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Talk:James Burke (gangster)

Grammar etc.
The following sentence under the Jimmy the Gent heading bothers me: "Despite this being a rather innocent offense in comparison to narcotics dealing, loansharking, and murder; corrupt law enforcement officers, bribed by Burke, would tell him about any potential witnesses or informants." Armed robbery is hardly a "rather innocent offense" compared to narcotics or loansharking - I would reword this myself but I'm not a registered wikipedia user.

The article is well-sourced and mostly well-written, but there are a few serious? There are several plain made up words (such as "strewned"). Another issue is that there is a tendency toward sensationalist non-objective writing, along with misspelling of basic words such as the word "bigger". Also there are alot of unsourced quotes. 1337wesm 02:05, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

As far as the use of questionable grammar and words go, you're right. However, you got to realize this article is related to New York, or as New Yorkers say it, Noo Yawk. New Yorkers speak English differently, and they use words and phrases that people in the rest of the country don't. --LedAstray 17:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Spoken language differs everywhere you go. "You got" to realize that reading bad writing is just bad.

Yeah well, one man's good reading is another man's bad writing. Many people believe Mario Puzo was a bad writer, yet his books were best sellers. "You got" to stop being a snob. --LedAstray (talk) 04:11, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

"You got" to stop sounding like a retard.

You are a retard. Get stuffed.--LedAstray (talk) 19:35, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Movie
The tv movie Ten Million Dollar Getaway also covered Lufthansa.

Conway or Burke?
Shouldn't he be referred to as Conway, given the title of the article? It seems inconsistent to then refer to him as Burke throughout the article.

 * Conway wasn't his name, the title itself is wrong.

 * The situation appears to be this: James Burke was his real name, but in the movie Goodfellas his character was called Conway. (This was presumably because the real person was alive while the movie was being made.) By implying Conway and Burke are two names for the same person, editors (including myself) have blurred the line between fact and fiction. Clearly the article is in need of a major overhaul and renaming. -- FP (talk)(edits) 09:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

 * OK, I have made the move. This page was formerly called Jimmy Conway but is now Jimmy Burke (gangster) with a disambig page at Jimmy Burke. I have updated all links to this article as well. -- FP (talk)(edits) 03:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Pair or three people?
"Burke was a mentor of Thomas DeSimone, Franky Fortuna and Henry Hill, who were both teenagers in the 1960s. They carried out errands for Burke, such as selling stolen merchandise. When they were older, the pair helped Burke with the hijacking of delivery trucks." <- this section is inconsistent, as it's either Thomas DeSimone, Franky Fortuna and Henry Hill or a pair. Or it's a trio. Or the pair consists of only two of the mentioned people. Anyway, it's not right. Does anyone know whether it was all three of them to help with the hijackings or just two? If two, which two? My only knowledge of this comes from Goodfellas.

Jimmy Burke hijacked trucks with his best friend Remo (who he later murdered), Tommy DeSimone, Angelo Sepe, and Henry Hill. --LedAstray 17:18, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Henry Hill said that he mostly fenced the proceeds stolen from the trucks, and did not go on the hijackings himself very often, unless they were short of men for a job. This was in the book "Wiseguy" by Nick Pileggi, upon which Goodfellas was based. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.148.5.119 (talk) 03:55, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

thought I would add a little information here, his real name was Jimmy burke, however for the film Jimmys daughter would not allow the name to be used, therefore they decided on jimmy conway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.41.181.80 (talk) 12:37, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Conway/burke's daughter
burke's daughter is mentioned in this NYTimes story, if anyone knows how to add this to the Conway/Burke profile.

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Burke's daughter Catherine and her husband Anthony Indelicato actually live in Jimmy Burke's former home in Howard Beach, N.Y. --LedAstray 18:27, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Mugshots
I'm just curious but how did you find a mugshot of Burke, because I'm searching for one of William 'Billy Batts' DeVino from his 1964 arrest in Connecticut.

To get a federal mugshot, make a Freedom Of Information Act request to the FBI, the U.S. Marshalls Service or the Bureau of Prisons. You may have to pay a small fee. Requesting a mugshot from a State, County, or City agency is trickier. They may or may not oblige you depending on their laws. It won't hurt to ask. --LedAstray 19:02, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

To add onto this, the individual you are requesting records on must be deceased, otherwise the agency you are requesting the records (files, photos, etc.) from will more often than not deny your request on the grounds that it would invade the personal privacy of the individual in question. You can always try to provide reasons in your request why you feel the records can be released but it usually will end in a denial regardless.

If the individual is deceased, you will need to provide proof of death. One easy source of proof of death is the United States Social Security Death Index. You can access the Index through multiple sites, http://www.familysearch.org is a good one. You could also provide a newspaper article/obituary as well.

One last thing, even if you have proof of death it doesn't guarantee you will be able to successfully request a mugshot. In the case of the US Marshals, even when I provided the exact date and case number of the arrest in question they were unable to find the relevant records. With the FBI it's really hit or miss. Some of their records from as recent as 1978 have already been destroyed.

When it comes to State Agencies, it varies drastically. Florida has the best FOI laws. New York's is much more strict. Many people feel that the NYPD is one of the worst agencies to obtain records from. Due to the large volume of records the agency produces on a daily basis it's extremely difficult to locate older case files. In the case of the Nassau Police, even with proof of death they refuse to release law enforcement records without the notarized signature of the head of that deceased individual's estate.

Burke's US Marshals mugshot was taken from the book Gangsters and Goodfellas by Henry Hill.Dugrad 20:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

His prison whackings
In Gangsters and GoodFellas Hill says that he was involved in some murders whilst in prison, at a very young age. Has anyone got any idea of any of the victims.

Who has editted off the 'Child Murders' section
This is a highly relevant and important character index to portray the true brutality and borderline insanity of Burke and doesn't refer to specific incidents.

I would like to indicate that Burke was truly formidable and incredulously disturbed person and that the source of the information about his murder of infants is just as substantiated as any other pieces of evidence in this article.

If I do not receive correspondence within 2 weeks I'm re-instating the Child Murders section because a person who truly knew aboyt Burke and thus had justification to remove this information will be visiting the page within that time. If they don't I presume that they either have no justification or it was pure malice.

Next time someone's work is deleted could a proper explaination please be provided.

JBAK

 * I don't know if this is  what you're referring to, but: I came to this article tracking other "contributions" by a mindless vandal who hit one of the pages I monitor. He/she made this edit, which I have just reverted. --A. B. 19:45, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

It's true. Sometimes when Burke had a problem collecting money he was owed, and the unfortunate debtor had children, he would pick the child up in his huge arm, open the refrigerator with the other, and put the child inside and would say "if you don't do whatcha supposed to do, I'm gonna lock your kid inside the f**ckin refrigerator". Needless to say, the debtor paid up fast. How would I know this you may ask? I was a teenager in Howard Beach, NY at the time and this was common knowledge. Burke and his crew were crazy.

As far as the vandal's go, you're right. They are bastards for doing that. As for me, the best way to combat vandals is to copy an article that interests you on your computer hard drive so if it get's vandalized, all you have to do is repost it exactly the way it was. If more people did this, the vandals would be frustrated. Don't give them the satisfaction. --LedAstray 17:38, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Confirmation of his murders
Although the FBI has confirmed it's estimates that he killed upwards of 50 people we need names, we can only say William DeVino, Remo, the 13 Lufthansa people and that's really about it, we need to start working to get some actual names. I don't know if there's a database of deceased lcn- related criminals (lol, it would make putting these articles together a lot easier) but it would help out the article. I've read just about every mob book I can find relating to Burke but it just seems that Henry Hill likes to exaggerate and I think it could, in hindsight, be a little unfair to him to call him a child- killer without any confirmed victims.

Opinions anyone? He was gangster, and is dead, so people can say anything. In all probablility, stories are untrue. If he had threatened so many people' children, soeone would have turned him in sooner. It 's just sensationalizing, as is the 50 person body count attributed to him, but with no names to get near thhat figure.

JBAK 21:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

You have to understand, even pre-Lufthansa, dead bodies were commonly found all over New York. Some dumped in lots, others found in trunks of cars, and there were people that simply vanished, never to be heard from again. They were all mostly mob related. Did Burke have a hand in some of these murders and disappearances? Absolutely. It was part of his lifestyle and line of work. From the fifties to the seventies, that's twenty years, Burke most definitely killed 50 people, maybe more. Even before Lufthansa, Burke's reputation was known in New York: "Jimmy Kills". I never heard of Burke kiling a child, but he did lock the children of his debtors in refrigerators to get them to pay up.

