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 * The writer/social anthropologist Madawi Al Rasheed writes that they had to leave Saudi Arabia after 1975..as her fathers sisters son Prince Faisal bin Musad had assassinated his paternal uncel, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Nothing is mentioned about the Rashidi connection on the Prince Faisal bin Musad page, perhaps it should be? I am presently reading the book by Madawi Al Rasheed, does anybody else have a knowledge/opinion about it? -Look at the Rashidi page and discussion site for ref. Huldra 00:55, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I changed the inf. about prince Khalid beeing shot during demonstrations; according to his maternal relatives he was shot by the police in his own home. -Huldra

The Celebration of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) Birthday
This article states: "where King Faisal was holding a celebration for the birthday of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam"

This claim needs backing up, the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet (PBUH) is agreed to be an innovation according to Sunni doctrine, so how could King Faisal (the ruler of Saudi Arabia) be celebrating it?

It is not a claim. It is a fact. He was at the blessed Mawlid. On another note, it is a lie that 'according to Sunni doctrine' 'it is agreed' to be an innovation. Because Sunni doctrine is Ash'ari and Maturidi, and not the salafi/wahabi doctrine practiced in state in Saudi Arabia. King Faisal was not a wahabi/salafi. Sunnis are those who follow the four schools of jurisprudence and have the Ash'ari and Maturidi 'Aqida. Lets see how many Sunni scholars do celebrate and attend the celebration of the blessed birth of our Master salAllaho 'alayhi wa alihi wa salam around the world

Shaykh Sh'arawi rahimahuAlla Shaykh RamaDan al-Bouti Shaykh 'Alawi al-Maliki rahimahuAllah Shaykh 'AbdAllah al-Kadi al-Ahsai Shaykh Habib 'Umar bin Hafiz Shaykh Abdul Ghaffar al-Shareef of Kuwait Shaykh Adib Kallas of Damascus, including almost all of the Sunni 'ulama of Damascus including Shaykh Ahmad Kuftaro and Shaykh Muhammad Sukkar, both of whom passed away recently The Mufti and 90% of the Awqaf 'ulama of Lebanon except the salafiyya Shaykh 'Ali Jum'a Mufti of Egypt and pretty much all of the scholars of Ahl al-Sunna in Egypt Shaykh Fad'aq al-Hashimi al-Makki and the Habaib of Makkah

Celebration of Mawlid al-Nabi is a national holiday, and a great day of happiness in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Maldives, Sudan, Mauritania, Morocco.

The King of Morocco himself attends Mawlid including all the Sunni Shuyukh of Morocco and Libya.

Turkey has 100,000 Mawlids in Rabi'ulawwal. The Mufti and Awqaf of Turkey, including all the Sunni scholars attend Mawlids. There is no wahabi there.

Mawlid is the national holiday in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, where more than 90% of the population and Sunni scholars celebrate it.

The list goes on "In Nigeria, Mawlids are 3 million strong" usually. I mean that big gatherings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.174.228 (talk) 01:06, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

I realized that, but the New York Times articles from the 1970s that I consulted to write this article said that he was celebrating the Prophet's Birthday, I dont know what else to make of it DigiBullet 11:38, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I concur, religious innovations such as celebrating a Prophet's birthday is typically forbidden in Saudi Arabia. The simplest explanation would be that the NYT writer didn't know this, after all, they didn't have Wikipedia. :) However, according to Wikipedia, Sunni's believe Prophet Mohammed was born on 12th of Rabi'-ul-Awwal, which happens to be the 25th of March in 1975 (with a small probability of error). It's possible they had the Prophet's birthday in mind, or it was just coincidental that a town-hall meeting was held on the same day, but as far as I know celebrations are never thrown. But kind of a moot point now, since that bit has been removed.--Fshafique (talk) 01:44, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Apparently, Wikipedia already has an article on this celebration: Eid-e-Milad. And rightly enough Saudi Arabia does not support it, and its religious establishment forbids it.

I suggest that people check out www.alhabibali.org to see what kind of bid'a Mawlid al-Sharif our Habeeb salAllaho alayhi wa alihi wa salam is. Also check out the website of Shaykh Abdul Ghaffar al-Shareef of Kuwait. He is among the head of the Awqaf there. A major Sunni scholar. He has all your queries answered in fatawa as he is an authorized Sunni Mufti. mashaAllah —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.174.228 (talk) 01:09, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Allowance
...his $3500 monthly allowance (%15,400/week in 2014 dollars, $800,000/year),... Doesn't make sense and I'm not sure how to fix it. $800,000 ÷ 12 = $66,667 and $15,400 X 52 would come to $800,800, so the % is probably a typo of the key next to $ (which I corrected in the middle of editing this comment). Using the inflation calculator at: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ $3500 in 1975 would be equivalent to just over $15,400 in 2014, favoring $3500 as the weekly rather than the monthly 1975 allowance. The fact that ($3500 ÷ 7) X 30 = $15,000 is probably just a coincidence. ☺ Dick Kimball (talk) 12:27, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

What is his date of birth - 1944 or 1947? Both appear here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.172.214.133 (talk) 14:07, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Asa Fitch (politician)

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Ivory Crockett

Ivory Crockett (born August 24, 1948) is a retired American sprinter who, for a time, was "the world's fastest man" when he broke the world record for the 100-yard dash in 1974.

Career
Crockett was born in Halls, Tennessee, where his father was a sharecropper. His family moved to Missouri when Crockett was a young boy.

