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User talk:Delfuego/Archive 001

Request for comment
I have added a request for a third opinion view on the List of Rich Internet Applications. Can you please comment on the dispute? --Sleepyhead 21:11, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
 * In the future, Sleepyhead, I'm happy to just watch the third-opinion list to contribute; you don't need to solicit my opinion. And after doing a little research, I'm glad to weigh in on this that 24SevenOffice looks fine enough to appear on that list, but I also am a little suspicious that some of the other pages you've placed links on might not be all that appropriate. Jason 14:34, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Sleepnomore
Yes I think I'm willing to assist because I believe or at least hope I can be impartial and just let evidence speak for itself. Let me know as you progress as to specific things you will need help with. Jemptymethod 00:31, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Vandal
No, I am not accusing you of one, but a vandal has took your user name and decided to vandalize my talk page with photos of human feces. The user chose his name as User:DeIfuego. I have blocked him, accordingly. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:53, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Other contributions
As far as your question that was inappropriately added to my user page instead of my talk page, I don't log onto any password protected sites from unknown networks. Particularly wireless networks, networks shared by transient users, or networks where the physical implementation could possibly be tapped. Its a standard security precaution. - Sleepnomore 12:49, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Sleepnomore conduct rfc... need second
I started a page here: [] I need a second before it gets deleted... thanks... [actually... the second may need to be put here [] Michael
 * You'll see that I commented on the page, but it's unlikely to be the comment you wanted. Jason 14:42, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

sleepnomore rfc
you may look dimly on me because of the mudslinging between me and sleepnomore, but do you recall either sleepnomore or catmistake using a phrase such "thanks for keep(ing) a cool head" last weekend about the time the AJAX article got locked down? If so please post on the [sleepnomore RFC] as I believe the other identity used the same phrase on the same day to another user trying to moderate the conflict between sleepnomore and catmistake, and therefore this may be evidence that supports -- or doesn't -- the contention that catmistake is sleepnomore's sockpuppet Jemptymethod 21:41, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't recall that phrase, and I'm not sure I have the energy or will to continue participating in an issue that seems pretty much resolved. Jason 16:33, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

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Gary Caldwell

Gary Caldwell (born 12 April 1982) is a Scottish former professional footballer and coach who is the current manager of Exeter City. Caldwell played for Newcastle United, Darlington, Coventry City, Derby County, Hibernian, Celtic, Wigan Athletic and won 55 international caps for Scotland.

Primarily considered a centre back, Caldwell was a versatile player; he was also deployed as a right back and defensive midfielder at various spells in his career. His elder brother, Steven, was also a footballer and they were at Wigan concurrently. As an international, he earned a place in the Scottish FA International Roll of Honour after gaining over 50 caps.

After retirement he went into coaching, and has managed Wigan Athletic, Chesterfield, Partick Thistle and Exeter City.

Newcastle United
Caldwell started his career with Celtic Boys Club. At 16 he went to England, alongside his elder brother Steven at Newcastle United. Breaking through from the reserves proved difficult, however, and in search of first team football, he went on loan to other clubs on several occasions: Darlington and Hibernian in 2001–02, then Coventry and Derby County the following season.

Hibernian
During the 2003–04 season, Caldwell was given a free transfer by Newcastle. He signed a short-term contract with Hibs for the second half of the season, and during this period he played in their defeat by Livingston in the 2004 League Cup Final. After going on trial with Vitesse Arnhem in the summer of 2004, he signed a two-year contract with Hibs. During the 2005–06 season, rumours circulated that he had signed a pre-contract agreement to join Celtic in the summer of 2006. This prompted Hibs fans to jeer Caldwell when he made a mistake in a game against Aberdeen. After this, the deal was confirmed by Gordon Strachan.

Celtic
During four years at Celtic, Caldwell helped the club win two league championships, the 2006–07 Scottish Cup and the 2008–09 Scottish League Cup, although he was subject to criticism from Celtic fans. Caldwell himself later said that this was due to injuries in his first season, and then having to play out of position at right back during the early part of the 2007–08 season (before Andreas Hinkel was signed). He was also criticised during the 2006–07 season for a bad tackle on Kilmarnock player David Fernández, which damaged the Spaniard's cruciate ligament. Caldwell apologised to Fernandez after the game, protesting that he had never intentionally hurt an opponent.

Caldwell subsequently gained recognition and respect from the fans, becoming something of a cult hero, as shown by the chants of "heid" when he was in possession of the football. After being named as the Writers' Player of the Year for the 2008–09 season, Caldwell stated his belief that this was due to him having a long run in his preferred position, and improved concentration and decision making on his part.

During the 2009–10 season, however, Caldwell had a contract dispute with the club, claiming that the club were "kidding themselves" if they thought he would accept their offer. New manager Tony Mowbray, who had also worked with Caldwell at Hibernian, responded by stating that he would not ask the board to increase the offer. Subsequent to this, Middlesbrough had a joint offer for Caldwell and Barry Robson accepted by Celtic.

Wigan Athletic
Caldwell eventually signed for Wigan Athletic on a four-and-a-half-year contract for an undisclosed fee on 13 January 2010. He made his Wigan debut in a 2–0 win against Wolves on 16 January 2010, and scored his first goal for Wigan in a 2–1 defeat to Blackburn Rovers on 27 January. Caldwell was sent off twice in Premier League defeats against Manchester City on 29 March (3–0) and Chelsea on the final day of the 2009–10 season (8–0).

Caldwell was appointed captain of Wigan Athletic early in the 2010–11 season, following the departure of previous captain Mario Melchiot in the summer. In the 2011–12 season, Caldwell was a key player in the club's battle against relegation from the Premier League, and received the club's Player of the Year award at the end of the season. In May 2013 he jointly lifted the FA Cup with playing captain Emerson Boyce after Wigan defeated Manchester City 1–0 in the final. Caldwell returned from injury as a substitute in the 2013–14 FA Cup semi final against Arsenal. The match ended in a 1–1 draw, but Caldwell missed the first attempt in the penalty shootout, which Wigan lost. In the 2013–14 Football League Championship playoff semi final second leg against QPR, Caldwell conceded a penalty kick during a 2–1 defeat that ended Wigan's hopes of promotion.

Caldwell signed a one-year contract with Wigan in July 2014. As part of the new agreement he was also given some coaching responsibilities. He announced his retirement from playing on 28 February 2015 after being unable to recover from a long term hip injury.

International career
Caldwell made his full international debut for Scotland in the first match managed by Berti Vogts, a 5–0 defeat to France at the Stade de France. He scored the only goal of the game as Scotland defeated France 1–0 at Hampden Park, on 7 October 2006 in a Euro 2008 qualifying match. He was sent off, however, in a key 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Norway. He played alongside his brother Steven in five matches; they were the first siblings to play together for the national team since the 1940s.

Wigan Athletic
After retiring as a player in February 2015, Caldwell formally joined the coaching staff at the Wigan Athletic academy. He was appointed the new manager of Wigan Athletic on 7 April 2015 after the dismissal of Malky Mackay with the club 23rd in the Championship with five games remaining.

Caldwell was unable to halt the club's relegation to League One but was assured by club chairman David Sharpe that he would remain in charge. The following season Caldwell guided Wigan to the League One title and promotion back to the Championship at the first attempt. Along with club success Caldwell was also recognised with the manager of the month award for February and the LMA League One Manager of the Year award. On 25 October 2016, after 18 months in charge, Caldwell was dismissed by Wigan, with the club in 23rd position and winless in four games.

Chesterfield
In 2017, he was appointed manager of League One club Chesterfield on a one-year rolling contract, following the dismissal of Danny Wilson. He was unable to prevent the club being relegated, and was sacked on 16 September after a bad start to the 2017–18 EFL League Two season.

Partick Thistle
Caldwell was appointed manager of Scottish Championship club Partick Thistle in October 2018. Thistle avoided relegation at the end of the 2018–19 season, but Caldwell was sacked in September 2019 as the club sat second-bottom of the 2019–20 Scottish Championship table.

In 2021 Caldwell was named interim manager of Newcastle United's U23s team. Later that year he joined Manchester City in a role overseeing their players loaned to other clubs. Caldwell re-joined Hibernian as their assistant manager in December 2021, working alongside Shaun Maloney. They were sacked in April 2022, following a Scottish Cup semi-final defeat to Hearts.

Exeter City
On 24 October 2022, Caldwell was appointed manager of League One club Exeter City. Exeter finished the 2022–23 season in 14th place in League One.

International

 * Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Caldwell goal.

Player
Celtic
 * Scottish Premier League: 2006–07, 2007–08
 * Scottish Cup: 2006–07
 * Scottish League Cup: 2008–09

Wigan Athletic
 * FA Cup: 2012–13

Scotland U16s
 * Victory Shield: 1997–98

Individual
 * SFWA Footballer of the Year: 2008–09
 * SFWA International Player of the Year: 2008–09
 * Clydesdale Bank SPL Player of the Year: 2009
 * Scottish FA International Roll of Honour inductee 2012
 * Wigan Athletic Player of the Season: 2011–12

Manager
Wigan Athletic
 * Football League One: 2015–16

Individual
 * League One Manager of the Month: February 2016
 * LMA League One Manager of the Year: 2016

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Isaac Newton Lewis

Isaac Newton Lewis (October 12, 1858 – November 9, 1931) was a United States Army officer and the inventor of the Lewis gun.

Biography
Lewis was born in New Salem, Pennsylvania on October 12, 1858. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1884 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Second Artillery. Early in his career he made himself an authority on ordnance. In 1900, then-Captain Lewis was sent by Adjutant General Henry Clarke Corbin to Europe to study that subject, his report resulting in the re-armament of the field artillery. By successive promotions, he rose to the rank of colonel in the Coast Artillery Corps in August 1913, and he was retired the next month for disability incurred in line of duty.

