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Berlin Observatory

The Berlin Observatory (Berliner Sternwarte) is a German astronomical institution with a series of observatories and related organizations in and around the city of Berlin in Germany, starting from the 18th century. It has its origins in 1700 when Gottfried Leibniz initiated the "Brandenburg Society of Science″ (Sozietät der Wissenschaften) which would later (1744) become the Prussian Academy of Sciences (Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften). The Society had no observatory but nevertheless an astronomer, Gottfried Kirch, who observed from a private observatory in Berlin. A first small observatory was furnished in 1711, financing itself by calendrical computations.

In 1825 Johann Franz Encke was appointed director by King Frederick William III of Prussia. With the support of Alexander von Humboldt, Encke got the King to agree to the financing of a true observatory, but one condition was that the observatory be made accessible to the public two nights per week. The building was designed by the well-known architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and began operating in 1835. It now bears the IAU observatory code 548.

Although the original observatory was built in the outskirts of the city, over the course of time the city expanded such that after two centuries the observatory was in the middle of other settlements which made making observations very difficult and a proposal to move the observatory was made. The observatory was moved to Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1913 (IAU observatory code 536). Since 1992 it is managed by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), although it has not been used for German astronomical observations since the 20th century.

In Berlin remain the Wilhelm Foerster Observatory (IAU code 544), the Archenhold Sternwarte, Berlin-Treptow (Archenhold Observatory; IAU code 604), the Urania Sternwarte (Urania Observatory, IAU code 537), and the Bruno H. Bürgel Observatory.

History
In September 1699, the Reichstag decided to introduce an "improved calendar" to the Protestant German states without having to take on the Gregorian Calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. The 'improved calendar' was introduced the following year and resulted in 18 February 1700 being followed by 1 March. A patent for the calendar was granted to the planned Berlin Observatory by Prince-elector Frederick III on 10 May 1700 and eight days later Gottfried Kirch was appointed to Director of the Observatory. On 11 July (his 43rd birthday) the Kurfürst signed a document formally founding an Academy and an Observatory in Berlin. Therefore, Berlin received an academy just like those already existing in London, Paris and Rome – the Prussian Academy of Sciences (originally German name: ″Kurfürstlich-Brandenburgische Societät der Wissenschaften″), based on the plans of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Leibniz became the first president of the Academy. The fees resulting from the calendar patent were the almost single financial basis of the institution for a long period. The society originally had no actual observatory of its own and Kirch carried out his observations at various private observatories including, from 1705, the private observatory of Geheimrat Bernhard Friedrich von Krosigk on the Wallstrasse, in Cölln. Kirch was assisted by his wife Maria Margarethe and his son Christfried. Maria Margarethe discovered, among other things, the comet of 1702. In the meantime the Kurfürst had been raised in 1701 to the rank of King in Prussia. On 1 January 1710, the capital was expanded by uniting the previously independent towns of Dorotheenstadt, Friedrichstadt, Friedrichwerder, and Cölln and Berlin (the oldest ones).

The Old Berlin Observatory

The first Berlin Observatory was sited in the Dorotheenstadt quarter. The Marstall Unter den Linden had been erected from 1687 to 1688 according to the plans of the architect Johann Arnold Nering, originally for 200 horses, and a second storey was added from 1695 to 1697 for the Academie der Mahler-, Bildhauer- und Architectur-Kunst, founded in 1696. From 1696 to 1700, Martin Grünberg extended the complex northwards for the new Societät der Wissenschaften, doubling the perimeter out to the Letzten Straße (later: Dorotheenstraße) ). From 1700 until 1711, the observatory, a tower built by Grünberg with three levels, was added to the northern wing of the installation. The 27-meter-high building was one of the first tower observatories of the 18th century. The observatory became partly usable in 1706 and by 1709 was more or less completed. On 15 January 1711 the ″Königlich Preußische Sozietät der Wissenschaften″ held its first meeting in the tower and four days later its first formal gathering, at which the observatory was officially handed over. It became an important focus of the Society. In time, its library and natural history collection also came to be housed under the same roof. The Society was reorganized by Frederick II in 1744 as the ″Royal Academy of Sciences″ (″Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften″) and retained its base there until 1752.

Gottfried Kirch died in 1710, a year before the official opening of the Academy and the Observatory. His assistant Johann Heinrich Hoffmann moved up to replace him as the head of the observatory. After his death in 1716 Christfried Kirch, the son of Gottfried Kirch, became his successor. He was aided in his work on the calendar by his mother Maria Margarethe Kirch and his sister, just like he and his mother once helped his father. His mother died in 1720. From 1720 until 1736 he was assisted with the practical activities by J. G. Schütz. After the death of Christfried Kirch he took on the post of director in 1740. For many years the calculations for the calendar were continued the most part by Christine Kirch; she was also responsible for the keeping of the accounts. During the years of "Old Observatory" questions of astronomy were also discussed and grappled with in Berlin by the likes of, among others, Leonhard Euler, Joseph Louis Lagrange and Johann Heinrich Lambert. In 1765, Giovanni_Salvemini (aka Johann Castillon) received the position of First Astronomer. In 1768, the Observatory received a mural quadrant constructed by John Bird, their first really important observing instrument. This device can now be seen in Babelsberg Observatory.

Johann III Bernoulli served from 1764 to 1787 as Director of the Old Observatory and was succeeded by Johann Elert Bode. Lambert fetched Bode to Berlin in 1773, in order to publish an almanac; after Lambert' death, Bode became the sole editor. The first edition of the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch (for 1776) had already appeared by 1774, initiating the longest-lasting publication series in astronomy, lasting until 1959. By virtue of this medium, Berlin Observatory developed into an information source of prime importance within Europe. Originally Bode had the venerable Christine Kirch to assist him with the work on the calendar. In 1774, he married a granddaughter of one of her sisters; she was likewise entrusted with astronomical work in line with the Kirch family tradition. Christine Kirch died in 1782. As director of the observatory, Bode was able, through favors from Frederick William III of Prussia, to extend the till then rather third-class-equipped institution with a second observing level. When Bode entered a petition to this effect on 2 November 1798, space for observing within the tower was still limited to the third storey. The two storeys over it were united to a single spacious level. From there, the observing activities could be extended, once the calculated cost of 4465 Thalers and the plan was approved on 7 April 1800 and the required conversion was completed by June 1801. The construction work was supervised by Oberhofbaurat and Schlossbaumeister Bock.

In 1797 Johann Georg Soldner arrived in Berlin as Bode's co-worker and in 1801 (″Astronomisches Jahrbuch für 1804″) Soldner's work appeared on the weight of light with implications for the curving of light rays in a gravitational field. In 1805 Jabbo Oltmanns came to Berlin and assisted Bode with his astronomical observations and his work on the Jahrbuch, in which also the first of his own articles appeared. Oltmanns also became an assistant to Alexander von Humboldt and processed the positional data from his just completed research expedition through Mid- and South America; during this work, Humboldt was ordered to Paris on a diplomatic mission after Napoleon's occupation of Berlin in 1806 and Oltmanns followed him in 1808. Until 1811, the astronomical institute financed itself almost exclusively from the monopoly on the calendar calculations, which had been conferred on the Academy at the time of its founding; in that year the Academy lost its calendar privileges and became dependent on the state budget and on charity.

When the time came to seek a successor by virtue of Bode's retirement, both Carl Friedrich Gauß and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel turned the post down. On the recommendation of Bessel, Johann Franz Encke, since 1822 Director of the Seeberg Observatory near Gotha, was called to Berlin by King Frederick William III in 1825 and named director of the Berlin Observatory. Thanks to the influence of Alexander von Humboldt, expensive instruments were obtained and with his aid Encke was also able to get the Prussian King to agree to the construction of a new observatory, situated on the edge of the city at that time. A condition was that the observatory should be made available to the public on two evenings in the week.

The main instrument was a new refractor from the München (Munich) workshop of Joseph von Fraunhofer with an inner aperture of 9 inches (24.4 cm) and an inner focal length of 4.33 meters. Humboldt submitted a request for its purchase on 9 October 1828, including a meridian circle from the instrument maker of Berlin and a chronometer from the Berlin clockmaker. As a result, six days later, Frederick William III granted 8500 taler for the refractor, 3500 taler for the meridian circle and 600 taler for the chronometer. The refractor was the last great telescope from Fraunhofer, that was still available in München. At the same time, Humboldt received from the king the authority for the storage of associated documents in the Kultusministerium (cultural ministry).

The Fraunhofer refractor arrived in Berlin on 3 March 1829. Today it is in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. On 7 April 1829, five days before the departure of Humboldt on his Russian expedition, he received a royal commission for the new observatory project planned by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel and its construction at the desired location. After his return, on 1 May 1830, Humboldt requested Schinkel by letter for a design. On 10 August 1830, the purchase of a building plot for the new observatory was authorized.