Crockett was a track star from his time at high school in Webster Groves in St. Louis County, Missouri. In 1968 as a senior he ran the second fastest time that year by a high-school student. He was recruited to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, where he competed successfully on their track team, including becoming twice USA champion in the 100 yards sprint, in 1969 and 1970.

In 1974, he ran the fastest 100-yard dash with manual timing of 9.0 seconds, a record he still holds. This was deemed at the time by the Los Angeles Times as "Immortality in 9 Seconds Flat", and he was quickly tagged with the title the world's fastest man by Track and Field News who put him on their June 1974 cover.

Crockett never ran in the Olympics for the USA having been eliminated at the semi-final stage of the 1972 USA Olympics trials and the quarter-finals of the 1976 trials.

After college, he moved back to Webster Groves where he had attended Brentwood and Webster Groves High School. His local community recognised his achievements by naming a park in his honour, 'Ivory Crockett Park'. As a gift to his local community, Crockett started in 2004 'The Ivory Crockett Run "4" Webster', a fun walk/run.

Some people questioned his winning of his national titles because rivals were missing, and demeaned the legitimacy of his world record. This rankled because he was married and had had to battle financial tough times to keep on running.

Crockett became an administrator and director of business development for the College of Nursing at Forest Park Hospital in St Louis, Missouri.

World rankings
Crockett was voted to be ranked among the best in the US and the world in the 100 m sprint event in the period from 1969 to 1974, according to Track and Field News. He was also voted to be ranked 10th in the US and 4th in the world in the 200 m sprint in 1973.

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I have tried to further rewrite the Borsalino article at Borsalino/Temp so that it is not breaching any copyright problems. Yes, the original submission still followed the original source too closely. I am working on that. I have reduced the article to the bare facts in more of my own wording. I should have done that before submission, but I intended to work with it more later. SF2K1 00:57, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Seminumerical 12:35, 25 October 2005 (UTC) Lapin fur? what is a Lapin? Lapin is french for rabbit, is that what was meant or is it some other creature?
 * Yes. The borsalino hats were founded through "Lapin", aka Rabbit, fur. They later expanded their top of the line hats to utilize beavers (I have no idea why yet), leaving rabbit as the "standard" and felt or faux fur for the cheap hats. SF2K1

The article in English appears to be a machine translation from another language (Italian?). "Employments" for example instead of "employees". Whole sentences are incomprehensible presumably because the wrong words have been used in the translation.Milesnfowler (talk) 12:50, 9 June 2022 (UTC) -

I don't know if linking to a page containing information about the new Borsalino hats is considered advertisement, so I didn't place the link in the article page. The link is http://www.newmax.it/Borsalino/index-borsa.htm --phauly 08:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

"the company tries to keep all the charm and class from last century's fashion." This reads like an advertisement rather than an encyclopedia entry. Seems like it should be rephrased for NPOV. Agathman (talk) 23:21, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Jews
Jewish Lubavitcher sectarians wear the Borsalino hats in black color, which started after their Rebbe Menachem Shneerson abolished wearing of Hasidic hats, shtreimels, etc. --Autismal (talk) 03:54, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Well actually it's more of the black hat of choice for the black hat wearing Jews which is not just Chabad, also all of the Litvaks, and Heimish Jews as well.Saxophonemn (talk) 06:38, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

- This word is used in the 4th paragraph of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell My Lovely", which caused me to look it up here.

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I was wondering if you could look over User: Instantiayion, he was also banned as a Billy Ego sock-puppet, I was having a debate with him over in Talk:Planned economy that I'm pretty sure was about to be resolved until the sudden ban.

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 * He is and he is. If you wish I can go into detail; suffice to say he advocates a position that would be the destruction of liberty under the guise of serving its cause. If the government of the United States had done as he wished in 1860-61, it would have been the end of republican government in the world. That's nut covered. As for ideologue, ideology permeates everything he writes; he starts with his conclusion in mind and then goes hunting for evidence rather than the other way around. That is not how you perform academic inquiry. Rogue 9 (talk) 02:41, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
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 * Don't worry too much about it, Rogue 9. It's a very common misconception for people to have with regards to BLP, in that it applies to all pages on Wikipedia, and not just articles. From now on, make sure to reign in your opinions about people and avoid making any statements that could be perceived as slanderous. I'm confident you've learned from this and will not make that mistake again. =) Kurtis (talk) 04:58, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * My thanks. I certainly have. The whole thing strikes me as a bit paranoid (people say what I wrote and far worse without being brought to trial for slander), but I'm happy to follow the server rules. Rogue 9 (talk) 15:37, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

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Capitalist Wikipedians
Could you please remove this red category from your user page? It interferes with the management of the category system.Rathfelder (talk) 19:15, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

 * I have instituted what seems to be the current mutually acceptable workaround. Sorry for any trouble. Rogue 9 (talk) 20:59, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

neutrality
"Speaking of truth, the truth isn't neutral either. Articles should be as neutrally toned as possible, but frankly to take a neutral stance on some things (the Holocaust, for instance) is morally reprehensible in itself. In the interests of academic tone we need not spend an entire article condemning such subjects, but we should neither offer justifications in the article, as absolute neutrality requires we must. I will not be party to justifying Stalin, Pol Pot, or any others of their ilk in the name of being neutral."

That's not really what the neutrality policy says, is it? Benjamin (talk) 09:49, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

 * Geez, I forget what I said that on, though at a guess probably in response to a neo-Confederate attempting to whitewash the Confederacy by using the neutrality policy to suppress the role of slavery in the Civil War, which frequently happens. So no, it doesn't actually say that, but people trying to hide an odious agenda prefer to pretend it does.  Rogue 9 (talk) 03:38, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

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IP Blocked?