In 1911, he refined an original machine gun design of Samuel Maclean and began active marketing of a type which came to be known simply as the "Lewis Gun", which was used in World War I by the Allied armies, the United States Navy, and the airplanes of the United States and Allies. Initially, the United States Army was not interested in his new gun, but after the British and French had bought more than 100,000 for use in the trenches in France, the US Army did purchase them. Lewis, already a wealthy man, declined the royalties—amounting to at least $1,200,000 ($35,557,320 in 2022 terms)—on guns made for the United States after it entered the war.

His other inventions included a time-interval clock and bell system of signals, a replotting and relocating system for coast batteries, an automatic sight, quick-reading mechanical verniers for use in coast defenses, electric car lighting, and windmill electric lighting systems.

He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1919.

Death and interment
Lewis died from a myocardial infarction at the Lackawanna Railroad terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, while waiting for a train to his home in Montclair.

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Igrejas de Cristo

Igrejas de Cristo is a denomination of Mozambique. It is a Protestant church with approximately 200 congregations. It has at least a thousand members.

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Talk:Glanton

Google map link
I changed the map link to Google because the Oscoor template was not working and I could not get it to work. The map is zoomed out a bit to give a bit of context as to where Glanton is with respect to neighbouring towns; zooming in is simple. Glanton's location on the map is highlighted with a marker. I could not find a way of adding a custom marker, so I used one of the existing business listing markers - it isn't deliberate advertising!

I just checked the number of pages that use the Oscoor template - loads! The best solution would be to fix whatever is wrong with the template (it seems to simply point to a btconnect web page), but I don't know how.

OK. My bad. I didn't have Javascript turned on, which the web page pointed to by the template uses. Reverted to original map link. Still the Google map looked pretty good! --Gloop 17:02, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

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Josette Simon

Josette Patricia Simon (born 1959 / 1960) is a British actor. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and played the part of Dayna Mellanby in the third and fourth series of the television sci-fi series Blake's 7 from 1980 to 1981. First performing as a 14-year-old, in the choir for the world premiere of the finalized Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, she has continued a career in stage productions, appearing in 50 Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions, from the single press night performance as a featured character in Salvation Now at the Warehouse theatre in 1982, through to playing Cleopatra in a six-month run of Antony and Cleopatra at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 2017. The first black woman in an RSC play when she appeared in Salvation Now, Simon has been at the forefront of colour-blind casting, playing roles traditionally taken by white actors, including Maggie, a character that is thought to be based on Marilyn Monroe, in Arthur Miller's After the Fall at the Royal National Theatre in 1990.

Simon's first leading role at the RSC, the first principal part filled by a black woman for the company, was as Rosaline, in Love's Labour's Lost, directed by Barry Kyle, in 1984. In 1987, she appeared for the RSC again, in the lead role of Isabelle in Measure for Measure. Later leading roles for the RSC saw her as Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999–2000) and Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (2017–2018). She has played numerous other roles across stage, television, film, and radio. She starred alongside Brenda Fricker in the two-part television series Seekers (1993), written by Lynda La Plante. Simon has portrayed senior police officers in Silent Witness (1998), Minder (2009), and Broadchurch (2017); and portrayed a defence lawyer in Anatomy of a Scandal (2022).

Simon won the Evening Standard Best Actress award, a Critics' Circle Theatre Award, and Plays and Players Critic Awards for After the Fall, and two film festival awards for her part in Milk and Honey (1988). She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000, for services to drama.

Early life
Josette Patricia Simon was born in Leicester. Her mother, from Anguilla, and her father, from Antigua, had both moved to the United Kingdom in the 1950s and worked at Thorn EMI. Simon attended Mellor Street primary school, followed by Alderman Newton's Girls' School. She became interested in acting after landing a spot singing in the choir, at age 14, for the world premiere of the finalized version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, presented in Leicester in 1974. Simon later appeared in pantomimes before finishing secondary school,  and played Martha in a 1976 production of The Miracle Worker directed by Michael Bogdanov at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre. Alan Rickman, who was in the production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, encouraged Simon to apply for the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and she was accepted.

Blake's 7
Simon won the part of Dayna Mellanby in the BBC 1 television sci-fi series Blake's 7 after being talent-spotted while still at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She played Mellanby in the third and fourth series, originally broadcast between January 1980 and December 1981. The character was an expert combatant and highly knowledgeable about weapons. Andrew Muir, author of a book about the series, felt that Simon provided "energy, vitality, innocence, danger, and a real physical presence" to the character. Another author who wrote about the show, Tom Powers, felt that Mellanby and the other women heroes were often eclipsed by the male leads, and that over the series, Mellanby, who did not achieve her ambition to avenge her father's death by killing the villainous character Servalan, "lost her agency as a heroic figure of lex talionis". She also featured in two other programmes in 1980: the sitcom The Cuckoo Waltz and the teen drama The Squad.

Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre
Simon has performed frequently with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Royal National Theatre. After taking part in a reading of Salvation Now by Snoo Wilson in 1982, she was cast as one of the three "weird sisters" in Macbeth alongside Kathy Behean and Lesley Sharp later that year. She was the first black woman to appear in a Shakespeare play at the RSC. In the same RSC season, she had roles in Much Ado About Nothing, as a spirit in The Tempest and as Iras in Antony and Cleopatra. In 1997, Simon told academic Alison Oddey that working with Michael Gambon and, particularly, Helen Mirren on Antony and Cleopatra provided an early influence on her career. She was with the RSC for two consecutive two-year season cycles. In the second cycle her roles included Nerissa in The Merchant Of Venice and starring as Dorcas Ableman in Golden Girls, which became a breakthrough role for her. The Financial Times reviewer Michael Coveney wrote of the latter role that "The immense power and beauty of this actress is at last given proper opportunity by the RSC." Ros Asquith of The Observer felt that Simon's performance was amongst the most thrilling in London, and The Daily Telegraph critic Eric Shorter praised the cast's efforts but felt that the play suffered from overly slow pacing. The central role of a black runner drew on Simon's own experience of being an athlete; the play's author, Louise Page, later related that the play had been rewritten from an ensemble piece, as "the sheer dynamism Josette brought to the role meant that it was her journey through the play with which the audience identified".

Simon has been at the forefront of colour-blind casting, playing roles traditionally taken by white actors. From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, a time when it was unusual for black women to feature as leads in Shakespeare plays, Simon played several major roles for the RSC. Her first leading role, and the first for a black woman at the RSC, was as Rosaline, in Love's Labour's Lost, directed by Barry Kyle, in 1984. Jami Rogers, in her book British Black and Asian Shakespeareans (2022) commented that in Kyle's production, where the women were dressed in Belle Époque-style silk dresses, Rosaline's clothing "immediately marked her as a woman of high status... For the first time on a major British stage, an African-Caribbean woman portrayed an intelligent, witty and strong leading Shakespearean character." Rogers described the reviews of the production as "glowing". She noted that some reviewers and academics "treated Josette Simon's casting... as a novelty", criticising the description of integrated casting as an "experiment" as "deeply problematic as it infers the practice is an aberration rather than what it was [by 1990], a common practice".

Simon told Oddey that despite being conscious of discussions about whether audiences would accept a black woman as Rosaline, "I also felt that you should be allowed to fail, because if you don't take risks you can't reach higher planes" and that she had focused on her performance rather than debates around her casting, saying that "If I had thought about those things beforehand, I would not have set foot on the stage". She told Veronica Groocock, author of Women Mean Business (1988), that sexism had been as much of an issue as racism in her career, although the problem reduced as she gained larger roles. Nine years later, she expressed her dissatisfaction with the lack of good roles for women, which she ascribed to the industry being male-dominated and complained that, "I think that we've seen more and more trivialising of actresses, requiring them to look gorgeous and take their top off at some point."

In 1987, Simon appeared for the RSC again, in the lead role of Isabelle in Measure for Measure, directed by Nicholas Hynter; her performance received some critical acclaim, whist other commentators felt it was "underpowered and lacking in emotional intensity". Irving Wardle wrote in The Times that the plot and casting demanded that Simon's "Isabella should be the only nobly uncorrupted figure on stage... and Miss Simon, a burnished icon of impassioned purity, fulfills it to the letter... The penalty is that she emerges as less humanly interesting than the surrounding hypocrites and sensualists." The Sunday Telegraph critic Francis King considered her performance to be "appealing and tough". Coveney of the Financial Times felt that Simon "fails... with the full range of the role. Like so many of this season's leading ladies, she is technically underpowered." The play transferred to the Theatre Royal, Newcastle and then to the Barbican in 1988. Financial Times critic Martin Hoyle wrote of the Barbican production that Simon "has transformed her voice, both timbre and enunciation.... Incisive, vocally varied, though slightly lacking the full weight for the early emotional climaxes, she gives the best performance I have seen from her, dignified and touching." In The Times in 1991, Benedict Nightingale opined that by casting Simon as Isabella and Rosaline, and Hugh Quarshie in other plays, the RSC had been "launching two performers of huge potential". In 2014, the RSC's Head of Casting, Hannah Miller, explained that the RSC's policy was to select the best actor for the role regardless of factors including gender, race, class, and disability status. The drama and theatre scholar Lynette Goddard argued that despite the RSC's inclusive policy, black women actors still had limited opportunities to progress, "which makes Josette Simon's case all the more compelling". Goddard commented that "the more well known Simon became, the less compelled reviewers felt to mention race". Simon told David Jays of The Guardian in 2017 that "I hate the term 'black actor'... I'm black, which I'm proud of, but it doesn't mean anything. You're an actor, full stop." Colour-blind casting also applied when Simon played Maggie in Arthur Miller's After the Fall at the National Theatre in 1990. The character was thought to have been based on Marilyn Monroe, who was married to Miller. It was a performance that won Simon the Evening Standard's Best Actress award, Critics' Circle Theatre Award and Plays and Players Critic Awards. Miller attended rehearsals for two weeks, and Simon told Oddey that, like playing Rosaline, meeting Miller was one of the key moments in her career, and the experience helped her to focus on her work and disregard distractions. Simon portrayed Vittoria in the Royal National Theatre's The White Devil in 1991.