The tower of the old observatory served as Telegraphenstation 1 between 1832 and 1849, one of the 62 stations of the Prussian optical telegraph from Berlin via Köln to Koblenz. On 3 July 1903 the tower was torn down. The entire area of the Marstall complex between Dorotheenstraße and Unter den Linden was taken over in 1914 by the Berlin State Library.

New Berlin Observatory
The construction of the new Berlin Observatory proceeded from a cabinet order of 10 November 1830 according to the design of Schinkel. An approximately one hectare plot was acquired at a price of 15,000 Thalers in the present-day area of Berlin-Kreuzberg. The foundation stone was laid on 22 October 1832 and the observatory was ready by 1835, on the area currently bounded by the streets ″Friedrichstraße″, ″Besselstraße″ and ″Lindenstraße″. The southern end of the ″Charlottenstraße″ was later named ″Enckeplatz″ in honor of the director at that time and the observatory acquired the address of Enckeplatz 3 A (now: ″Enckestraße 11″).

The two-storey building was a plastered building "in simple Hellenic style" as a link between the modern and antique. The building laid out in cruciform plan-form and extended to the east with its longest arm. At the meeting point of the arms of the cross a rotating iron dome was placed with a diameter of 7.5 metres. It was the first observatory dome in Prussia in the form of a hemisphere with a slit opening and rotation mechanism. The foundations of the actual observatory were separate from the other buildings, to avoid transmission of vibrations. Under the dome was the library. In the upper storey were further observational spaces as well as scientific work areas. The long east wing housed the living quarters of the director on the ground floor and was adorned with a temple front, which as the main frontage showed the God of Light Apollo with a quadriga in relief on the gables. To the east of the building stood a small house with the living quarters of the castellan.

The observatory got a meridian circle from Karl Pistor.

On 24 April 1835 Encke could move into the new observatory, along with his newly appointed assistant Johann Gottfried Galle. On 19 May the first observations were carried out although the building was only fully finished at the end of 1835. Galle had applied to become assistant to Encke a considerable time before the building became ready for occupancy.

From May to August 1835 the Königsberg astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel carried out pendulum observations in the ″little magnetic house″ („Magnetisches Häuschen") in the grounds of the observatory (see Freydanck's painting on this page) for the creation of a new Prussian measurement of length. In 1837 Encke discovered with the Fraunhofer refractor the gap in the rings of Saturn, later on named after him, with the Fraunhofer refractor, and in 1838 Galle discovered a further dark ring of Saturn – the C-Ring – as well as three new comets from 1839 to 1840.

On 23 September 1846, Galle and astronomy student Heinrich Louis d’Arrest, since 1845 assistant at the observatory, discovered the planet Neptune, on the basis of positional calculations send by the Frenchman Urbain Le Verrier. After an initial lack of success they conferred the Le Verrier data with a newly published sheet of the „Berliner Akademische Sternkarte", edited by the Prussian Academy of Science. The letter from Le Verrier had coincidentally reached his close acquaintance Galle on the same day as Encke's 55th birthday, who gave his permission to search around the given celestial positions. At other observatories, the request of the French astronomer was viewed as not having sufficiently promising chances of success, of detecting another large planet on the basis of the deviations between theory and observations for the orbit of Uranus. This included Paris Observatory, whose director Le Verrier later became. By virtue of the discovery of Neptune, Berlin Observatory gained worldwide renown.

Beyond that they did much work on the calculation of orbits of comets and asteroids. Galle was called to become director of the observatory in Breslau in 1851. In 1852 Karl Christian Bruhns was added as second assistant to Encke and in 1854 he became first assistant. In 1855 Wilhelm Foerster received a position as second assistant. From 1857 Giovanni Schiaparelli studied at the institution for two years. When Bruhns transferred to Leipzig in 1860, Foerster became his successor as first assistant. In the same year Foerster, together with his co-worker Otto Lesser, discovered the asteroid (62) Erato. After Encke fell ill in 1863, he stood in as his deputy and in 1865, the year Encke died, he became director of the observatory. The observatory at this time was the most important astronomical research and educational institution in Deutschland. In 1873 Viktor Knorre came as Observator; by 1887 he had discovered the asteroids (158) Koronis, (215) Oenone, (238) Hypatia und (271) Penthesilea. From 1884 until the beginning of the 1890s Karl Friedrich Küstner was also employed as Observator; he discovered in this time the polar motion as a result of his measurement activities. From 1866 to 1900 Arthur Auwers compiled, in Berlin, his Fundamentalkatalog, a comprehensive star catalog containing 170 000 stars.

On the north wing of the observatory was the height reference point for Prussia, known in German as Normalnull. The marking was formally presented on the 82nd birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm I. on 22 March 1879. This point was derived from the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum and marked off 37 meters over zero.

Wilhelm Foerster led the observatory until the end of his life in 1903. It was his impulse that led to the erection of the Astrophysikalischen Observatoriums Potsdam in 1874 for on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam. On the Telegrafenberg stood formerly the „Telegraphenstation 4" which given the hill its name. In the same year Foerster founded the Berlin Astronomische Rechen-Institut (as "Rechen-Institut zur Herausgabe des Berliner Astronomischen Jahrbuchs"), on the basis of the ever-growing extent of calculation of astronomical ephemerides, which occupied its own building at ″Lindenstraße 91″, but on the grounds and in association with the observatory. Most of the astronomers now worked in this theoretical section – separate from the practical, observational section. The section was led by Friedrich Tietjen, who had been working at the observatory since 1861. In 1865 he discovered the asteroid (86) Semele. After Tietjens death, Julius Bauschinger was called to Berlin in 1896 as his successor. In the following year he achieved in making the institute fully independent of the observatory. In 1912 it moved into a new building in Berlin-Lichterfelde. In 1944 it was placed under the control of the Navy and transferred to Sermuth in Saxony to avoid the bombing. After the Second World War the greater part was brought to Heidelberg in 1945. Only a small remaining section returned to the observatory, which by now had moved to Potsdam-Babelsberg and it was again incorporated in 1956.

Because Foerster was not a member of the Academy, the Observatory was separated from the Academy in 1889 and affiliated to the Berlin University. The original Academy Observatory had already been used by the University since the founding of Berlin University in 1809. In 1890 Friedrich Simon Archenhold became a worker at the Observatory and erected on the instructions of Foerster a photographic outpost on the Halensee in Grunewald for the photographing of nebulae.

At the end of the 19th century, the rapid growth of Berlin led to the fact that the Observatory which was once on the edge of the city was now fully surrounded by buildings, and therefore observational activities were nearly impossible to a level required for research. In the middle of the 1890s Wilhelm Foerster and others proposed the building of a new observatory outside of the metropolitan area.

In 1904 Hermann von Struve took over the directorate of the observatory. Under his leadership research was considerably extended and the project of yet another move took on concrete form. After test observations in the surrounding area starting from June 1906 by Paul Guthnick, who had been active at the observatory as Observator since 1906 following on from his training as an assistant at the observatory from 1901 to 1903, the decision made by the Kultusministeriums fell in favor of his recommended location in the Schlosspark Babelsberg in Potsdam.

The location given up on the Lindenstraße was listed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) under their observatory codes as 548.

A few of the observational instruments went to the new location: a new 30 cm refractor von Zeiss-Repsold, a meridian circle from Pistor & Martins dating from 1868 with 19 cm aperture and 2.6 m focal length, a 6 Zoll (inch) refractor from and a $4 1/2$ Zoll refractor from Merz & Mahler. After the demolition of the building itself, part of the grounds were used in 1912 for a new road, which has been called Enckestraße since 1927. From 1913, the street was built up with, among others, the (1922).

Berlin-Babelsberg Observatory
In 1913, the Berlin Observatory moved again after 78 years in its second home to Babelsberg (since then it is often referred to as Babelsberg Observatory). The Observatory in Kreuzberg was cleared out and torn down in August 1913. The sale of the land covered the cost of the construction of the new building (1.1 million Goldmarks and the purchase of new instruments to the sum of 450.000 Goldmarks). The land itself on the Babelsberg in the Schlosspark cost the Royal establishment nothing. The hill giving the area its name is situated about three kilometers north-east of the Telegrafenberg.

The construction of the main building was carried out between 1911 and 1913 by Mertins, W. Eggert, Beringer und E. Wagnernach following the design of Thür and Brüstlein. The move was supervised by the precision engineering company, who also manufactured an astrograph and a meridian circle.