As for Henry Hill, anybody that read the book Wiseguy could tell that Hill limited his involvement in crimes he took part in. He held back on a lot of things, especially murders he committed. Also, in the mob world, truth is relevant. Lies and deceit are commonplace. And to make matters worse, Hill's brain was fried by all the drugs he took when he was trafficking. Hill definitely exaggerates. But most of what he said about his life in the mob and Burke is true. --LedAstray 18:09, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

The two preceding paragraphs also bring up a good point made by Ed MacDonald (of The Eastern District Organised Crime Strike Force who used Hill as an informant and got him into the witness protection program) in the audio commentary he did with Hill for the Goodfellas DVD. MacDOnald said that for months after Lufthansa, any apparent mob related disappearance, or body that was discovered, the media would pounce on it and call it "Another Lufthansa link severed," or similarly sensationalise the cases, even when they clearly were not in any way related to Lufthansa, or even the Lucchese family generally. It is clear that because of the publicity of the robbery, many attendant facts (such as the subsequent death toll) were exaggerated by the media. And, although this is unsupported opinion, Hill had one obvious motive in himself exaggerating the murders by others and remaining reticent about his own possible involvement in them; murder is often the only crime for which prosecutors refuse to offer immunity. Although there are notable exceptions like Aladena Frattiano, it is rare for OC material witnesses to be granted indemnity against prosecution in murder cases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.148.5.118 (talk) 04:18, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Air France Robbery (1967)
I've seen in that article this paragraph: "It was carried out by Hill, Robert McMahon and Jimmy Burke, on a tip off from McMahon." But I can't keep wondering why there is no single mention about this robbery in this article about Jimmy Burke. --Vlad|-> 10:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

It's of limited significance to Burke, if you've read Wiseguy and Gangsters and Goodfellas and watched The Real GoodFella it raised Henry's reputation among his mobster associates, it was in all ways, definitely in terms of structure and planning, the work of Hill. We could pull out hundreds of similar crimes for Burke, on the commentary by Henry Hill and his Special Agent at the FBI, Hill comments that two or three trucks were hijacked a day, besides, at the time, his share of $420,000 was a lot for Hill, Burke had been making money for a long time.

JBAK88 10:09, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

In reality, Burke had nothing to do with Air France robbery. Based on a tip from Air France employee Robert "Frenchy" McMahon, Hill planned and carried the robbery out with Tommy DeSimone. Hill was able to copy most of a Air France security guard's keys and just walked in, unlocked the door to the strongroom, and walked out with $420,000 in cash. Hill paid money to Paul Vario and Burke as tribute, but that's as far as Burke's involvement in the robbery was. --LedAstray 18:22, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Reliance upon the unreliable
I've just gone back to reading my mob books again and once again I've found that Hill, for whom we are relying immensely upon the word of for this article, is contradictory and confusing and unexplanatory, he never provides the entire picture. It wasn't until Gangsters and GoodFellas was released that the true reasons for Billy Batts' death became apparent, until then, under the guidance of GoodFellas the film and Wiseguy, it was thought that only DeSimone's outburst was responsible.

JBAK88 10:14, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree with your assessment on Hill. In Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi, Hill talks about numerous murders and other crimes. But miraculously, he was involved in only a handful. Yeah right. --LedAstray (talk) 04:26, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Again I must agree with whoever wrote the first paragraph in this section, because although Hill did provide much useful information for the Wiseguy book and Goodfellas movie, it still sometimes takes years for other facts to emerge. Many would question why Burke, a man aware of Mafia codes regarding made men, would recklessly participate in the murder of DeVino considering his status and conections within the Gambino family, merely on the pretext that he had insulted DeSimone. Only years later does it emerge that the murder was personally convenient for Burke, who had come to dominate a lucrative policy racket while DeVino (who had once managed it himself) was in prison. Therefore to protect his source of revenue from Devino's "muscling in" upon his release from prison, it was logical that Devino's murder would safeguard Burke's control of the racket. This is again mentioned in the DVD commentary, and was actually fleetingly referred to in the Goodfellas movie, as Billy Batts put his arm over Jimmy Conway's shoulder he said "I gotta get what's mine -I've got mouths to feed, you know what I mean?" Likewise, there is the suggestion in the main article on DeSimone that he killed the young man "Spider" as much out of a sense of rivalry as it was due to offense taken at being insulted. Supposedly a relative of DeSimone's was an informer and Tommy DeSimone had a chip on his shoulder about this, that made him constantly seek to prove himself as a tough guy. As a result of his hyper agression it was becoming known that Paul Vario did not wish to associate himself with Tommy DeSimone and avoided DeSimone or had him excluded from social gatherings he attended. These problems, combined with the fact that "Spider" was supposedly an up and coming young man who might compete with DeSimone for favours and status among the Vario crew, combined and resulted in DeSimone acting upon a single slight as an excuse to have "Spider" killed". Although I have not seen proof for any of this and it might seem way off topic for an article about James Burke, it is relevant to Burke's role in the DeVino murder, because such acts can be more cynical and self interested than just a "short temper".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.148.5.118 (talk) 04:41, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Sons
Both Jesse James Burke and Frank James Burke have birthyears listed as 1960. There's no indication that they were twins, so unless one was born at the start of the year and the other at the end, there's a problem. The original version of Frank's article lists his year of birth as 1954, but that doesn't seem to agree with his age mentioned at various points in his life in other places. Can somebody clear this up? Clarityfiend 16:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Gave the head as a present?
That doesn't make any sense. With all the police attention on these guys, do you really think he would've given a human head to the woman? That's something out of a horror movie, not reality. It's unsourced too, so I think it can be deleted. 86.88.213.176 10:28, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

You are quite correct. Burke only killed and dismembered the man who was bothering his fiance. He never mentioned that he actually did so to her, nor gave her his had. That's absolutely ridiculous and totally untrue. Wiseguys are known for keeping their business out of their family life. --LedAstray 03:07, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Revisions
Added details on the Lufthansa robbery based on what I read in various books and newspapers from that time and made changes to reflect the chronological order of the robbery. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LedAstray (talk • contribs) 03:12, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Expunged text and boy is this article in bad shape
Here is what i expunged: When he was thirteen, Burke's foster father died in a car crash—he lost control of the car when he turned around to hit Burke, who was riding in the back seat. The deceased man's widow, who was in the car as well but survived, blamed Burke for the accident and gave him regular beatings until he was taken back into care. This time he was finally adopted by the "Burke" family. Jimmy lived with them in a boarding house located on Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Ocean Promenade in Rockaway Beach, Queens. His time spent there during the beginning of his adolescence was a time of peace and calm. A rumor was spread later that in 1978 Jimmy buried his share of the Lufthansa heist, including that of his murdered accomplices in the vacant lot where the Burke's family homestead used to be. He remained close to the Burke family visiting his adoptive mother and father each Mother's Day, Christmas and on his adoptive parent's birthdays. On a monthly basis he would send them several thousand dollars in an unmarked envelope as appreciation for their attempt at raising him.

It is not sourced and the first part is very confusing. This whole article needs some sources in a very bad way. 71.56.118.64 (talk) 05:55, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Age
The article claims that he was born in 1931 and yet also: " ... he died from this disease on April 13, 1996, aged 69, while being treated at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. Had he lived he would have been eligible for parole in 2004, aged 78." Doing the math, that's impossible. The last sentence about him being eligible for parole in 2004 at age 78 seems like a verbatim statement from the end of the film Goodfellas, which might not be a reliable source. Harry Yelreh (talk) 04:10, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Asking Gambinos for Permission to do the Lufthansa Heist
I am a bit unclear regarding this. Paul Vario, a capo of the Lucchese Family controlled the JFK airport terminals. Burke was affiliated with Vario, so why would he have to go and ask Gambinos for their blessing? Wouldn't that be the responsibility of Paul Vario to square that away with his fellow Italians? I have a hard time picturing a paranoid man like Burke informing a rival crew from a different family about a multi-million dollar heist.

"I come to let you, Tony the Blade, Frankie the Axe and Vinny the Bat know that at 12.30 our boys from the Lucchese Family will steal a few million dollars from Terminal 3, Locker 25. Is that ok with you guys or should we reschedule?"