Simon returned to the RSC in 1999 as Queen Elizabeth in Don Carlos. Nightingale described her performance as "vivid and vital". Next, she was Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Financial Times reviewer wrote that Simon spoke "Titania's lines with an almost jazz musicality, dances, moves, and stands with compelling power. Her stance alone is more regal than that of several of today's ballerinas." Paul Taylor of The Independent called the production's Nicolas Jones and Simon "the sexiest, most commanding Oberon and Titania of recent years".

In 2017, Simon took the role of Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra for the RSC. Michael Billington wrote for The Guardian that "Simon seems born to play Cleopatra and she gives us a hypnotically mercurial figure whose eroticism is expressed through a permanent restlessness", although he felt that Simon employed too many voices in the role. Making a similar criticism about the range of accents used, Ian Shuttleworth of the Financial Times felt that Simon failed to play to her strengths as an actor and concluded that "On the occasion of Simon's first RSC appearance this century, she is heartbreaking in all the wrong ways." Ann Treneman of The Times felt that Simon, with a performance that was "quite bonkers" at times, provided the highlight of the show, despite a "lamentable lack of chemistry" between her and Anthony Byrne as Antony. The literature scholar Jyotsna Singh commented that critics' responses, although positive, contained "racialized and gendered inflections", and tended to highlight Simon's "rendering of a histrionic and passionate woman, falling back on Western sexual stereotypes about 'exotic' women of colour" whilst not considering the multi-faceted nature of the character that Simon herself spoke about.

In The Rise of the English Actress (1993), author Sandra Richards wrote that Simon's "special brand of integrity has gained her a number of 'strong women' roles that are setting a precedent for British actresses from ethnic minorities and reinforcing the contemporary actress's need for roles that not only avoid stereotype but also challenge the limits of her own personality."

Other roles
Simon took the title role in the 1985 BBC Radio 3 production of Mirandolina. She was the lead in David Zane Mairowitz's play Dictator Gal, broadcast on the same station in 1992. Her character was married to an exiled dictator who was dying in hospital. Simon's character sang a range of songs, including Richard Wagner and Motown compositions in an attempt to revive him. Her performance earned her a Prix Futura Award nomination.

Simon's film appearances include the part of Dr. Ramphele in Cry Freedom (1987). She was nominated as Best Actress at the Genie Awards for Milk and Honey (1988), in which she played Joanna, who left Jamaica with her child to work as a nanny in Toronto. Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail wrote that Simon's "riveting performance... carries the picture" for the first part, but felt that from the second act onward, the film descended into histrionics. In the San Francisco Chronicle, Judy Stone praised Simon's performance as Joanna, commenting that "she displays a quality of grace all too rare in today's films".

The 1992 television play Bitter Harvest had Simon in the lead role, as a woman who has gone missing after travelling to the Dominican Republic as an aid worker and whose parents go there in search of her. The English Literature scholar Claire Tylee considered that Simon's character was a "credible protagonist", but the film was adversely affected by a mismatch between its thriller and family plotlines. After Simon had already accepted the leading role based on an outline the producer Charles Pattinson pitched, the scriptwriter Winsome Pinnock altered the storyline to include tensions in the mixed-race family. According to Tylee, neither Simon's character or the character of her father were enough like typical thriller heroes to "successfully play on thriller conventions, and the plots end by humiliating both of them, fetishising the black female body along the way."

In 1993, Simon starred alongside Brenda Fricker in the two-part television series Seekers, written by Lynda La Plante. Their characters discovered that they were both married to the same man, who has disappeared. They later worked as partners in the detective agency that he had founded. Lynda Gilbey of Sunday Life wrote that the show was "a first class detective drama... beautifully plotted, wonderfully performed". The Newcastle Journal reviewer Norman Davison commented that the two lead actors "invested the roles with the sort of power that all La Plante women seem to have and the men were all the wimps".

Nightingale of The Times wrote in a negative review of Jean Genet's play The Maids in 1997 that Simon provided the "one strong performance". She had a recurring role as a defence lawyer in Anatomy of a Scandal in 2022. Her supporting performance in Crossfire (2022) was highlighted as one of the few positives in a negative review of the series by Anita Singh of The Daily Telegraph. Simon has played senior police officers in Silent Witness (1998), Minder (2009), and Broadchurch (2017), and has been cast as Chief Commissioner Camberwell in Anansi Boys, which was in production as of May 2022. In 2019 she appeared as Grams in the film Detective Pikachu.

Personal life
Simon married the tenor Mark Padmore; the couple had one daughter together (b. c. 2000–2001) before they divorced; in a 2020 interview, Simon still refers to Padmore as a "life-long friend". With her dog Milo, Simon visits patients through the charity Pets As Therapy. She supports the Kaos Signing Choir for Deaf and Hearing Children, and several other groups that aid deaf people. She plays the saxophone recreationally, and practices Ashtanga yoga.

Honours and awards
In 1995, Simon was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by the University of Leicester. In the 2000 Birthday Honours she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), for services to drama. She received a Pioneers and Achievers award in 1998, in recognition of being one of the people from Leicester who had "paved the way for the next generations of African Caribbean people to achieve and excel in a diverse range of professions and spheres of influence".

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Livingston Award

The Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan are American journalism awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting. They are the largest, all-media, general reporting prizes in America. Popularly referred to as the "Pulitzer for the Young", the awards have recognized the early talent of journalists, including Michele Norris, Christiane Amanpour, David Remnick, Ira Glass, J. R. Moehringer, Thomas Friedman, Rick Atkinson, David Isay, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Tom Ashbrook, Nicholas Confessore, C. J. Chivers, Michael S. Schmidt, and Ronan Farrow.

Overview
Unlike other prizes in journalism (such as the George Foster Peabody Awards, the George Polk Awards, the National Journalism Awards and the Pulitzer Prizes), the Livingston Awards judge print, broadcast, and online entries against one another.

The winners are selected by the Livingston Board of National Judges. These include Christiane Amanpour, Ken Auletta, Dean Baquet, Charles Gibson, Ellen Goodman, John F. Harris, Clarence Page, and Anna Quindlen. Mike Wallace was one of the national judges for several years.

History
Mollie Parnis Livingston, one of America's first fashion designers known by name, established the Livingston Awards in 1981 to honor her son, Robert, who published the journalism review More.

For thirty years, The Mollie Parnis Livingston Foundation, headed by Livingston's nephew Neal Hochman, sponsored the awards. Recent supporters include the Indian Trail Foundation, Christiane Amanpour, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the University of Michigan.

Richard M. Clurman Award
Since 1996, the Livingston Awards ceremony has also included the presentation of the Richard M. Clurman Award, which recognizes exceptional mentors in journalism who excel in nurturing, critiquing, and inspiring young journalists. The award is named in honor of Richard M. Clurman, a former editor at Time and the architect of the Livingston Awards.

Richard M. Clurman Award recipients

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 * 1996 Charles G. Peters
 * 1997 Gordon Manning
 * 1998 William F. Buckley Jr.
 * 1999:
 * Mary McGrory
 * Thomas Winship
 * 2000 Arthur Gelb
 * 2001 Clay Felker
 * 2002 Eugene C. Patterson
 * 2003 Jim Bellows
 * 2004 Bill Kovach
 * 2005 John Seigenthaler
 * 2006 Eugene L. Roberts, Jr.
 * 2007 Judy Woodruff
 * 2008 Anna Quindlen
 * 2009 John S. Carroll
 * 2010 Paul E. Steiger
 * 2011 Sandra Mims Rowe
 * 2012 Stephen B. Shepard
 * 2013 Victor Navasky
 * 2014 Steven Brill
 * 2015 Tom Brokaw
 * 2016 Charles R. Eisendrath
 * 2017 Gwen Ifill
 * 2018 Walt Mossberg
 * 2019 Rob Hiaasen
 * 2021 Susan Chira
 * 2022 Fred Hiatt
 * 2023 Ken Auletta — special award
 * 2024 Kevin Merida

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Cheshire (comics)

Cheshire (Jade Nguyen) is a DC Comics fictional character. She is a long-standing rival of the superhero team, the Teen Titans, and occasional love interest of Roy Harper.

Publication history
Cheshire first appeared in New Teen Titans Annual #2 (1983) and was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez.

Post-Crisis
Born (allegedly) to a French father, Andrê Chaumont, and a Vietnamese mother, Anna Nguyen, Jade Nguyen has an unhappy childhood and is sold into slavery. As a young adult, after killing her master, Jade is informally adopted by Chinese freedom fighter Weng Chan, who teaches her all he knows about guerrilla fighting. She acquires knowledge of poisons from Kruen Musenda, a famed African assassin known as the "Spitting Cobra", whom she is married to for the two years prior to his death.

She is a long-standing rival of the superhero team the Teen Titans. However, when Roy Harper, a.k.a. the archer Speedy, goes undercover for the government in a mission to get her confidence and turn her over, the two fall passionately in love. Knowing he will not be able to turn her in, he walks out; Cheshire does not learn his true identity until later. The result of their romance is a daughter, Lian, whom Roy raises.

