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The Termite Trouble
there was a guy that got eaten by a big old fat looser, his name was george. He had twelve kids that all had lots and lots of stuff and they all cryed when the termites came and ate all their stuff, but thats ok because they became good friends with the termites, and soon they had muant termit and human babies. The children had to be home schooled because they were so ugly, but they loved them any way. but one day they came to school, and were made fun of. So they ate all the kids. So some people protseted against the termites and blamed George W. Bush for everything. So the army came and gave them flowers, but soon a sworm of bees came and took all of the flowers. And the bees all dies from AIDs because they were gay. The End?

The Never Ending Mexican
A young lady was a walkin' when she saw a giant well apeared and she fell in. But there was a man comming that also fell in. there looked like there was no help for the two people. Soon a dragon came and melted the top of the well creating a giant rain storm. But insted of rain it was raining sand, making all the paint in the land to chip off, so the painting companys got tons of money from this. So they bought the lakers, but then they sucked so bad they lost all of their money all over again. So they had to paint again. they had no one to work for them because they all started to go to Canada because of the dragon, so they had to hier Mexicans. they finished all of the work so fast that the dragon died due to heart failer, and the people came back to their homes and lived a happy life. The End?

The Boy That Cryed Burrito
Once apon a time there was a boy that loved all things that can do things. but there was one thing that he hated, Burritos. His parents would abuse him with burritos, forcing him to eat them, so he went on a national Anti-Burrito tour, getting all of the big names in music: Jessica Simpson, Ashlee Simpson, Boys 2 Men, B2K, and Bow Wow. But no one came, so he got shanked in an alley because he was so gay. Soon all of the men that actually suported his cause protested against all shankers. then a super hero came to stop all of the maddness. His name of the man was Canada Man, but he was a horrible super hero because all he could do is give free health care. So all of the poor people cryed no more. But the Americans got mad because Canada also brought Celine Dion. She got up on a stage and said that she was the greatest singer in the world, so everyone went up and kicked her in the nuts. The End?

The Great Escape from the Gay French
There was a man that was goin' to his house when aleins abducted him. He then fell into a deep sleep. When he awoke to his surprise he was being probed, by Rob Schneider. He then got up and jumped out of the space ship and fell into a big pile of freedom fries. The French then came and took all of the fries and captured them and called them French fries, but no one ate them. So soon a cyclopse came and gave off a death beam. from his one eye. And with his death beam he cooked meatloaf, they called it Americanloaf and all of the french got attacked and no one helped because they are gay, and the cyclopse met the dragon on a blind date and ended up marring in a picture book wedding in New Jersey. The End?

==The Attack of the Huge Amazing Gun That Destroyed Everything, and Anything That Walked in Kansas, Even Cockroaches, and That Had No Ways to Stop it, Nothing At All, Not Even the Government Could Stop it, Nothing, NOTHING!!!!== Once a gun destroyed everything in Kansas, not even the government could stop it. The End?

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Shadowline

Shadowline, Inc., is an imprint of Image Comics established by Image co-founder Jim Valentino. The name is an homage to Valentino's character, ShadowHawk.

History
Shadowline was officially created in December 1992 when the logo first appeared on the inside front cover of Jim Valentino's ShadowHawk #3. The first book to sport the logo on its cover was Shadowline Special #1 (October, 1994).

In January 1997, Shadowline became more commonly referred to as the “Non-Line” with the publication of A Touch of Silver #1. The name referred to the fact that the comics in the line at that time were not in any way aligned with one another. There was no singular universe or line. Hence, non-line.

On August 25, 1999, Jim Valentino became the publisher of Image Comics and while he did not publish his own work (so as not to create a conflict of interest), other books in the Non-Line continued. When Erik Larsen eventually took over as the publisher, Valentino returned to the Non-Line and to publishing his own work.

In July 2004 with the publication of the normalman 20th Anniversary Special, the name Shadowline was reborn. The first new book to have the Shadowline logo on the cover after the rebirth was Shadowhawk v. II #1 (May, 2005). Other titles to be created by Valentino, but executed by different creative teams were Blacklight, Task Force 1, The Intimidators and Emissary.

Today, Shadowline not only publishes Jim Valentino's properties but also properties owned by other creators such as Jimmie Robinson, Ted McKeever, Jeff Mariotte, Mike Mayhhew, Steve Niles and Michael Cavallaro.

With a diverse line of one-shots, miniseries and series of miniseries and a growing stable of Eagle- and Eisner-nominated creators, Shadowline is gaining recognition from fans, peers and critics in recent years.

Who Wants To Create a Super-Heroine contest
In December 2007 Shadowline announced a contest for writers to send in a submission for a three-issue limited series featuring an all-new, creator-owned superheroine. While it was announced in April 2008 that Tom Arguello was declared the winner for his entry, Incredible Journey the book itself eventually did not go to print due to a lack of customer/comic-shop support through pre-orders. However, shortly after ComicCon 2008 it was announced that contest finalist Kat Cahill would have her semi-finalist submission I Hate Gallant Girl published by Shadowline with Seth Damoose as the series artist. Three issues of I Hate Gallant Girl were published between December 2008 and February 2009.

Shadowlinecomics.com
On June 25, 2008 the Shadowline website was relaunched.

In the weeks and months that followed the site became home to a number of webcomics, including Brat-halla, Chicago:1968, Finder and Yenny. Later additions include Hannibal Goes to Rome, Action, Ohio, Platinum Grit, Nightmare World, Li'l Depressed Boy and the Mundane Overrated Misadventures of Spudman.

Silverline Books
Along with the relaunch of the website in 2008 came the announcement of an all-ages sub-imprint for the company called Silverline Books. Silverline was created as a way to clearly define the all-ages books for easier reference for parents, librarians and others. It was done to assist in allowing anyone to separate those titles from Shadowline's more mature offerings such as Bomb Queen and The Roberts.

Among the titles that will see print under the Silverline Books banner are Dear Dracula, Bruce The Little Blue Spruce, Missing the Boat and any future versions of PX!, The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo, "Timothy and the Transgalactic Towel," "Rocketbots," and "Night of the Bedbugs."

ShadowlineOnline.com
In the early part of 2011 the Shadowline website was renamed to ShadowlineOnline and the website was relaunched once again.

Along with the relaunch came a new webcomic, The Tales of Mr. Rhee, a spinoff of Dirk Manning's Nightmare World. Additionally, the website also runs a feature every Monday that gives details on any new comics that come out each week and on every Friday there is a 10 Questions interview with a given Shadowline creator.

As of August 2016 the website is no longer active.

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Um...how is girafarig a fictional camel? This needs to be removed, methinks! Chuchunezumi 00:44, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I've removed this, unless someone has an explanation. Cheers! Chuchunezumi 01:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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Tekken (1990 film)

Tekken (鉄拳) is a 1990 Japanese film directed by Junji Sakamoto. It stars Takeshi Yamato, Bunta Sugawara and Karen Kirishima.

Plot
The plot centers around a young ex-prisoner who takes up boxing (tekken is Japanese for "clenched fist").

Awards
Bunta Sugawara won a Hochi Film Award for Best Actor for his performance.

Other uses
This film has no relation to the Tekken video game series or the video game based 2010 film counterpart, even using the same name. Another version was released in 2009.

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Portal:Ancient Egypt/Featured Egyptologist

William Flinders Petrie

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942) was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology.

From 1892 to 1933 Petrie was the first Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College, London. This chair had been funded by Amelia Edwards, who was a strong supporter of Petrie. He continued to excavate in Egypt after taking up the professorship, training many of the best archaeologists of the day. In 1913 Petrie sold his large collection of Egyptian antiquities to University College, London, where it is now housed in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. For his services to British archaeology and Egyptology, he was knighted in 1923

Petrie left Egypt for Palestine in 1926. Here he excavated a series of frontier sites between Egypt and Canaan, including Tell el-Hesi which he considered (mistakenly, as it turned out) to be site of ancient Lachish. Sir Flinders Petrie died in Jerusalem in 1939 and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion.


