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Can Mr Adam Carr stop his stupid action of deleting my contribution? He should pay more time on my grammatic problems instead of deleting other's contribution.Or he should spent more time on studying the history of CPC. For example, when Kang went to Moscow, he was sent as delegate of CPC in Comintern, not to study security.Cna Mr Carr be more modest and tolerable?He can spent more time on correcting my grammatic problem instead of boasting about his contribution of more than 10000 articles. I protest about his being rude and intolerable.

When you stop trying to insert a large number of unsourced and unformatted photos into the article, I will stop being intolerable, OK? Also, please SIGN YOUR COMMENTS or I won't bother talking with you further. Adam 12:41, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

This article has now been rewritten and filled with assertions the truth or otherwise of which I don't know and can't find out. So I am taking it off my watchlist and someone with more knowledge of Chinese history than me can worry about it. Adam 01:34, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Any additions which label Kang and/or the communist system a "devil" will be reverted, as will any similarly POV claims. If you want to have your work included, respect our fundamental Neutral point of view principle. 01:08, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

My dear foreign friends ,thank you for your interests in Chinese history. Firstly I think it is a principle in history study ,which is It Is Much Easy To Prove Sth Than To Noth. As some histories you don't know, you can't take it for granted that it didn't happen. Rely on more resources, especially on some Chinese resources!There are still some true and original documents in China.Secondly I advocate the policy of NPOW, but it doesn't mean you have no comment on some general accepted facts. Can't you agree that Fascism, Hitler or authoritarianism are devils? Most of the crimes committed by Kang could be found in documents by in China and abroad. Why can't I call him a devil? Giant 10:07 7 Sept 2005
 * That Kang and the system were "devils" are not generally accepted facts. Even among people who hold such views, "devils" would sound like angry rhetoric, not serious history. People who do not hold such views (myself included) would regard such terminology as just flat wrong. Everyking 02:25, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

About the devil word, I would say there is always word difficult to tell from being neutral or negative.For example, when you use the word "persecution" for Hitler's treatment of Jews in WW2, from the POW of historians it might be neutral, but in the dictionary the word is certainly negative. Can you avoid using this word in every article for that reason? Even if you don't agree with the devil word, How could you abuse your privilege to delete other contents? If you don't like it, it is OK.But please prove I am wrong.Don't take that westerners know everything more deeply than others for granted.For example ,in the version you kept, it said that Kang was sent to Moscow to study security technics but truth it is he was sent to as delegates to Comintern. And he didn't hold the position of social affairs department till 1949, during which he was demoted to Shangdong for his faults in "rectification"movement. Pardon me for my poor computer skill so that I can't give you the relevant linkage you need. But all these facts I provided could be found in the documents published by CPC and verified by memoirs of famous CPC dissidents such as Zhang Guotao and Wang Ming.So do respect my hard work.And if you think there is sth wrong in my statement, please leave them there for anyone more knowledgeable to correct instead of deleting without any further explanation. Giantcn 12:07 7 Sept 2005

Before joining Mao
This section needs more references; much of it seems to be based on questionable sources such as Jung Chang’s Mao The Unknown Story.DOR (HK) (talk) 08:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

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This article needs serious attention to NPOV. I'll be working on it from time to time. DOR (HK) (talk) 03:01, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

First serious edit, for discussion:

Kang Sheng’s (康生)early life is documented as if relating to different people. He was born in Shandong to a gentry family and named Zhao Rong in 1903, Snow, Edger, Red Star Over China,Grove Press (New York: 1938), p. 473-474 or as Zhang Zongke http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/ks.html, perhaps in 1893, http://rulers.org/chinprov.html  or 1898. http://www.amazon.ca/Claws-Dragon-Sheng-Genius-Peoples/dp/product-description/0671797166

He served on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo and its Standing Committee throughout the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution, and was a Vice Chairman of the 3rd (1965) and 4th (1975) National People’s Congresses. Lamb, Malcolm, Directory of Officials and Organizations in China, 1968-83, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk: 1983), pp. 1, 7, 53. He was posthumously vilified as a close ally of the Gang of Four and therefore one of the key people responsible for the Cultural Revolution.