Returning to her mercenary ways after leaving Lian behind for Roy, Jade saves Deathstroke's life so he can help her in stealing nuclear weapons from Russia in an attempt to blackmail the world. To prove she is not bluffing, she obliterates the fictional Middle East nation of Qurac, reasoning that since Qurac is a stronghold of Onslaught terrorists, that Western countries will be secretly grateful. Cheshire's plans are foiled when her base comes under attack and she is forced to flee. She later creates her own team, The Ravens.

In Showcase '95 #8, Jade is revealed to have a brother named Luke Chaumont.

Cheshire volunteers to join Tartarus, a group created by Vandal Savage with the objective of destroying the Titans. During a confrontation with the Titans and the H.I.V.E, Savage shoots Cheshire to distract Arsenal. She recovers, but is taken into custody for crimes including destroying Qurac. Sentenced to life imprisonment, she is broken out by the Ravens. Arsenal, however, forces her back into custody.

Eventually, Cheshire discovers that her biological father is a Senator named Robert Pullman, and she attempts to torture and kill him. To that end, she defeats Lady Shiva, and devises a plan to use her to fake her own death and flee the country with her daughter. Jade ties up Shiva, gags her and locks her in the trunk of her car (which is wired to explode), hoping that the authorities will find the charred body of an Asian woman in the flaming car wreck and believe that Jade was killed while fleeing the Senator's murder. On her unfortune, Catwoman and Gypsy show up and untie Shiva, while Huntress and Black Canary stop Jade from murdering the Senator, and take her into custody. While escaping the scene of the attempted assassination, Jade is punched in the face and thrown out of the helicopter the women were escaping in by Black Canary to avoid being beaten to death by an enraged Shiva.

In 2005, she appears in the miniseries Villains United as a member of the Secret Six. Cheshire is blackmailed into joining by Mockingbird, who claims that there is a small bomb implanted in the back of Lian's head. During the series, she sleeps with Thomas Blake, a.k.a. Catman, and becomes pregnant with a replacement child, thereby allowing her to leave the team and no longer needing to worry for Lian's safety. At the end of the miniseries, having betrayed the Six to Luthor's Society, she is shot and critically wounded by Deathstroke. As the faux Luthor orders the Society's withdrawal, one of his last commands is to bring Cheshire with them, provided she is still alive.

After the "Villains United" series, she turns up alive, living in a mansion in the Himalaya Mountains with her son by Blake. Working with Vandal Savage again, she puts out hits on the other members of the Secret Six except for Blake. Taking matters into her own hands, she stabs and poisons the Mad Hatter, who is working with the Six. She later barters the antidote to the poison to Catman in exchange for her safety.

In Justice League of America (vol. 2) #12, Cheshire is shown in prison, receiving a visit from Roy Harper and Lian.

In the Justice League of America Wedding Special, Cheshire is shown to be a member of the new Injustice League. She is later seen among the exiled villains in Salvation Run.

Cheshire returns as a member of a small army of villains attempting to collect massive bounties on the heads of the Secret Six. She manages to poison the meals of her targets, but is defeated by Jeannette.

In Justice League: Cry for Justice, Star City is destroyed by Prometheus, killing Lian. Cheshire attacks Roy, outraged at him for not keeping Lian safe, injuring him in the process. Both Roy and Cheshire continue to fight however Roy manages to pin Cheshire against the wall. Cheshire loses the will to fight and tearfully recalls the loss of her child. Roy comforts her and the two of them attempt to sleep together, but due to Roy's impotence he is unable to please Cheshire in bed, which causes more turmoil in Roy's life forcing him to angrily leave.

In Secret Six Cheshire's son from her involvement with Catman (Thomas Blake) is kidnapped. Catman goes on a murderous rampage believing the child to already be dead only to find the man who orchestrated the kidnapping has given the boy to a loving childless couple and that the kidnapping itself was an act of revenge against Cheshire for murdering his family. Catman, after realizing the child is better left where he is, informs Cheshire that their son is dead. This sends her in to a sorrowful rage, while Catman tells his son to rest in peace after killing all of the kidnappers involved.

Cheshire becomes a member of Deathstroke's team of Titans. Their first assignment is murdering Ryan Choi. One of Deathstroke's goals is to taunt her into overcoming her lost edge after Lian's death. She later contacts Roy, forcing him into joining Deathstroke's team so the two of them can kill Deathstroke. Cheshire rationalizes that Roy "owes" her for Lian's death, but while it appears Roy double-crosses her, it is part of Cheshire's plan. Afterward, Deathstroke and his team arrive at South Pacific Island to kill cult leader, Drago, over the arena production of blind warriors; however, his team, Cheshire, and Roy betray him, revealing that they had been working with Drago. Cheshire and Roy's plan backfires, because Drago never intended to give Cheshire her freedom back. Their attempt to defeat Drago and escape fails miserably. Later, Drago explains to Cheshire that he needs an heir, and she is going to provide him with one. Drago tries to convince Cheshire to succumb to him, reading her mind and using her thoughts against her. Cheshire is rescued by Deathstroke and the Titans. When Drago is defeated, Deathstroke allows him to live and the Titans leave his island. Cheshire and Roy choose to re-join the Titans. Upon returning to the labyrinth, Deathstroke reveals to them that his preceding deeds are being used to create a healing machine called a "Methuselah Device" for his dying son, Jericho. After healing Jericho, Deathstroke claims the machine can also resurrect the dead, offering Cheshire and Roy the chance to revive Lian. Cheshire accepts, but Roy refuses, saying that he has been punishing himself for his daughter's death and that Lian is in a better place. Cheshire joins Tattooed Man and Cinder in fighting the other Titans to destroy the Methuselah Device. After Cinder sacrifices herself to destroy the Methuselah, Cheshire leaves and tells Roy that she will never forgive him.

Fatherhood question
It is in the Birds of Prey story arc Sensei and Student that Cheshire herself states that she had found out the real identity of her father, U.S. Senator Robert Pullman. According to her, Senator Pullman beat her mother and left her alone with a child.

As of "Infinite Frontier", Cheshire is no longer the daughter of Senator Pullman, as she is stated to only be Vietnamese.

The New 52
In The New 52, Cheshire first appears in Grifter, becoming a team with Deathblow to aid Cole Cash. In this timeline, the character is originally only referred to as Niko, not as Cheshire. Later, she betrays Grifter and Deathblow revealing she was an undercover agent for Helspont, but later was defeated by them when they tried to stop Helspont's plans.

Cheshire is later seen as a member of the League of Assassins when they plan to recruit Red Hood.

Cheshire appears in Aquaman and the Others, teaming up with KGBeast and a group of terrorists known as Mayhem to steal the launch codes to a Soviet-era satellite full of nuclear weapons to hold the Earth to ransom.

DC Rebirth
In Rebirth, Cheshire appears as one of the bounty hunters trying to kill Wonder Woman. Cheshire is also one of the assassins hired by the Ninth Circle to eliminate Green Arrow. She later attempts to kill Batman. She is stated to be one of the most toxic individuals on the planet, along with Copperhead. They attack Batman on a train, and he responds by blowing himself up into a lake below. Cheshire and Copperhead comment on his resilience.

Arsenal is shown tracking Chesire down in Nightwing #43. It's stated that they used to date but parted ways due to Jade's villainous tendencies. Chesire is seen leading a mission for the League of Assassins with the intent of carrying out a citywide catastrophe, but her plans are thwarted by Nightwing, Damian Wayne and Roy.

Cheshire was hired by the Brotherhood of Evil to steal a sample of drug material called Bliss. In the same time, Roy Harper is on the trail for the drug as well. Cheshire plays him into helping her, poisoning him during a sexual encounter leading him to believe he had relapsed on drugs. Soon after, still under the employ of the Brotherhood, she, along with a few thugs, defends Monsieur Mallah and The Brain by fighting off Arsenal. Devastatingly mismatched, Arsenal is nearly beaten to death by the thugs while Cheshire steps back and watches. She spares him the misfortune of being beaten to death and provides him with euthanasia. As she is about to do so, Donna Troy arrives to stop her. Nearly losing to her, Cheshire attempts to taunt Donna into killing her as she was told of recent events that were highly sensitive to Donna. As she decides what to do next with Cheshire, Arsenal defeats her with a trick arrow.

Cheshire secretly attends Roy Harper's funeral, standing away far from everyone else, in the back. She looks inexpressive, yet sheds a single tear, possibly feeling remorse their about last interaction. She re-appears in Green Arrow comics as a member of the "Ninth Circle".

Cheshire later appeared in James Tynion's first arc on Batman. She's one of the assassins, along with Deathstroke, Merlyn, Gunsmith and Mr. Teeth, hired by Penguin and the Designer to kill Batman. She evaded capture from the GCPD and almost tries to kill Batman, but was hit by a truck, while Batman slid from underneath the truck. Batman brings her in to custody, until the other assassins helped her escape. Cheshire, along with Merlyn, would later attempt to attack Catwoman and Harley Quinn at a cemetery, but were both defeated by them.

Infinite Frontier
Cheshire reappeared in the Infinite Frontier event, now wearing a mask similar to her Young Justice counterpart. In a flashback, Jade is shown fleeing from ninjas with her daughter, Lian. To protect her, Jade took Lian to a local church in Gotham, referring to the then-sleeping girl as Lotus before departing back into the night.

Moreover, Jade is reinstated that her heritage as only vietnamese, therefore she is no longer stated to be the daughter of Senator Pullman, or André Chaumont and Anna Nguyen.