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it says here that he crushed feudal lords....were these feudal lords Nairs? 58.104.101.99 07:08, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes they were Nairs...kondil Panicker was one of his enemies - manu

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I've just finished with some copy-editing.--Kojozone (talk) 20:15, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

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Okpara

Okpara may refer to:

People

 * Michael Okpara (1920-1984), Nigerian politician
 * Godwin Okpara (born 1972), Nigerian footballer
 * Uga Okpara (born 1982), Nigerian footballer
 * Willy Okpara (born 1968), Nigerian footballer
 * Judith Okpara Mazagwu, Nigerian actress and performing artist

Places

 * Okpara, Benin, administrative area of Benin
 * Okpara Inland, a community in Delta State, Nigeria
 * Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria

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Spa towns in the Czech Republic

There are number of spa towns in the Czech Republic. Between the oldest and most visited are the spas of Karlovy Vary, Mariánské Lázně, Františkovy Lázně, Luhačovice and Poděbrady. In 2011 the Czech spas were visited by around 700,000 guests, of whom around half were foreigners, mainly from Germany, Russia and Austria.

List of spa towns:

 * Bílina (Bilin)
 * Lázně Bludov (Blauda)
 * Darkov
 * Františkovy Lázně (Franzensbad)
 * Hodonín (Göding)
 * Jáchymov (Sankt Joachimsthal)
 * Jeseník (Gräfenberg)
 * Karlova Studánka (Bad Karlsbrunn)
 * Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad)
 * Klimkovice (Königsberg in Schlesien)
 * Lázně Bělohrad
 * Lázně Bohdaneč
 * Lipová-lázně (Nieder Lindewiese)
 * Luhačovice
 * Mariánské Lázně (Marienbad)
 * Poděbrady
 * Teplice (Teplitz-Schönau)
 * Teplice nad Bečvou
 * Třeboň (Wittingau)
 * Velké Losiny (Groß Ullersdorf)

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Lord Lieutenant of Haverfordwest

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Haverfordwest. The county corporate of Haverfordwest was usually under the jurisdiction of the Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire, but it had its own Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum from 1761 until 1931.

Lord Lieutenants of Haverfordwest to 1931

 * Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet 14 May 1761 – 23 June 1764
 * vacant
 * Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (first creation) (Baron Milford from 1776) 28 April 1770 – 28 November 1823
 * Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation) (Sir Richard Philipps, from 1828 and Baron Milford from 1847) 19 February 1824 – 3 January 1857
 * Sir John Philipps-Scourfield 1 July 1857 – 3 June 1876
 * Sir Charles Philipps, 1st Baronet 7 August 1876 – 27 October 1924
 * Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant 27 October 1924 – 7 November 1931

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Negroid Pack-Mule

 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 speedily deleted as an admitted hoax. Scimitar parley 19:40, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Negroid Pack-Mule
Delete: Google returns nothing for the term or the supposed author. Suspect hoax. --Durin 14:50, 2 September 2005 (UTC) Delete: You are all absolutley correct. This is a hoax, and I am the perpetrator. Please delete it. Sorry about all the vandalism yesterday. We all need to be immature sometimes. I would also like to request in my defense that I not be banned from editing. This won't happen anymore. I feel really bad about the whole thing. I love Carl Jung :(. He is most certainly not Carl Poop. --AnAstralCabbage
 * Delete Probable hoax, and even if true (unlikely) I don't see how a one-time comment from 180 years ago and apparently not used since could be notable anyway. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 14:59, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * On closer inspection, I'd say to speedy this. Every edit from the IP who created this article was dumb vandalism over a period of an hour or so yesterday (adding "poop" to articles, etc.)  Strongly suspect this is vandalism too. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  15:05, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think a ban will be necessary over one hoax article and a short lame vandalism spree. I'll take it as your word not to do any more hoaxes or vandalism.  The article is deleted as an admitted hoax.  Here's to better editing in the future. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  15:26, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was DELETE. -Splash 23:01, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Kevin Wyer
Kevin was listed by an anon as the Time Man of The Year for 2005. DavidLumsden 14:51, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
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Michael Linning Melville

Michael Linning Melville (1805 – 22 June 1878) was a Scots Barrister, Judge and Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. He was commissioned by King William IV of the United Kingdom to suppress the slave trade by force off the West Coast of Africa.

Background and career
Melville was an ethnic Scotsman from Dublin where his family had lived since the middle of the 18th century. He was named after his godfather, the writer Michael Linning, and went on to marry the latter's niece Elizabeth Helen Callender.

In September 1818, both of Melville's parents died within a few days of each other. His loss aroused the pity of the Prince Regent who, in November of that year, granted the boy an annual pension from the Civil List.

At some stage in the 1820s Meville joined the Foreign Office. By 1827 he was serving as a Justice of the Peace and in 1835 Hansard lists Melville as King's Advocate and Registrar of the Vice Admiralty Court in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He interposed his tours of duty in Africa with study at Lincoln's Inn being called to the bar in 1843.

In September 1842 Queen Victoria made Melville a Judge. Later that year the  Earl of Aberdeen, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, appointed Melville to sit on the Mixed British and Foreign Courts of Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.

His service in West Africa was to form the basis for his wife's 1849 memoir A Residence in Sierra Leone Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot and from Letters Written to Friends at Home Edited by Mrs. Norton, which was edited by her first cousin Caroline Norton. The book is one of the only surviving accounts of life in mid-nineteenth century Africa written from the perspective of a woman and contains descriptions of life and society in early Victorian Freetown and the countryside nearby as well as her husband's work seizing slave ships, prosecuting their crews, and overseeing the breaking up of the vessels at a place called "Destruction Bay".

Melville's own correspondence with Lord Aberdeen contains a number of detailed and vivid descriptions of the struggle to suppress the transatlantic slave trade and release its victims. A letter of 27 April 1844 is typical:

"The Santa Anna cleared out from Bahia on 24 December last, with slave provisions and equipment, and a small quantity of tobacco and other goods on board, and proceeded direct to Lagos, where she arrived on the 5th of February, when one of her officers, according to the usual custom, seems to have gone on shore to arrange about a cargo of slaves, the vessel putting to sea again in the meanwhile and cruizing [sic] about to avoid risk of capture. On the 5th of March, 311 slaves were embarked in this small schooner, which is apparently not more than 35 British tons in burthen. On the 4th of April, having lost in the interim by death several of her human cargo, she was fallen in with, to the northward of Ascension, by Her Majesy's [sic] brig HMS Rapid (1844), and, after a chase, captured; most fortunately for the lives as we well as the liberties of the slaves, the quantity of water found on board being very deficient, and barely lasting until the arrival of the vessel at Sierra Leone... No flag nor any official papers were found in the vessel to indicate her nationality; but that difficulty was sufficiently obviated, and the Brazilian character of the vessel, and the traffic in which she was engaged, clearly established by the admissions of the witnesses, and the evidence afforded by two log-books and a list of the cargo of slaves which had been discovered on board; her condemnation consequently took place as above mentioned, the surviving slaves, 267 in number, (one having died here before adjudication,) being at the same time emancipated."

