disturbance of its wildlife.

In 2003, management was transferred to Island Conservation Society. In 2006, the freehold was transferred to the UK Registered Charity Island Conservation Society UK and in 2008, the island was leased back to Island Conservation Society of Seychelles.

Geography
The island is part of the district of Grand'Anse, located 10 km north of Praslin island and is 68 hectares in area.

Demographics
The only human inhabitants are the reserve's staff; currently four Seychellois rangers, two expatriate Conservation Officers and two volunteers. They live in the main village of the island, La Cour, on the south side of the island.

Government services
Being an island with a small population, there are not any government buildings or services. For many services, people have to go to Praslin.

Tourism
Today, the island is dedicated to conservation supported by ecotourism. It is known for huge seabird colonies, with more breeding species than any other single Seychelles island plus large numbers of non-breeding frigatebirds. The density of lizards is also one of the greatest on earth. There is only one beach, which faces south, making access difficult when the southeast trade winds are at their height (June to September) There is no overnight accommodation other than for the resident staff of the island but one can visit for the day by boat trip from neighbouring Praslin, 8 kilometres to the south.

Transport
The only form of transportation is by foot.

Cuisine
Fish is the staple diet supplemented by fruit and vegetables grown on the island and other foodstuffs brought by the island boat from Praslin.

Flora and fauna
Over 1.25 million seabirds regularly breed on Aride including the world's largest colony of lesser noddy, the largest Seychelles population of roseate tern and the world's largest colony of tropical shearwater. There is also an enormous roost of non-breeding frigatebirds.

There are five species endemic to Seychelles resident on Aride. The Seychelles warbler was introduced from Cousin Island to Aride in 1988 and its population is now the largest in the world with over 2,000 pairs. The Seychelles fody was also introduced from Cousin in 2002, as well the Seychelles magpie robin from Fregate Island. The Seychelles blue pigeon and the Seychelles sunbird have re-colonised Aride naturally.

Reptilian fauna includes several species of skink, three species of gecko and three species of non-poisonous snakes. Green turtles and hawksbill turtles are regular visitors to the beaches of Aride.

Aride is the only place in the world where the flowering shrub Wright's gardenia Rothmannia annae is endemic.

title: Aride Island


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Gare do Oriente

Gare do Oriente, or alternately, the Lisbon Oriente Station is one of the main Portuguese intermodal transport hubs, and is situated in the civil parish of Parque das Nações, municipality of Lisbon.

History
In 1994, the station was proposed as part of the modernization of the Linha do Norte, a modification to the rail line to facilitate the future development of a new station in eastern Lisbon. Located along Avenida D. João II, over Avenida de Berlim and Rua Conselheiro Mariano de Carvalho, the station was planned to occupy the lands once occupied by Apeadeiro dos Olivais, which was demolished in the 1990s in order to make way for the new station.

Bids for building the project on lands to be used for the 1998 exposition were solicited internationally. The concept was originally designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava in 1995, and built by Necso.

The station was inaugurated on 19 May 1998, as part of the celebrations marking the opening of the Expo '98 world's fair. At the time of its opening it was considered the largest intermodal station in Portugal, winning the Brunel Award on 7 October 1998, in the category of large new construction projects.

Architecture
Oriente Station is situated in an urban area of reclaimed industrial and abandoned buildings fronting the northern margin of the Tagus River, situated 6 km from the city centre.

Ambitious in its conception, the modernist station includes a Lisbon Metro station, a high-speed commuter and regional train hub, a local, national and international bus station, a shopping centre and a police station. The rail station was conceived with a multi-modal platform intersecting the cardinal axes for the various transport modes.

With some influence from Gothic architecture, the station bears considerable resemblance to Santiago Calatrava's earlier Allen Lambert Galleria within Toronto's Brookfield Place. Calatrava's objective was to realize a new space with ample room and functionality providing multiple connections between various zones in the metropolitan area of Lisbon.

One important aspect of the station is its link to the urban environment in which it was constructed. The decision to elevate the rail line, for example, eliminated a physical barrier between the city and the Tagus River margin. The station, covered in a lattice structure of glass and metal, is constructed of reinforced concrete and raised 19 m over the roadway. By January 2011, there were eight lines that extended 510 - 720 m across 309 m platforms, between 60 - 70 cm in height.

In addition to the many galleries that are part of the station, it is connected to the Centro Comercial Vasco da Gama (Vasco da Gama Commercial Centre/Mall) and the Lisbon Metro through a subterranean access, as well as a first floor connection to the train platforms and a pedestrian walkway.

title: Gare do Oriente