Throughout Catwoman #33-38, Jade is shown pursuing a redemption path alongside Clayface, and other villains such as Firefly and Knockout. Together, they aided Catwoman to save Alleytown from the Magistrate. In Catwoman #38, Jade was reunited with her now teenage daughter Lian.

In Harley Quinn Vol. 4 Annual, Jade helped Solomon Grundy to find Harley, who had been abducted by Keepsake.

Dawn of DC
In the Detective Comics arc "Batman: Outlaw", Jade is shown living in Gotham. She is confronted by her daughter, Lian, who seeks answers as to why Jade had abandoned her. Jade reveals that she feared motherhood had made her weak, preventing her from continuing her mercenary life, to which Lian argues that this mindset is due to Jade being abandoned by her family when she was a child and being taught to kill and destroy from an early age. Therefore, Lian points out that Jade pushes people away because she thinks she doesn't deserve them. After this confrontation, Lian asks Jade to join her and Catwoman's cause to save Batman from the Orghams, a family who seeks to publicly execute him. Jade agrees to help her and reconciles with her daughter, hugging her. Jade and Lian were responsible for rescuing the citizens who were locked away in the tunnels underneath Gotham. In the tunnels Jade and Lian fought several soldiers hired by the Orghams and Jade stated to Lian that she would never abandon her again. Once Batman's body had been recovered by Catwoman, Jade helped carry the body to the docks of Gotham City and out of the hands of the Orghams.

In Joshua Williamson's Green Arrow run, Roy Harper seeks Jade to help him find Lian, who had been time displaced by Amanda Waller alongside Green Arrow and Connor Hawke. Jade agrees to help him and Black Canary save Lian, Connor and Green Arrow. Upon finding Waller's underwater safehouse, both Jade and Roy were gunned down and possibly killed by Amanda Waller.

Skills and abilities
Cheshire is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, and is one of the premiere martial artists and hand-to-hand combatants in the DC Universe. She is trained in several martial arts thought forever lost. In addition, Cheshire is also an expert triple-jointed acrobat, and uses this skill to move quickly and unexpectedly, and to also augment her fighting abilities. Of bigger concern are her artificial fingernails, which she dips in several varieties of poisons. She gives her weapons and other accessories a similar treatment. In Birds of Prey #63, Black Canary calls her "the second most deadly assassin in the world", only topped by Lady Shiva. In Aquaman and the Outsiders #11, Cheshire is called "the most dangerous woman alive".

Flashpoint
In the Flashpoint universe, Cheshire joins with the Amazons' Furies.

DC vs. Vampires
In DC vs. Vampires, Cheshire is saved from a vampire by Green Arrow and the latter warns her about the impeding vampire attack on humanity and asks Jade to be on her guard.

Television

 * Cheshire makes non-speaking appearances in the fifth season of Teen Titans. This version is a member of the Brotherhood of Evil with the ability to turn invisible save for her mask's eyes and grin, akin to the Cheshire Cat.
 * The Teen Titans incarnation of Cheshire appears in the "New Teen Titans" segment of DC Nation Shorts.
 * Cheshire appears in Young Justice, voiced by Kelly Hu. This version is a member of the League of Shadows who wields a pair of sai and a technologically advanced, multi-purpose mask. Additionally, she is the daughter of Sportsmaster and Paula Nguyen and older sister of Artemis Crock. In between the first and second seasons, Cheshire betrayed the Shadows to save Red Arrow, whom she married, and gave birth to a baby girl named Lian Nguyen-Harper. In between the second and third seasons however, Cheshire left Lian in Artemis and Red Arrow's care to focus on her criminal activities as she feels unworthy to be Lian's mother and part of a normal family despite still loving Lian and Red Arrow. In the fourth season, Cheshire reveals to Artemis that she fears being a bad influence on Lian. Upon hearing of her plight, Ra's al Ghul agrees to help rehabilitate Cheshire, who stays on Infinity Island to work on herself.

Film

 * Jade appears in Batman: Soul of the Dragon, voiced by Jamie Chung. This version is a student of O-Sensei who frequently challenges her master's decisions. She is later murdered by fellow student Rip Jagger to open a mystical gate to the realm of the serpent god Nāga.
 * Cheshire appears in Catwoman: Hunted, voiced again by Kelly Hu. This version is a member of the League of Shadows and an associate of Catwoman who possesses a Cheshire Cat mask and wields a pair of sai, a sword, and claws laced with jellyfish poison.

Video games

 * The Young Justice incarnation of Cheshire appears as a boss in Young Justice: Legacy, voiced again by Kelly Hu.
 * Cheshire appears as a character in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
 * Cheshire appears as a playable character summon in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, voiced by Tara Strong.
 * Cheshire appears as a playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains.
 * Cheshire appears as a playable character in DC Heroes and Villains.
 * Cheshire appears as a playable character in DC Legends.

Miscellaneous

 * The Teen Titans animated series incarnation of Cheshire appears in Teen Titans Go!.
 * Cheshire makes a minor appearance in the Injustice: Gods Among Us prequel comic.
 * Cheshire appears in DC Super Hero Girls, voiced by Nika Futterman.

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Talk:Chromium(III) oxide

Clarification needed
The article should clarify the relations between CrO3, Cr2O3, chromic oxide, chromium trioxide, and chromium (III) oxide anhydride. Rl 16:36, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * So it should! For a start, it shouldn't be called Chromia, a name for which I can't find any evidence of it's use... Physchim62 20:55, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Chromia seems to refer to chromic oxide, as alumina refers to aluminum oxide or silica to silicon dioxide. Apparently depends on the scientific community. – Thanks for working on this! Rl 21:36, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry for the sloppy start, and thanks for cleaning it up. I’ll be more careful next time when starting an article on a chemical compound. DV8 2XL

Use?
There isn't anything in this article about it's use, wouldn't that be an important addition to start with? --weh? i need an nswer. tsk.Sfxsigma 06:31, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

I think that Cr2O3 is what stains motorcycle exhaust headers. Preventing it's formation on chrome plating at high temperature or removing it while retaining a shiny chrome plate surface would be a useful thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.51.3.207 (talk) 23:47, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Infobox Color?
Since this is the only article for Chrome Green as a pigment, where is the Infobox Color that would say what color it is? And where does such information come from? Some of the other instances of Infobox Color do not reference the data. Is there a way of determining which articles have a particular Infobox (wikipedia search does not find them)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.73.179.150 (talk) 07:02, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Is there an inorganic chemist in the house?
Both this and the CrCl3 article contain(ed) some questionable uncited statements. It is not my line, and I am busy, but if no one else wants to tackle it, I can supplement the text with cited material.JonRichfield (talk) 14:56, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Soluble in acid/base or not?
Multiple places in the article are contradictory about this: The info box and "Structure and properties" say it's not soluble in acids, Yet "Reactions" says plainly "Although insoluble in water, it dissolves in acid to produce hydrated chromium ions, [Cr(H2O)6]3+"

Also, the following sentence "It dissolves in concentrated alkali to yield chromite ions." is confusing. What is a "chromite" ion? The article for chromite shows it as including iron! Did it mean to say chromate?

--RProgrammer (talk) 16:43, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your proofreading. Keep it up. Chemists sometimes are lazy when it comes to describing something dissolving. For inorganic compounds, dissolving usually means conversion to another compound that happens to be soluble in the dissolving agent.  Fe "dissolves" in acid, but evaporation of the resulting solution does not give back Fe, but some iron chloride.  Most organic compounds, which are molecular, actually do dissolve.  --Smokefoot (talk) 18:47, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

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Frederick Cass

Frederick McIntosh Cass Q.C., C.D. ( August 5, 1913 – November 25, 2000) was a Canadian politician who served as both Attorney-General of Ontario and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He served as a Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament from 1955 until his retirement in 1971. Cass served in the Canadian Army during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945.

Background
Born in Chesterville, Ontario, Cass was the older son of William Joseph Mavety Cass and Agnes Isabel (McIntosh) Cass, whose great-grandfathers were John McIntosh, of apple fame, and John Cook.

He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1936 and joined his father, who had been called to the Bar in 1911, in the practice of law under the firm name, Cass & Cass. His wife, Olive, was herself the daughter of a former provincial politician, William H. Casselman, who represented Dundas as a United Farmers of Ontario member from 1919 to 1923.

Politics
Cass represented the riding of Grenville—Dundas just south of Ottawa. He first won a seat in the 1955 provincial election. He was appointed to provincial cabinet in 1958 as Minister of Highways under Leslie Frost and became known as the cabinet's troubleshooter. In 1961, Frost retired and Cass was considered one of his potential successors. Instead, he supported provincial treasurer James Allan at the party's leadership convention. Allan was defeated by John Robarts, who appointed Cass Minister of Municipal Affairs, and later, Attorney General in 1962.

While he was Attorney-General, Cass continued to practise on the weekends as a small-town lawyer in his hometown of Chesterville and another office in nearby Winchester, where his mother lived. However, to avoid a conflict of interest, he stayed out of the courts and practised solely as a solicitor.

Cass provoked serious controversy when, in response to an organized crime scare, he proposed Bill 99, a sweeping amendment to the Police Act, which would have broadened police powers allowing the Ontario Police Commission the right to interrogate and cross-examine witnesses in camera in contravention of the traditions established by English Common Law. When queried on the amendments by the press, Cass said "Yes, these are drastic, draconian measures that in some ways are really unbelievable in a country that has an English common law system." The resultant uproar and, in particular, a speech by Liberal MPP Andy Thompson forced Cass to resign from Cabinet on March 23, 1964. Thompson's success buoyed him into the position of leader of the Liberal Party several months later.