(M. L. Melville to the Earl of Aberdeen 27 April 1844 in "Correspondence with the British Commissioners at Sierra Leone, Havana, Rio de Janeiro, Surinam, Cape of Good Hope, Jamaica, Loanda, and Boa Vista Relating to The Slave Trade from January 1 to December 31, 1844 inclusive" HMSO )

Marriage and family
In 1840, Melville married Elizabeth Helen Callender, daughter of Randall William McDonnell Callander (died 1858), of Craigforth House Stirlingshire and Ardkinglas Castle, Argyle. Randall Callander was the younger son, but eventual heir, of Sir James Campbell (1745–1831) of Ardkinglas Castle. Melville's wife was a descendant of James II of Scotland and related the leading families of the Scottish and Anglo-Irish aristocracy. At this time in British history, before the publication of the Northcote–Trevelyan Report, appointment and promotion in the Civil Service depended on aristocratic patronage and Elizabeth's connections (her uncle, Sir James Graham, Bt, was at that time Home Secretary) would have been an immense asset for Melville's career As described in A Residence in Sierra Leone Michael and Elizabeth Melville had a son Robert Melville (judge, of Hartfield Grove Sussex, and Ashford Hall Shropshire), born in Sierra Leone. They later had a daughter Elizabeth, born in Scotland in 1847, who married Arthur Champernowne of Dartington Hall, Devon.

Michael Linning Melville and his wife Elizabeth both died in 1876 and are buried in the old churchyard at Dartington Hall in South Devon, England. Their son Robert is buried at the new Dartington church, built by Arthur Melville Champernowne (a grandson of Michael and Elizabeth Melville).

Later life
After his service in Sierra Leone, Melville returned to Britain. In 1870 he purchased Hartfield Grove, a large house in the Ashdown Forest, Sussex where he lived with his wife, his son Robert, and Robert's growing family.

In 1862 he became a Director of the London and North Western Railway.

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Talk:Joe Duffy

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This article is very biased in nature. Whoever wrote (at least part of) it clearly does not like Joe Duffy, and shows that in their writing (See the "OMG WTF SELL OUT WAAAAH!!11!!oneone!eleven" bit). Wikipedia articles should be neutral in viewpoint.

No - you are wrong this is a fairly accurate, if lighthearted account of his career. It is not complete however, certain key aspects of his financial dealings with Century Radio and his work with Ray Burke in terms of national broadcasting policy has not been covered. See the series in the Irish Times by Don Sommers and Mary Doran (-April/May 1995?) One thing that is total bs is the pony thing. Duffey hates horses and ponies. He claimed on air in August 2001, whilst broadcasting from the RDS Horse Show that they "are always watching and conspiring in that quiet unasumming way but really they rip your throat out if they had a chance" Duffey was  then taken off air at Ballsbridge and after that and the unfortunate events at the Malahide Castle Gymkana  in 2002 he really keeps away from horses and ponies which he has referred to as " feckin hairless giant ground rats with big teeth and weird evil eyes".

I've reverted recent changes to this article. Not only are they written in a obviously slanted way (you might want to read Neutral point of view), they were verging on outright abuse. In fact, you definitely should read Neutral point of view. Morwen - Talk 19:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Unsourced comment
The comment about Joe being the best loved radio presenter in Ireland (!) is completely unverifiable and most likely wrong if listenership figures are anything to go by. It is my opinion that it is a weasel sentence and I have removed it. It is clearly in breach of NPOV. Cfslattery1 17:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC) He also has 2 sonss and a daughter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.71.61.48 (talk) 18:36, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but what is this based on: "RTÉ publicly defended Duffy and Liveline but behind the scenes was said to be deeply embarrassed, even permitting the Sunday newspapers to "castigate" Liveline.", did the author hear somebody in the pub recounting this tale. Come on, this is pathetic. If you don't have any sources, don't include it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.143.244.34 (talk) 14:46, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Funny Friday
Can we indicate something about the unusual flavour and content of "Funny Friday". At the moment you might think it is just a round table with comedians, but you're not likely to get working stand-ups on the show. I considered inserting the word "ageing" before the word comedians. Any other ideas?

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@AnomieBOT:This has an NPOV tag from July 2013 placed by AnomieBOT ( I thought that meant some robot/algorithm thing which would not surely be able to judge bias), The current version is essentially identical and I just don't understand where the bias is. Is it supposed to be pro or anti? There are negative but well sourced things like the lampooning of him by the Savage Eye show and Kevin Myers' comment but positive things like presidency of the Students Union TCD and presidency of the national students' union. Also things like saying he is famous for taking up the cause of disadvantaged people. I am mystified. I would like to remove the tag. Any support? Aineireland (talk) 18:52, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

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Yasika

Yasika was a Misumalpan (Matagalpan) Indian tribe that lived in the highlands of Nicaragua, río Yasica, Matagalpa Department. Yasica is the name of a region that divides Matagalpa to the Mayangna territory in the so-called Caribbean Coast.

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Jason Stoltenberg

Jason Stoltenberg (born 4 April 1970) is an Australian former professional tennis player.

Tennis career
Stoltenberg began playing tennis at age ten on an antbed (crushed termite mound) court where his father owned a cotton farm in the Far West (the bush) of New South Wales. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. He is married to former Czechoslovakian player Andrea Strnadová.

Juniors
In 1987, he won the Boys' Singles title at the Australian Open and was ranked the No. 1 junior player in the world. He turned professional later that year.

Pro tour
Stoltenberg reached his first tour singles final in 1989 at Livingston, New Jersey and won his first top-level title in 1993 at Manchester. He was also part of the Australian team which finished runners-up in that year's Davis Cup, losing in the final to Germany.

Stoltenberg's best performance at a Grand Slam event came in 1996, when he reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon, defeating Adrian Voinea, Jiří Novák, Mosé Navarra, Jakob Hlasek and Goran Ivanišević in the quarter-finals, before being knocked-out by eventual champion Richard Krajicek.

During his career, Stoltenberg won four top-level singles titles and five doubles titles. His career-high rankings were World No. 19 in singles and No. 23 in doubles. His career prize money totalled US$3,305,212. His last singles title came in 1997 at Coral Springs, Florida. He retired from the professional tour in 2001.

Coaching career
Stoltenberg was the coach of Lleyton Hewitt from December 2001 until June 2003. He resigned as Hewitt's coach after Hewitt lost to Tommy Robredo at the 2003 French Open.

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I'm taking the Multilingual statistics (ja) and List of Wikipedias (ja) in Japanese wikipedia. Although, I think that it will concentrate on acquisition each language information and attachment "+interwiki" for the time being. Therefore, I can't write new contribution.

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Manchester Airport station

Manchester Airport station is a railway, tram, bus and coach station at Manchester Airport, England which opened at the same time as the second air terminal in 1993. The station is 9+3⁄4 mi south of Manchester Piccadilly, at the end of a short branch from the Styal line via a triangular junction between Heald Green and Styal stations. Manchester Metrolink tram services were extended to the airport in 2014 and operate to Manchester Victoria.

Description
The station is 9+3/4 mi south of at the end of a short branch from the Styal Line constructed by British Rail in 1993. A branch of Manchester Metrolink runs into it. It is accessed via a triangular junction located between and. The station platforms are connected by escalator, lift, ramps and an elevated covered walkway (known as the "Sky Link") to the airport terminal buildings in which is a staffed railway ticket office. Throughout the airport complex, the railway station is known as "The Station" and is signposted as such.

New platforms
In December 2008, a third platform opened after a year of construction and a total cost of £15 million. The following year Network Rail noted that it had "greatly increased operational flexibility at the station, and reduced the number of times that late-running trains had had to be terminated at Manchester Piccadilly."

In 2009, Network Rail stated that the creation of the third platform has meant that the capacity at Manchester Airport will become constrained by the layover of the trains and congestion at the throat. To solve this issue they have recommended building a line underneath the airport towards Northwich in the 2019 to 2024 period.

In July 2012, support for a fourth railway platform was announced by the Government. The current platforms are eight carriage lengths long, so each can accommodate two trains of four carriages. A fourth platform will allow greater use of longer trains of six carriages or more. This had been recommended as part of the Northern Hub scheme of rail improvements around Manchester by the 2010 Manchester Hub Rail Study and the 2011 Northern Route Utilisation Strategy, with an estimated cost of £23 million.