The only references I can find regarding this supposed event all lead back to Wikipedia statements that are unreferenced. Meishern (talk) 13:10, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Burke's direct involvement in the post Lufthansa murders highly unlikly
I beeive the "Murders that followed the Lufthansa Heist" section of the main page to be misleading and innaccurate, and should be edited or eliminated. The idea of a mid level non Italian associate taking it upon himself to murder numerous higher level Luccese Italian-American associates is virtually impossible, and in fact there are sources (Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss for example) http://www.amazon.com/Gaspipe-Confessions-Mafia-Philip-Carlo/dp/B003F76HIO which say that indeed Tony "Ducks" Corallo was responsible for most of the killings. 144.160.5.25 (talk) 18:51, 11 February 2011 (UTC) Cosand (talk) 18:54, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Casso was a pathalogical liar. That book os filled with false bravado bullshit by casso and carlo. Casso said he turned down boss so thats why vic got it lol. Vic became boss and moved casso up to acting capo not underboss. Vic was a captain who took over ticks brooklyn crew which was a power house. Plus vic was feared and earner and quiet. Groomed to be a boss since he got his button. Only later on he bumped up casso to familyn administration because every boss needs feared men close to them and casso was one of the most feared guys in lcn at that time. Jimmy burke was one of the most feared gangsters to ever live and amuso new him and respected him as did all with a brain

Antagonist?
In what way is Jimmy Conway the antagonist of Goodfellas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.76.1.83 (talk) 07:45, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Maybe you should watch the movie. Majinsnake (talk) 12:21, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Davey Blue-Eyes
"Burke has a second, unidentified, daughter and third son known to Lucchese family associates as "Davey Blue-Eyes".[citation needed]" - Interestingly, a former NYPD detective published a memoir about 3 years back in which he describes trying to nail a dealer named Davey Blue-Eyes. See http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/mike-codella-narcotics-officer-rambo-writes-memoir-battle-heroin-alphabet-city-article-1.453208 - I haven't read the book as yet. If anyone else has, is there any indication that the individual to whom Codella refers is Burke's reputed third son? Irish Melkite (talk) 04:02, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

New arcticle on the lufthansa heist
I am surprised this is not up yet.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/feds-charge-mobster-1978-lufthansa-heist-kennedy-airport-article-1.1588523

Majinsnake (talk) 12:32, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

The other Burke girl
At the top of the article, it says his second daughter is "unidentified" but later in the article, she's identified as "Robin". Which is it? 68.174.47.250 (talk) 22:09, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Cause of death
The article currently says that James Burke died of stomach cancer. Most other sources I've found speak of lung cancer. Can anyone verify what's correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.55.220.101 (talk) 13:37, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Changed to “cancer” as that’s all the New York Times source states. Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 15:28, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

2013 remains
I can find reports of remains being found at his home in 2013, but absolutely no follow up. What happened? Were they confirmed to be human remains? Harizotoh9 (talk) 00:23, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

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Integratron

The Integratron is a 38 ft tall cupola structure with a diameter of 55 ft designed by ufologist and contactee George Van Tassel. Van Tassel claimed the Integratron was capable of rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel. He built the structure in Landers, California (near Joshua Tree), following instructions that Van Tassel vehemently claimed were provided directly to him by visitors from the planet Venus. The Integratron machine was started in 1957, the structure erected in 1959. It was financed predominantly by donations, including funds from Howard Hughes.

After Van Tassel's death in 1978, the building had a series of owners (and was left in various states of disrepair) before sisters Joanne, Nancy, and Patty Karl bought it in the early 2000s. The sisters promote the Integratron as an "acoustically perfect structure", give tours and offer "sound baths" they describe as "...meditation-like sessions accompanied by tones from quartz bowls".

Construction
George Van Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and flight inspector who moved to California's Mojave Desert to operate an airport and inn. While there, he began meditating under Giant Rock, which the Native Americans of the area held sacred. In August 1953, Van Tassel claimed he had been contacted both telepathically and later in person by people from space, who gave him a technique to rejuvenate human cell tissue. Acting on these instructions, Van Tassel began constructing the Integratron in 1954. Construction costs were partly paid for by an annual series of successful UFO conventions, the Giant Rock Spacecraft Conventions, which continued for nearly 25 years. The main structure's construction was complete circa 1959, but Van Tassel continued to work on the device until his sudden death in 1978.

Claims
According to Van Tassel, the Integratron's workings rely on the generation of strong "intermittent magnetic fields" resulting in the generation of plasma in the form of a coronal discharge and negative air ionization inside the building. The Integratron is based on the Multiple Wave Oscillator, invented by Georges Lakhovsky, a combination of a high voltage Tesla coil and a split-ring resonator that generates ultra wideband electromagnetic frequencies (EMF). Van Tassel speculated that electromagnetism affects biological cells, and believed that every biological cell has a unique resonant EMF. According to van Tassel, the generation of strong ultra wideband EMF by the Integratron "resonates" with the cell's frequency and "recharges" the cellular structure as if it were an electrical battery. Van Tassel claimed that human cells "rejuvenated" while inside the structure. Van Tassel also claimed the Integratron is intentionally constructed atop a powerful geomagnetic anomaly and its construction is entirely of non-ferromagnetic materials, the equivalent to a modern radome.

Modern uses
After Van Tassel died, there was a proposal to turn the Integratron into a disco, but that plan was never realized. The Integratron's new owners operate it as a tourist attraction and offer "sound baths" where groups of people are "exposed to harmonic sound frequencies" produced by quartz bowls, claimed to have a deep calming effect. According to one of the structure's docents, the Integratron is an "acoustically perfect sound chamber".

The Integratron was added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 2018.

The English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys recorded part of their song "Secret Door" at the Integratron in 2008.

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Talk:Oswald Spengler

Quotes and socks
As related to my above posts, I've made some drastic reverts of the article to an older version. Looking at the history it appears these mere made by a now-blocked user, and slipped through the cracks. Instead of using tediously excessive pull quotes to indicate a narrative, the article should summarize reliable sources. Spengler is not a reliable source for his own modern legacy, and that's really all that Wikipedia is concerned with. There may have been some positive edits lost in the revert, but it's difficult to sort out the good from the bad here, unfortunately. Grayfell (talk) 07:16, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Spengler and Mussolini
". Instead, he saw his ideal realised in Benito Mussolini, the dictator of Fascist Italy. " I don't think this is correct (it is not sourced either), he said in Decline that his ideal was 18th century enlightened absolutism but he didn't think that was workable in the present and as I recall from his later books he discussed Mussolini as something of a precursor to the future Caesarism that he was predicting but not as by any means the perfected type. I get that an intro is inevitably going to be brief but I think that makes it sound like was a straightforward Fascist which I think mischaracterizes his ideology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyndane5 (talk • contribs) 00:21, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Rewriting the article
I'm going to completely rewrite this article in the coming weeks, as I did for the Conservative Revolution. See User:Azerty82/Spengler for the draft. Best regards, Azerty82 (talk) 14:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Edward von Salomon biography could use some help too! I tried but I'm an ingenue in this field.--FeralOink (talk) 15:13, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Oswald's brother
Born 8 months premature and lived 3 weeks? Miraculous, surely 2A01:CB1D:2E:3500:D85C:F309:D9AA:939F (talk) 10:10, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

 * I've removed the "8 months" line. Grayfell (talk) 04:53, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Ages of communities
About the 'Spenglercy', term coined by Sigmund Freud in a dream, the 'Decay of West', and those who present the metaphor of development of societies as ages of humans: birth, childhood, adolescence, maturity, decrepitude, the Baske anthropologist Julio Caro Baroja, in his booklet: 'The myth of national character. Countergrain meditations' pointed about this imagery that all appealing to it considered their own times as times of degradation. Don Julio Caro remarked you can't request same performance from a young than from elderly. I'd say many writing are inquisitors, judges and hangman, all in one, searching for an opportunity to punish; or even worse, mimics or competitors of the Almighty in issuing rules. Blessings + — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.44.119.164 (talk) 15:53, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
 * This talk page is not a forum for general discussion. Grayfell (talk) 04:55, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enda Marren

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

The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash 03:52, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Enda Marren
Non-notable lawyer. Full text: "Martin Enda Marren, a highly respected Dublin barrister, is descended from one of the famous County Sligo Marren's. The Marren's are an Anglo-Irish Protestant family well known in both Ireland and Britain for their involvement in the arts, academia and the law." Rl 17:41, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Weak keep (only if the article gets substantially expanded). He's quite well-known in Irish legal and political circles and at least as notable as some political candidates in various countries who are currently in wiki.  Dlyons493 18:26, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Expand. Currently a senior officeholder in Fine Gael, one of Ireland's largest political parties. However, the article should explain his significance. Capitalistroadster 19:15, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
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Binghamton Whalers

The Binghamton Whalers were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League, playing in Binghamton, New York, USA, at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.

History
The Whalers were generally a successful team, making the playoffs seven times and advancing all the way to the Calder Cup Finals in 1982. However, in 1989–90, they turned in a ghastly 11-60-9 record, dead last in the league. The .194 winning percentage was the worst in AHL history at the time. After that season, the franchise was sold to the New York Rangers and their parent, Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western). The Whalers moved their affiliation to Springfield the next season, where the seven remaining players from the disastrous 1990 Binghamton season helped the Indians to their seventh and final Calder Cup championship.