 * The instructions for using this template do not say to give the IP. 216.49.117.37.  Rogue 9 (talk) 21:47, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

My IP range seems to be blocked from editing for reasons unknown to me. I am attempting to make a grammatical correction to Third Enforcement Act. Rogue 9 (talk) 03:07, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , Are you using a VPN? Or proxy or Tor browser? If so, those will need to be turned off, your cache cleared, and within 24 hours you should be able to edit again. CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 04:00, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * No, I am not. I'm on Firefox on my unmodified Internet connection through my local ISP.  Rogue 9 (talk) 21:45, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The problem seems to have resolved itself. I made no changes to my browser since last night, but whatever, I'll take it.  Rogue 9 (talk) 21:49, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Your status in WikiProject Inclusion
Hello, Rogue 9. WikiProject Inclusion is believed to be inactive. It looks like you sympathize with inclusionism, but do not take an active role in this project. Thus, I will move you to the list of inactive participants after a month. Feel free to move back to the list of active participants when you are ready to contribute. 84.120.7.178 (talk) 09:50, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
 * And you are, Mr. IP? Rogue 9 (talk) 20:56, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

 * I am 84.120.7.178, de facto maintainer of this WikiProject. 84.120.7.178 (talk) 10:05, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * No you aren't. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Inclusion. --Guy Macon (talk) 04:20, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Userboxes
Hello, Rogue 9. Having in mind that you created User:Rogue 9/Userboxes/CSA denied (as well as File:Confederate Third National Flag - Cancelled.png, which I took the liberty to use), maybe you will be interested to display userboxes that I recently created; you may see them at Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/New Userboxes. —Sundostund (talk) 21:08, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

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Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is located about 100 km southeast of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, or 44 km east of the community of Milk River, and straddles the Milk River itself. It is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature preserve and protection for many First Nations (indigenous) rock carvings and paintings. The park is sacred to the Blackfoot and many other aboriginal tribes.

On July 6, 2019, Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its UNESCO application was filed under the name Áísínaiʼpi / ᖰᓱᖸᑯ, a Blackfoot language word meaning "it is pictured / written". The provincial park is synonymous with the  Áísínaiʼpi National Historic Site.

Resources
Writing-on-Stone Park contains the greatest concentration of rock art on the North American Great Plains. There are over 50 petroglyph sites and thousands of works. The park also showcases a North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) outpost reconstructed on its original site. The original outpost was burned down by persons unknown after it was closed in 1918.

The park features a visitor centre, campgrounds, picnic areas, group-use areas, and hiking trails, as well as canoeing and kayaking on the Milk River.

Flora and fauna
The park comprises 17.80 km2 of coulee and prairie habitat, and is home to a diverse variety of plants and animals.

Bird species include prairie falcons, great horned owls, short-eared owls, American kestrels, and cliff swallows, as well as introduced ring-necked pheasants and grey partridges.

The prairie surrounding the park is good habitat for pronghorn antelopes. Other animals found in the park area include mule deer, northern pocket gophers, skunks, raccoons, yellow-bellied marmots, and bobcats. Tiger salamanders, boreal chorus frogs, leopard frogs, and plains spadefoot toads represent the amphibians. Reptiles include garter snakes, bull snakes, and prairie rattlesnakes.

The coulee environment is optimal for balsam poplars and narrow leaf cottonwoods. There are also peachleaf willows and plains cottonwoods in the park. Shrubs include chokecherry, juniper, saskatoon, sandbar willow, and two varieties of wild rose. Some of the northernmost species of cactus, including Opuntia (prickly pear) and Pediocactus (pincushion), are found in the park as well.

Geologic setting
The sandstone outcrops in the park belong to the Milk River Formation, which was deposited along the edge of a large inland sea about 84 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous epoch. Meltwater from the retreating glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age carved the present Milk River valley, and water, ice and wind eroded the sandstone to produce the hoodoos and cliffs that are part of the park today.

History
There is evidence that the Milk River Valley was inhabited by First Nations people as long ago as 9000 years. First Nations tribes such as the Blackfoot probably created many of the rock carvings (petroglyphs) and paintings (pictographs). Other First Nations groups such as the Shoshone also travelled through the valley and may have also created some of the art. These carvings and paintings tell of the lives and journeys of those who created them, and of the spirits they found here. The towering cliffs and hoodoos had a powerful impact on the native visitors, who believed these were the homes of powerful spirits. The shelter of the coulees and the abundance of game and berries made the area that is now the park an excellent location for these nomadic people to stop on their seasonal migrations. While the greatest use of the area was made by those in transit, there is some evidence, including tipi rings and a medicine wheel, that there was some permanent settlement here.

Beginning around the year 1730, large numbers of horses, metal goods, and guns began to appear on the western plains. This signified not only a change in the First Nations lifestyle, but a change in the content of the rock art. Pictures of hunters on horseback, and warriors without body shields began to emerge during this time period.

In 1887 a North-West Mounted Police (the precursor to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) camp was set up at Writing-on-Stone to attempt to curtail cross-border whisky smuggling, which was devastating the native population, and to put a stop to First Nations horse-raiding parties. But neither problem ever became serious at this outpost, and the NWMP spent most of their time fighting summer grass fires, herding stray American cattle back across the border, and riding hundreds of uneventful kilometres on border patrol. In the period immediately preceding World War I, settlers began to arrive in the area, which helped to alleviate some of the boredom and isolation the NWMP officers faced. In 1918, the outpost was closed, as Canadian authorities felt little possibility of criminal activity along the border, and shortly thereafter, the outpost fell victim to arson by persons unknown.