In February 2014, construction commenced on a new £20m fourth platform at the station. The start of construction was attended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne. Construction of the new platform was completed in May 2015 - three years earlier than the 2018 estimate given in 2012. This was to allow engineering work to overlap with that being done on the Manchester Metrolink extension to the airport (see below) so that the fourth platform could be used for the extra traffic generated by the Ordsall Chord (opened 10 December 2017), while the fourth platform itself opened to passengers in Autumn 2015.

HS2
In January 2013, the Government announced that Manchester Airport would be included in the second phase of the High Speed 2 railway line. This will enable Manchester Airport to be reached from London Euston in 59 minutes. The new line and associated new station will pass to the west of the Airport, away from the existing railway station and transport interchange, giving the airport two disconnected railways stations approximately 1 mile apart.

However, on 4 October 2023 it was confirmed by the United Kingdom government under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt that the Manchester leg of High Speed 2 would be scrapped, and as a result, the new high-speed station at Manchester Airport would not be built.

National Rail services

The station is managed by TransPennine Express (TPE). All services are operated by TPE, Northern Trains and Transport for Wales (TfW). There are eight trains per hour (tph) to Manchester Piccadilly and beyond, seven of which start and end their journeys here, and the other continues south to Crewe via Wilmslow.

The current off-peak service pattern (as of December 2022) is as follows:

TransPennine Express
 * 1tph to Saltburn via Middlesbrough
 * 1tph to Carlisle, continuing alternately to Edinburgh Waverley or Glasgow Central

Northern Trains
 * 2tph to Blackpool North
 * 1tph to Lancaster, of which 11tpd continue to Barrow-in-Furness and 4tpd continue to Windermere
 * 1tph to Liverpool Lime Street via Newton-le-Willows
 * 1tph to Manchester Piccadilly
 * 1tph to Crewe

Transport for Wales
 * 1tph to Chester. Most trains continue to Llandudno, with 2tpd continuing to Holyhead

There are no long-distance services to the airport from the south; a Central Trains service from via  and  was cut in 2003, while Virgin CrossCountry services from  to Edinburgh or Glasgow, were withdrawn the same year.

It was planned that infrastructure developments that are part of the Northern Hub system of schemes such as the Ordsall Chord should enable direct trains to and on towards Bradford from May 2019. However the introduction of the May 2018 timetable, one of the most radical in decades, caused punctuality through Manchester to drop sharply and it became common for TransPennine Express to terminate delayed services at Manchester Piccadilly or Victoria rather than continue onto the final destination at Manchester Airport.

Any future additional services to the Airport are in doubt without further infrastructure works; unresolved issues surround the lack of new 'through' platforms at Manchester Piccadilly which have been shelved by the government and the Styal Line to Manchester Airport operating at full capacity with little resilience to absorb delays.

Manchester Metrolink
The Manchester Metrolink light rail network was extended from St Werburgh's Road to Manchester Airport as part of the Phase 3 expansion project. The Metrolink station has been built adjacent to the airport station. It is the terminus of the Airport Line.

Following a period of uncertainty due to funding problems, the plans were finally given the go-ahead in May 2009. The confirmed route would not complete the full airport loop as proposed, but trams would run along the northern route via Wythenshawe. Completion of the western side of the loop is subject to further funding in a later project. An opening date of Summer 2016 had originally been indicated for opening of the Airport line but the line opened early on 3 November 2014.

Services
Trams run between Manchester Airport and Victoria every 12 minutes.

Ticket zones
With the introduction to a zonal ticketing system on Metrolink services in January 2019, Manchester Airport is located within zone 4.

National rail

 * TransPennine Express Official web site

Metrolink

 * Metrolink airport line extension proposals, TfGM
 * Metrolink stop information
 * Manchester Airport area map
 * Manchester Airport Metrolink station plans

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Persian Gulf Online Organization

The Persian Gulf Online Organization (or Persian Gulf Organization PGO, also known as Iranians for International Cooperation (IIC)'s Persian Gulf Task Force or PGTF) is a non-governmental entity consisting of a network of volunteers across the globe dedicated to promoting the name Persian Gulf against the fictitious name "Arabian Gulf" in the Persian Gulf naming dispute. Its members live in several countries around the world.

PGO's members' efforts are mostly undertaken via the internet. On their website, current news about the Persian Gulf, maps, articles, bibliographies about the Persian Gulf, conferences, and other information can be found. Javad Fakharzadeh has written some letters to British Airways which stated that the "historically correct" name of the waters is the Persian Gulf. Two weeks later, British Airways acknowledged their mistake of using "Arabian Gulf" and provided written guarantees that their onboard displays would be corrected. PGO has sent similar letters to the Army News, and also had struggled with National Geographic about the naming of the gulf. After that, the Government of Iran became involved in this too, and Iranian government agents in Europe and US contacted National Geographic, wanting to use the same name of the Persian Gulf according to its history.

In October 2018, the WIPO as an agency of the UN registers Persian Gulf in official certificate based on the Lisbon Agreement. According to this agreement based on international law, no country, government, or organization can use another name to refer to the Persian Gulf.

Board members
PGO was established in 1999 by Mohammad Ala, a Persian professor, and was represented by Pejman Akbarzadeh, another member of the organization, in Amsterdam and Tehran from 2002 to 2006. Many other notable Iranians contributed in this organization. Javad Fakharzadeh is the head and co-founder of the organization. He is also an advisory board member of CASMII. Shahram Mostarshed, an anti-war activist and a member of the Green party of California, is one them, along with another campaign organization, Iranians for International Cooperation (IIC). Daniel Pourkesali is also a board member of this organization.

National Persian Gulf's Day
In 6 September 2003 a suggestion asking to dedicate a day to the Persian Gulf was posted by zeebad (Ajam), a member of PGO to the discussion panel of the PGO website  the suggestion was discussed by members in different occasion and finally based on the number of votes forwarded to discussion list, and votes sent to the board members the majority of respondents chose 30 November from among 5 different days to be Persian Gulf Day. In January 2004, PGO send a letter and offered Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance to adopt a new national day in Iran with the name of "National Persian Gulf's Day". The government accepted the suggestion with a given priority to another day in the list of suggested days. It was approved by the government in July 2005 and since then a new national day added to official Persian calendar.

PGO had also offered the government to publish Persian Gulf stamps.

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Kenneth W. Griffin

Kenneth W. "Ken" Griffin (December 28, 1909 – March 11, 1956), was an American organist.

Biography
Griffin was born in Columbia, Missouri. His biggest hit was "You Can't Be True, Dear" (1948), which was first released as an instrumental, and later that year re-released with a vocal by Jerry Wayne dubbed in. Both versions became popular, selling over 3.5 million copies. He also starred in a 1954-55 syndicated television series, 67 Melody Lane. He recorded on a variety of recording labels, especially Columbia.

It was in the 1940s in Aurora, Illinois, that Griffin broke into the nightclub circuit, playing at the Rivoli Cafe nightly. The sessions at the Rivoli were broadcast on the radio station, WMRO, and the program became popular.

Griffin died on March 11, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 46, of a heart attack, and was buried at Lincoln Memorial Park in Aurora. Columbia had many hours of Griffin's unreleased recordings on tape, and continued to release "new" recordings of Griffin's music for a number of years after his death. His version of "Ebb Tide" was played in the fifth-season premiere of the TV drama Mad Men.