The market was previously served by:
 * Broome Dusters of the NAHL (1973–1977)

The market was subsequently home to:
 * Binghamton Rangers of the AHL (1990–1997)
 * B.C. Icemen of the UHL (1997–2002)
 * Binghamton Senators of the AHL (2002–2017)
 * Binghamton Devils of the AHL (2017–2021)
 * Binghamton Black Bears of the Federal Prospects Hockey League (FPHL) (2021–present)

Team identity
The Binghamton Whalers' logo was simply the Hartford Whalers' logo turned onto its side. The curvature along the inside of the "W" was altered to more closely resemble the letter B, for the team's home city.

During home games, the song "Brass Bonanza" would play when the Whalers scored a goal, a practice adopted from the Hartford Whalers.

Single season

 * Goals: 53 Paul Fenton 🇺🇸 (1985–86)
 * Assists: 84 Ross Yates 🇨🇦 (1982–83)
 * Points: 130 Paul Gardner 🇨🇦 (1984–85)
 * Penalty minutes: 360 Jim Thomson 🇨🇦 (1986–87)
 * GAA: 2.92 Peter Sidorkiewicz 🇵🇱 (1986–87)
 * SV%: .901 Peter Sidorkiewicz 🇵🇱 (1984–85)

Career

 * Career goals: 120 Paul Fenton 🇺🇸
 * Career assists: 181 Ross Yates 🇨🇦
 * Career points: 283 Ross Yates 🇨🇦
 * Career penalty minutes: 723 Shane Churla 🇨🇦
 * Career goaltending wins: 94 Peter Sidorkiewicz 🇵🇱
 * Career shutouts: 9 Peter Sidorkiewicz 🇵🇱
 * Career games: 273 Dallas Gaume 🇨🇦

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Your example on Légal_Trap
Unfortunately the board does not make sense, as Qxd1 is mate in 1. I tried to look up your source but couldn't find the relevant game. I reverted the example for now, but feel free to add it when we figure out the correct board! Isaac (talk) 01:58, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

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Hilda Morley

Hilda Morley (September 19, 1916 – March 23, 1998) was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain movement.

Biography
She was born Hilda Auerbach in New York City to Russian parents. Her father, Rachmiel Auerbach, was a doctor, and her mother, Sonia Lubove Kamenetsky, was a feminist and Labor Zionist. Her mother was born in Baku, and her father, born in Riga, was descended from Hasidic rabbis. She was a cousin of Isaiah Berlin through her father. As a child she wrote amazingly precocious work, and corresponded with William Butler Yeats. At the age of fifteen she moved to Haifa, Palestine, with her mother, and later to London to study at the University of London. She was briefly married during her time in London, and divorced. She met and corresponded later with the poet H.D., who would influence her work. At their first meeting Hilda Morley questioned H.D. about her friendship with D. H. Lawrence and H.D. said, "You make me feel so historical."

When the Blitz began in London she moved back to the United States. In 1945, she married the painter Eugene Morley. They divorced in 1949, but his connection to abstract expressionism and to the New York School of painting was a lasting influence on her poetry. She wrote major poems that are inspired by individual works of visual art. Through Eugene Morley she became friends with Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, David Smith, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning and Elaine de Kooning. Philip Guston would watch her from his studio window, and declared that she was his muse.

In 1952, she married the German composer, Stefan Wolpe, who through Morley was introduced to the abstract expressionist art scene. Wolpe taught at Black Mountain College, where Morley taught as well. Morley maintained that the atmosphere at Black Mountain was not favorable to women, although she enjoyed her time there. At Black Mountain, Wolpe and Morley became close friends with John Cage, David Tudor, Merce Cunningham, Dorothea Rockburne and Robert Rauschenberg, in addition to poets Charles Olson and Robert Creeley. Wolpe and Morley traveled widely in Europe as Wolpe taught at Darmstadt and had a residency in Rome. Wolpe developed Parkinson's disease in 1964, and Morley's life was greatly affected by her need to care for him until his death in 1972. Morley's understanding of her own art was greatly influenced by her life with Wolpe and he and his music are a major theme of her work.

The influence on the open construction of the poetry of Hilda Morley was not Charles Olson, but Wong May. Wong May was a young poet originally from China via Singapore. Wong May met Hilda Morley at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire during a residency there in 1969. She persuaded Morley to change her poetry using spacing and breaks for expressive effect. Morley revised her earlier poetry as well, using open construction. Morley wrote, “The poem of organic form molds its phrasing and spacing to conform to the pressures of the poetic content.”

It was not until 1976 (at the age of 60) that her first collection, A Blessing Outside Us, was published through the efforts of Denise Levertov. Levertov and Morley became friends in the late 1950s, and they had an extensive correspondence. Morley greatly respected Levertov as a poet, and valued her advice. Levertov wrote on Morley, “The lucid, the illuminated quality of poem after poem is given them by the precision of their structure…the sum of the parts is, as in all the open ‘secrets’ of nature and of art, beyond accounting: the duende is dark within transparence.” Morley had five volumes of poetry published within her lifetime, and another after her death. Her poetry is involved with life and living, as well as a powerful collection dealing with the death and mourning of Wolpe, "What Are Winds and What Are Waters". Morley's work has been compared to Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and it has won critical praise and numerous prizes.

Part of the force of Morley's work is a boldness to go as far as she can within her medium. In her hands it is always an expressive personal means. In writing on Morley's long poem “The Shutter Clangs” Stanley Kunitz comments, “In the poem from which the passage is taken she meditates on John Donne's ‘Goodfriday, Riding Westward' and mounts on that meditation an oceanic spate of images pertaining to the death of her beloved – a montage with a span of three centuries, so rich and eloquent, even in its extravagance, that it constitutes a daring tour de force. It is a vehicle that threatens on almost every page to fall apart, but in the end, out of the ‘clair bones’ and the dark years, the imagination seems to spread its sails and fly, ever westward, to the open water.”

Hayden Carruth has written of Morley's work, “"How simple the language is, not a rhetorical gesture, not an unnecessary adjective, yet heightened by interweaving lines, cadences, and tones, by urgency of feeling and fineness of perception. We have these expressive works, indispensable to what we call American literature.”

"Morley manages to speak clearly and sparely of what is least sayable: the sense that we inhabit a living web, not as separate beings but as molecules of a larger and elastic whole," wrote Geoffrey O'Brien in The Village Voice.

After living in New York for three decades Morley moved to Sag Harbor on Long Island for most of her last decade. In 1997, she returned to London, which had been a longtime wish, where she died on March 23, 1998, after a fall.

Poetry

 * A Blessing Outside Us (1976)
 * To Hold in my Hand (1983)
 * What Are Winds and What Are Waters (1983)
 * Cloudless at First (1988)
 * Between the Rocks (1992)
 * The Turning (1998)

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Lynbarn is the name of a railway at a popular tourist attraction The Milky Way, near Clovelly, not far from, and previously operated by, the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway in North Devon. Over about ten years, Lynbarn raised many thousands of pounds to make possible the purchase and restoration of part of the original line. As you might have guessed, the L&B is a favourite project of mine! In December 2011, I discovered a fantastic British computing initiative with massive potential - the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

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Muzzy

Muzzy may refer to:

People

 * Muzzy Izzet (born 1974), Turkish-English former footballer
 * Muzzy Marcellino (1912–1997), American singer and musician
 * Rob Muzzy, American motorcycle racing team manager
 * Muzz, a British DJ and musical artist (formerly Muzzy)
 * Washington Muzzy (1828-1898), American farmer and politician

In fiction

 * Muzzy is a large furry alien who appears in the BBC educational films Muzzy in Gondoland, Muzzy Vocabulary Builder and Muzzy Comes Back''

United States

 * Mount Jefferson (Massachusetts), also known as Muzzy Hill
 * Muzzy Field, stadium in Bristol, Connecticut

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R68

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 * R68 (New York City Subway car)
 * R68 (South Africa), a road
 * BMW R68, a motorcycle
 * HMS Crispin (R68), a destroyer of the Royal Navy
 * HMS Ocean (R68), an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy
 * R68: Possible risk of irreversible effects, a risk phrase

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Baglan, Neath Port Talbot

Baglan is a village in Wales, adjoining Port Talbot, named after Saint Baglan. It is also a community and ward in the Neath Port Talbot county borough. In 2001, the population was 6,654. rising to 6,819 in 2011.

Baglan is on the side of a steep hill and surrounded by two hills, Mynydd-y-Gaer to the north and Mynydd Dinas to the east. The moors and Baglan Bay are to the southwest. The village contains a number of historical buildings such as Baglan House, St. Catharine's Church, and St. Baglan's Church. The first St. Baglan's Church is now a shell after a fire in 1954. St. Catharine's Church was designed by Welsh architect John Prichard, an exponent of the neo-Gothic style and dedicated in 1882. Baglan House was one of the seats of the Villiers family, earls of Jersey.

Baglan railway station is on the South Wales Main Line with trains to Cardiff and Swansea.