The controversy led to the Robarts government appointing the McRuer Commission on Civil Rights that led to a number of reforms to enhance civil liberties in Ontario.

Following his re-election in the 1967 general election, Cass was rehabilitated by being chosen Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario once the body reconvened on February 14, 1968. He was a popular presiding officer and served until his retirement at the 1971 election. As Speaker, Cass ruled that Opposition MPPs could no longer begin their questions during Question Period with the word "why", as questions were "usually not aimed at soliciting information from cabinet ministers, but at giving the questioner an opening to catalogue his complaints about the government." This resulted in various verbal gymnastics as Opposition MPPs struggled to find a way to say "why" without saying "why.

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Queens Community Board 1

The Queens Community Board 1 is a local advisory group in New York City, encompassing the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Queensbridge, Ditmars, Ravenswood, Steinway, Garden Bay, and Woodside, in the Borough of Queens. It also includes Rikers Island, the citywide correctional complex, which is within the Borough of the Bronx but connected by its only bridge to Astoria. The Board's district is delimited by the East River on both west and north, by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway on the east, and by Northern Boulevard, the Long Island Rail Road and Bridge Plaza North on the south.

As of September 21, 2015, the current chairperson is to be determined by vote, and the District Manager is Florence Koulouris.

Demographics
As of the United States Census, 2000, the Community Board had a population of 211,220, up from 188,549 in 1990 and 185,198 in 1980.

Of them (as of 2000), 88,606 (41.9%) were White non-Hispanic, 21,581 (10.2%) were African American, 27,399 (13.0%) were Asian or Pacific Islander, 475 (0.2%) were American Indian or Native Alaskan, 3,099 (1.5%) were of some other race, 12,368 (5.9%) were of two or more races, and 57,692 (27.3%) were Hispanic.

As of 2004, 23.4% of the population benefited from public assistance, which was up from 13.2% in 2000.

Geography
The land area is 3702.0 acre, or 5.8 sqmi.

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Talk:Brabourne Stadium

Main Picture
There are decent pictures in the public domain providing an aerial view of the stadium. Such a picture should be used as the main picture for this article.

Head Office
... has the offices of the BCCI, the head organisation of Indian cricket

Doesn't Brabourne house THE headquarters of the BCCI ? If yes, this point should be given more stress. Tintin 16:38, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Capacity of the stadium
Cricinfo and some other online sources put the capacity of the Brabourne Stadium as 20,000, but according to the sources 1 & 3 in the references listed in the article it was built to accomodate 35,000 people. This is another source which puts it as 35,000 while an article about a Rolling stones concert has it as 25,000. We need to find the correct figure. Tintin (talk) 06:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I think some Wikipedian in Mumbai should contact the ground authorities & get the exact figure.

Thanks

Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  ) '' 06:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Nichalp mentioned here that 20,000 is the more likely figure, but if we get it confirmed it would be great. Tintin (talk) 07:00, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm
(In 1937) The stadium was named after Brabourne at the suggestion of the Maharaja of Patiala.

Then what was the immortality that De Mello offered Lord Brabourne ? Tintin 13:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Offered by De Mello on Patiala's suggestion. Around The Globe  सत्यमेव जयते 05:36, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Copyedit
Copyedited per request at GOCE requests page. Move on to nominate and start the process for GA status. Easwarno1 (talk) 01:23, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

claim that it was India's first sporting avenue
The article says Brabourne Stadium was built on 90,000 square yards of reclaimed land[6] along Marine Drive[7] near Churchgate railway station in South Mumbai[8] and was India's first permanent sporting venue.[9][10] do no sound to be true or factual as other cricket grounds for example Eden Gardens at Kolkata existed since 1864. Jethwarp (talk) 05:13, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

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River Deep – Mountain High

"River Deep – Mountain High" is a song by Ike & Tina Turner released on Philles Records as the title track to their 1966 studio album. Produced by Phil Spector and written by Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. Rolling Stone ranked "River Deep – Mountain High" No. 33 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. NME ranked it No. 37 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame added it to the list of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

The single did not perform well upon its original release in the US, but it was successful in Europe. Spector claimed to be pleased with the response from the critics and his peers, but he then withdrew from the music industry for two years, beginning his personal decline. After a revival of the song from covers by Eric Burdon and the Animals and Deep Purple in 1968, the original version was reissued by A&M Records in 1969.

Background
Phil Spector had seen the Ike & Tina Turner Revue perform at a club on the Sunset Strip and invited them to appear on The Big T.N.T. Show. Spector was impressed by Tina Turner and wanted to use her voice with the Wrecking Crew, and his "Wall of Sound" production technique. He went to the Turners' house, and struck a deal with Ike Turner to produce Tina. Ike agreed, but wanted the recordings to be credited to Ike & Tina Turner. At the time, they were signed to Loma Records (a subsidiary of Warner Bros.). Spector negotiated a deal with Ike & Tina Turner's manager Bob Krasnow, who was also head of Loma. He offered $20,000 ($0 in ) to have them released from their contract. After Mike Maitland (then president at Warner Bros.) gave them their release, they signed with Spector's Philles Records.

Recording
"River Deep – Mountain High" was the first recording that Tina Turner did for Philles at Gold Star Studios. It was written by Phil Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. The track cost a then unheard-of $22,000 ($0 in ), and required 21 session musicians.

After several rehearsals, and two sessions for the musicians to lay down a backing track, Spector got Tina Turner into the studio on March 7, but she was unable to provide what he wanted. The following week she returned to the studio with Ike Turner. Due to Spector's perfectionism and tendency to abuse workers in the studio, he made her sing the song over and over for several hours until he felt he had the perfect vocal take for the song. She recalled, "I must have sung that 500,000 times. I was drenched with sweat. I had to take my shirt off and stand there in my bra to sing."

It was reported that the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson attended the session, where he sat "transfixed" and "did not say a word".

When Spector inducted Ike & Tina Turner into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, he revealed in his speech that he had invited Ike Turner to play guitar in the session for "River Deep – Mountain High", but Turner did not show up.

The recording of the song was later dramatized for Tina Turner's 1993 biographical film, What's Love Got to Do with It.

Personnel

 * Lead vocals: Tina Turner
 * Background vocals: Darlene Love, Fanita James, Jean King, Gracia Nitzsche, Clydie King
 * Composer lyricists: Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich
 * Producer: Phil Spector
 * Arranger: Jack Nitzsche
 * Musicians: Leon Russell (keyboards), Michel Rubini (piano), Jim Horn (saxophone), Barney Kessel (guitar), Glen Campbell (guitar), Earl Palmer (drums), Carol Kaye (bass guitar), Frank Capp (percussion)

Release and reception
Reviewing the single, Billboard wrote: "Exciting dance beat production backs a wailin' Tina vocal on a solid rock tune penned by Barry and Greenwich." Record World predicted that "this will be known as the classic Phil Spector record," stating that "everything goes on while Tina screams her love lyric." It entered the lower end of the Billboard Hot 100 and stopped at No. 88 on the pop chart. The disappointing chart performance resulted in the album being shelved in the US. Spector was so disillusioned that he ceased involvement in the recording industry totally for two years, and only intermittently returned to the studio after that. He effectively became a recluse and began to self-destruct.

Ike Turner remarked that "if Phil had released the record and put anybody else's name on it, it would have been a huge hit. But because Tina Turner's name was on it, the white stations classified it an R&B record and wouldn't play it. The white stations say it was too black, and the black stations say it was too white, so that record didn't have a home."

Writer Michael Billig speculated that although earlier records which had mixed black singers with a white pop sound had sold well, by 1966 the black political movement was encouraging African Americans to take pride in their own culture, and "River Deep – Mountain High" was out of step with that movement.

The single, released on London Records in Europe, was a hit overseas. It peaked at No. 3 in the UK, No. 9 in the Netherlands, and it reached No. 1 in Spain.

George Harrison praised the record, declaring it "a perfect record from start to finish. You couldn't improve on it."

Reissues
After "River Deep – Mountain High" was revived by other bands, Ike & Tina Turner's original version was reissued by A&M Records in 1969. It has since gained the recognition Spector wanted for the record. Reviewing the single, Record World called it a "classic, perhaps the greatest single of all time."

Ike & Tina Turner recorded different renditions of the song without Spector's "Wall of Sound" production style. A version on the 1973 album Nutbush City Limits was released as a single titled "River Deep, Mountain High 1974" on United Artists Records in France. Another version from an undetermined year was released on the 1991 compilation Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner.

Tina Turner recorded a few solo versions, in 1986, 1991 and 1993. Tina included live performances on her albums, Tina Live in Europe and Tina Live.

The Supremes and the Four Tops version
In 1970, their post-Diana Ross era, the Supremes and the Four Tops released a version. Produced by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the single was one of several recordings that paired the two Motown groups. The Supremes and Four Tops cover, included on the 1970 LP The Magnificent 7, with its soaring vocals and string section, peaked at No. 7 on the soul chart and No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971, making it the highest-charting version of the song in the United States. Their version also peaked No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 23 in Belgium, and No. 25 on Netherlands' MegaCharts.

Other notable covers
A ten-minute version was recorded by Deep Purple for their 1968 album, The Book of Taliesyn. An edited version was released as a single in the United States and reached number 53 in early 1969 and number 42 on the Canadian RPM charts. It had a progressive rock sound to it, as Deep Purple had not yet adopted the hard rock sound for which they are most famous.

Celine Dion covered the song on her 1996 album Falling Into You. At first, Phil Spector showed interest in producing the album track, but left the project, so Jim Steinman took over as producer. Spector was unimpressed by Steinman's efforts, calling Steinman a "bad clone" of himself. Dion had previously performed the song in some of her concerts, as included in her live album Live à Paris, recorded in 1995.