Kang studied at Shanghai University and joined the party, both in 1924-25. He participated in uprisings in that city under the leadership of Zhou Enlai (1926-27), and in 1930 was sent to study in Moscow. He remained in Moscow until 1937, working in the Comintern under Wang Ming and, at least at times, along side Chen Yun. All three returned to China, to Yenan, in 1937 and taught at the Anti-Japanese University (Kang Da).

Kang was appointed to the CCP CC Secretariat in 1938. There are conflicting reports about his role, or fate during the 1942 Rectification Campaign (Zheng Feng): One source says he was criticized, and then replaced Li Weihan as head of the CCP Party School, ibid while another says he was responsible for turning Mao’s innocent effort to educate newly arrived cadres into a violent purge. http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/ks.html In his August 1943 speech http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/resources/working_paper/noframe_7a_names.htm, Kang explained how he and his colleagues used rectification to expose spies and trick anti-Party elements into reveling themselves. The strategy calls to mind the 1950s Hundred Flowers Movement and its aftermath.

Implemented. DOR (HK) (talk) 02:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Further additions to pre-1949 period, from a new source. DOR (HK) (talk) 02:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Legacy
Is there any source to cite for the second paragraph of this section? DOR (HK) (talk) 02:47, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

 * OK, it has been long enough with nothing more than "citation needed." I have removed the section and will post it here, in the event anyone has any sources. DOR (HK) (talk) 03:33, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Legacy
Had Kang not died, he would certainly have been removed from power along with the Gang of Four (Jiang Qing and her associates) after Mao's death. In a secret speech delivered in 1978, Hu Yaobang (who became CPC General Secretary in 1981) compared Kang to Soviet secret police chiefs Felix Dzerzhinsky and Lavrenty Beria. He was posthumously expelled from the Party in 1980, and his remains were removed from Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, where the remains of many prominent CPC leaders are interred.

In contrast to Dzerzhinsky, who was a pious believer in communism and who lived a very simple and modest daily life, Kang lived an extravagant and corrupt lifestyle. As the best calligraphist among senior leaders of CPC, as well as a painter, art and antique connoisseur, poet, and historian, Kang had a great appetite for valuable Chinese antiques and used his power to embezzle many from the Forbidden City and from the storehouses of the Cultural Relics Bureau during the Cultural Revolution, a fact uncovered only after his death. According to the audits by the Chinese government and researches by the Japanese, Kang Sheng was both the very first millionaire and the first multi-millionaire in China, based on the value of artifacts he owned (or more precisely, robbed and stole) in 1970s price. Furthermore, it was rumored that he had kept an affair with the sister of his wife Cao Yi'ou for quite a long time, and he built several villas for their rendezvous.

 * The "secret speech" by Hu Yaobang referred to above was, it appears, either a (whole or partial) forgery OR a speech delivered by someone else and mistakenly attributed to Hu. It was published on Taiwan: a PRC transcript/text has never been seen or cited by anyone. People who worked close to Hu at the time and whom I spoke to about this later, in Beijing back in 1988, told me as much, emphatically. Villa Giulia (talk) 20:15, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Blockquotes
I've removed several blockquotes and incorporated the content into the main text, to make it less of a MacFarquhar book review. DOR (HK) (talk) 10:24, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Wang Li fansi lu is a useful source on Kang.Villa Giulia (talk) 18:31, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Deleted ref to Kang as being made head of Central Party School in 1959: if that's what MacFarquhar said in org. source/ref, then he got that wrong.Villa Giulia (talk) 15:16, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Villa Giulia, do you have a source on the Central Party School slot?DOR (HK) (talk) 06:00, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

 * My information is that Li Weihan was president of the Central Party School (中共中央党校 located, at the time, in 延安城东桥儿沟) until Kang Sheng took up the post in March 1938, and that Kang only held it until September that same year 1938, when he in turn was succeeded by Chen Yun. See Wang Jianying, Zhongguo gongchandang zuzhi shi ziliao huibian lingdao jigou yange he chengyuan minglu (1995), page. 427. Deng Fa did not become president until December 1941, succeeding Chen (same, p. 551), so I'd say the WIKI fact "slot" is incorrect.Villa Giulia (talk) 14:54, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Our article says Li Weihan ran the Ruijin-based CCP CC ‘Marxism and Communist School’ in 1933-35, and that it was renamed and moved to Yan’an in 1935 and placed under the direction of Dong Biwu (1935-37) and later Li Weihan (1937-38) and Kang Sheng (1938-39). Chen Yun isn’t listed at all. I’m not saying the article is flawless, but we should reconcile the two. DOR (HK) (talk) 06:53, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