Partial discography

 * Anniversary Songs Columbia 10-inch Lp CL 6177; 12" Lp CL-586/CS-8781*
 * Skating Time Columbia 12" Lp CL-610 (Also available on 10" Lp)
 * Lost In A Cloud Columbia 12" Lp CL-662
 * The Music of Irving Berlin Columbia 10" Lp CL-6120
 * Christmas Carols Columbia 10" Lp CL-6130
 * Hawaiian Serenade Columbia 10" Lp CL-6206
 * When Irish Eyes Are Smiling Columbia 10" Lp CL-6245
 * Latin Americana Columbia 10" Lp CL-6263
 * Cruising Down The River Columbia 12" Lp CL-761/CS-9042*
 * Hymns Of America Columbia 10" Lp CL-6298
 * You Can't Be True, Dear Columbia 12" Lp CL-907/CS-8790*
 * Moonlight And Roses Columbia 12" Lp CL-1207/CS-8848*
 * The Organ Plays At Christmas Columbia 12" Lp CL-692
 * 67 Melody Lane Columbia 12" Lp CL-724
 * Greatest Hits Columbia 12" Lp CL-2717/CS-9517*
 * Sentimental Serenade Harmony (Columbia) 12" Lp HL-7384/HS-11184*
 * Ken Griffin at the Wurlitzer Organ Philips 10" Lp B 07755 R*
 * Great Organ Favorites Harmony/Columbia 12" LP H 31028
 * At The Great Organ Rondo-lette 12" LP A30
 * The Sparkling Touch Columbia 12" Lp CL 1709
 * To Each His Own Columbia 12" Lp CL 1599
 * On The Happy Side Columbia 12" Lp CL 1518
 * Hawaiian Magic Columbia 12" Lp CL 1062
 * Plays Romantic Waltzes Columbia 12" Lp CL 1365
 * Love Letters In The Sand Columbia 12" Lp CL 1039
 * Let's Have a Party (And Everybody Sing) Columbia 12" Lp CL 1127
 * Ebb Tide Columbia 12" HS-11226
 * The Fabulous Ken Griffin Harmony Columbia 12" HS 11184
 * Sentimental Me Rondo-lette longplay A17
 * Sentimental Journey Harmony 12" Lp HS 11329

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Gyr

Gyr or gyr can mean:
 * Gyr (cattle), a Zebu breed of cattle
 * Billion years (Gyr)
 * Guarayu language
 * Gyrfalcon
 * Phoenix Goodyear Airport, in Arizona, United States
 * Radu Gyr (1905–1975), Romanian writer
 * Get Your Rate, used at best boosting website EB24

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Spray

Spray or spraying commonly refer to:

 * Spray (liquid drop)
 * Aerosol spray
 * Blood spray
 * Hair spray
 * Nasal spray
 * Pepper spray
 * PAVA spray
 * Road spray or tire spray, road debris kicked up from a vehicle tire
 * Sea spray, refers to aerosol particles that form in the ocean
 * Spraying, or the creation of a spray
 * Spraying (animal behavior), the action of an animal marking its territory with urine
 * The use of a spray bottle
 * The use of a sprayer
 * Aerial application of chemicals
 * Spray painting

Spray or spraying may also refer to:

People

 * Ruth Hinshaw Spray (1848-1929), American peace activist

Places

 * Spray, North Carolina, a former mill town in Rockingham County, North Carolina, now part of Eden, North Carolina

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Spray (band), a British synthpop band
 * Spray (video game), a 2008 video game for Nintendo's Wii video game console

Brands and enterprises

 * Spray Network, a Swedish Internet company

Computing

 * Heap spraying in a computer security exploit
 * JIT spraying, a specialised version of the above

Ships

 * Spray (sailing vessel), the ship used in Joshua Slocum's solo circumnavigation in the late 19th century
 * USS Spray (ID-2491), a trawler in commission in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919
 * USS Spray II (SP-308), a motorboat ordered delivered to the United States Navy in 1917 for use as a patrol vessel but never taken over by the Navy

Other uses

 * Spray (mathematics), a type of vector field in differential geometry defined on the tangent bundle of a manifold
 * Spraying, using an automatic firearm in an attack

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User:Willbyr

My Sandbox

Welcome to my humble abode!
A little bit about me...I'm 33, living in North Little Rock, AR, and have been a Wikipedia member for a few years now. I currently work as a chemist for the Food and Drug Administration, and plan to be there until I retire.

My wife and I purchased our first house about 3 years ago.

Wikipedia contributions
I've contributed to a great many articles, but most of those have been minor edits and suggestions. The articles I've spent most of my time contributing to are those relating to Jim Rome. I've also been heavily involved in edits to the various articles for Neon Genesis Evangelion and RahXephon.

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Farman Behboud

Farman Behboud (1946 – March 2010) was an Iranian pianist and piano teacher.

He was born in Tehran and studied the piano at the Tehran Conservatory of Music under Emanuel Melik-Aslanian and Ophelia Kombadjian.

Behboud gave several recitals and concerts with the NIRT Chamber Orchestra. He was also the pianist of the Persian Ballets Organization in Tehran.

Behboud used to teach at the Tehran Conservatory. Since the 1979 Iranian revolution he has preferred to teach private classes.

In recent years Behboud has held some recitals for his students in Tehran. Classical pianist, composer, and Ney player Rasool Akbari, renowned Canadian composer, conductor and strategist Joseph Lerner and Peyman Yazdanian were Farman Behboud's students.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Persiangulfonline.com

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was redirect. Decision taken unilaterally by RHaworth. NB. If this was actually a nomination for deletion of the content on grounds of non-notability or whatever, then feel free to re-open this discussion. -- RHaworth 07:27:12, 2005-09-03 (UTC)

Persiangulfonline.com
Article is of a web site address which is not valid though it does provide a link to another similiar domain which is. However I'm not sure if that qualifies for an entry unless the entry itself was for the organization name and not a web site address. Nycmstar 15:03, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Note also Persiangulfonline.org - choster
 * Moved Persiangulfonline.org to Persian Gulf Organization --Outlander 15:18, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * DELETE Persiangulfonline.com as redundant with Persian Gulf Organization--Outlander 15:20, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week/History of the Caribbean

History of the Caribbean

 * Nominated on 15:04, September 2, 2005 (UTC); needs 15 votes by 23 September.

This important topic has long been a fairly meagre stub. History by region COTWs have also been quite successful in the past.

Support:
 * 1) SimonP 15:04, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2)   —thames 17:30, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) lots of issues  | leave me a message 22:20, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) The Singing Badger 20:34, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Guettarda 13:20, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Fxer 08:43, September 8, 2005 (UTC) - Pirates and rum? COUNT ME IN.
 * 7) Shanel 03:26, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) --JMiller 18:23, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Darwinek 08:54, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Mark Lewis 13:21, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) --Wonderfool t(c) 01:30, 14 September 2005 (UTC)


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Psychologism

Psychologism is a family of philosophical positions, according to which certain psychological facts, laws, or entities play a central role in grounding or explaining certain non-psychological facts, laws, or entities. The word was coined by Johann Eduard Erdmann as Psychologismus, being translated into English as psychologism.

Definition
The Oxford English Dictionary defines psychologism as: "The view or doctrine that a theory of psychology or ideas forms the basis of an account of metaphysics, epistemology, or meaning; (sometimes) spec. the explanation or derivation of mathematical or logical laws in terms of psychological facts." Psychologism in epistemology, the idea that its problems "can be solved satisfactorily by the psychological study of the development of mental processes", was argued in John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690).

Other forms of psychologism are logical psychologism and mathematical psychologism. Logical psychologism is a position in logic (or the philosophy of logic) according to which logical laws and mathematical laws are grounded in, derived from, explained or exhausted by psychological facts or laws. Psychologism in the philosophy of mathematics is the position that mathematical concepts and/or truths are grounded in, derived from or explained by psychological facts or laws.

Viewpoints
John Stuart Mill was accused by Edmund Husserl of being an advocate of a type of logical psychologism, although this may not have been the case. So were many nineteenth-century German philosophers such as Christoph von Sigwart, Benno Erdmann, Theodor Lipps, Gerardus Heymans, Wilhelm Jerusalem, and Theodor Elsenhans, as well as a number of psychologists, past and present (e.g., Wilhelm Wundt and Gustave Le Bon).

Psychologism was notably criticized by Gottlob Frege in his anti-psychologistic work The Foundations of Arithmetic, and many of his works and essays, including his review of Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic. Husserl, in the first volume of his Logical Investigations, called "The Prolegomena of Pure Logic", criticized psychologism thoroughly and sought to distance himself from it. Frege's arguments were largely ignored, while Husserl's were widely discussed.