The park was created in 1957 and was designated an archaeological preserve in 1977. As part of the NWMP centennial celebrations, the outpost was reconstructed between 1973 and 1975, and is now one of the attractions in the park. Archaeologists from the Alberta Provincial Parks Department surveyed and catalogued numerous petroglyph and pictograph sites within the park in 1973. In 1981, a portion of the park was named a Provincial Historic Resource to protect this rock art from increasing impact from vandalism and graffiti. The most sensitive areas are now set aside in areas designated for guided tours only. In 1977, the park preserved the archaeology of the pictographs and petroglyphs. This protection makes the park one of the largest concentrations of rock art in the North American Plains. In 2004 Parks Canada added the park to Canada's tentative list of possible world heritage sites. The application indicated that the Blackfoot people would also like the Sweet Grass Hills of Montana included as part of the world heritage site. In March 2005, the park was designated a National Historic Site. On June 20, 2007, the park's new visitor centre, with views of the valley from the north rim, was officially opened.

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Vending Times

Vending Times is one of the most popular trade magazines for the U.S. vending industry. It attempts to cover the entire vending industry, addressing the business, legal, legislative and regulatory concerns of companies providing industrial, institutional and public vending, refreshment, feeding and recreational services. These companies include operators of food, beverage and other merchandise vending equipment as well as manual foodservice; office beverage and snack delivery systems; and music and amusement equipment and services.

The headquarters of Vending Times is in Rockville Centre, New York.

History
Vending Times was founded in 1961 to serve the coin-op industry. It broadened its scope to encompass full-line vending, soft-drink bottling, and operators of street cigarette, candy and jukebox routes. It continued to broaden its scope, including bulk vending, office coffee service, and mobile catering. Circa 1971, Vending Times acquired Vend, a publication launched in 1946. Today, the magazine has more than 16,000 subscribers. The magazine's average page count is about 150 pages.

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The Short-Timers

The Short-Timers is a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by U.S. Marine Corps veteran Gustav Hasford, about his experience in the Vietnam War. Hasford served as a combat correspondent with the 1st Marine Division during the Tet Offensive of 1968. As a military journalist, he wrote stories for Leatherneck Magazine, Pacific Stars and Stripes, and Sea Tiger. The novel was adapted into the film Full Metal Jacket (1987), co-scripted by Hasford, Michael Herr, and Stanley Kubrick.

In 1990, Hasford published the sequel The Phantom Blooper: A Novel of Vietnam. The two books were supposed to be part of a "Vietnam Trilogy", but Hasford died before writing the third installment.

Plot summary
The book is divided into three sections, written in completely different styles of prose, and follows James T. "Joker" Davis through his enlistment in the United States Marine Corps and deployment to Vietnam.

Joker and his fellow Marines refer to military personnel in various ways. A "short" service-member, or "short-timer", is one who is approaching the end of his tour of duty in Vietnam, described in the novel as 385 days for Marines and 365 days for members of other armed services. "Lifers" are distinguished not necessarily by their length of time served, but rather by their attitude toward the lower ranks. (Joker describes the distinction as follows: "A lifer is anybody who abuses authority he doesn't deserve to have. There are plenty of civilian lifers.") Finally, the term "poges" (an alternative spelling for the slang term "pogues") is short for "Persons Other than Grunts"—Marines who fill non-combat roles such as cooks, clerks, and mechanics. Poges are a favorite target of the front-line troops' derision, and vice versa.

"The Spirit of the Bayonet"
During Joker's days in recruit training at Parris Island, a drill instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Gerheim, sadistically breaks the men's spirits and then rebuilds them as heartless killers. Here, Joker befriends two recruits nicknamed "Cowboy" and "Gomer Pyle". The latter, whose real name is Leonard Pratt, earns the wrath of both Gerheim and the rest of the platoon through his ineptitude and weak character. Though he eventually shows great improvement and wins honors at graduation, the constant abuse unbalances his mind. In a final act of madness, he kills Gerheim and then himself in front of the whole platoon.

"Body Count"
In 1968, during a tour of duty in Vietnam, Joker runs across Cowboy in Da Nang. The two are now, respectively, a war correspondent for the Marines and the assistant leader of the Lusthog Squad. As the Tet Offensive begins, Joker is dispatched to Phu Bai with his photographer, Rafter Man. Here, Joker unwillingly accepts a promotion from corporal to sergeant, and the two journalists travel to Huế to cover the enemy's wartime atrocities and meet Cowboy again. During a battle, Joker is knocked unconscious by a concussion blast and experiences a psychedelic dream sequence. When he comes to several hours later, he learns that the platoon commander was killed by a friendly grenade, and the squad leader went insane and was killed by North Vietnamese Army troops while attacking one of their positions with a BB gun. Now under Cowboy's command, the men battle a sniper who has killed one Lusthog Marine and an entire second squad; the battle ends with Rafter Man's first confirmed kill and Cowboy being wounded slightly. As Joker and Rafter Man start back to Phu Bai, Rafter Man panics and dashes into the path of an oncoming tank, which fatally crushes him. Joker is reassigned to Cowboy's squad as a rifleman, as punishment for wearing an unauthorized peace button on his uniform.

"Grunts"
Now stationed at Khe Sanh with Cowboy's squad, Joker accompanies them on a patrol through the surrounding jungle. They encounter another sniper here, who wounds three of the men multiple times. After the company commander goes insane and starts babbling nonsense over the radio, Cowboy decides to pull the squad back and retreat, rather than sacrifice everyone trying to save the wounded men. Animal Mother, the squad's M60 machine gunner, threatens Cowboy's life and refuses to retreat. Promoting Joker to squad leader, Cowboy runs in with his pistol and kills each victim with a shot to the head. However, he is mortally wounded in the process, and before he can kill himself, the sniper shoots him through the hand. Realizing his duty to Cowboy and the squad, Joker kills Cowboy and leads the rest of the men away.