 * The Marx School of Communism in Ruijin was set up on 13 March 1933 with Ren Bishi as the first president, later succeeded by Zhang Wentian. Li Weihan did, from what I can see, not hold a position in the school and certainly does not appear to have "run" it. The school will have folded when the Red Army left on the Long March, but that it "moved to Yan'an in 1935" cannot be correct, since the CCP leadership did not settle in Yan'an until mid-January 1937, having first been based in Bao'an after concluding the Long March. Once the school - now the Central Party School - was revived, in the winter of 1936-37, it seems, Dong Biwu became the first president, succeeded by Li Weihan in May 1937. All of this information comes, again, from the revised and expanded edition of Wang Jianying, quoted earlier.Villa Giulia (talk) 07:42, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

 * According to our article Long March, the 1st Red Army reached Yan’an in October 1935, the 2nd Red Army a year later, and remains of the 4th Red Army sometime between those dates. So, it is entirely possible that the school “moved to Yan’an in 1935.”DOR (HK) (talk) 06:20, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Questionable claim
The intro starts with the claim that Kang was "the head of the People's Republic of China's security and intelligence apparatus at various points until his death." From what a variety of CCP chronologies, Who's Who-type of works state, he was really never the head of the PRC security and intelligence apparatus, and only for the first half of the 1940s the head of the CCP's apparatus of this kind. He was, for a few years at the end of the 1960s the CCP leader to whom the real head(s) reported, but that is a different story. Those WIKI contributors who feel, all the same, that Kang ought to be characterized as the "head" may want to provide more precise dates and sources supporting those dates.Villa Giulia (talk) 17:22, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Villa Giulia, as I think you already know, there isn't necessarily going to be difinitive evidence of who ran the most secret organization in China during which years. I believe no one has been identified as senior to Kang in the intelligence / security sphere at any time from the late 1940s to 1975. Therefore, in the absence of concrete information to the contrary, it is safe to assume that Kang retained his position, even if it wasn't 100% formal. DOR (HK) (talk) 06:16, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

 * So you believe that Li Kenong reported to Kang while Li was still alive and active? And you believe that Kong Yuan reported, not to Yang Shangkun in the first place, and in difficult matters, to Yang and Deng Xiaoping prior to 1966 (as Yang Shangkun riji claims) but to Kang? And when Deng Xiaoping (according to Wang Li fansilu), hands over responsibility for supervising the work of the CID to Kang in the autumn of 1966, Kang had according to your belief already all along been the "senior" point-person in these matters? And when Kang goes belly up after 1970, you believe he's still running things until 1975? OK, the field is murky, and absolute clarity will certainly never be achieved: however, the claim "head of the People's Republic of China's security and intelligence apparatus at various points until his death" is - you do realize - made entirely in the absence of concrete information to support it. If you have sources that supports it and adds some precision to it as far as dates are concerned, please add them to the WIKI article. Respectfully, Villa Giulia (talk) 09:51, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Patricia Stranahan puts Kong Yuan in Moscow in August 1935, along with Chen Yun and Pan Hannian. That would support his being made head of the CCP CC Liaison Department in 1936. He is later identified as CCP Secretary of Xi’an where he mainly was involved in KMT-CCP negotiations. Next, we find him as CCP CC Yangzi Bureau Secretary (1937-41), CCP CC Social Affairs deputy director under Kang Sheng and deputy of the Central Intelligence Department, which over lapped in responsibilities.

 * MacFarquhar says there was a major shake-up in the intelligence community in 1955, and Deng Xiaoping took broad – not direct – responsibility, and later Kang Sheng (post-11th Plenum). If Kang couldn’t unseat Deng’s man, the GPCR attacks on Kong Yuan make sense.

 * I don't have better sources than anyone else, so I'm willing to be convinced. But, we need to footnote the substantial changes. DOR (HK) (talk) 06:16, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Let me see what I can do to support my own list of appointments and responsibilities with the help of solid source notes. It may take a little time, but I'll try.Villa Giulia (talk) 07:03, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

FORMAT
The article is beginning to look more and more like a biography, rather than a conventional WIKI entry about a historical figure.Villa Giulia (talk) 18:49, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

CCP Vice Chair ?
I have not found any evidence that Kang was CCP Vice Chair prior to the 9th National Party Congress ... i.e., 9 Oct 1959 and after. Nor is he listed at that time in our Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party article. DOR (ex-HK) (talk) 17:19, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

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This is a list of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans in the U.S. Congress.