Early history
The earliest evidence of settlement here dates back to the Bronze Age with there being a tumulus called Twyn Disgwylfa on Mynydd Dinas and a round barrow within the hillfort of Buarth-y-Gaer just outside the boundary of Baglan. There is also an Iron Age hillfort called Craig Ty-Isaf on the surrounding hill Mynydd-y-Gaer. The Roman road (Via Julia) very possibly passed through the village, although the statement that there was once a Roman milestone at the junction of Old Road and Albion Road Approach is erroneous (the milestone in question is actually from Pyle). Later, a Dark Age (Early Christian period) church was founded here, as can be seen from a few local Early Christian stones, especially the Cross of Brancu (dated 9th - 10th century) which is in the vestry of St Catharine's church. The inscription on the Cross of Brancu(f) could be a dedication to Brancuf, or reads as Brancu f(ecit). i.e. was made by Brancu or may be Brancu followed by a chi-rho monogram. (the name Brancu is preceded by a simple Latin cross in any case). According to tradition the church was founded by the aforementioned St Baglan.

In the medieval period, the church (dedicated to St Baglan) was rebuilt seemingly on the same site. The church burnt down in 1954 although ruins still exist at the top of the churchyard of St Catharine's church. There was a medieval castle within the parish boundary which is known by the name 'Plas Baglan'. This is sited above the Baglan Brook and is heavily overgrown (and not readily accessible). Although more usually thought of as a manor house than a castle, it is a "strongly fortified site, a castle rather than a moated site ... a masonry castle that existed by the 13th century". It did, however, become a manor house and had literary associations in the 15th and 16th centuries. Several house platforms from the medieval period also exist on the hills behind the village.

Sport
Baglan is home to four sporting associations; Baglan Rugby Football Club, Baglan Football Club, Baglan Cricket Club. Also home to Tyn-Y-Twr Bowling Club, Captain Phillip Reese David.

Notable People

 * Michael Williams, who was created Baron Williams of Baglan, of Neath Port Talbot in Glamorgan on 23 July 2010.
 * Comedian Rob Brydon was born in Baglan.
 * Actor Michael Sheen grew up in the village.
 * Comedian Lloyd Langford was born in the village

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1974 in art

Events from the year 1974 in art.

Events

 * 26 April – Nineteen Old Master paintings from the Beit collection are stolen from Russborough House in Ireland by a Provisional Irish Republican Army gang including English heiress Rose Dugdale.
 * Roy Strong becomes Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
 * Hallwalls, a non profit exhibition space and arts organization, is established in a converted ice packing warehouse in Buffalo, New York, by the artists Charles Clough, Robert Longo, Diane Bertolo, Nancy Dwyer, Larry Lundy, Cindy Sherman and Michael Zwack.

Awards

 * Archibald Prize: Sam Fullbrook – Jockey Norman Stephens
 * John Moores Painting Prize - Myles Murphy - "Figure with Yellow Foreground"

Works

 * Bruce Beasley – Big Red (sculpture, Eugene, Oregon)
 * Salvador Dalí – Nieuw Amsterdam (object/sculpture)
 * Judy Dater – Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite (photograph)
 * Audrey Flack - Leonardo's Lady (photorealist painting)
 * Silvio Gazzaniga – FIFA World Cup Trophy
 * David Hockney – Contre-jour in the French style – Against the Day dans le style français
 * Nabil Kanso – Vietnam
 * Bernard Kirschenbaum – Twist for Max (sculpture)
 * Joan Miró
 * Hands flying off toward the constellations
 * The hope of a condemned Man (series)
 * Odd Nerdrum – Liberation
 * Enzo Plazzotta – Crucifixion
 * Tony Rosenthal – 5 in 1 (steel sculpture, New York City)
 * Ruskin Spear – Harold Wilson
 * Graham Sutherland – Lord Goodman
 * David Wynne – Boy With a Dolphin (bronze, Cheyne Walk, London)
 * Meet the Residents (album cover)

Films

 * A Bigger Splash

Births

 * 15 May – Kadir Nelson, African American illustrator.
 * 31 May – Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist.
 * 16 June – Paul Lee, English artist.
 * 1 September – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer.
 * 8 November – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese mangaka.
 * 13 November – Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect.
 * 7 December – Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist.

Full date unknown

 * Banksy, English graffiti artist.
 * Bogna Burska, Polish playwright and visual artist.
 * Amelie Chabannes, French painter and sculptor.
 * Luke Jerram, British installation artist.
 * Fabrice Lachant, French photographer.
 * OSGEMEOS (Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo), Brazilian twin graffiti artists.
 * Dulce Pinzon, Mexican-born visual artist.
 * Bojan Šarčević, Bosnian-French visual artist.
 * Bedwyr Williams, Welsh installation and performance artist.

January to June

 * 19 January – Edward Seago, English painter (b. 1910).
 * 30 January – Robert Darwin, English painter and Rector of the Royal College of Art (b. 1910)
 * 15 February – Petar Lubarda, Serbian painter (b. 1907).
 * 4 March – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (b. 1903).
 * 9 March – Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (b. 1920).
 * 5 April – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882).
 * 31 May – Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter (b. 1904).
 * 7 June
 * Émilie Charmy, French artist (b. 1878)
 * Milton Menasco, American painter and art director (b. 1890).
 * 22 June – Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (b. 1895).
 * 30 June – Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (b. 1895).

July to December

 * 9 July – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (b. 1884).
 * 8 August – Charles Wheeler, English sculptor (b. 1892).
 * 11 August – Jan Tschichold, German typographer, book designer, teacher and writer (b. 1902).
 * August – André Edouard Marty, French artist (b. 1882).
 * 8 September – James Swinnerton, American cartoonist and artist (b. 1875).
 * 17 September – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (b. 1884).
 * 28 October – David Jones, English poet and painter (b. 1895).
 * 1 November – František Muzika, Czech avant-garde painter (b. 1900).
 * 20 December – Risto Stijović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1894).
 * 21 December – James Henry Govier, English painter (b. 1910).
 * 25 December – Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (b. 1900).

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1953 in art

Events from the year 1953 in art.

Events

 * November – New building for Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, the first major commission for Louis Kahn, opens.
 * Anthony Blunt's Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700 is published.
 * Yves Klein becomes a master at judo, receiving the rank of yodan (4th dan/degree black-belt) from the Kodokan in Japan.

Awards

 * Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele – Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS

Works

 * Hans Arp – Cloud Shepherd (sculpture, University City of Caracas)
 * Francis Bacon
 * Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
 * Two Figures (1953)
 * John Brack
 * Men's Wear
 * The New House
 * Alexander Calder – Acoustic Clouds (installation, University City of Caracas)
 * José Manuel Capuletti - Dama en la Playa
 * Edwin Dickinson – Ruin at Daphne (begun 1943; Metropolitan Museum of Art)
 * Dong Xiwen – The Founding Ceremony of the Nation (original version)
 * Jacob Epstein – Social Consciousness (sculpture group, Philadelphia)
 * M. C. Escher – Relativity (lithograph)
 * Barbara Hepworth – Hieroglyph (sculpture)
 * Edward Hopper – Office in a Small City (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
 * Willem de Kooning – Woman III
 * L. S. Lowry
 * Football Ground (Going to the Match)
 * Industrial Landscape
 * The Procession passing the Queen Victoria Memorial, Coronation
 * René Magritte – Golconda
 * Marino Marini – Horse and Rider (bronze)
 * Henri Matisse – The Snail (colored paper collage)
 * Roberto Matta – Cercle du Blé (Circle of Wheat) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 * Milton Menasco –  'La Troienne' and Her Foals: Eighteen Vignettes and One Painting Together in One Frame for John Whitney
 * Henry Moore – Draped Reclining Figure (bronze)
 * Alexander Phimister Proctor – John McLoughlin (bronze)
 * Jackson Pollock – Portrait and a Dream
 * Larry Rivers – Washington Crossing the Delaware
 * Mark Rothko – No. 61 (Rust and Blue)
 * Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov – In the Sun
 * Charles Sheeler – Ore Into Iron (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Exhibitions

 * October – Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings are exhibited at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery in New York City.