In "Psychologism and Behaviorism", Ned Block describes psychologism in the philosophy of mind as the view that "whether behavior is intelligent behavior depends on the character of the internal information processing that produces it." This is in contrast to a behavioral view which would state that intelligence can be ascribed to a being solely via observing its behavior. This latter type of behavioral view is strongly associated with the Turing test.

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Talk:Al-Aimmah Bridge

Transliterations
AFP: Al-Aaimmah bridge or al-Aaimmah bridge Reuters: the A'imma bridge The New York Times: the Aimma Bridge AP: the al-Aima Bridge BGN: [the?] Jisr al A’immah
 * google maps Aa'mah bridge. It is nonsensical for the English article to begin  "The Al-Aaimmah bridge..." which unnecessarily stutters "the the ..." GregKaye 20:21, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 3 May 2015

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. Number   5  7  20:12, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Al-Aaimmah bridge → Aa'mah bridge – or Imam's Bridge. There are a variety of transliterations that can be used as presented by above. google maps presents Aa'mah bridge. The translation of the Arabic is Imam's bridge but I haven't seen a source use the translation.

At present the article begins "The Al-Aaimmah bridge'..." which, in the context that we have guidelines on WP:THE, basically reads "The the xxxx bridge...". --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 00:50, 10 May 2015 (UTC) GregKaye 20:37, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. Predominantly the convention on Wikipedia seems to be to preserve al- while transliterating article titles. Putting al- in titles is also recommended by WP:MOSAR as per its standard transliteration. So the current title seems acceptable per guidelines. Although I guess the double Aa at the start can be changed into a single A, and the B can be capitalized since it is a proper name. We can move to "Al-Aimmah Bridge" per standard transliteration and correct capitalization. Khestwol (talk) 11:34, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
 * So move to "Al-Aimmah Bridge". Now, after I fixed it, even the article itself uses "Al-Aimmah Bridge". Khestwol (talk) 11:58, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

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Swaraj Round, Thrissur

Swaraj Round or Thrissur Round is the local name for a circular road which is about 2 km long in the centre of the city of Thrissur in Kerala, India, surrounding the 65 acre hillock called the Thekkinkadu Maidan which seats the Vadakkumnathan Temple. Swaraj Round is the biggest Roundabout in South Asia. It is a financial, commercial and business center in Kerala. Seventeen roads connect to it. Encircling the Thekkinkadu Maidan, Swaraj Round surrounds the small hillock on which the Vadakkunnathan Temple dedicated to Shiva is built. It is the largest circular road surrounding a ground in India and the second largest roundabout in the world.

Swaraj Round is a commercial and shopping area of Thrissur with malls, shopping centers, and jewelry and textile shops. There are two pedestrian subways in the Swaraj Round, one near Paramekkavu temple and other at M.O. Road Junction. The Swaraj Round is the location of the Republic parade and the Pulikali on the fourth Onam day, when Pulikali troupes from different parts of the district perform there.

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Charles Coles

Charles "Honi" Coles (April 2, 1911 – November 12, 1992) was an American actor and tap dancer, who was inducted posthumously into the American Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2003. He had a distinctive personal style that required technical precision, high-speed tapping, and a close-to-the-floor style where "the legs and feet did the work". Coles was also half of the professional tap dancing duo Coles and Atkins, whose specialty was performing with elegant style through various tap steps such as "swing dance", "over the top", "bebop", "buck and wing", and "slow drag".

He appeared in the films The Cotton Club and Dirty Dancing, as well as the documentary  Great Feats of Feet. Coles was also a tap-dancing companion of tap dancer Brenda Bufalino, the founder and director of the American Tap Dance Foundation. During his career, Coles was awarded the Dance Magazine Award in 1985, the Capezio Award for lifetime achievement in dance in 1988, and the National Medal of the Arts by President George H. W. Bush in 1991. He was a tap mentor who believed, "If you can walk, you can tap." Coles advocated for the development of tap dance and often claimed that "tap dance was the only dance art form that America could claim as its own".

Early life
Charles "Honi" Coles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 2, 1911. He was the son of George and Isabel Coles. George Coles was an owner of a pool hall and a barbershop, while Isabel Coles was a domestic servant. When Coles was a child, his sister took care of him and gave Coles the nickname "Honey". Later, when he was around 14 or 15 years old, Coles belonged to a club called the Jolly Buccaneers and changed the spelling of his nickname to "Honi". This nickname became a crucial part of Coles's life, in which his teachers also used to call him Honi.

As a child, "Honi" Coles could not afford to go to dancing school, so he figured out a different way to learn how to tap dance. Coles and his friends gathered around the street corner of Philadelphia in the summer months to dance as a form of recreation. Later, other guys from different neighborhoods joined Coles and his friends, which created various competitions among young tap dancers. Billy Bailey, a talented dancer coming from another neighborhood, also competed on the street corner. Through watching other people tap-danced and joining such contests, Coles and his friends began to master various sets of dance steps, but "with no thought of using dancing as a means of livelihood".

By his late teens, after years of learning and practicing tap-dancing on the streets of Philadelphia, Coles was determined to make a career in show business. He practiced alone for a year to enhance his skill set, including speed, number of taps per beat, and complicated patterns. Although Coles was taller and slimmer than average tap dancers, he managed to maximize the potential of his physical appearance. Coles's fellow tap dancer, Pete Nugent, said that Coles could do "centipede steps," which means that his legs and feet could be pulled in opposite directions.

1931 – 1935
In 1931, Charles "Honi" Coles made his debut at the Lafayette Theater, a popular black venue at that time, in New York City as one of the Three Millers. They were popular for their fast moves, including over-the-tops, barrel turns, and wings, on six-foot-high pedestals. However, his partners hired another dancer to replace him, so Coles moved back to Philadelphia with a determination to perfect his fast-step style.

After spending time improving his technique, Coles returned to New York City in 1934 and performed at the Harlem Opera House and Apollo Theater. When practicing at Joe Price's acrobatics studio in downtown New York, Coles encountered some white dancers who came to challenge him. However, after Coles showed them his routines, the dancers walked away with confusion about his talent. With his fast-rhythm technique, he was highly respected and reputed to have "the fastest feet in show business" by other tap dancers. At the Hoofer's Club, a challenging stage for most talented tap dancers to compete in Harlem, Coles was still considered "the most graceful dancer ever seen" by his peers.

1936 – 1939
From 1936 to 1939, Coles replaced a member of the Lucky Seven Trio, who were the rivals to the Millers. Lucky Seven Trio was a group tapping on large cubes that looked like dice and going through ten costume changes during their act. In 1938, Coles teamed up with a comedian and then went single again. Through the tour with the big swing bands of Count Basie and Duke Ellington, Coles polished his technique, successfully combining high-speed tapping with an elegant style.

Coles and Atkins
In 1940, while performing as a dance soloist with Cab Calloway and his jive-swing orchestra, Coles met Charles "Cholly" Atkins. Atkins is a well-known jazz tap dancer, who choreographed, staged, and staged acts for many vocal groups of the 1960s. "Honi" Coles's specialty was precision and fast-rhythm steps, while Atkins was an expert wing dancer known as "the man with the moves".

In 1943, both of them joined the Army during wartime. In 1946, after the war ended, they combined their unique techniques and styles to form the class act of Coles & Atkins and were hired to perform at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Their performance was popular because of their tailored suits, a precision swing dance in union, followed by a soft-shoe, and ended by a challenge dance, in which each dancer demonstrated his specialty. While Coles showcased his high-speed tapping and cadences of bebop, Atkins was more light-footed and combined tap with modern dance and ballet. Together, they ended the performance with precision steps and a walk offstage.