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As of June 3, 2024, there are 18 representatives and 2 senators of Asian-American descent who are currently serving in Congress. In addition, there are three non-voting delegates of Pacific Islander descent who currently are also serving. Since 1900, 21 Pacific Islanders have been elected to the House of Representatives (18 of them as non-voting Resident Commissioners, Delegates or Resident Representatives) and one has been elected to the U.S. Senate. Hawaii was the first territory to send a Pacific Islander to the House of Representatives (in 1900) and was also the first state to send a Pacific Islander to the U.S. Senate (in 1990). Since 1957, 41 Asian Americans have been elected as U.S. Representatives and 9 as U.S. Senators. Hawaii was the first of four states to send an Asian American to the Senate (1959) and Illinois is the most recent state to elect a senator of similar descent for the first time (2016). With respect to the House of Representatives, California was the first of 13 states to elect an Asian American to the House (1956), and Oklahoma is the most recent to do so for the first time (2020). Three Asian-American women have been elected to the Senate (two of whom currently are incumbents and represent Hawaii and Illinois, respectively), and 13 have been elected to the House (nine of whom currently are incumbents) from seven separate states.

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Procedure
The algorithm, as described in Name Search Techniques, is:

The next character of the NYSIIS code is the current position letter. Increment the pointer to point at the next letter. Go to step 5.
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 * 'PF' then change these letters to 'FF'
 * 'SCH' then change these letters to 'SSS'
 * 1) If the last letters of the name are
 * 'EE' then change these letters to 'Y␢'
 * 'IE' then change these letters to 'Y␢'
 * 'DT' or 'RT' or 'RD' or 'NT' or 'ND' then change these letters to 'D␢'
 * 1) The first character of the NYSIIS code is the first character of the name.
 * 2) In the following rules, a scan is performed on the characters of the name. This is described in terms of a program loop. A pointer is used to point to the current position under consideration in the name. Step 4 is to set this pointer to point to the second character of the name.
 * 3) Considering the position of the pointer, only one of the following statements can be executed.
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 * 5) If the current position is a vowel (AEIOU) then if equal to 'EV' then change to 'AF' otherwise change current position to 'A'.
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Salinas Municipal Airport

Salinas Municipal Airport, commonly referred to as Salinas Airport is an airport in Monterey County, California, United States, three miles (4.8 km) southeast of Downtown Salinas. It is included in the 2017–21 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems as a regional general aviation airport. It had 1,800 enplanements in 2014.

Facilities
Salinas Municipal Airport covers 605 acre and has two asphalt runways: 8/26 is 6,004 x 150 ft. (1,830 x 46 m), and 13/31 is 4,825 x 150 ft. (1,471 x 46 m). It has one helipad, 90 x 90 ft. (27 x 27 m) asphalt/concrete.

In the year ending June 30, 2007 the airport had 77,896 aircraft operations, average 213 per day: 97% general aviation, 2% air taxi and 1% military. 229 aircraft were then based at this airport: 70% single-engine, 21% multi-engine, 3% jet and 6% helicopter.

History
A first airport was proposed by members of the local American Legion post. With city support, it was established in the summer of 1928 and was called Salinas American Legion Airport, later known simply as Legion Field. It was located near the current American Legion Post #31 and the runway ran parallel to West Laurel Drive. Commercial service was available as early as 1933 via Pacific Seaboard Air Lines on twice-daily flights between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Legion Field closed shortly after the current airfield was turned over to civilian control following the end of the Second World War.

The current airfield opened in late 1941 as Salinas Army Air Field (AAF). It was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourth Air Force as a subpost to Fort Ord during the war. Its mission was that of an incoming personnel processing center and a training field for Army pilots in reconnaissance and observation duties in various aircraft from light observation planes to medium bombers. The Air Transport Command also used the field and had an air freight terminal here for transshipment of cargo.