Births

 * January 7 – Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor
 * January 9 – Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist and painter
 * February 25 – Martin Kippenberger, German artist (d. 1997)
 * April 24 – Eric Bogosian, American performance artist
 * May 18 – Helen Chadwick, English conceptual artist (d. 1996)
 * September 12 – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (d. 2004)
 * Full date unknown
 * Steven Campbell, Scottish figurative painter (d. 2007)
 * Michael Kenna, English landscape photographer
 * Kevin O'Neill, English comic book illustrator
 * Marjetica Potrč, Slovenian artist and architect

Deaths

 * February 1 – Archibald Nicoll, New Zealand painter (b. 1886)
 * February 12 – Uroš Predić, Serbian Realist painter (b. 1857)
 * March 23 – Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter (b. 1877)
 * March 26 – Đorđe Jovanović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1861)
 * April 15 – Charles R. Knight, American animal painter (b. 1874)
 * April 29
 * Moïse Kisling, Polish-born painter (b. 1891)
 * Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), French artist, model and entertainer (b. 1901)
 * June 23 – Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)
 * September 13 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American portrait painter (b. 1868)
 * September 26 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
 * October 2 – John Marin, American modernist painter (b. 1870)
 * October 6 – Vera Mukhina, Latvian-born Soviet sculptor (b. 1889)
 * October 11 – James Earle Fraser, American sculptor (b. 1876)
 * October 21 – Sir Muirhead Bone, British etcher (b. 1876)
 * November 30 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
 * date unknown – J. Laurie Wallace, Irish American painter (b.1864)

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Ryuzo Yanagimachi

Ryuzo Yanagimachi (柳町 隆造) was a Japanese-born, American-based scientist. He made numerous key contributions to the study of mammalian fertilization, and he was also a pioneer in the cloning field. Accordingly, he assisted in fertilization technologies such as in vitro fertilization and direct sperm injection into the egg (commonly called intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI), which are widely used today in human infertility clinics throughout the world. In 1997, his laboratory at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa successfully cloned mice using the Honolulu technique.

Biography
Yanagimachi was born in Ebetsu and raised in Sapporo, Japan. He received a BS in zoology in 1952 and a DSc in animal embryology in 1960, both from Hokkaido University. Being unable to find a research position initially, he then worked as a high school teacher for two years.

Yanagimachi applied for a post-doctoral position with Dr. M. C. Chang of the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He got this position and there discovered how to fertilize hamster eggs in vitro. This work led to in vitro fertilization of eggs of humans and other mammalian species.

In 1964, he returned to Hokkaido University as a temporary lecturer, with the possibility of later being appointed to an assistant professorship. However, another person eventually got the position.

In 1966 Yanagimachi ended up at the University of Hawaiʻi as an assistant professor and became a full professor of the Department of Anatomy and reproductive biology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. After working for 38 years at the University of Hawaii, he retired at the end of 2005 to become a professor emeritus but kept working with junior fellows. He was married to Hiroko, a former child psychologist. She could not find work in her field when they came to the U.S. due to a language barrier, so she went to work with researchers in his lab as an electron microscopist.

Ryuzo Yanagimachi died in Honolulu from complications of a fall on September 27, 2023, at the age of 95.

Cloning
In July 1998, Yanagimachi's team published work in Nature on cloning mice from adult cells. Yanagimachi named the new cloning technique they had created to do this to work the "Honolulu technique". The first mouse born was named Cumulina, after the cumulus cells whose nuclei were used to clone her. At the time of the publication of this work, over fifty mice spanning three generations had been produced through this technique. This was accomplished by an international team of scientists, including co-authors Teruhiko Wakayama, Tony Perry, Maurizio Zuccotti and K.R. Johnson.

The Yanagimachi laboratory moved from the warehouse which had housed it for over thirty years into the newly created Institute for Biogenesis Research in the Biomedical Sciences Tower of the John A. Burns School of Medicine. Money and renown from the opportunities opened up by the Nature article made the institute possible.

The Yanagimachi laboratory and his former associates continued to make advances in cloning. The first male animal cloned from adult cells was announced in 1999. In 2004 the laboratory participated in the cloning of an infertile male mouse. This advance may be used to produce many infertile animals for use in research on human infertility.

Mice cloned by the Honolulu technique were displayed at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois.

Major work before and after 1960
As a graduate student of Hokkaido University in Japan, Yanagimachi studied fish (herring) fertilization and the sexual organization of rhizocephalans (parasitic barnacles). In fish, he discovered calcium-dependent, chemotactic movement of spermatozoa into the micropyle through which the fertilizing spermatozoon enters the egg. This was the first discovery of sperm chemotaxis in vertebrate animals. In rhizocephala, he found that adults are not hermaphroditic as generally thought, but bisexual. The so-called "testis" in an adult animal is a receptacle of cells from larval males. This discovery revolutionized biological studies of rhizocephalans and related animals.

While he was at the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research as Dr. M.C. Chang's postdoctoral fellow (1960-1964), he witnessed and recorded the entire process of sperm penetration through the zona pellucida and fusion with the egg proper in a living (hamster) egg, which was the first in mammals. He was one of few who began to study the process and mechanisms of mammalian fertilization using in vitro fertilization technique.

Throughout his career he has made numerous, fundamental contributions to our understanding of mammalian fertilization and to the development of assisted fertilization technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) which are widely used today in human infertility clinics throughout the world. His comprehensive review of the basic biology of "Mammalian Fertilization" published in 1994 (In: Physiology of Reproduction, Knobil & Neill eds, Ravan Press) is classic.

Yanagimachi himself considered "cloned mice" to be byproducts of fertilization study and that the production of cloned animals in various species triggered/accelerated the research on the genomic reprogramming of adult somatic (body) cell nuclei as well as the production of pluripotent stem cells from adult cells for therapeutic purposes. He retired in 2005, but continued working on natural and assisted reproduction.

In 2014, he had an interview with The Prism in which he was quoted saying: "Unlike people, nature never lies."

Awards and honors

 * Fulbright Scholarship, US-Japan, 1960 and 1964
 * Lalor Foundation Scholarship, US, 1964–1966.
 * Zoological Society Prize, Japan, 1977
 * Research Award, Society for Study of Reproduction, US, 1982
 * University of Hawaii Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research, US, 1988
 * Recognition Award, Serono Symposia, US, 1989
 * Marshall Medal, Society for the Study of Fertility, UK,1994
 * International Prize for Biology, Japan, 1996
 * Honorable Degree of Philosophy from the University of Rome, Italy, 1997
 * Distinguished Andrologist Award, American Society of Andrology, US, 1998
 * Induction to the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, 1998
 * Carl G. Hartman Award, Society for the Study of Reproduction, US, 1999
 * Honorable Degree of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Italy, 1999
 * Honorary Member, European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, 1999
 * Pioneer Award, International Embryo Transfer Society, 2000
 * Induction to the National Academy of Sciences, US, 2001
 * Honorable Degree of Philosophy, Hokkaido University, Japan, 2002
 * Induction to Hall of Honor, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, US, 2003
 * Donald Henry Barron Lecture, University of Florida, US, 2003
 * Pioneer Award in Reproduction Research, US, 2012
 * Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of Reproductive Biologists and Technologists, US, 2014
 * Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, Japan, 2023

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Motovun Film Festival

The Motovun Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 1999 and held in the small town of Motovun, Croatia until 2023, when it moved to a new location, Petehovac in Gorski Kotar. It usually takes place over five or six days in late July or early August.

Overview
Motovun Film Festival is entirely dedicated to films made in small studios and independent film productions. Founded by film director Rajko Grlić and producer Boris T. Matić, it was first organized in the late 1990s to fill the gap in cinema repertoire as there were almost no non-Hollywood films in wide distribution in Croatia at the time. Every year, the festival program consists of around 70 titles from all over the world, from documentaries to feature films, short and feature-length films, from guerrilla-made films to co-productions.

Over time the festival has become widely popular, especially among young people both locally and abroad. Every year during the festival, a camp for visitors is organized next to the festival site. The festivalgoers' camp has become one of the hallmarks of the festival. In January 2007, the British newspaper The Guardian described the festival as "a cross between Glastonbury and Sundance." It is often referred to as "a Woodstock of film festivals".

The festival also grew in status on the festival circuit. From an event that was once considered a "backpacker's film festival," by 2007 it was recognized as one of the two most important film festivals held on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, along with the Sarajevo Film Festival.

The 2011 festival, which was supposed to be its 13th edition, was re-numbered by organizers as the 14th, in order to skip the unlucky number 13. The skipped year was maintained in all later festival editions, so the 2022 festival, the last one held exclusively in Motovun (the 24th edition) was officially designated as the "25th Motovun Film Festival".

In 2023 it was announced that the festival would move to Petehovac in Gorski Kotar. That year the festival was held in both locations.

Awards
The main award at the festival is called Propeler Motovuna (The Propeller of Motovun, inspired by the prominent wind turbines located near Motovun).

Other awards at the festival are the Motovun Online award for best short film, the odAdoA (From 'A' to 'A') award for best film in the regional competition (the name of the award is short for From Austria to Albania, roughly describing the region covered), and the film critics' FIPRESCI Award.

In 2008, the Motovun Maverick Award was introduced, given to notable filmmakers for lifetime achievement. Its first recipient was Ken Russell. In 2013, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and The Gardener were given the award.