Coles and Atkins soft-shoe was a masterpiece in adagio dancing, but their most significant achievement was the assemblage of tap dancers in a class act with a set musical arrangement coming from the bands. During their career as a duo, Coles and Atkins worked with a lot of drummers, including Cozy Cole, Jo Jones, Sonny Payne, and Buddy Rich. The duo loved working with Jo Jones because he showed respect for dancers and knew how to accompany and provide music support for tap. They tried to develop a system in order to efficiently collaborate with drummers and musicians.

Throughout the 1940s, Coles and Atkins appeared in a series of tours with the big bands of Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Johnny Otis, and Billie Holiday. In late 1946, they performed the El Grotto in Chicago at Sixty-fourth and South Cottage Grove Avenue with Ziggy Johnson. After the El Grotto ended, Ziggy asked if the duo wanted to go with him to the Plantation, so they moved back to New York. In 1947, Coles and Atkins went on a tour with Count Basie to the West Coast on a northern route, then came back with Billy Eckstine's band following a southern route. During the summer of 1947, they performed with The Ink Spots, in which Johnny Otis was a band leader, in a "slow-motion acrobatic dance, using jazz movements". Additionally, Coles and Atkins also created choreography for June Taylor dancers for early television.

In the late 1940s, Coles and Atkins realized that the audiences became less interested in "pure" tap. In a performance at the Look-out House in Kentucky, they began to add comedy to their performance, but only gained partial success. In 1949, their creation of the show-stopping Mamie is Mimi, a part of the Broadway musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the Ziegfeld Theater, went uncredited by the show's choreographer Agnes de Mille.

By the time Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ended in 1952, Coles and Atkins found that jobs were scarce as the integration of a new style of Broadway ballet became more popular than tap dance. As a result, each dancer took new jobs. Coles opened a dance studio with Pete Nugent, while Atkins became a vocal coach for many vocal bands. Although Coles and Atkins continued to work in the 1950s, they could not overcome the decline in audience's interest and eventually broke up in 1960.

Collaboration with Pete Nugent
During the period 1954–1955, Coles collaborated with Pete Nugent, a talented tap dancer from Washington, D.C., to open the Dance Craft studio on Fifty-second Street in New York City in spite of the ongoing decrease in the interest in tap dance in the 1950s. However, their studio closed in 1957 due to the prevalent loss in interest. Coles recalled that difficult period, "No work, no money. Tap had dropped dead."

Honi Coles met Brenda Bufalino during this period at his Dance Craft studio. When Bufalino was eighteen, she moved to New York City to further her dance studies in 1955. At his dance studio, Coles taught his fast-rhythm tap dancing and his other tap steps to Bufalino.

1960 – 1970
After Coles and Atkins broke up in 1960, Coles started working as a production stage manager for the Apollo Theater for the next sixteen years. Some of his responsibilities included introducing other class acts. "Honi" Coles described the Apollo chorus line and the Apollo performances, "A dancing act could come into the Apollo with all original material and when they left at the end of the week, the chorus line would have stolen many of the outstanding things that they did."

Additionally, Coles served as the president of the Negro Actors Guild and continued his association with the Copasetics, a club for musical and tap artists to preserve the memory of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. During the 1950s and 60s, the Copasetics played an important social force in the Harlem community as "Polo theater", with annual balls and charitable performances to raise funds for children. In 1962, Coles performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, and his performance brought veteran members of the Copasetics back to the stage. Members of the Copasetics mentored and performed with the proceeding generation of female tap pioneers, including Brenda Bufalino, Jane Goldberg, and Deborah Mitchell.

1970 – 1990
Coles joined the tour of Bubbling Brown Sugar and performed the role of John Sage in 1976. He regained his popularity as a soloist, and was able to perform at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall. In 1978, after receiving compliments for his performance in the Joffrey Ballet production of Agnes de Mille's Conversations on the Dance, Coles emphasized the influence of tap dance in the world of concert dance.

After the success of the documentary Great Feats of Feet in 1977, Coles joined Brenda Bufalino in their duet concert of The Morton Gould Tap Concerto and toured the United States and England. Singing, Swinging, and Winging was Bufalino's first major performance, and Honi Coles, as a guest tap dancer, appeared midway through the second half of the program with Honi's Suite. Honi's Suite is a combination of musical compositions, monologue, and choreography performed by Bufalino and Coles, including "Let's Dance," "Get Yourself Another Guy," "Don't Get Caught Short on Love," "Warm Feet," and the signature soft-shoe of Coles and Atkins–"Taking A Chance On Love."

After Singing, Swinging, and Winging, Coles continued to work with Bufalino. In 1979, they created a tap choreography for The Morton Gourt Tap Concerto, performed with the Brooklyn Academy Philharmonic Orchestra. Following the success of this performance, they collaborated to choreograph Sounds of Music. Their successful collaboration highlighted the interplay of different races within the tap community. Bufalino said about their collaboration and friendship, "the white vaudevillian, the black vaudevillian. It was a wonderful show but it was hard to book because we were black and white." When being asked about the reason he taught his tapping skill to a white woman, specifically Bufalino, Coles responded to his peers, "Because no blacks want it, and she does, and because nobody else can do it, and she can." The connection and creative ties between Coles and Bufalino were continued for the next fifteen years.

In 1983, Coles performed with Tommy Tune in My One and Only, a Broadway musical show at the St. James Theater. After his show-stopping duet with Tune, Coles was reputed to have "an understated exercise in precise terpsichorean pointillism". Jack Kroll described Coles's feet in Newsweek as "have the delicacy and power of a master pianist's hands."

In 1984, Coles appeared in Jane Goldberg's The Tapping Talk Show, which was presented at the Village Gate from March 2 to March 3. The show was produced by Pamela Koslow and directed by Mercedes Ellington, featuring the guests Cookie Cook, Marion Coles, Buster Brown, Chinky Grimes, and Beverly Wasser. The Tapping Talk Show combined both veteran and female tap dancers.

During the 1980s, also Coles taught dance and dance history at Yale, Cornell, Duke, and George Washington University.

Notable performances

 * Taking A Chance On Love with Coles and Atkins
 * Newport Jazz Festival (1962)
 * Singing, Swinging, and Winging (1978)
 * Sounds in Motion (1979)
 * By Word of Foot (1980)
 * Shoot Me while I'm Happy
 * Swinging Taps (1980)
 * Black Broadway (1980)
 * The Essence of Rhythm
 * My One and Only (1983)
 * The Tapping Talk Show (1984)

Film and television appearances
Coles has appeared in the films The Cotton Club (1984) and Dirty Dancing (1987), as well as the documentary "Great Feats of Feet" (1977). Some of his television performances include The Tap Dance Kid, Mr. Griffin and Me, Conversations in Dance, Charleston, Archives of a Master, and Dance in America's Tap Dance in America for PBS. The 1963 Camera Three television program showcased Coles and Atkins' Soft Shoe and Over the Top with Bebop, which was narrated by jazz historian Marshall Stearns.

Personal life
In 1944, Coles married Marion Evelyn Edwards, a dancer in the Number One chorus at the Apollo Theater, and together, Coles and his wife had two children.

On November 12, 1992, Charles "Honi" Coles died from cancer in Queens County, New York, aged 81. On November 6, 2009, his wife Marion Coles died in Queens County, New York, at the age of 94.

Awards
In 1983, Coles received the Tony Award, Fred Astaire Award, and Drama Desk Award for best-featured actor and dancer in My One and Only, a popular Broadway musical starring Tommy Tune. Coles was awarded the Dance Magazine Award in 1985 and the Capezio Award for lifetime achievement in dance in 1988. In 1991, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George H. W. Bush.