The first of the new instruments arrived in spring 1914. In the year after, the placing of a 65 cm refractor was completed; it was the first large astronomical instrument from Carl Zeiss in Jena. In 1924 followed the completion of a 120 cm reflecting telescope, at the time the second-largest telescope in the world and the largest in Europe. After the Second World War, the reflecting telescope was dismantled and was shipped off to the Soviet Union as reparations (a fate shared by other observing instruments) It was sent to the Crimea complete with its dome;– to reconstruct the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Simejis, destroyed in the war. – where it is still in service today. In 2002, the remaining torso of the building was fully restored and completed and received a new dome; since then the library of the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam has been accommodated there.

Struve remained as director until his death in 1920 – up until 1918 it was still called Königliche Sternwarte zu Berlin-Babelsberg (or Berlin-Neubabelsberg) and then from 1918 until 1946 it became the Universitätssternwarte zu Berlin-Babelsberg (or University Observatory at Berlin-Babelsberg.) After Hermann Struve, the directorship passed over to Paul Guthnick in 1921 and he remained as a long-serving director until 1946. Apart from this post, his main body of work concerned the photometry of stars and the investigation of variable stars with a new photometer.

The new location in the original Schlosspark was a part of the Gemeinde. The "villa settlement" of Neubabelsberg was united in 1938 with the town of to form the town of Babelsberg. Then almost straightaway in 1939 this became incorporated into Potsdam. The designation "Berlin-Babelsberg" was nevertheless retained by the observatory for a few years still. Only after 1945 was the word Berlin discarded. Ihr IAU-Code ist 536.

By virtue of the nationalization of the Sonnenberg Observatory the Universitätssternwarte Berlin-Babelsberg took it on as a new department in 1931, i.e. an out-station in.

Directors and other workers
Other workers at the observatory included, for example, Johann Friedrich Pfaff an der alten Sternwarte, und an der neuen beispielsweise Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Gustav Spörer, Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow, Robert Luther, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Ernst Becker, Wilhelm Oswald Lohse, Adolf Marcuse, Eugen Goldstein, Erwin Freundlich and Georg von Struve.

Selected accomplishments

 * Johann Franz Encke observed a broad variation in the brightness of the A Ring of Saturn in 1837. The Encke Division was later named in honor of his observations of Saturn's rings.
 * Johann Gottfried Galle discovered Saturn's C-ring in 1838.
 * Johann Gottfried Galle and his assistant Heinrich Louis d'Arrest discovered Neptune in 1846, near the position computed by Urbain Le Verrier.
 * From 1866 to 1900, Arthur Auwers published his fundamental star catalog of 170,000 stars (Fundamental-Catalog für Zonenbeobachtungen am Südhimmel und südlicher Polar-Catalog für die Epoche 1900).

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Danko Lazović

Danko Lazović (Данко Лазовић,, ; born 17 May 1983) is a Serbian-born Dutch former footballer who played as a forward or winger. He represented the Serbia national team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Early and personal life
Danko Lazović was born on 17 May 1983 in Kragujevac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, to ethnic Serbian parents; Tomislav and Gordana Lazović, His partner is the Hungarian model Orsi Kocsis.

Partizan
Lazović started playing football at a small football school in Kragujevac, before joining Partizan at the age of 13. In his first senior season, Lazović made eight league appearances for Partizan, and also played for Teleoptik on loan. Lazović made his European debut in the UEFA Cup qualifiers against Santa Coloma on 23 August 2001. He won the domestic title with Partizan twice in a row, in 2001–02 and 2002–03.

Feyenoord
After an impressive form at Partizan, Lazović would join Feyenoord in the summer of 2003 for a club record €7 million. On the opening of the season on 17 October 2003, he scored on his debut and the club's first goal of the season, in a 2–1 win over NEC and scored his first brace in his Feyenoord's career in a 3–2 win over Utrecht on 25 January 2004, bringing his 15 games without scoring. At the last game of the season, Lazović scored his first hat-trick in his Feyenoord's career, in a 7–1 win over relegated side PEC Zwolle. The next season, Lazović scored his first goal of the season and would score another, also setting up a goal for Dirk Kuyt in a 7–2 win over De Graafschap. At his time at the club, however, Lazović found it difficult to break into the first team squad at Feyenoord and moved onto Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2005 on a loan deal. After the move, Lazović said he expected to resurrect his career. In the first round of DFB-Pokal, Lazović scored a hat-trick on his competitive debut in an 8–0 win over Rot-Weiß Erfurt. However, he also failed to settle in at Bayer Leverkusen, returning to Partizan in January 2006 on a six-month loan deal. He had a decent half-season at his old club, scoring five league goals, but various reports continued about his apparent disruptive dressing room influence. In early May 2006, after the last league match of the season, Lazović was reportedly involved in a training ground bust up with teammate Niša Saveljić with bad blood even continuing later during lunch at the training facility.

Vitesse
Over the summer of 2006, Lazović returned to the Eredivisie, this time with Vitesse. Vitesse paid Feyenoord €1.5 million for the forward, with Feyenoord agreeing to pay the first year of his salary. On the opening game of the season, Lazović scored on his debut in a 2–1 win over Sparta Rotterdam (which he scored against them once again but a brace in a 3–0 win on 6 April 2006) and scored the following week (on 26 August 2006) in a 3–1 over AZ. Lazović scored his first hat-trick in the Dutch league in over two years in a 4–0 win over Heracles Almelo on 23 September 2006. He scored a goal and set up a goal for Anduele Pryor in a 2–2 draw but received a straight red card, just minutes before half-time, against Excelsior on 28 October 2006. Lazović was a member of the squad that beat Ajax 4–2, as he scored for himself and set up two goals for Mads Junker and Youssouf Hersi respectively. To the dismay of many Feyenoord fans, Lazović had an excellent season at Vitesse, rediscovering his scoring touch and being a serious contender for the league's golden boot for most of the season. He was also the club's top scorer.

PSV
Lazović attracted the attention of PSV early on, before moving to them at the end of the season for €6.6 million, signing a five-year deal. He took over the number 9 jersey from legendary forward Patrick Kluivert, who was released and joined Lille. At PSV, Lazović earned the nickname "Lazoflap" due to his moderate appearance.

On the opening game of the season, Lazović scored twice on his debut in a 5–0 win over NEC. In the opening game of the UEFA Champions League group stage, he scored in a 2–1 win over CSKA Moscow. PSV's campaign in the Champions League went poor, resulting in the club going to the UEFA Cup. In the third round of UEFA Cup, he scored and set up a goal for Timmy Simons in a 2–0 win over Helsingborgs IF in the first leg. In the second leg, he scored again with the same result as in the first round. The club would progress in the UEFA Cup until meeting Italian side Fiorentina at the quarter final. At the end of the season, the club would win the title after scoring against his former club Vitesse in a 1–0 win.

The following season, Lazović scored his first two goals of the season as PSV would beat De Graafschap 3–0. In November 2008, he would be involved in a conflict with manager Huub Stevens. After setting up a goal for Ibrahim Afellay against Ajax, he appeared to allegedly insult Stevens, and after the match (which PSV lost 4–1) he was fined for showing dissent. Eventually, he would apologize and the two would bury the hatchet. On the last match of the Champions League group stage, he scored the club's only goal in the match as PSV lost 3–1 against Liverpool. Later in the season, however, the club could not win another title and surrendered it to AZ.

The following season, he scored his first goal of the season in a 3–1 win over Willem II on 26 September 2009. On 11 November 2009, he earned a hat-trick and set up goals for Ola Toivonen (twice) and Otman Bakkal in a 5–1 win over ADO Den Haag. On 6 December 2009, he scored his last goal for the club in a 2–0 win over RKC Waalwijk, having previously scored against Sparta the previous week in a 3–2 win and ten days, he also scored his last competitive goal in a 2–0 win over CFR Cluj. He would make his last league appearance in a 1–1 draw against Sparta and also his last competitive appearance in the Europa League in a 3–2 win over Hamburger SV in the second leg, assisting a brace for Toivonen and Danny Koevermans. PSV, however, was eliminated in the Europa League on away goals.

Zenit Saint Petersburg
On 3 March 2010, Zenit Saint Petersburg completed the transfer of the striker from PSV for nearly €5 million. After the deal, PSV general director Jan Reker said, "Danko Lazović told us about the interest of Zenit about a week ago. We've since discussed his situation several times and have eventually decided to cash in on him."

Lazović made his Russian Premier League debut for Zenit on 13 March 2010 against Krylia Sovetov Samara, coming on as a substitute in the 54th minute for Konstantin Zyryanov. Two weeks later, Lazović made his first impact on the scoresheet, delivering a perfect ball to set up Danny for the first goal against Dynamo Moscow. His first goal, however, did not come until 9 July 2010 against Alania Vladikavkaz, as he helped Zenit to a 3–1 away victory.