Critical reception
Kirkus Reviews called The Short-Timers "a terse spitball of a book, fine and real and terrifying, that marks a real advance in Vietnam war literature." The Washington Post wrote: "There is a vivid description of Hue in the aftermath of the 1968 Tet offensive and a grimly realistic portrayal of Marines under siege at Khesanh. Hasford also includes the obligatory scenes of search-and-destroy jungle patrols, unexpected fire fights, and random episodes of gratuitous violence, including maiming, fragging and raping. All this has been presented in much better literary and dramatic terms elsewhere."

Film adaptation
Hasford, Michael Herr, and Stanley Kubrick adapted the novel into the film Full Metal Jacket (1987). The film faithfully reproduces the first section of the novel, "The Spirit of the Bayonet", with only minor differences in events and names. The most profound difference is that, in the book, when Private Pyle kills Gunny (Gunnery Sergeant) Gerheim (renamed Hartman in the film), Gerheim tells Pyle, "I'm proud [of you]", before dying, finally satisfied that he transformed Pyle into a killer. The second part of the movie combines certain dialogue and plot elements of "Body Count" and "Grunts." For example, the battle against the sniper takes place in Huế and ends with the sniper being mortally wounded and mercy-killed as in "Body Count," but also includes the repeated wounding of multiple squad members as in "Grunts."

Several important sequences are omitted from the film adaptation, including: a previous meeting between Joker and his squad at the movies, the slaughtering of rats at the camp by Joker and his friends as Rafter Man watches, Rafter Man's lapse into cannibalism, a description of a tank running over a girl and a water buffalo, and a flashback revealing the origins of Rafter Man's nickname (actually named Lance Corporal Compton). In the book, Rafter Man is later run over and killed by the same tank that ran over the girl and water buffalo, and Joker is reassigned to Cowboy's squad as a rifleman for wearing an unauthorized peace button on his uniform.

Additionally, the film adaptation changes some characters' names and omits certain other characters, i.e., several "lifers" (Captain January, Major Lynch, and General Motors) have been left out or have been merged into one character; Private Leonard Pratt in the book is renamed Leonard Lawrence in the movie; Gunnery Sergeant Gerheim in the book is renamed Hartman in the movie; and the character of Alice in the book seems to have been renamed and altered slightly to appear as Eightball in the movie. In additional divergences from the book, in the film T.H.E. Rock does not die, and Crazy Earl is killed by a booby trap. The book characters Daytona Dave, Chili Vendor, and Mr. Payback appear in the movie, just prior to and during the Tet Offensive, but in the book Daytona Dave is described as a California surfer-type, while in the movie he is played by an African American.

Availability
According to the Gustav Hasford website maintained by Hasford's cousin Jason Aaron, The Short-Timers, The Phantom Blooper: A Novel of Vietnam, and Hasford's third and last completed book, a noir detective novel titled A Gypsy Good Time (1992), are currently out of print. The texts of the two war novels and an excerpt of A Gypsy Good Time were publicly available at the web-site for at least a decade, but the site has since been redesigned, and Aaron, who manages the site, has stated he "likely won't be reposting the novel" there as he does not own the rights.

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Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition

The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition (Portuguese: Expedição Científica Rondon–Roosevelt) was a survey expedition in 1913–14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida ("River of Doubt") in the Amazon basin. The expedition was jointly led by Theodore Roosevelt, the former president of the United States, and Colonel Cândido Rondon, a Brazilian explorer who had discovered its headwaters in 1909. Sponsored in part by the American Museum of Natural History, they also collected many new animal and insect specimens. The river was eventually named "Rio Roosevelt" after the former president. He nearly died during the voyage and his health was permanently damaged.

Beginnings
After losing a bid for a third presidential term in the 1912 election, Roosevelt had originally planned to go on a speaking tour of Argentina and Brazil, followed by a cruise of the Amazon River organized by his friend Father John Augustine Zahm. Instead, the government of Brazil suggested that Roosevelt accompany famous Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon on his exploration of the previously unknown River of Doubt, the headwaters of which had only recently been discovered. Roosevelt, seeking adventure and challenge after his recent electoral defeat, agreed. Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore's son, had recently become engaged and did not plan on joining the expedition but did on the insistence of his mother Edith Roosevelt, in order to protect his father. The expedition started in Cáceres, a small town on the Paraguay River, in December 1913. They traveled to Tapirapuã, where Rondon had previously discovered the headwaters of the River of Doubt. From Tapirapuã, the expedition traveled northwest, through dense forests and then later through the plains on top of the Parecis plateau. They reached the River of Doubt on February 27, 1914. At this point, due to a lack of food supplies, the Expedition split up, with part of the Expedition, including Father Zahm and expedition quartermaster Anthony Fiala, following the Ji-Paraná River to the Madeira River. The remaining party – the Roosevelts, Colonel Rondon, American naturalist George Kruck Cherrie, and 15 Brazilian porters (camaradas) – then started down the River of Doubt.