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Talk:Development of Darwin's theory

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This whole article seems to me to suffer from very reductionist premises as to the relation between various socio-political ideas and the development of zoology. --Christofurio 15:09, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

 * I think you may looking for too much in a biographical article which aims to briefly outline events including pointers to the social and political context in which Darwin developed his theory from the time of his marriage to his involvement with Wallace. It would be welcome if you could add brief points covering the development of zoology at the time, though size of article is a constraint....dave souza 20:30, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Size of article is not a constraint. We can always create more daughter articles, very easily indeed. The only constraints are noteworthiness and verifiability. -Silence 19:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Fair enough. It seems to be about 32 kb, which is getting towards the level the software complains about, but modest compared to many articles. Having said that, rereading Christofurio's note it looks as though the beef was about the premise of Desmond and Moore's book, that Darwin's ideas can be looked at in the context of social and political developments of the time. Well, that's the source. . ..dave souza, talk 20:19, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Note that the 32-kb "limit" is a relic and an arbitrary size suggestion, not a real software limitation. The fact that most Featured Articles are much longer than 32kb shows that longer articles have a better chance of meeting Wikipedia's comprehensiveness standards. However, my comment was a general note about the viability of allowing articles to expand freely when noteworthy new information arises, not a specific response to the requests of Christofurio; I have no opinion on whether that specific information would benefit the article. -Silence 20:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

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Embryonic Homologies

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According to Darwin, embryonic organisms make inappropriate structures in their adulthood form though related to other animals. For instance, he pointed out the existence of eyes in the embryos of moles. Pelvic rudiments were also noted in embryos of snakes. Embryonic whales also have teeth. Darwin’s argument was that some adaptations depart from the type of the organism helping it survive in some kind of environment. The differences Darwin noted with between species in the same genera appear greater as the development of the embryo persists. As such, he emphasized the idea of common descent pointing to the embryonic similarities between different animal groups. The distinctions between evolutionary embryologists was between homology and analogy. According to Darwin, homologous structures are the animal organs that have similarities arising from the derived ancestral structure. A bird, for example, could have forelimbs of humans making the structures homologous. On the other hand, Darwin defined analogous structures as those with similarities arising from performance of similar functions instead of being traced to a common ancestor. For instance, the wings of a butterfly and those of a bird have different origins but similar functionality. Homologies are to be carefully considered and must always be associated to the organization level being compared. Darwin emphasized this fact by giving the example of the wings of a bat and those of a bird. The two animals have wings that are homologous as forelimbs but not as wings. As such, the homology relates that mammals and birds share a common ancestry.
 * This jumps ahead of the next section, which discusses Owen's use of homologies, and doesn't in my view add anything useful. The cited source isn't about homologies, it's about domesticated animals. . dave souza, talk 08:58, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

 * Thank you Dave., this is where your section went. Drmies (talk) 16:51, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was delete. Nufy8 22:08, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Carly McCall
Vanity, pure fiction and complete nonsense. The original article was also very poorly written. McPhail 15:10, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Can we hurry up and delete this? The original editor has now added details of her alleged career as an actress on "Desperate Housewives". McPhail 16:52, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Patent nonsense? --Jtalledo (talk) 16:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete likely hoax. No IMDB entry under either of her two names. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  16:29, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * And to think I assumed good faith and reverted a speedy deletion. The initial entries were full of the example images.  Delete as hoax. - Lucky 6.9 06:21, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete... Completally fictitious --- Paulley 14:00, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree — M o e   ε  18:02, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete fiction and very bad fiction at that. Her maiden name is Hemme, but she claims to Rey Mysterio's (Óscar Gutiérrez) sister?--Darren Jowalsen 02:49, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

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ERulemaking

Electronic rulemaking (also known as eRulemaking and e-rulemaking) is the use of digital technologies by government agencies in the rulemaking and decision making processes of the United States. An interdisciplinary electronic rulemaking research community has formed as a result of National Science Foundation funding under the auspices of the Digital Government Program. Groups such as the Cornell E-Rulemaking Initiative (CeRI) have been focused on researching how technologies such as Web 2.0 can help foster greater public participation in the political process, specifically, in Federal Agencies’ rulemaking.

Background
In the United States, Electronic rulemaking (also known as eRulemaking and e-rulemaking) can be understood as a subset of a larger Federal eGovernment initiative. In the 1990s Federal Agencies that propose and enact regulations, such as the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC), began to modernize and create websites for publication of proposed regulations and online commenting from the public.

President George W. Bush made strides in increasing e-Government. Under President Bush, Congress passed the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, which among other things, required agencies to accept comments electronically and make various information, including comments and rulemaking materials, publicly available online.

Since 2008, President Barack Obama has greatly increased the number of Federal eGovernment initiatives.

2009 initiatives and reforms
During the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama made the Sunlight before signing campaign pledge to make non-emergency bills freely available online for a five day public comment period prior to signing. In 2009, President Barack Obama made the directed government agencies to utilize new technologies such as Web 2.0 and other information technology to increase transparency and openness in government. Soon after, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum to the Federal Agencies reiterating three open government principles, “transparency, participation, and collaboration,” identified by the President. OMB gave agencies four months to create an “open government plan,” which would address each “cornerstone” of open government.

OMB gave details on how to address each cornerstone. For “transparency,” the agencies were required to publish “high-value” data and other information in an “open” format, and “inform the public of significant actions and business of [the] agency.” To address “participation,” agencies were required to openly link to sites where the public could “actively participate,” and to “include proposals for new feedback mechanisms, including innovative tools and practices that create new and easier methods for public engagement.”  Finally, to address “collaboration,” agencies were required to “include proposals to use technology platforms to improve collaboration among people within and outside your agency,” and use innovative methods to increase collaboration.

In addition to addressing the “cornerstones,” agencies were required to identify a “flagship initiative.” The flagship initiative had to be “at least one specific, new transparency, participation, or collaboration initiative that your agency is currently implementing (or that will be implemented before the next update of the Open Government Plan).”

Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative
Cornell University has started a multidisciplinary collaboration known as the Cornell eRulemaking Initiative, or CeRI. Backed by a National Science Foundation grant, CeRI has begun researching and applying Web 2.0 technologies in a political setting. The group includes faculty and students from Computing and Information Science, Law, and the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution. CeRI uses an interdisciplinary approach to discover and apply Web 2.0 and other technologies to “improve public understanding of, and participation in, rulemaking.”

In 2009, CeRI launched the site RegulationRoom.org. The site, which is hosted by the Legal Information Institute, is an independent non-governmental online community that allows users to read, comment, and discuss proposed regulations from federal agencies. Professors and students at Cornell Law School summarize the relevant parts of the agency’s proposed regulation, and post the information on the site. Once the proposed rule has been posted, users are able to comment, discuss, and critique the agency’s proposal. At the close of a rule’s comment period, Regulation Room moderators summarize the comments and submit this summary to the Agency as an official comment.

Although CeRI and Regulation Room are research projects unaffiliated with the federal government, In 2010, the DOT partnered with CeRI as part of the White House Open Government Initiative. The purpose of the partnership is to “discover the best ways of using Web 2.0 and social networking technologies to further rulemaking efforts.” DOT has selected Regulation Room as its flagship initiative under the Open Government Directive.

Similar open government initiatives have been launched at other federal agencies.

Since launching in 2009, RegulationRoom.org has hosted four “live” rules from the DOT. These rules included:

 * DOT – Texting: The rule, which closed to commenting on January 10, 2010, dealt with the DOT’s proposal to regulate texting by commercial motor vehicle operators. The rule received 48 comments on Regulation Room.
 * DOT - Airline Passenger Rights: The rule, which closed on September 23, 2010, dealt with the DOT’s proposed regulations for airline passenger rights. Regulation room received over 19,000 visitors and over 900 comments.
 * DOT - Electronic Onboard Recorders: The rule, which closed on May 23, 2011, was a proposal to require commercial truck drivers with multiple operating violations to use electronic onboard recorders. The rule received over one-hundred comments.
 * DOT – Air Travel Accessibility: The rule, which closed on January 9, 2012, was a proposal to require airlines to make their websites and airport kiosks accessible to travelers with disabilities.

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