On 30 September 2010, Lazović scored a double against AEK Athens in the Europa League at the Petrovsky Stadium. He scored from the penalty spot in the 43rd minute, beating AEK goalkeeper Giannis Arabatzis then added his second in the 57th minute, poking home a cross from Vladimir Bystrov. On 14 November 2010, he scored the Championship-winning goal against Rostov in the 40th minute, helping Zenit win its second Russian Premier League title in four years. Lazović finished the season with five goals in the Russian Premier League and seven in total. He tied with Georgi Peev of Amkar Perm for second-best assistant in the RPL with seven assists.

On 19 June 2011, during a 2–0 win over Volga, Lazović made headlines when he was tasered by the police with an electric baton after he tried to throw his shirt into the stands, that left a burn mark under his right shoulder blade. Television footage shows the Lazović (with no shirt) being approached by police officers as he moved towards the away fans after the match. Afterwards, he was quoted by Sport Express newspaper as saying, "I simply went to give my shirt to the fans after the game when a policeman appeared behind me and hit me in the back with an electric shock, I don't know why this happened. Maybe he thought I was one of the fans." Because of the police action, the club would make the accusation to the police, which they deny wrongdoing. Andrei Shmonin, deputy police chief of public security police in Nizhny Novgorod, says the police stepped between the players and the fans, with arms outstretched. In his hands was a stun gun, but it was not used. There was evidence by the medical commission, that Lazović did receive an electric shock from the police and also said the diagnosis that Lazović received was electrical accident and first-degree burns on the right subscapular region. Later in his Zenit's career, he was among three other player to be left out of the squad to the training camp in Zenit's first pre-season training camp. Also, Lazović first team opportunities would soon be limited due to goalscoring form striker Aleksandr Kerzhakov and several new signing, leading him to be placed in the reserves.

Upon his return to Zenit, Lazović continued to remain out of the first team spotlight, as he trains separate from the first team. He was linked with PAOK and Legia Warsaw In November 2013, Lazović announced he will leave the club at the end of the season.

On 27 February 2013, just one day before the Russian transfer deadline, it was announced that he joined the Russian Premier League side Rostov on loan until the end of the 2012–13 season. In his first appearance of the 2012–13 season, he made his debut for Rostov, playing in the left wing, in a 0–0 draw against Alania Vladikavkaz. At the end of the season, Lazović returned to the club following a loan spell with Rostov.

Partizan
After leaving Zenit Saint Petersburg, Lazović returned to Serbia to rejoin Partizan on a free transfer, signing a two-year deal. On 8 March 2014, Lazović made his official re-debut for the club against his former club, Radnički Kragujevac, and scored a goal from the penalty spot in a 5–0 away win. During the 2013–14 season, Lazović played ten matches and scored six goals.

Lazović played his first match in the 2014–15 season against HB on 15 July 2014, in the second qualifying round of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, where he scored a brace and provided an assist in a 3–0 home win. On 31 August 2014, Lazović scored a brace in a 4–0 away league win over Rad. He has ended the first part of the season with 12 goals and 8 assists in 28 appearances in all competitions.

Beijing Enterprises Group
On 16 February 2015, Lazović transferred to China League One side Beijing Enterprises Group.

Olimpija Ljubljana
On 25 February 2016, Lazović transferred to Slovenian PrvaLiga side Olimpija Ljubljana. He left the club on 20 April 2016 without making a single appearance for the club, as he did not obtain a work permit.

Videoton
In June 2016, Lazović was signed by Hungarian club Videoton, playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I. While with the team, the veteran scorer played a key part in their in success as the runners-up for the 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season and winning the 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season as the team's leading scorer. At the beginning of the 2018–19 season he captained them to reach the group stage of the UEFA Europe League but retired before its start in September 2018.

International career
Lazović made his international debut for the Yugoslavia national team on 27 March 2002, in a friendly match against Brazil in Fortaleza.

After the Serbia and Montenegro split, Lazović played for Serbia, and scored the first goal ever in international football for Serbia; an equalizer in their friendly against the Czech Republic on 16 August 2006 in Uherské Hradiště, which they went on to win 3–1.

In June 2010, he was selected in Serbia's squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where he appeared in group stage matches against Germany and Australia.

In March 2011, two weeks before a crucial Euro 2012 qualifier against Northern Ireland, Lazović decided to retire from the national team at the age of 27, choosing to focus on his club Zenit. On the same occasion, his club colleague from Zenit Aleksandar Luković also made the same announcement.

Honours
Partizan
 * First League of Serbia and Montenegro: 2001–02, 2002–03
 * Serbia and Montenegro Cup: 2000–01

PSV
 * Eredivisie: 2007–08
 * Johan Cruyff Shield: 2008

Zenit Saint Petersburg
 * Russian Premier League: 2010, 2011–12
 * Russian Cup: 2009–10
 * Russian Super Cup: 2011

Videoton
 * Nemzeti Bajnokság I: 2017–18

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Talk:Indianapolis 500 pace cars

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 * Moving this page to "Indianapolis 500 pace cars" to drop the "List of-" like has been done with similar Indy pages. This partially due to the fact that more information has been added then just the 'list' itself. Doctorindy (talk) 13:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:List of Indianapolis 500 winners

"R" after names
What does (R) mean after some of the names? Why isn't this explained anywhere? Seven Pandas (talk) 11:14, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * It means "rookie". There's a footnote at the bottom of the "Hulman/George Era – INDYCAR sanctioning (1998–2019)" table. It's debatable whether that's the best place for it. DH85868993 (talk) 11:22, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * THanks. Definitely not the best place. It should be at the top of the list section. Seven Pandas (talk) 22:10, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree, and have moved it there. I'm also wondering, should Harroun be identified as a rookie in the 1911 row? It was his first Indianapolis 500... DH85868993 (talk) 00:17, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I disagree. Footnotes belong at the bottom of a table.  This is standard practice in academia.  I understand that some who see this article may not be well educated, but still - there are standards.  Footnotes go at the bottom.  Hence the name, FOOT note. 174.171.71.34 (talk) 14:28, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Where each winner qualified
I think starting position would be a good addition as one of the columns Richtova (talk) 18:50, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

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Coney Island (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Coney Island was a water park and seasonal gathering place located on the banks of the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio, approximately 10 mi east of the downtown area in Anderson Township. It was the home of Sunlite Pool, the largest recirculating pool in North America, during its operation.

The park sits adjacent to Riverbend Music Center and Belterra Park. Beginning in 1870, the original owner called the area Parker's Grove, which was later renamed Ohio Grove, The Coney Island of the West after the Ohio Grove Corporation purchased the park in 1886. The name was shortened to Coney Island the following season. Over the years, the park expanded with dozens of rides and attractions, leading to its popularity as an amusement park destination.

Coney Island was sold to Taft Broadcasting in 1969 with intentions to move the park to a new, larger destination away from frequent flooding. The new park opened as Kings Island in 1972, although Coney Island's Sunlite Pool remained in operation. Smaller flat rides eventually returned, and additional investments and improvements were made to the Sunlite Pool area. These changes, along with the opening of the nearby Riverbend Music Center in 1984, allowed the park's attendance and profitability to recover. In 2019, Coney Island removed amusement rides in an effort to focus its operations exclusively on water park amenities.

History
Coney Island's founding dates back to 1867 when apple-farmer James Parker purchased approximately 20 acre of land along the shores of the Ohio River. Parker soon realized the popularity of the farm's location, and that renting it out was more profitable than his apple orchard. He named it Parker's Grove and eventually added a dining hall, dancing hall, and bowling alley. He later sold the land in 1886 for $17,500 to a company called Ohio Grove Corporation headed by two steamboat captains. For the opening on June 21, 1886, the name was officially changed to "Ohio Grove, The Coney Island of the West" in an effort to link the park with the famous New York destination. With its riverfront location, the riverboat became the most popular method of transportation for park visitors. In 1887, "Ohio Grove" was completely dropped from the name as the park became known simply as "Coney Island".

The Sunlite Pool was added in 1925. It is an outdoor freshwater pool with 80200 sqft surface area, ranking as 12th-largest pool in the world as of. It remains the largest recirculating pool in North America.

Over the years, Coney Island became a full-fledged amusement park, complete with rides and carnival games. Notable additions included the first and second Island Queen in 1896 and 1925, respectively, Moonlite Gardens dance pavilion in 1925, the Wildcat and Twister wooden roller coasters in 1926, the Land of Oz children's section in 1934, and the Shooting Star roller coaster (a renovation of the former Clipper roller coaster) in 1947.