Problems
Almost from the start, the expedition was fraught with problems. Insects and disease such as malaria weighed heavily on just about every member of the expedition, leaving them in a constant state of sickness, festering wounds and high fevers. The heavy dug-out canoes were unsuitable to the constant rapids and were often lost, requiring days to build new ones. The food provisions were ill-conceived forcing the team on starvation diets. The native Cinta Larga tribe shadowed the expedition and were a constant source of concern – the natives could have at any time wiped out the expedition and taken their valuable metal tools, but they chose to let them pass. (Future expeditions in the 1920s were not so lucky.)

Of the 19 men who went on the expedition, 16 returned. One died by accidental drowning in rapids (with his body never recovered). And in early April, a porter named Julio shot and killed another Brazilian who had caught him stealing food. After failing to capture the murderer, the exhausted expedition simply abandoned him in the jungle.

By the time the expedition had made it only about one-quarter of the way down the river, they were physically exhausted and sick from starvation, disease, and the constant labor of hauling canoes around rapids. By its end, everyone on the expedition except for Colonel Rondon was either sick, injured, or both. Roosevelt himself was near death, having received a gash in his leg that had become infected, and the party feared for his life each day. Luckily, they came upon seringueiros ("rubber men"), impoverished rubber-tappers who earned a marginal living from the forest trees driven by the new demand for rubber tires for automobiles. The seringueiros helped the team down the rest of the river (less rapid-prone than the upper reaches). The expedition was reunited on April 26, 1914, with a Brazilian and American relief party led by Lieutenant Antonio Pyrineus, an officer from Rondon's Telegraph Commission. The party had been pre-arranged by Rondon to meet them at the confluence with the Aripuana River, where they had hoped to emerge from the tributary. Medical attention was given to Roosevelt as the group returned to Manaus. Three weeks later, a greatly weakened Roosevelt made it home to a hero's welcome in New York. His health never fully recovered after the trip, and he died less than five years later of related causes.

Confirmation
After Roosevelt returned, there was some doubt that he had actually discovered the river and made the expedition. Even though he was still quite weak and barely able to speak above a whisper, Roosevelt, angry that his credibility had been challenged, arranged speaking engagements with the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., on May 26, and the Royal Geographical Society in London in mid-June. These appearances largely stifled the criticisms at the time. To finally settle the dispute, in 1927 British explorer George Miller Dyott led a second trip down the river, confirming Roosevelt's discoveries.

In 1992 a third (modern) expedition was organized and led by Charles Haskell and Elizabeth McKnight, and sponsored in part by the Theodore Roosevelt Association, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Wildlife Federation and a private trust set up by Haskell and McKnight.

The expedition consisted of a total of twenty persons including Roosevelt's great-grandson Tweed Roosevelt, professional river guides Joe Willie Jones, Kelley Kalafatich, Jim Slade, and Mike Boyle, photographers Carr Clifton and Mark Greenberg, cinematographer Joe Kaminsky, Haskell's son Charles 'Chip' Haskell Jr. who served as the expedition's communications expert, Brazilian scientists Geraldo Mendes dos Santos and João Ferraz (ichthyologist and pharmacologist), chiefs Oita Mina and Tatataré of the Cinta Larga tribe whose land borders much of the river, and the journalist Sam Moses, who was contracted to write a book which was not published because Haskell and McKnight declined to approve the manuscript.

The expedition took 33 days to complete the nearly 1000 mile journey. Whereas the Roosevelt–Rondon Expedition had to portage almost all of the many rapids on the river with their heavy dugout canoes, the Haskel–McKnight Expedition was able to safely navigate all of the rapids except for three which were portaged. Haskell reported that his expedition "found spots chronicled by the original team, saw plants and insects they described, and went down the rapids that crushed the dugout canoes of 1914".

The expedition members were awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Association's Distinguished Service Medal for their achievement. A documentary of the expedition was subsequently produced and aired on PBS called the New Explorers: The River of Doubt narrated by Bill Kurtis and Wilford Brimley. Since this time, the expedition has inspired others to undergo its challenges such as Materials Scientist Professor Marc A. Meyers, Col Huram Reis, Col Ivan Angonese, and Jeffery Lehmann.

Representation in other media

 * On September 26, 2021, The American Guest, a four-episode Brazilian miniseries, was released on HBO Latin America and later on HBO Max. The series written by Matthew Chapman and directed by Bruno Barreto follows the expedition of former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, played by Aidan Quinn, alongside Brazilian army officer Cândido Rondon, portrayed by Chico Diaz.

Sources and further reading

 * Roosevelt, Theodore. Through the Brazilian Wilderness. Wikisource
 * Wasserman, Renata. "Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J.A. Leite Moraes in Amazonia." Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 57 (2009): 59-78. online
 * Wasserman, Renata. "Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J.A. Leite Moraes in Amazonia." Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 57 (2009): 59-78. online
 * Wasserman, Renata. "Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J.A. Leite Moraes in Amazonia." Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 57 (2009): 59-78. online
 * Wasserman, Renata. "Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J.A. Leite Moraes in Amazonia." Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 57 (2009): 59-78. online
 * Wasserman, Renata. "Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J.A. Leite Moraes in Amazonia." Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 57 (2009): 59-78. online
 * Wasserman, Renata. "Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J.A. Leite Moraes in Amazonia." Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 57 (2009): 59-78. online