Notable guests
People who visited the festival include:
 * Dušan Makavejev
 * Stephen Daldry
 * Paul Thomas Anderson
 * Ken Russell
 * Vanessa Redgrave
 * Amanda Plummer
 * Mira Furlan
 * Milena Dravić
 * Jason Biggs
 * Jamie Bell

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User:Airodyssey

AirOdyssey is a male Wikipedian in his early 40s. He lives in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.

WikiBio
AirOdyssey was born in Peru in 1982 and moved to Canada with his family in 1989. Ever since his first trip on an airplane or nearly so, he has been fascinated by aviation. In the short term, he is not considering to work in that field, but his passion for this hobby is still very strong.

In 2003, he completed an undergraduate university degree (Bachelor of Arts) at the UQAM in journalism, with a specialization in German language and culture, part of it which was obtained in Berlin. He then completed an undergraduate degree in translation and now works in that field.

WikiInterests

 * correct, wikify, reorganize pages about banks and payment systems
 * watch movies (especially air disaster films)
 * find out more about languages and the origin of words
 * read about LGBT issues
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 * travel to Europe and beyond

WikiContributions
This is a list of articles or stubs that were created or extensively rewritten by this user. This list may not be complete!
 * Aviation: EnRoute (magazine), Flight information display system, IATA airline designator, in-flight safety demonstration, Lufthansa Flight 181, Pan Am Flight 830
 * Banking: Abby (interbank network), ACCEL/Exchange, Allpoint, bank statement, branch (banking), CO-OP Financial Services, Crédit Industriel et Commercial, demand account, Email Money Transfer, Groupement des Cartes Bancaires CB, mail banking, Otto., passbook, Redbanc, savings account, telephone banking, virtual bank
 * Entertainment and advertising: Falling from the Sky: Flight 174, Kate Beahan, Lara Phillips, Music in advertising, Silver Tree, The Aviary, VRAK.TV
 * Miscellaneous: Familiprix, Ortega

WikiTrips
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Eduardo Aguirre (diplomat)

Eduardo Aguirre Reyes, Jr. (born July 30, 1946) is a Cuban-born American diplomat, with Atlantic Partners, an international consulting firm based in Houston.

Until January 20, 2009, he was the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra, appointed by President George W. Bush, confirmed by the United States Senate on June 16, 2005, and sworn in on June 24, 2005. He presented his credentials to King Juan Carlos I of Spain on June 29, 2005.

Background
Aguirre was born in Cuba in 1946, and emigrated to the US in 1961 via Operation Peter Pan.

Aguirre holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana State University. He is a graduate of the American Bankers Association's National Commercial Lending Graduate School. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Connecticut, the University of Houston, and the Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago in the Dominican Republic.

Aguirre and his wife Tere each emigrated from Cuba as unaccompanied minors at the age of 15. They maintain their permanent home in Houston, where they have lived for three decades. The Aguirres have two grown children, Eddy and Tessie.

Career in banking
Aguirre joined the Department of Homeland Security from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), where he served as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer. From December 2001 to December 2002, he was Acting Chairman of this Federal Agency. Prior to joining the Bush administration, Aguirre was President of International Private Banking for Bank of America. He had worked for Bank of America for 24 years.

In Texas
In 1990, the Supreme Court of Texas appointed him to the State Bar as a non-attorney director. Aguirre has served on numerous professional and civic boards, including the Texas Children's Hospital, Texas Bar Foundation, Operación Pedro Pan Foundation, Bankers Association for Finance and Trade, and the Houston chapters of the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army.

Aguirre was appointed by then Governor George W. Bush to the Board of Regents of the University of Houston System for a six-year term, serving from 1996 to 1998 as chairman. Former President George H. W. Bush appointed him to the National Commission for Employment Policy.

Government service
Before his appointment as ambassador, Aguirre served, beginning February 7, 2003, as the first Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an Under Secretary rank position in the Department of Homeland Security. At USCIS, Mr. Aguirre led a team of 15,000 employees serving over 6 million annual applicants seeking immigration benefits.

Aguirre was the author of one of the first classified U.S. Dept. of State cables released by Wikileaks on Nov. 28, 2010, in which he described, among other issues, U.S. embassy efforts to derail the legal proceedings against U.S. soldiers accused of killing Spanish journalist José Couso.

Honors
Aguirre was bestowed the Order of Isabella the Catholic Gran Cruz by Spain, Order of José Matías Delgado—Grade of Grand Officer—by El Salvador, and the Order of Christopher Columbus—Grade of Grand Officer—by the Dominican Republic. The Daughters of the American Revolution awarded him their 2004 Americanism Medal.

Aguirre is a member of the Delta Sigma Pi fraternity and received the Delta Sigma Pi Career Achievement Award in 2000. He will receive his Order of the Golden Helmet for 50 years of service with Delta Sigma Pi in March 2019.

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User:Joe1011010

Hello to you. I hope to make a contribution to Wikipedia, but perhaps not a big one. My user name has been used in a number of Internet forums, and is a derivative of my childhood nickname.

I live in England, with interests in Science, Technology and Engineering.

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NACA cowling

The NACA cowling is a type of aerodynamic fairing used to streamline radial engines installed on airplanes. It was developed by Fred Weick of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1927. It was a major advance in aerodynamic drag reduction, and paid for its development and installation costs many times over due to the gains in fuel efficiency that it enabled.

History and design
The NACA cowling enhanced speed through drag reduction while delivering improved engine cooling.

The cowling consists of a symmetric, circular airfoil that is wrapped around the engine. In a normal planar airfoil, like a wing, the difference in airspeeds, and their associated changes in pressure, on the top and bottom surfaces, enhances lift. In the case of the NACA cowl, the ring-shaped airfoil is positioned so this lift effect is forward. This thrust does not fully counter the drag of the cowl but greatly mitigates it.

The difference in airspeed on the two sides is due not only to the shape of the airfoil, but also the presence of the cylinders on the inside surface, which serves to further slow the airflow. Nevertheless, the total airflow through the cowl is generally greater than it would be with no cowl as the air is sucked through the cowl by the air flowing around it. This has the side-effect of keeping the fast moving air primarily on the cylinder heads where it is most needed, as opposed to flowing between the cylinders and crankcase where it does little for cooling. Furthermore, turbulence after the air passes the free-standing cylinders is greatly reduced. The sum of all these effects reduces drag by as much as 60%. The test conclusions resulted in almost every radial-engined aircraft being equipped with this cowling, starting in 1932.

The test aircraft, a Curtiss AT-5A Hawk biplane, featuring a Wright Whirlwind J-5 radial engine, reached an airspeed of 137 mph equipped with the NACA cowling compared to 118 mph without it.

The idea that the NACA cowling produced thrust through the Meredith effect is fallacious—although in theory the expansion of the air as it was heated by the engine could create some thrust by exiting at high speed, in practice this required a cowling designed and shaped to achieve the high-speed exit of air required (which the NACA cowling was not), and in any case, at 1930s airspeeds, the effect was negligible.

Other source

 * Aeronautic exhibit in Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

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Bradford Moor

Bradford Moor is an electoral ward within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council. The population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 21,210. The ward includes the areas of Laisterdyke and Thornbury.

History
Bradford Moor Barracks were located at the corner of Leeds Old Road and Killinghall Road.

Geography
The ward covers the areas of Bradford known as Bradford Moor, Laisterdyke and Thornbury. It is bordered on the west by Barkerend and the south by Bowling (both part of the same ward); on the north side is Eccleshill ward and on the east is the Pudsey area of Leeds. The direct route between the centres of Bradford and Leeds passes through the middle of the ward as Leeds Old Road (B6381).

Bradford Moor was originally a moor, as the name suggests. Despite being near the centre of Bradford, it was urbanised relatively late in the city's history, but is now inner-city in character.

Councillors
The ward is represented on Bradford Council by two Labour Party councillors, Mohammed Shafiq and Zafar Iqbal, and one Liberal Democrat councillor, Riaz Ahmed.

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David Cardoza

David Cardoza is a former chairman and director of Northampton Town Football Club. In 2005 Cardoza had instigated plans to expand Sixfields Stadium, which will enable the capacity to double. He is the successor to Andrew Ellis and Ken Good as Chairman.

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R33-class airship

The R.33 class of British rigid airships were built for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War, but were not completed until after the end of hostilities, by which time the RNAS had become part of the Royal Air Force. The lead ship, R.33, served successfully for ten years and survived one of the most alarming and heroic incidents in airship history when she was torn from her mooring mast in a gale. She was called a "Pulham Pig" by the locals, as the blimps based there had been, and is immortalised in the village sign for Pulham St Mary. The only other airship in the class, R.34, became the first aircraft to make an east to west transatlantic flight in July 1919 and, with the return flight, made the first two-way crossing. It was decommissioned two years later, after being damaged during a storm. The crew nicknamed her "Tiny".