Coney Island became a Cincinnati institution. It was desegregated after being sued in 1952 by Marian Spencer. The park's proximity to the river made it prone to frequent flooding. In 1968, park management entered into talks with Taft Broadcasting for the purpose of developing a new park on higher ground. Taft responded by buying Coney Island outright in 1969, and construction began the following year on a new site located in Deerfield Township of Warren County 25 mi north of Cincinnati along Interstate 71. Coney Island closed its amusements on September 6, 1971, as most of its rides were moved to the newly completed Kings Island theme park.

After Kings Island opened in 1972, Taft Broadcasting intended to sell Coney Island's land for redevelopment. However, with the company's decision to open another theme park in Virginia (Kings Dominion) and its acquisition of Carowinds on the North Carolina-South Carolina border, the property's redevelopment became a low priority. Less than two years after closing, Coney Island reopened permanently in 1973. The park was only a shadow of its former self but still featured several popular attractions. The Sunlite Pool helped Coney Island remain a popular summertime destination.

The park donated 15 acre of land for the construction of Riverbend Music Center which opened in 1984. The land was the former location of the Wildcat and Shooting Star roller coasters. The Riverbend amphitheater serves as the summer home of the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras, as well as a concert venue for other musical acts. In 1991, Coney Island was purchased by Cincinnati businessman Ronald Walker. No longer held back by a corporate entity, management was able to restore Coney Island as a traditional amusement park with familiar rides such as the "Tilt-A-Whirl", bumper cars, carnival games and musical shows.

Coney Island announced plans to remove all amusement rides from the park on September 21, 2019, but continued to operate as a water park featuring the Sunlite Pool and other water-related attractions. The decision was based on attendance, consumer feedback, and rising costs associated with maintaining ride operation.

On December 14, 2023, the park announced that it would be sold to Music and Event Management, Inc. (MEMI), a subsidiary of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, with plans to redevelop the property into a multi-use venue with sports, dining, and entertainment.

Events
Coney Island serves as the location for several festivals, including Summerfair Arts Festival, the "Cincinnati Celtic World Festival", the Appalachian Festival, and the Cincinnati Flower and Farm Fest. Concerts are also held in the Moonlite Gardens area of the park, most notably by Over the Rhine.

Scenes from the 1968-1970 children's TV show The Banana Splits were filmed at Coney Island.

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Talk:Wrigley's Spearmint

sounds like a advert
 * same thing on the extra page, edited by the same ip --213.66.39.36 17:54, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * probably because it is copied almost word for word from the companies website. (see here). -- Mr . Dude †@£К ║  Çøת†яĭβü†ĬŎИ 20:16, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

 * Not sure why information keeps being removed from this article, it's not as though these facts are untrue (just read the ingredients list)-- Mr . Dude †@£К ║  Çøת†яĭβü†ĬŎИ 16:18, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Please post PLEASE GO BACK THE THE ORIGINAL SPEARMINT GUM. I hate what you have done to it. I can harldy stand to chew half a piece for about 10 minutes!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.0.117.58 (talk) 20:07, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Is there anywhere you can obtain the original Juicy Fruit and Doublemint Spearmint gums before they ruined them with the sugarfree sweetners being added. Maybe under a different name/brand?

Final paragraph
The last paragraph in this article is written in unreferenced sentence fragments, and includes the opinion word "unfortunately". I would edit it to be grammatically and factually sound but I do not know if the facts within the paragraphs are actually facts as they have no citation to prove they are facts.

50.229.181.234 (talk) 22:14, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

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User:Randy2063

If they gave a damn, they already would have.

Vista stuff

 * Windows Vista
 * User Account Control
 * Security and safety features new to Windows Vista
 * Features new to Windows Vista

League of American Writers data
Members of the League of American Writers Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940:

 * Ben Bengal *
 * Lillian Hellman *
 * Arthur Kober
 * Dashiell Hammett *
 * Alter Brody
 * Lawrence A. Goldstone
 * Henry Hart (writer)
 * Edwin Berry Burgum
 * Henry Goodman (writer)
 * George Sklar *
 * Charles A. Wagner
 * Fannie Engle
 * George Asness
 * Eleanor Flexner
 * Len Zinberg
 * Shaemas O'Sheel
 * James Neugass (poet; member of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion)
 * Sonia Raiziss (Sonia Raiziss Giop)

source: Days of Anger, Days of Hope: A Memoir of the League of American Writers, 1937-1942 by Franklin Folsom University Press of Colorado, 1994.

''* Hollywood blacklist

National security secrets revealed by the press

 * Counterterrorist Intelligence Center
 * Alliance Base
 * Black site
 * JN-25 decryption
 * NSA electronic surveillance program
 * Terrorist Finance Tracking Program
 * The Greenbrier
 * Mount Weather
 * USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193)
 * Bay of Pigs Invasion

needs attention

 * Shinwar Massacre
 * March 4, 2007 Shooting in Afghanistan

Catastrophes that never quite happened

 * Population bomb
 * Ice age by 2000
 * Nuclear winter from Kuwait wells in the first Gulf_War
 * Y2K
 * Peak oil

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Sox

Sox most often refers to:
 * Boston Red Sox, an MLB team
 * Chicago White Sox, an MLB team
 * Worcester Red Sox, an MiLB team
 * An alternate spelling of socks

Sox or SOX may also refer to:

Places

 * SOX, Sogamoso Airport's IATA airport code, an airport in Colombia

Computing and technology

 * SOX (operating system), a UNIX clone developed in Brazil in the 1980s
 * SoX or Sound eXchange, a computer program for audio manipulation
 * Schema for Object-Oriented XML, an XML schema language
 * Singapore Open Exchange, or SOX
 * Simple Outline XML, an alternative XML syntax

Finance and law

 * PHLX Semiconductor Sector, a widely used stock market index
 * Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, a United States federal securities law

Sports and related topics

 * Black Sox Scandal, a 1919 baseball match fixing incident
 * Bowie Baysox, a US minor league baseball team
 * Bristol White Sox, a US minor league baseball team
 * Butler BlueSox, playing in the Prospect League
 * Colorado Springs Sky Sox, a US minor league baseball team
 * Colorado Springs Sky Sox (Western League), a defunct American minor league baseball team
 * Everett AquaSox, a US American minor league baseball team
 * Holyoke Blue Sox, a college-level team playing in the NECBL
 * New Bedford Bay Sox, a college-level team playing in the NECBL
 * Pawtucket Red Sox, a US minor league baseball team
 * Salem Red Sox, a US minor league baseball team
 * South Bend Blue Sox, a former girls' team 1943-1954
 * Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox, playing in the CCBL

Science

 * Cancelled SOX experiment in neutrino physics, Borexino detector, Italy
 * SOX gene family
 * Several Sulfur oxides ( or SOx)

Other uses

 * Sox, a 1995 pop group led by Samantha Fox
 * SOX, a type of low-pressure Sodium-vapor lamp
 * Sox, robotic feline character from the 2022 American 3D-animated film Lightyear

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Meradong District

The Meradong District is located in Sarikei Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. The capital of Meradong District is Bintangor, Sarawak. The official census in 2006 stated Meradong as covering 719 sq km, making it the smallest district of Sarawak in terms of geographic area, and the district population from the 2010 National Census was 28,672. It is situated nearby Sarikei District.

Bintangor
Bintangor is the capital of Meradong district. Bintangor town has four secondary schools, SMK Meradong, SMK Bandar Bintangor, SMK Kai Chung, and SMK Tong Hua.

Tulai
Sungai Tulai Village Development Committee (JKKK) was established on 1 August 2015. The development committee was set up to improve the infrastructure of village. Tulai Association building was built and officiated on 11 April 2018.

Education
There are also 32 primary schools, of which 18 are national schools (SK) and 14 are national type schools (SJK(c)). Malaysian Teachers Education Institute (Malay: Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia) Rajang Campus is also situated at about 17 kilometres from Bintangor town.

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Category talk:Modern sculptors

Date?
What's thw cut-off date for this category? Andy Mabbett 14:50, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

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Julau

Julau is a town, and the capital of the Julau District (1703.39 square kilometres) in Sarikei Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. The district population (year 2020 census) is 15, 333. The population is dominated by Iban as well as Chinese especially the Fuzhou.