Amber Riley and Naya Rivera covered the song on episode four ("Duets") of the second season of Fox television show Glee. Their version peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Christina Aguilera performed the song at the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

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Talk:Lisa Arch

POV and Accuracey
Thank you but yes I am completely enamored of my beautiful Mediterranean flower indeed I must say that she is the simply the most wonderful and enthralling creation upon whom I have ever laid my jaded eyes in all my short harried life! I feel so much clearer when I think about my darling Lisa after all! So my aritle might not have been totally nonbiassed but that's OK I mean I can write about her wit h the passion that springs from within in a way I can't when I'm writing about other trings.

Plus what about the fact that most stuff you read on the internet is biased or inaccurate. Shouldn't we be doing research in peer reviewed written sources and firsthand research like interviews and all that I mean Lisa Kushell's agent's phone number is on her web site at Lisa's web site so can we call him? I am tinking about it but my mom and dad might get pissed again me calling Losa Angeles from São Paolo Brasil but I should do it mabye?

Wiki brah 03:59, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Uh...no. That's why we have the Internet. It's OK that you want to write about her with a passion. We all write about things we're passionate about. BUT you HAVE to keep it dry and technical. Referring to her as your "beautiful Mediterranean flower" is OK here on the talk page, not on the article. - Lucky 6.9 05:21, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Wow!
Now i am sure you a can see how abosolutely gorgeous she is I mean she's so so beautiful and she's Jewish too I think we need more women like that in Brasil where you know there are many many beautiful women and a large jewish population, the second largest in South America after rotten Argentina!!Wiki brah 05:58, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

'''THIS IS NOT A FANCLUB. THIS IS AN ARTICLE. WE DON"T CARE IF YOU LIKE HER OR NOT!'''

Link to her Webpage
Her Webpage isn't up anymore it would seem, should the link be removed?

Yes, there is no use to it anymore but ask other users before deleting it,just to be on the safe side.Mooncrest (talk) 14:10, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

LISA ARCH
I HATE WHEN LISA SAYS "THEY DON'T GETTA KEEP THAT MONEY" IN THE INTRO OF THE SHOW - IF THIS BOTHERS ANYONE ELSE PLEASE RESPOND!!!! DON'T GET ME WRONG I LOVE LISA AND THE SHOW THAT JUST GETS ON MY NERVES!!! I ALSO HEARD MATT SAY IT THE OTHER DAY!!! STOP!!! I'M NOT SURE IF THERE REALLY OLD SHOWS, if SOMEONE KNOWS CAN YOU LET ME KNOW? 99.16.134.219 (talk) 15:55, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Radiohead (South Park)

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The result of the debate was REDIRECT to Scott Tenorman Must Die. -Splash 03:51, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Radiohead (South Park)
Another stub like Phil collins (south park) and Mr. Garrison's Father (South Park). I'd say delete unless someone is interested in creating and article on the relevant episode. Soltak 16:39, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Scott Tenorman Must Die. --TheMidnighters 19:22, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fancruft. -R. fiend 02:17, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as per TheMidnighters. --Apyule 04:22, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as per TheMidnighters. --FlooK 04:58, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as per TheMidnighters. -- realwingus  23:50, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was Delete. HappyCamper 13:27, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Walter bruce
One of the more unusual biographies I've run across. A high-school musician, and later possibly arrested for getting too friendly with a dog. Probably skirting CSD. Joyous (talk) 16:39, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete NN and my attempts to verify it have been unsuccessful. Does skirt CSD (for patent nonsense and not claiming notability) but I think falls slightly short on both. David | Talk 16:42, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. First part of the article is nonsense mentioning a time machine. The second part is a copyvio from the Miami Herald about his arrest for bestiality. All in all, should be deleted. Capitalistroadster 18:31, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete seems like it could be viral marketing for the movie to me; even if it is not, it is still patent nonsense and no notable as far as i see -- Corey.spring 18:48, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment copyvio as well Corey.spring 18:50, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Nostradamus/Archive 1

Birth and Death Dates
What is the source of the birth and death dates for Nostradamus? July 2, 1566 is often given as the death date.

 * His tombstone in Salon-de-Provence gives the year (1566), and says he lived 62 years, 6 months and 17 days. The tombstone is transcribed in the Leoni edition (which I'm looking at right this minute), pp37‑38, which also has a poor but readable photograph of it. The same edition states, also p37, that Chavigny, ND's contemporary biographer, says that ND died during the night of July 1‑2. Subtracting 62‑6‑17, that gives a birth date of January 15‑26, 1504.
 * On p15, Leoni states, but without giving any source, ND was born December 14, 1503 (duly footnoted "December 23 by the Gregorian calendar. All dates are given in the calendar prevailing throughout Nostradamus' lifetime, the Julian."). The difference between Julian and Gregorian was 10 days and is not enough to account for the discrepancy with the birth date as computed above. — Bill 22:17, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Net Versions of "Nostradamus"
The folowing is being spread by the net:

"In the city of god there will be a great thunder, two brothers torn a part by chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb", "the third big war will begin when the big city is burning" -NOSTRADAMUS 1654

Is this a true Nostradamus prophecy?

 * No, you can imagine any number of possible coups, crisis of monarchies, or general disagreements that could make the first vague statement true. The second one is super generic; of course one would expect a big city to burn prior to the start of a war.  I think sometimes people like to equate events with prophecies so they seem larger of scope and more significant and meaningful, and sometimes this means making broad interpretations.  I'd like to suggest clearing this page and putting in a more informative article *about* Nostradamus, rather than trying to apply vague connections between the prophecies and perceived real events, and maybe address *how* and *why* people in the past have tried to apply the prophecies to real events.  -- BryceHarrington

 * I argee, but name a war that started with the burning of a city.

 * I Agree, but my question was not if the prophecy predicts the ocurrences of yesterday but if that prediction realy belongs to Nostradamus. I came to wikipedia to get some answers about it and I didn't found any. joao

 * No, I sort of doubt that Nostradamus wrote a prophecy a century after he died. ;) Anyway, if it matters, I agree with "BryceHarrington" -- editing this page is starting to piss me off. It's beginning to look more like the "Weekly World News" than an encyclopedia page. Thunderbunny

I received an email with some addition verses from Nostradamus

Fire in the New City as the century spins into the new time the five tiered ring is broken (pentagon?) birds in the skies come into fowl hands (hijacking?) panic faces the people

I am also interested in whether these quote are really from 400 years ago.

Looks like nonsense to me. If it were real, people would give the reference (century/quatrain) so that it could easily be checked. There is one about fire in a cité neufve (which was interpreted as New York long before yesterday's events), namely VI.97, but it reads like this:

 * Cinq & quarante degrés ciel bruslera,
 * Feu approcher de la grand cité neufve,
 * Instant grand flamme esparse sautera,
 * Quand on voudra des Normans faire preuve.

--Zundark (2001 Sep 12)

Here's a webpage on the matter:

http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/hoaxes/predict.htm

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After reading the comments above, and in an attempt to give more substance to this entry, I've added a "Biography" section to learn something about Nostradamus life; a "Preparation and Methods of Prophecy" section to understand his spiritual studies and prophecy techniques so that others might use or benefit from them; an "Intent of Prophecies" section to understand why anyone would write about prophecy, Nostradamus' own reasons for sharing his insights, and a basic understanding of prophecy itself in terms of events and responses; and a "Prophetic Quatrains" section to give a sample of prophecies which might serve to inspire others not just to comment or interpret prophecy from an intellectual perspective, but to actually delve into it experientially, exploring with actual techniques which help you to find out for yourself. You may argue for or against Nostradamus and his quatrains - which in itself keeps the debate alive - but more than anything, I hope you are provoked or inspired enough to find out the truth in the Akashic Records for yourself. Books, techniques and support groups have existed for centuries if you want to learn firsthand. May you find exactly what you are seeking. Blessings, Chris Sadhuta )+( 6/21/04 - Summer Solstice

Thank you for that, Crazy McKooKoo. Thunderbunny 01:25, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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This page has long since gotten way out of hand. We are supposed to be writing an NPOV encyclopedia article here, but someone keeps editing this page from the perspective that Nostradamus is a very legitimate prophet. It's a pretty bold stance considering that the place where most people first hear about Nostradamus is a supermarket checkout aisle, and it takes some real creativity to come up with some of those interpretations (the "Thiokol" anagram sticks out as particularly outlandish, and the one about the Pope doesn't even have much to do with John Paul I except the fact that he died). Thunderbunny 01:05, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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I've tried to fix up some problems, but there are probably quite a few left. I notice the Intent of Prophecy section is mostly duplicated on the Prophecy page; it should probably be deleted from this one, as it has no direct connection to Nostradamus. User:Ben Standeven 29 Jul 2004

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Here are some changes I made:

 * Deleted "Intent of Prophecies", which is repeated almost verbatim elsewhere.
 * Deleted "Possible future interpretations", which is repeated on an external website and therefore a copyright violation (a strict no-no on Wikipedia)
 * "There were only seven astronauts (not nine) that were killed, but further inquiry discovered flaws in the shuttle and in the command decisions." Deleted the second half of this sentence on account of being a non-sequitur. How do flaws in command decisions somehow make this accurate?
 * Keeping the John Paul I section, even though I don't see what it has to do with him.
 * Added some stuff to the "Examples of Prophetic Quatrains" sections, including the source of the "U.S. + Russia vs. China" interpretation and a new paragraph about skepticism.
 * Removed "Neil Marshall" link; he's non-notable other than that one paper, and therefore unlikely to have his own Wikipedia page.