Design and development
Substantially larger than the preceding R31 class, the R.33 class was in the design stage in 1916 when the German Zeppelin LZ 76 (L 33) was brought down on English soil. Despite the efforts of the crew to set it on fire, it was captured nearly intact, with engines in working order. For five months, the LZ 76 was carefully examined in order to discover the Germans' secrets.

The existing design was adapted to produce a new airship based on the German craft and two examples were ordered, one (R.33) to be constructed by Armstrong-Whitworth at Barlow, North Yorkshire, and the other (R.34) by William Beardmore and Company in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Assembly began in 1918. The R.33 class was semi-streamlined fore and aft, the middle section being straight-sided. The control car was well forward on the ship, with the aft section containing an engine in a separate structure to stop vibrations affecting the sensitive radio direction finding and communication equipment. The small gap was faired over, so the gondola seemed to be a single structure. It was powered by five 275 hp Sunbeam Maori engines, with one in the aft section of the control car, two more in a pair of power cars amidships each driving a pusher propeller via a reversing gearbox for manoeuvering while mooring, and the remaining two in a centrally mounted aft car, geared together to drive a single pusher propeller.

R.33

R.33 first flew on 6 March 1919, and was sent to RAF Pulham in Norfolk. Between then and 14 October, R.33 made 23 flights totalling 337 hours flying time. One of these, a flight promoting "Victory Bonds" even included a brass band playing in the top machine gun post.

The R.33 was "demilitarised" in 1920 and given over to civilian work with the civil registration G-FAAG. This work consisted of trials of new mast mooring techniques using the mast erected at Pulham. On one occasion winds of 80 mph were successfully withstood while moored. Another experiment was an ascent carrying a pilotless Sopwith Camel which was successfully launched over the Yorkshire Moors. After an overhaul, R33 was based at Croydon Airport, moored to a portable mast. In June 1921 it was used by the Metropolitan Police to observe traffic at The Derby, and in July she appeared in the Hendon Air Pageant before flying to Cardington, Bedfordshire, where she was laid up for three years.

On 31 May 1921 the British government cancelled all airship development for financial reasons. Military airships were scrapped, but as a civilian airship R.33 was mothballed instead. In 1925, after being inactive for nearly four years, the reconditioned R.33 emerged from her shed at Cardington.

At 09:50 on 16 April 1925 the R.33 was torn from the mast at Pulham during a gale and was carried away with only a partial crew of 20 men on board. Her nose partially collapsed and the first gas cell deflated leaving her low in the bow. The crew on board started the engines, gaining some height, and rigged a cover for the bow section, but the R.33 was blown out over the North Sea. A Royal Navy vessel was readied and left the nearby port of Lowestoft in case the R.33 came down in the sea. The local lifeboat was launched, but was driven back by the weather conditions.

Some five hours after the initial break from the mast, R.33 was under control but still being blown towards the Continent. As she approached the Dutch coast R.33 was given the option of landing at De Kooy, where a party of 300 men was standing by. Late in the evening R.33 was able to hold her position over the Dutch coast, hovering there until 5 o'clock the next morning. She was then able to slowly make her way back home, arriving at the Suffolk coast eight hours later and reaching Pulham at 13:50 hrs, where she was put into the shed alongside the R.36.

For their actions the airship's first officer, who had been in command, Lieutenant Ralph Booth was awarded the Air Force Cross, the coxswain, Flight-Sergeant "Sky" Hunt, was awarded the Air Force Medal, four other crew members were awarded the British Empire Medal and the other crew members were presented with inscribed watches.

In October 1925, following repairs, she was used for experiments to provide data for the construction of the R101 airship. Once these were finished, in mid-October, she was used for trials launching a parasite fighter, using a DH 53 Hummingbird light aircraft. After some near misses, a successful launch and recapture was achieved in December of that year. In 1926, she launched a pair of Gloster Grebes weighing about a ton apiece, the first of which was flown by Flying Officer Campbell MacKenzie-Richards. She was then retired to the shed at Pulham where she remained until finally being scrapped in 1928, after severe metal fatigue was found in her frame. The forward portion of R.33's control car is currently on display at the RAF Museum at Hendon.

R.34
R.34 made her first flight on 14 March 1919 and was delivered to her service base at RAF East Fortune near Edinburgh on 29 May after a 21-hour flight from Inchinnan. R.34 had set out the previous evening, but thick fog made navigation difficult, and after spending the night over the North Sea the airship was unable to moor in the morning due to fog. After cruising as far south as Yorkshire R.34 returned to East Fortune to dock at about 3 p.m. The airship made her first endurance trip of 56 hours over the Baltic from 17 to 20 June.

It was then decided to attempt the first return Atlantic crossing, under the command of Major George Scott. R.34 had never been intended as a passenger carrier and extra accommodation was arranged by slinging hammocks for the crew along the keel walkway. A metal plate was welded to an engine exhaust pipe to allow for the preparation of hot food.

The crew included Brigadier-General Edward Maitland and Zachary Lansdowne as the representative of the US Navy. William Ballantyne, one of the crew members scheduled to stay behind to save weight, stowed away with the crew's mascot, a small tabby kitten called "Wopsie"; they emerged at 2.00 p.m. on the first day, too late to be dropped off.

R.34 left East Fortune, Scotland, on 2 July 1919 and arrived at Mineola, Long Island, United States, on 6 July after a flight of 108 hours, with only a few gallons of fuel remaining. As the landing party had no experience of handling large rigid airships, Major E. M. Pritchard jumped by parachute and so became the first person to reach American soil by air from Europe. This was the first East-West aerial crossing of the Atlantic and was achieved weeks after the first transatlantic aeroplane flight by British aviators Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown in a modified First World War Vickers Vimy. The return journey to RNAS Pulham took place from 10 to 13 July and took 75 hours. Returned to East Fortune for a refit, R.34 then flew to Howden, East Yorkshire, for crew training.

On 27 January 1921 R.34 set off on what should have been a routine exercise. Over the North Sea the weather worsened and a recall signal sent by radio was not received. Following a navigational error the craft flew into a hillside on the North Yorkshire Moors during the night, and the ship lost two propellers. She went back out to sea using the two remaining engines and in daylight followed the Humber Estuary back to Howden. Strong winds made it impossible to get her back into the shed, and she was tied down outside for the night. By the morning further damage had occurred and R.34 was written off and scrapped.

Operators

 * Royal Navy (to 1918)
 * Royal Air Force (from 1918)

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Was it really 1997? In my local notes I had 1998 - it may be that my notes are wrong, but either way, a direct link to the scientific paper would be useful here; presently there is no link for that, except to the honolulu page on wikipedia where I also had difficulties finding the exact year. 2A02:8388:1643:D680:A2AE:5A8A:4BF3:8401 (talk) 20:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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Roshek's

Roshek Brothers Department Store was a large retail store in downtown Dubuque, Iowa. The company was founded by J.J.and F.H. Roshek. In its prime, Roshek's was the primary shopping destination in Dubuque and was the largest department store in the state of Iowa. The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History
Roshek's operated for more than 40 years in a 9-story building at 700 Locust Street in Dubuque. The building was built in two halves beginning in August 1929. Originally the whole building was to be finished within a year, but as of the fall of 1931, only the north half was finished. Wholly completed in 1932, the building is a block long and half a block wide and is the tallest building in Dubuque. It replaced two four-story buildings, the former Rider-Wallis dry goods building, located on the south half of the same block (demolished to complete this building), and a smaller four-story Roshek building across the alley immediately east, which was located on the southwest corner of Eighth and Main streets, which was later occupied by Montgomery Ward. The building's architect was Charles Wheeler Nicol (1888-1953), a noted regional designer of major hotels and school buildings. This was and remains the state's largest building to be used as a department store.

Other department stores were also located downtown. In the 1960s, prior to the construction of Kennedy Mall, Stampfer's was on the northeast corner of Eighth and Main streets. J.C. Penney was on the west side of Main Street, just north of Stampfer's.

In the 1960s Roshek's decided to move their operations to smaller quarters at Kennedy Mall, a regional shopping center on the western edge of the city. Roshek's became one of the mall's anchor tenants, along with Montgomery Ward and Younkers, a Des Moines department store which made its first appearance in Dubuque when the mall was built. The new Roshek's store opened in 1970. The Roshek family subsequently sold the store to Gamble-Skogmo, Inc. The store closed in 1982. Today what was originally Roshek's space in the mall was occupied by two other department stores, Sears and Younkers.

After Roshek's moved from downtown, the former department store was converted into an office building. For most of the time since conversion, it has been known as the Dubuque Building, except for a period of several years when it was called CyCare Plaza. Now it is called the Roshek Building.

On January 15, 2009, IBM announced that it will move into the building, creating a new technology service center with 1,300 employees after improving the building to make it a LEED-certified building The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 17, 2010.

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