History
In 1853, James Brooke was able to take over Rajang River and its surrounding settlements from the Brunei Sultanate. A person from Xiamen named Limah Din (林结麟) was the first Chinese to arrive in Julau in 1929. He settled near the mouth of the Julau river and started acres of rubber plantations. He then used his home to start a trade business with the natives in Julau. In memory of his role in opening up Julau, a road is now named after him as Limah Din road. The Chinese started business activities in 1936 at the mouth of the Julau river between Julau and Nanga Meluan. In the same year, the Brooke government set up a fort at a hill in Meluan in order to defend itself from the Iban attacks led by Penghulu Asun. In 1938, the Brooke government formally put Julau under the jurisdiction of Ng Meluan. The trading of rubber sheets and Engkabang fruits (Shorea macrophylla) between the Iban and the Chinese was the major economic activity in Julau.

During the Japanese occupation of Sarawak, there were some Iban people who took advantage of the power vacuum and went downriver and perform raiding activities. Therefore, the Chinese in Julau decided to cooperate with other more friendly Ibans to start patrolling and protecting the people. Besides, several Ibans decided to let the Chinese to open up their lands for the cultivation of rice, corn, and tobacco. In 1953, the Bao Hua cinema (宝华戏院) was opened. However, in 1980s, due to the wide of availability of television sets, the cinema was closed down. In 1954, there were 22 shophouses in Julau. However, in 1965, all the shophouses were burnt down in a fire; while the land where the shophouses were built are left abandoned today. In 1955, a hospital, a telephone department, and a village council was set up. In 1957, a dormitory for the civil servants was built. In 1957, the first row of five concrete shophouses were built. In the same year, the Julau village council started to install power station, electrical wires, and light bulbs, replacing oil lamps. Motorboat companies were set up to connect Julau with other towns along the Rajang River such as Machan, Kanowit, and Sibu. In 1960, Julau businessmen started a pipe water project where river water was pumped into shophouses and homes. The water project was later taken over by the government water board.

In 1963, Malaysia was formed. Road conditions were improved. This significantly shorten the travelling time from Julau to Sarikei and Sibu. In 1970s, Julau bridge was built. Motorboat companies have to close down their businesses due to reducing number of customers. In 1967, the first government secondary school in Julau was set up. Students from other rural areas such as Entabai, Pakan, and Meluan came to study here. In 1970s, Julau water board, telephone department, agriculture department and police department were built. Previously, Julau was a sub-district under the jurisdiction of Kanowit District. In 1973, Julau was upgraded into a district and is put under the administration of Sarikei Division.

Government

 * Julau District Office
 * Julau Sub-District Education Department
 * Julau District Agriculture Department
 * Julau District Police Station
 * Julau District Health Department
 * Julau District Public Works Department
 * Julau District Information Department
 * Meradong-Julau District Council
 * Julau District National Registration Department
 * Julau District Social Welfare Department
 * Julau Cooperative Development Department
 * Julau District KEMAS Office
 * Julau District Post Office
 * Julau District RELA Office
 * Julau District SESCO
 * Julau District Telekom Malaysia

Geography
Julau is located at the intersection of Kanowit and Julau rivers. Julau is located at 66 km from Sarikei town, 48 km from Bintangor, 39 km from Kanowit, and 60 km from Sibu. Floods happen in the Julau district in January 1968, January 1989, December 1993, January 2003, December 2011, and March 2021.

Climate
Julau has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

Demographics
The first Christian missionary in Julau was spread by Liu Yang Xin (刘杨馨) in 1946 when she completed her studies at Singapore Nanyang Girls' High School. She started a Sunday school during her free time. However, the Sunday school stopped operating when she was transferred back to Singapore Nanyang Nanyang Girls' High School in the end of the same year. After that, intermittent Christian missionaries were sent here from 1948 to 1950. Only in 1958, a permanent Christian missionary was tasked to visit Julau once or twice a month to host Sunday worship services. In 1971, Julau Methodist Church was established. A Methodist kinder-garden was established in 1988.

Place of Worship

 * Christian
 * Julau St. Alphonsus Catholic Church
 * Julau Methodist Church
 * Julau Centre Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Nanga Luau Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Nanga Ejit Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Nanga Ayam Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Nanga Lijan Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Nanga Merurun Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Nanga Udur Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Nanga Rayah Seventh-day Adventist Church

 * Muslim
 * Nurul Hidayah Mosque

Economy
Major economic activities in Julau are: black pepper, rubber, rice, and fruits farming. Other economic activities include: retail, logging, and services. Julau is better known for its black pepper production.

Transport
For people from rural areas, their major mode of transport to Julau is plying through the rivers. Public Bus Personal Vehicles There are many remote places in Julau that have not reachable yet with land transportation and boat is the only solution for them to go there.
 * Land
 * Borneo Almagated Sdn. Bhd
 * Today, most of Julau people have their own personal transportation, such as car, motorcycle and van to travel to their destination.
 * Water

Education
The first primary school in Julau was set up in 1946, named Wen Ming primary school (文明学校). It was hosted inside a catholic church. In 1950, the school was migrated into a new shophouse. In 1951, a formal school building was completed. All the pupils from Wen Ming primary school were migrated into the new school building. At the same time, the school was renamed Yuk Kung primary school. In 1956, the school formally accepted subsidies from the Sarawak government.
 * Pre-School
 * Nanga Julau KEMAS Kindergarten
 * Nanga Boa KEMAS Kindergarten
 * Ejit KEMAS Kindergarten
 * Bilat KEMAS Kindergarten
 * Meluan KEMAS Kindergarten
 * Entabai KEMAS Kindergarten
 * Methodist Kindergarten

The first school was started by Christian Missionaries. After the World War II, a Mission School called Roman Catholic Mission opened publicly in the 1930s. This school is the original of today's Julau St. Alphonsus Primary School or SK St. Alphonsus Julau (Primary School is also known as Sekolah Kebangsaan, SK). In 1951, Julau's Chinese also want to start their own school which then called Julau Yuk Kung Chinese National-type School or SJK (C) Yuk Kung Julau (Chinese National-type School is also known asSekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina, SJK(C)). The following years shows more primary schools are built, they are:
 * Primary School
 * Nanga Luau Primary School
 * Nanga Merurun Primary School
 * Kelangas Primary School
 * Nanga Meluan Primary School
 * Nanga Entabai Primary School
 * Lubuk Assam Primary School
 * Tapang Punggu Primary School
 * Nanga Maong Primary School
 * Nanga Ju Primary School
 * Nanga Ensiring Primary School
 * Nanga Jambu Primary School
 * Nanga Serau Primary School
 * Nanga Lasi Primary School

In 1966, SMK Julau started its operation in SK St. Alphonsus with only two classrooms. In 1970, SMK Julau moved to a new site which is the current site, Lembah Hilir Sungai Julau. The site was once belonged to Datuk Temenggong Banyang Anak Janting before he sold it to The State Government in 1968. On 22 March 1973, SMK Julau was officially launched by Yang Berhormat Tun Hussien Onn who was the Education Minister at the time.
 * Secondary School
 * Julau National High School or Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Julau (SMK Julau)

SMK Julau did not provides any sixth form of secondary education, referred to as "Form 6". Students from Julau who want to continue their study in Form 6 to get a STPM's certificate have to either travel to the school in other districts such as SMK Meradong and SMK Bandar Bintangor by public bus or stay in hostel provided by those schools. SMK Julau No.2 was built to support the need of Julau people in education especially for those who come from rural area.
 * Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Julau No.2

Healthcare
Before a clinic was built, Julau people need to go to the nearest clinic available, especially in Kanowit & Sarikei to get their medical needs. Currently, there is only one clinic established in Julau.
 * Clinic
 * Julau Health Clinic

Attractions and recreational spots
There is a weekly Sunday market in Julau where people will gather here to sell a variety of agricultural products. Fort Brooke is located at Nanga Meluan, 24 km away from Julau Town. The Fort was built by the Brooke government to hinder the attacks by Ibans.

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Henry Chorley

Henry Fothergill Chorley (15 December 1808 – 16 February 1872) was an English literary, painting and music critic, writer and editor. He was also an author of novels, drama, poetry and lyrics.

Chorley was a prolific and important music and literary critic and music gossip columnist of the mid-nineteenth century and wrote extensively about music in London and in Europe. His opera libretti and works of fiction were far less successful. He is perhaps best remembered today for his lyrics to "The Long Day Closes", a part song set by Arthur Sullivan in 1868.

Life and career
Chorley was born in Blackley Hurst, near Billinge, Lancashire, England. Chorley was the youngest of four children of Quaker parents, John Chorley (1771–1816), an iron worker and lock maker, and Jane Chorley, née Wilkinson (1779–1851). Chorley's father died, leaving his mother alone with young children. Jane Chorley moved her family to Liverpool to help take care of her half-brother, Dr Rutter, when he became ill. Chorley was educated by private tutors in Liverpool and then the school of the Royal Institution. His youth was shaped partly by spending time in the household of the wealthy and intellectual Mrs Benson Rathbone of Green Bank, and he became a close friend of her son Benson, who died in an accident in 1834.