I'm leaving the rest alone for now. Some of it's still interesting, but a lot of it seems like it belongs more on X-Files than in an encyclopedia. Thunderbunny 00:58, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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I made a bunch of edits...I think it's okay now. I removed the NPOV. Thunderbunny 02:19, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Suggest skeptical addition to "Pasteur"
The prophetic section mentioning Pasteur has been skeptically read as translating to "the Shepherd", as "Pasteur" literrally translates to Shepherd. The line is sometimes regarded as a reference to Christ (as in THE Shepherd) or to some unnamed "shepherd" as in a bishop or other religious leader.

Either way, the Pasteur line certainly neads some NPOV work, but I'll leave this to those managing this page.

 * Good suggestion, I'll add it. Also, it's good Wikipedia etiquette to "sign" your talk entries (do that by placing four tildes (~) after your post) Thunderbunny 19:34, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

BTW, could someone please explain to me what the "great lunar cycle" is? Thunderbunny 19:40, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

1999
The translation of the quatrains to English can create some errors, especially since Nostradamus' French itself is weird and sometimes impossible to deciphere. The original quatrian contains no mention of Genghis Khan, but only of a "Roy d'Angoulmois". One interpretation is to consider this as anagram for Roy des Mongulois - King of the Mongols. This again could be interpreted as leader of the Chinese, the Russians, the Japanese, or of whatever big nation East of the Urals. Another interpretation would be for a leader coming from the region of Angouleme in France (the traditional name of the region being Angoumois). Some guy called David Ovason argues that the key to many of Nostradamus' quatrains is to be found in astrology and Christian mythology. Indeed, all the quatrains mentioning Mars, Saturn, etc. should be taken as astrological indications of a date (e.g. the year when both Mars and Saturn will be in a given sign of the zodiac). In the case of Angoulmois, Ovason argues that this could mean Ange Ol Mois: the month of the angel Ol (an angel that existed in medieval Christian lore, apparently). The angel Ol is associated with the sign Leo, which rules over the month of July. If we go further in this interpretation, we have to look for the King of Angoulmois, i.e. the king of the month of July, i.e. the king of the sign Leo. This "king" would be the Sun in astrology (notice the similarity of Ol and Sol - latin for sun). In medieval esoterics, the angel associated with the sun would be Michael. The quatrain therefore does not talk about Genghis Khan, but of someone called Michael... qed.

Please note that I don't give this example because I believe in all this, but to give an example of the intricacy of Nostradamus' "prophecies". It should be pointed out that many references to astrology, "angelology" (?), esoterism, etc., exists in his quatrains, and that he used all these metaphors to disguise the true interpretation of the propheties (as he apparently claims himself).

In a sense, Nostradamus' work is remarkable not so much for the prophetic content, but for the innovative linguistics (use of images, metaphors, anagrams,etc.) and the use of occult medieval "knowledge" (astrology, esotericism, mythology (Christian and other), numerology,...) to compose a series of poems that have enthralled the world ever since...Luis rib 00:55, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Mouthful of blood quatrain
Which one is this? From the BBC program March 2005 on Stalin, it appears that as he lay dying his mouth filled with blood.

 * Talk to a paramedic: You'll find this is pretty common. - DavidWBrooks 18:56, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

An addition to "Three Antichrists"
Below the bit about the 3 Antichrists, how about this addition, or some variation-

"However, how Napoleon or Hitler could be "antichrists" is a point of contention amoung skeptics- Napoleon may have been a conqueror but he is not known as a great evil like Hitler. Also, both of them were unsuccessful in their efforts, and it is unknown how they could possibly fit into the idea of the Antichrist in Christian theology."

On the Adolf Hitler profecy
"When the child of Germany observes nothing."While the original Germania might not bear any resemblance to what is today Germany I would like to point out Hitler had plans to build Germania,the world capital.Since that project never came to be,no child could have seen it or be born there.

Time to break this article up?
This article cannot be a discussion about every quatrain and ways that it may have prophecized certain events - that is a topic to take over entire books, if not libraries. Still, such discussion is obviously wanted: Perhaps the time has come to create a separate article that we link to from here - Allegedly prophetic quatrains of Nostradamus or something like that.- leaving biography, methods, skepticism, hoaxes and popular culture in this article. - DavidWBrooks 19:17, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * You may be right, though I believe "[Quatrains of Nostradamus]" or something similar would be sufficient as a name (no need for "allegedly prophetic"). This page here could be expanded to tell more aboutrs Nostradamus's life, and his influence till this day. Maybe also we could include a section about his style (along the lines of my previous contribution to this talk page - which unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to include into the main article). What do you think? Luis rib 21:23, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Quatrains of Nostradamus sounds good to me. I'll wait a day or so for more comment, and if there isn't I'll create it. - DavidWBrooks 22:04, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Wait maybe until Wednesday or so. This page has only moderate traffic. Luis rib 22:23, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Angoumois + XiongNu/HungNu + People
Recalling the story of Nostradamus in July 1999 (Old French Calendar) (August 1999 for Gregorian Calendar).

We can get the meaning of French original "grand roy d'Angoumois".

July_1999

(URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus)

{

1999

C10, Q72

In the year 1999 and seven months, a great King of Terror will come from the sky, he will bring back the great King Mongol King (French original: "grand roy d'Angoumois"), before and after Mars rules happily.

}

Huns_Mongols

(URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun)

(URL: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%B3%E6%97%8F)

{

Many historians consider the Huns (meaning "person" in Mongolian language) the first Mongolian and Turkic people mentioned in European history.

Japanese language keeps the original sound very well. The "XiongNu" is more accurate to be pronounced as "HungNu". In other words, it means the Chinese language word of "Xiong" without sound is having the more accurate sound of "Hung". And "Hung" means people.

}

Yup, guessing the "Mars" in the 1999-C10-Q72 means "male".

Hey males... when do we wanna get into family formation...

A basic family needs a male and an opposite gender of female.

Good to have cattle (bull, cow) to earn the food for the family.

Bye.

From Xpree at e96lkw@hotmail.com on 15Jun05 in Zone H (UTC+0800).

E. & O. E., + E. (Errors and Omissions Exempted, plus Estimation)

[ The End ]

What is going on in the "Preparation and methods for prophecy" section?
I think someone has edited this section (Preparation and methods for prophecy) with a 'comedy' 2nd paragraph. Or else i'm going crazy.

--Macgruer 29 June 2005 18:49 (UTC)

And it's now been sorted out. Cheers.

--Macgruer 30 June 2005 11:20 (UTC)

Muhammad?
Look what i found:

http://www.world-mysteries.com/awr_5.htm

X / 66 The chief of London by rule of America, The Island of Scotland shall be tempered by frost, Kings and Priests shall have one, who is a false Anti-Christ Who will put them altogether in discord.

This remarkable quatrain states that British & USA leaders will empower a dictator. An Anti-Christ will betray the leaders & peoples of both countries. The French prophet should not have written 'L'Americh,' but he did in X/66.

in the Preface:

This is in spite of all the ambiguous opinions surpassing all natural reason, expressed by Mahomet; which is why God the Creator, through the ministry of his fiery agents with their flames, will come to propose to our perceptions as well as our eyes the reasons for future predictions.

--Striver 00:48, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Mabus is I
I am he who is known as i am, I am the one referd to as Mabus

This wikipedia article is Lemesurier, not Nostradamus.
This page should go back when there were people to stand up to Lemesurier and there were most authors in the bibliography.

Lemesurier cannot understand Nostradamus because he doesn't believe in God. I know this explanation may sound subjective to many, but when Nostradamus says that he was shown the future by God, it means nothing for Lemesurier, he doesn't believe Nostradamus. ALL of his examples are circumstantial, and don't absolutely pan out if you look closely. But it is normal that he tries to rationalize. Anyone would want to know the magic trick (since only God knows the future). But it has to be true. It is not because there were the parallel events, or book relating prophecies, or whatever work around the "Seer", echoing the words used, that he did trick the world.

If you don't believe Nostradamus, but would rather believe Lemesurier, it is your choice. Me I tell you, get the page back to when there were both theories, many years ago, when the history was there, not only the lies of stubborn Lemesurier.

He couldn't believe it was God. It is very understandable that he would look for an explanation, except, he shouldn't have been working on prophecies, he is no exegete.

It is not true that everyone agrees about prophecies being projection of past events and the other lies of Lemesurier. Well, you are the encyclopedia experts. Do you all think that Nostradamus was ... err ... "a liar" ? Me I tell you, Nostradamus didn't lie. I know this is the hardest question to ask in the world. The only proof that God exists *is* Nostradamus ! Plus, it is subject to understanding the concealed meaning of the text which comes to light when the connotation of the event are known (when the prophecy comes to fruition). So the prophecies ARE real, except the world will probably only see it by themselves only in half a century (~500 years after 1555), *if* one of his prophecy *is* about him, so I am not surprised. But he guaranteed that the world will one day see that most of his prophecies will have happened. But, you see, how we won't really know until it has occurred. Even though 2/3rd of the prophecies have come to pass, it is not now. The interpretations probably need more work or more events need to happen. Anyway, this is not the same thing as making them by a trick. It should be easy, Nostradamus said each of his prophecies can only apply to one occurrence. It defeats the basic hypothesis of Lemesurier, who borrowed it from Brind'Amour, whose work is nonetheless remarkable although tainted with the same premises as Lemesurier about God unfortunately.

For wikipedia, I think it is sad that this resulted in that. I hope we can set the world straight.

Jean Guernon, Author. --Jean Guernon (talk) 15:12, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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