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Talk:French ironclad Gloire

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Both the article and links to it say the ship's name is "La Gloire". Is the feminine article actually party of the official name? If not, "La Gloire" is wrong, because in French, ships are male. It would be "le Gloire". -- 213.172.121.249 00:59, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * The ship name is indeed "La Gloire" as indicated in the Illustrated London News caption. In French, the word ship is indeed masculine ("un bateau"), but individual ship names can be feminine or masculine (cf FS La Motte-Picquet, La Fayette (F710). Somebody changed the name of the article to "FS Gloire" a while ago, but it should be "FS La Gloire". In any case "Le Gloire" is not possible. PHG 01:14, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry to be direct, but your examples are bollocks : you managed to pick both examples among names of people.
 * Better examples are La Gracieuse or La Glorieuse ("the Gracious one" and "the Glorious one", respectively). Typically, when commons names used for a ship name, the "le/la" is not part part of the name : "S606 Perle" (not "La Perle"). English speakers tend to put "le/la" everywhere for a good and a bad reason :
 * Good reason : it is tricky because of the substantivied adjectives (La Glorieuse, Le Redoutable). In these cases, the "le/la" sems to be part of the name
 * Bad reason : its "sounds" French (to non-speakers). These kind of people also capitalise randomly, put accents anywhere, confuse é with è, and even cedillas. I hate them. :)
 * Besides, you are right : "Le Gloire", never ever. Rama 10:08, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I just went to the Musee de la Marine last week, and the ship is designated as "La Gloire" although GLOIRE is put in italics and LA is not. Ex: "MISE A L'EAU DE LA FREGATE LA GLOIRE". What do you think? PHG 10:24, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The placement of the italics suggests that the name is "Gloire". On the on the hand, I have never seen her refered to as, for instance, "la frégate Gloire", but always as "la frégate la Gloire" (on the other hand, you do say things like "le chaland de débarquement Rapière") ; I suspect that la Gloire is some sort of exception. Frankly, names of ships can be tricky. Rama 12:14, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * PS: did you enjoy the museum ? Have they opened all the rooms ? Last time I went, a part of the museum was under repairs and I could not see the models of ships of the line of Louis XV and Louis XVI, I was so frustrated... Rama 12:18, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I've just added that the La Gloire's armour was backed with 17inches (43cm) of timber. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.22.206.163 (talk) 14:51, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry
This article states: "However La Gloire was soon herself rendered obsolete by the launching in 1860 of the British HMS Warrior, the world's first iron-hulled warship." Of course, the first USS Michigan was actually the world's first iron-hulled warship, launched in 1843 and commissioned in 1844, well over a decade before either La Gloire or Warrior. The description of La Gloire is correct in that she was the first "ocean-going" ironclad, but sorry, Warrior was not the first iron-hulled warship, perhaps if you added the qualificatino "ocean-going" then you'd be accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.51.66.32 (talk) 15:45, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Service history - Wartime
Since she was in the French fleet during the Franco Prussian war, it would be good to see a sentence or two to cover her role in that war.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  11:51, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Image gallery
An image of la Couronne (as modified to a gunnery school ship) is included in the gallery. I feel that it doesn't belong here, but what do others think? Couronne was not a half-sister or "near-sister" to Gloire, being of a different form and construction as designed and completed. Furthermore, she has her own article. Considering that the Gloire and sisters were never converted for school ship use (nor were the later and much more similar Provence-class ships) I feel that the image adds nothing to this article. 2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:49C5:967A:1826:AC3B (talk) 16:52, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

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Male, Belgium

Male is a former hamlet and today a quarter in the east of Sint-Kruis, a sub-municipality of Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium. The hamlet, which retains its small historic center, clusters around Male Castle, best known as the birthplace of Louis, count of Flanders in 1329.

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Zarubin

Zarubin (Russian: Зарубин) is a Russian masculine surname originating from the noun zarub meaning a notch in a tree; its feminine counterpart is Zarubina. The surname may refer to the following notable people:
 * Elizabeth Zarubina (1900–1987), Soviet spy, wife of Vasily
 * Georgy Zarubin (1900–1958), Soviet diplomat
 * Irina Zarubina (1907–1976), Soviet theater and film actress
 * Ivan Zarubin (1887–1964), Russian linguist
 * Nikolai Zarubin (1948–1998), artist
 * Roman Zarubin (born 1976), canoe racer
 * Ruslan Zarubin (born 1983), Ukrainian football player
 * Vasily Zarubin (1894–1972), Soviet intelligence officer
 * Viktor Ivanovich Zarubin (1866–1928), Russian painter

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Fr. Adsum Iterum

Auxilior Arti here,

I read of the deletion of my article and am puzzled somewhat by it. I am of course, happy to provide a better edit, if only some positive guidance were given. To this end I am also soliciting an article from the appropriate person in regards to an entry for Aurum Solis and Astrum Sophia, etc.

The gist of the arguments for deletion seem to revolve around the status of The Book of the Glyph. For the record, The Book of the Glyph has not yet sold 5000 copies, but continues to gather steam as a handful of friends and zealots plus word-of-mouth slowly build sales. Xlibris is now a "vanity press" but was a "free press" at the time of publication. I think this a unwise standard in the rapidly-changing world of publishing and smacks of a certain elitism: "If they had to pay to have it published, how relevant is it?" In the area of occult writing at this time, I can soundly state that there ISN'T a reputable publisher of occult books in the US at this time and many, many ex-patriots of Llewellyn and Weiser agree. The fact that this is an advanced work, a novel idea AND a bit of tongue-in-cheek political satire has made it difficult to find good commercial standing, yet it continues to raise funds for our lodge. In any case, the purpose of the book was not to make money, but to provide a field manual with notes for the many individuals that were being attracted to the idea since its inception.

Is there a problem with the bio? I simply cut and pasted a variety of comments from other of my bios, did cut in a paragraph from an autobiographical source. Was it too long or wordy? Seemed commercial? (I'm not sure The Book of the Glyph needs even to be mentioned in a bio, but I noticed that other biographies listed various publications as milestones in the author's or organization's life.)