Journalism and non-fiction works
He began working in merchants' offices, hoping to become a musician, but his uncle discouraged that as an impractical ambition. However, Chorley soon took to musical and literary criticism. He began to write for the Athenaeum in 1830 and remained its music and literature critic until 1868. While there, he reviewed approximately 2,500 books and wrote reviews and musical gossip columns discussing composers and performers in Britain and on the European continent. In this position, he had much influence. He had strongly conservative views and was a persistent opponent of innovation, but was a lively chronicler of London life. In 1850 and 1851, Chorley edited the Ladies' Companion, which covered fashion and domestic women's issues. In the Athenaeum and elsewhere, Chorley often criticised the music of Schumann and Wagner for what he called "decadence".

In addition to criticism for journals, Chorley wrote voluminously on literature and art. His non-fiction books were widely read and included Music and Manners in France and Germany (1841), which includes a detailed description of contemporary opera in Paris and Felix Mendelssohn's career in Leipzig, Germany. He expanded the German section of this book and published it 1854 as Modern German Music. His masterpiece was Thirty Years' Musical Recollections (1862), which covers, year-by-year, the opera seasons of European operas in London between 1830 and 1859. In the work, he blames the autocratic manager of Her Majesty's Theatre, Benjamin Lumley, for a decline in the quality of performances there. On the other hand, he praises the efforts of Giulia Grisi, Mario and Michael Costa, together with a group of journalists (including himself), for successfully creating the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden in 1847. He also wrote the well-received Memorials of Mrs. Hemans (1836), Handel Studies (1859), an annotated edition Mary Russell Mitford's letters (2 vols., 1872) and The National Music of the World (1882).

Fiction and playwriting
Chorley also wrote, with far less success, novels, stories, drama and verse, and various librettos. His works of fiction included Sketches of a Seaport Town (1834), a collection of stories, essays, and novellas related to Liverpool. The next year, he wrote Conti the Discarded. Neither of these achieved success. His plays, Old Love and New Fortune (1850) and Duchess Eleanour (1854), did not gain a following. He wrote two novels, Roccabella (1859), under the pseudonym Paul Bell and dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and A Prodigy: a Tale of Music (1866). His libretti included The Amber Witch for composer William Vincent Wallace, The May Queen – A Pastoral (1858) for William Sterndale Bennett, and two for his friend Arthur Sullivan: The Sapphire Necklace and The Masque at Kenilworth. He published an English version of Meyerbeer's Dinorah, and wrote the words for several well-known songs, including Gounod's "Nazareth", Edward Loder's "The Brave Old Oak" and "The Three Ages", the English form of the Bach-Gounod "Ave Maria", Sullivan's "The Long Day Closes", and the hymn "God, the Omnipotent!".

Chorley wrote the English libretto for Gounod's Faust, for its first presentation in London in 1863 (at Her Majesty's Theatre). During rehearsals, it was found that the lines were unsingable. Both Sims Reeves and Charles Santley made strenuous and persistent complaints to Messrs. Chappell's, and new translations were made secretly, since no-one dared to tell Chorley. The first he knew of it was at the first performance. Chorley, as reviewer, waited to make his comment until the final announced performance, of which he wrote that it was "seriously imperilled by a singular translation". Unfortunately for him, the final performance in question had not taken place, so the Musical World was able to compliment him on his poetic imagination. Nevertheless, Chorley's translations of several songs from Faust were published and widely performed, such as "The Flower Song", "When All Was Young" and "Glory and Love". A similar Chorley effort, albeit of an obscure work, fared better: his translation of Mendelssohn's Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde, which Chorley rendered as "Son and Stranger," for the work's London premiere in 1851 is still heard today in that work's rare revivals.

Personality and last years
Chorley was considered eccentric and abrasive, but he was respected for his integrity and kindness. Chorley enthusiastically gave and attended dinner parties and was known as a big drinker. He cultivated friendships with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mendelssohn, and later Charles Dickens, Arthur Sullivan and Charles Santley, among others. After the death of his brother, John Rutter Chorley (1806–1867), he inherited enough money to retire from the Athenaeum, although he continued to contribute articles for that paper and also for The Orchestra.

In spite of his efforts to promote the music of Charles Gounod in England, the composer disliked Chorley intensely. When Gounod lived in England during the early 1870s, he wrote a satirical character piece for piano that was intended to be a parody of Chorley's personality. It greatly amused Gounod's English patron, Georgina Weldon, who described Chorley as having a "thin, sour, high-pitched sopranish voice" and moving like a "stuffed red-haired monkey." Gounod intended to publish the piece with a dedication to Chorley, but the latter died before this was possible. Weldon then invented a new programme for the piece, which was re-titled Funeral March of a Marionette. It became popular as a concert piece, and in the 1950s, its opening phrases became well known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Chorley died at his home in London in 1872, at the age of 63, and is buried there in Brompton Cemetery. He left a very considerable estate of £45,000. One bequest was to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), which in 1872 funded the lifeboat John Rutter Chorley, placed at Mornington Lifeboat Station on the River Boyne in Ireland. From 1872 to 1885, the lifeboat was launched 18 times and saved 38 lives.

Fellow critic Charles Lewis Gruneisen wrote in the Athenaeum that Chorley's personality had impeded appreciation of his qualities.

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Wrestling and MMA
Where are all the references to pro-wrestling and mixed martial arts that have been and will be held in Conseco Fieldhouse? For example, Great American Bash 2006, SummerSlam 2008, and UFC 119. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.50.128.22 (talk) 01:47, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Conseco Fieldhouse
Conseco Fieldhouse has not been officially announced any new name. The source cited was using unverified information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BigGarb (talk • contribs) 18:19, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Basketball arenas
The statement about most North American indoor arenas not being designed primarily for basketball would seem to me to need some qualification. Perhaps it means "major indoor arenas suitable for professional sports" but that isn't stated. I don't know if even that is true and it isn't referenced. There are a lot more arenas overall with basketball floors than there are that can even be frozen, that's for sure. 2600:1004:B164:9DB7:BC03:736A:4B42:8D96 (talk) 01:14, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

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 * 1) 9 is the arena name change announcement and URL does not work Rossidor (talk) 17:05, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
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List of head coaches
The list of Fever head coaches is wrong. I don't believe any of the 3 listed have been associated with the Fever. It does not mention Nell Fortner or Brian Winters, 2 of the most recent heads. Eric 20:27, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * That's my fault. I didn't import them correctly while I was converting the format. The list should be correct now. --Jtalledo (talk) 00:44, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Franchise History
I applaud everyones initiative in this article. However, this section needs to be re-worded. So it doesn't sound too one-sided. I appreciate if someone cleans it up so it can comply with WP:NPOV policy. ELO MnLynx Fan77 15:12, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

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Magic Moments

"Magic Moments" is a popular song composed by Burt Bacharach and written by Hal David, being one of the first songwriting collaborations by that duo. This song was recorded by Perry Como and released in 1957 as the B-side of his "Catch a Falling Star"; it reached No. 1 in the UK in 1958.

Background
In his 2003 book Burt Bacharach, Song by Song, Serene Dominic comments: "Combined with the quizzical bassoon, the whistling and the ghastly white shadings of the Ray Charles Singers, these distant recollections must seem like occurrences on another planet to later generations."

Chart performance
The biggest hit version of the song was recorded by Perry Como and released by RCA Victor in December 1957, becoming a hit early in 1958. The record was produced by Joe Reisman. The peak position in the United States is hard to track precisely, due to the multiple charts used in Billboard magazine: On the Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart, it reached it highest peak of number four.

The song was also a 1958 hit in Italy, while in the United Kingdom it spent eight weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart, becoming Como's biggest ever hit there.

In Canada, the song reached number 12 on the CHUM Charts, February 3, 1958, co-charting with Catch a Falling Star.

Other recordings

 * A less successful UK cover version recorded by Ronnie Hilton reached No. 22 on the UK Singles Chart, in 1958. Hilton's version included some different lyrics from the original.
 * Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1958 for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the album With All My Heart (2012).
 * Amanda Lear recorded this song for her 1985 EP A L.
 * Synthpop duo Erasure recorded the song for their 1997 album Cowboy.

Other uses

 * Magic Moments is also the name given to a Surprise, Surprise style show within the BBC television film Pat and Margaret. Its theme music is the song itself and as the coach carrying various members of the audience sets off at the start of the film, they start singing it.
 * This song was used in the television commercial for Quality Street, a confectionery brand in the UK in the 1980s and continues to be used each year for the brand's Christmas advertisements.
 * The song is also occasionally sung by Ulster Rugby fans at away matches, particularly after 'magic moments' of play.
 * The Perry Como version is featured in the 1998 film, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, when Raoul arrives at a Vegas hotel where Dr. Gonzo is located, briefly in Alex Holeh Ahavah (1986), Dogma (1999), Police Academy (1984), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Episode 3 of the first season of the 2012 BBC series Call the Midwife, which is set in 1957, and episode 9 of the 2017 Netflix series Glow.
 * The song was also used as background music for a segment on the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon featuring a meeting of NASA Astronaut Group 2 – The New Nine – all of whom booked into The Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas, with the code name "Max Peck".
 * The Erasure recording is featured in the Clive Barker film Lord of Illusions, providing the background music to a magicians' convention.
 * Song used in the Grupo Arcor commercial in 2020–21.
 * The main melody and whistling section was also sampled by rapper Shotgun Willy for his song "Wendy", a love song he wrote about the animated spokeswoman Wendy from Wendy's.

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Jack Benny was not born in Waukegan. So I edited the page. How do I know? Well I was born in Waukegan and attended Jack Benny Jr. High (as it was known at the time).

Ray Bradbury
Have you disowned your most famous citizen?

According to his Wikipedia obituary today - "Bradbury was born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, to Esther (Moberg) Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant and Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, a power and telephone lineman."

"In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, Illinois, reading such authors as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and his favorite author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote novels such as Tarzan of the Apes and The Warlord of Mars....He used this library as a setting for much of his novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, and depicted Waukegan as "Green Town" in some of his other semi-autobiographical novels — Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer — as well as in many of his short stories."

As an Australian I came to this page expecting to read further of his legacy in your town, as I was a great fan of his work in my youth. He is not even mentioned - only some trivia about Jack Benny - who was not even born in Waukegan according to the above entry. Tiddy (talk) 08:17, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Shimer College
It should be noted that Shimer College is relocating to Chicago. I understand that a few classes will remain here in Waukegan but I do not know if that it a temporary or permanent decision. Inexchris 18:16, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Historical Places
I'd like to start a section about Waukegan's historical places. Does anyone have any information to contribute?Inexchris 18:54, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Demographics
The demographics seems like it needs to be updated sources need to be cited.(UTC)Inexchris 18:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

History
I modified the history section by removing the first paragraph and inserting the text from the city's history page (http://www.waukeganweb.net/waukeganhistory.html).

General Changes
I added a section for "Notable People" and corrected the capitalization of "Other Notable People." Perhaps in the future we can eliminate the last paragraph under "History" and move some of our more famous residents/former residents to the "Notable People" section.

I also added a few city links and modified the TOWN links. Inexchris 19:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation
I changed the IPA from (which was unclear) to. That is, it now says "waw-KEE-gan". Is this correct? Lfh (talk) 14:12, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

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 * The section was pasted in on 29 August 2006; this Wayback Machine link shows the external text is older than that. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Artistic references
I took the liberty of removing a lot of content from the "Artistic references" section. The section had included several instances where it seemed like a movie/show/book/song mentioned Waukegan only as an arbitrary place name - they wanted a random Midwestern city, so they chose Waukegan. At the same time, I wrote a more substantive paragraph about Bradbury's Green Town, which is much more relevant to a general understanding of the city.

Currently the article is basically a series of lists, in common with many location articles on WP. Since Waukegan is more of a small city and an urban center in its own right than a regular old location, I hope that in time it can become more of a real prose article. But for now we can at least have a cleaner list. Fishal (talk) 20:30, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

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Tournament not created
For this and (some other similar ones) the use of "tournament not created" is not always correct - for many of the years the tournament was created by the event referred to was not; providing the actual reason for each year would be helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antipodenz (talk • contribs) 07:10, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Problem with fitting pictures and 'Champions list' table in same line
I am having difficulties trying to get the table of the Champions fit in line with the pictures on the right. Trying for certain names, I trying removing valign parameter, changing the width of the table. When I was finally successful, Fyunck(click) reverts it, claiming names were broken. It was the only way to fit the chart/table and photos in the same line...there was nothing else I could do, to achieved the desired effect without using break line for the players with two surnames. Anyone know a better solution for this problem of mine? Qwerty284651 (talk) 20:26, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure the way to do it either, but changing fonts to a small size and breaking player names in half is not the way to go. On my browser, (chrome) there is no difference with the names done properly. Remember each browser handles these things in their own way... you can't make it browser specific. To be honest, while the pictures on the right used to be too small, now they are too big. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:28, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Did not think of the different display on different browsers. A Firefox user here. Will resize the photos back being smaller, keeping the their text size intact. Qwerty284651 (talk) 20:36, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
 * It looks fine on mine whether large pictures, my edit to medium pictures, and now your last effort with small pics. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:45, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Мust be the size of the monitor then, id est, the resolution. Is my last logical thing, Zoom is 100%....My resolution is 1440x900. What is yours? Asking out of curiousity. Qwerty284651 (talk) 20:56, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Location of Titles by decade section
@Fyunck(click) I would like to have the Slams by decade section be relocated to the bottom just above the Grand Slams by country section for consistency with the other Grand slam-related tennis articles, which also have the aforementioned sections located at the bottom on their respective pages. Qwerty284651 (talk) 23:39, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I disagree. Those other article sections were moved by you without consensus and I feel it is impotent to be towards the top like it always has been. Fyunck(click) (talk) 02:03, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Nazi Flag?
Why does one of the German players have a Nazi flag next to the name but when you go to their individual wiki page it’s the regular German flag? 2601:19B:8480:6620:645A:F2E5:E389:1EB2 (talk) 17:24, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I can't speak for the player's individual article but assume it's because she played for multiple iterations of Germany as a player. However she won the events while representing Nazi Germany. Other player's also show the flag they played under but usually it's a minor difference that goes un-noticed. Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:25, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Sabalenka footnotes removal?
Hi,, I didn't outright remove the footnotes of Aryna Sabalenka's 2 slam titles not counting as 2x titles for Belarus, but rather MOVED the text in the lead for a cleaner look, because the same footnote was listed twice in the article ("the champions list" section and at end of the "slams won by country" section. See my edit history. I am not against the footnote. Just merging the duplicates into one. Best place for them I see is in the lead or "notes" section at the bottom below "see also" list.

Unless, you have any other suggestions. Qwerty284651 (talk) 00:34, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Hello. I reversed your previous edit. For me, it was not very good because these pieces of information were placed at the different sides of relatively long Wikipage (lead section, middle section, lower section). So for persons who didn't read information in the lead section till the end or didn't pay attention on this sentence it would be hard to put these pieces of information together. Therefore, I edited this page in accordance with your second suggestion (made general note and place it below "See also" list). Unfortunately, now readers needs to click on this note if they want to read information instead of just put mouse pointer on it (like with other notes at this page), but for me this is better compromise solution for this issue. Hyperion82 (talk) 07:32, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I unbolded the [a]. Fyunck(click) (talk) 07:45, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * After careful consideration and subsequent viewings I feel the old design (from Jan 28) looks better. And "persons who didn't read information in the lead section till the end or didn't pay attention on this sentence it would be hard to put these pieces of information together" is a valid point. It is for us experienced editors to notice changes in lead, which can be easily overlooked by the casual reader and readers come first not the editors. By note section I meant  for footnotes that many articles have. I will restore your 28 January revision. Qwerty284651 (talk) 16:12, 2 February 2024 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom bond

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

The result of the debate was COPYVIO, with no rewrite. -Splash 05:56, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Tom bond
Not notable. brenneman (t) (c)  14:54, 22 August 2005 (UTC) *Assert notability quickly, or delete. JDoorjam 23:30, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Ditto, but nice painting though. Karmafist 15:47, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Reserved I'd really quite like to keep this one, it mentions his works hanging in galleries, if anyone can state a known gallery, that'll do it for me, the guy obviously has talent and I would say the claims of being a master watercolourist are probably jusitified. Alf 17:37, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Just hanging in a gallery is not notability. Anybody can do that.  Zoe 19:25, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * I am living disproof of that statement. Meelar (talk) 21:20, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - I'm struggling with this one, too. I was able to find two online art galleries that sell his originals and prints, some for up to $1,800.  -PlainSight 03:27, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - This appears similar to "vanity pressing" of a book. One demonstration of notability would be a review of a show (or a mention by name in a group show) in news media or notable arts media. -  brenneman (t) (c)  07:21, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Reserved This is hard, and having a common name doesn't help either, but the article seems to be a copyvio from http://www.pressellergallery.com/tom_bond.htm. --Apyule 05:02, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Are promotional text copyrighted? - Mgm|(talk) 10:18, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Copyvio. Tagged and bagged. JDoorjam 13:52, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.