As to inclusion, I didn't "include" myself, my organization or foist my way in here. It was shown to me that my motto and our lodge had been given entries and no one had written any articles to accompany them. Frankly, I think our contributions to the Western Magical Arts are more written to posterity than anyone else. ..

I'd be interested in suggestions. . . ?


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Kara Monaco

Kara Monaco (born February 26, 1983) is an American model. She was chosen as Playmate of the Month by Playboy magazine in June 2005. She appeared on the cover of the June 2006 issue of Playboy as the 2006 Playmate of the Year.

Early life
Kara Monaco was born on February 26, 1983, in Lakeland, Florida. She worked as a bartender, modeled swimwear and was a lingerie model. Monaco is a former competitive gymnast, and has spent time as a dance team coach in addition to her fitness video work. She also worked at Disney World, where she was one of the performers who portrayed characters such as Cinderella and Snow White in the resort. She is not related to fellow model and April 1997 Playboy Playmate Kelly Monaco.

Career
Monaco has appeared in various reality television series, such as The Girls Next Door, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Big Brother 14. Besides her Playmate appearance, she has been a part of various other Playboy related media, such as the 2006 Playmates at Play swimsuit calendar and Playboy Special Edition Girls of Summer.

Monaco appeared in FHM and Men's Fitness magazines. Her connection with Playboy began when she chosen as one of "Playboy's Sexiest Bartenders 2004" and she appeared on the cover of Playboy Special Edition Girls of Summer in August 2004. Later, Monaco was chosen as Playmate of the Month by Playboy magazine for June 2005. That same year, she participated in a home video fitness program, Envy, under the name "Vala" (the "V" in "Envy"), and acted together with C.J. Gibson, sister of Playmate Raquel Gibson. In June 2006, she was chosen as Playmate of the Year and later appeared in episodes of the E! reality television series The Girls Next Door which followed the lives of Playboy creator Hugh Hefner and his girlfriends.

In 2006, Monaco also appeared in the game show Identity and the television film Sideliners. She also appeared in the 2006 "Playmates at Play" swimsuit calendar. In 2007, Monaco appeared in three episodes of Up Close with Carrie Keagan; an episode of Model Dating: Hawaii; and on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, portraying Miss America for a skit. Branching off from reality television, Monaco portrayed Michelle in two episodes of the soap opera Passions. Monaco continued to make guest appearances in The Girls Next Door throughout 2007 and 2008. In 2008, she appeared in three episodes of another reality show, Mind of a Model.

On July 4, 2012, Monaco was revealed to be one of 16 houseguests participating in the fourteenth edition of the reality competition series Big Brother. Monaco was mentored by Big Brother 10 winner Dan Gheesling. She was evicted from the show on July 19 which was Day 13 in the house. Monaco was the second person evicted, coming in 15th place.

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User:Rogue 9

General Information
I choose to keep my name confidential most places online, and will do so here. I go by a few different aliases on the Internet, including Rogue 9, Renegade, and Renegade Paladin.

I was a student at Murray State University. My interests include playing music (music education being my major), biking, fishing, and water tubing, as well as more sedentary activities like engaging in debate both online and off, and playing real time strategy games as well as Dungeons & Dragons, in which I am quite fond of playing paladins, especially unusual multiclass combos thereof such as rogue/paladins. I am an active member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. I'm a player and tournament organizer of Warhammer 40,000.

I suffered a home fire in 2006 and was forced to drop out of university due to the resulting strain on my finances. I continue my studies independently, and am working to master artisan bread baking. I baked professionally for a few years, but lost my job in a layoff when the local bakery was bought out. I now work in a local furniture factory to support myself while saving money to return to school. In the meantime, I continue independent study of many topics both as a matter of personal interest and to exercise my mind, including trigonometry and American history, particularly of the antebellum period and American Civil War.

Wikipedia-related interests
I am an amateur historian, specializing in American history leading up to the American Civil War. I also take great interest in Star Wars-related articles, as well as lesser interest in most other science fiction. I also have a lesser interest in political articles. You might see my edits in any of these topics.

I am also highly interested in putting a stop to rampant deletionism. For the articles, Wikipedia is not paper, and there are some who would do well to remember that. Wikipedia is also a community, and messing with the rights of a community's members is an excellent way to make them seek out other communities. If we wish the encyclopedia to grow and benefit from a large number of serious users, we need to not interfere with those users' rights on their personal userpages.

Salva veritate

My Neighbor's Yard: An Allegory
If a storm comes and the wind blows, and a branch falls from my tree into my neighbor's yard, it is my responsibility to fix it. But my neighbor is more likely to notice first than I am, seeing as the branch is in his yard. If my neighbor asks me to remove the branch, I do so gladly. If my neighbor calls his lawyer and files a lawsuit to make me remove the branch without talking to me, I will still remove the branch but will like my neighbor less. If my neighbor shows up at my door with a gun to demand removal of the branch, I will still remove the branch, but my neighbor will find the police at his door soon after. And if my neighbor demands I change the landscaping of my own yard to please his aesthetics, he needs to get a hobby. In this final way, deletionists and HOAs share much in common.

Articles I'm working on or watching
Putting these here so I can get at them quickly.

January 20, 2005 counter-inaugural protest

September 24, 2005 anti-war protest

Kfir Alfia

hate speech

Joshua A. Norton

Star Destroyer

Rogue Squadron

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List of Forgotten Realms deities

Sergey Nechayev

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Articles I've Created
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Talos (Forgotten Realms)

Eldath

Tempus (Forgotten Realms)

Red Knight (Forgotten Realms)

Sune

Garagos

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