Reconnaissance units
Initially, IV Air Support Command used Salinas as a training base for photo-reconnaissance units. The 69th Observation Group arrived at the base in October 1941 equipped with a variety of O-38, O-46, O-47 and O-52 light aircraft which were also used in conjunction with Army ground forces at Fort Ord in their maneuvers. The 69th moved to San Bernardino AAF in Southern California after the Pearl Harbor Attack in December and engaged in anti-submarine patrols.

The 71st Observation Group replaced the 69th in December 1941, moving in from Third Air Force at Birmingham Airport, Alabama. The 71st was equipped with a similar mixture of observation aircraft and engaged in anti-submarine patrols over the Central California coast until August. The group was temporarily assigned to the Army Desert Training Center at Rice AAF in the Mojave Desert in August, training with General George Patton's forces prior to the Operation Torch invasion of North Africa in November. It moved back to Salinas in October 1942, and trained with Fort Ord units. It was reassigned back to Third Air Force, moving to Esler Field, Louisiana in January 1943 where it served as the observation unit for Army forces training at Fort Polk.

The last observation group at Salinas was the 70th Observation Group, being moved from Second Air Force in Washington. It continued the anti-submarine and support observation mission at Fort Ord until August, when it was reassigned back to Second Air Force at Redmond AAF, Oregon.

P-38 Lightning training
In September, the field was transferred to IV Fighter Command, which assigned the 360th Fighter Group as a P-38 Lightning Replacement Training Unit (RTU). The 360th trained replacement pilots on the Lightning with the 371st, 372d, 373d and 446th Fighter Squadrons as its operational squadrons.

P-61 Black Widow training
The move of the Army Air Forces Night Fighter School to Hammer Field, California dictated the move of the 360th Fighter Group to Santa Maria AAF in January 1944. Its designation was also changed from an Army Airfield to Salinas Army Air Base. Salinas was used as an auxiliary airfield by the 481st Night Fighter Operational Training Group (NFOTG) at Hammer Field, and moved a combination of modified Douglas A-20 Havocs for night fighter operations, designated P-70, and brand-new prototype YP-61 Black Widow purpose-built night fighters.

The 548th Night Fighter Squadron was formed at Salinas in April 1944. Like all of the Night Fighter squadrons being trained by IV Fighter Command, it moved among several bases in the San Joaquin Valley. Flights of P-61s from the 426th, 427th, 547th, 549th and 550th Night Fighter Squadrons moved in and out of Salinas AAF during 1944 as part of their training prior to being deployed to combat units, primarily in the Pacific and CBI theaters.

In December 1944 the 481st NFOTG was inactivated as part of an AAF reorganization. It was essentially re-designated as the 451st Army Air Forces Base Unit, and instead of training squadrons, it became a Replacement Pilot Training (RTU) organization which sent pilots overseas to established Night Fighter Squadrons. The 451st was made up of a number of lettered squadrons, which were expressed as the 451st AAFBU (A Squadron), and so on. These replacement training squadrons operated at the same airfields as was used by the 481st NFOG in the San Joaquin Valley. The 451st was under the operational control of the IV Fighter Command 319th Wing, headquartered at Hammer Field.

The 451st AAFBU concluded its training of replacement pilots in May 1945 and operations at the airfield were phased down to a standby status. With the end of the war, the base was declared excess to requirements and returned to civil control.

Commercial service
Salinas Municipal Airport has been without commercial service since 1981, when a commuter airline named Air Trails was offering services to San Francisco and to Oakland. United Airlines, on the other hand, ended its daily Convair service in 1962. As late as 1961, United was offering once-daily stops both northbound and southbound between San Francisco and Los Angeles with intermittent stops in Monterey and Santa Barbara.

California International Airshow
Salinas Airport is the location of the annual California International Airshow, set at various times during the year. The air show often features top-tier aerobatic teams such as the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, with the proceeds going to local charities.

Future plans
There are future plans to expand the runways to at least 7000 ft to accommodate commercial aircraft. It will not be meant to compete with Monterey Regional Airport (MRY) but will be a viable backup option if fog delays landings and takeoffs in Monterey. While it’s not clear which airlines would use this airport over the alternatives Fresno, Bakersfield, or San Jose, a plane flying to Salinas would be more convenient for people getting to Monterey since it's fewer than 20 mi away.

Other sources

 * Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
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 * Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History's Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.
 * Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History's Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.

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Talk:Battle of the Downs

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Well, here we have a Dutch folkloric tale about the battle of the Downs, as we have heard during centuries a British folkloric tale about the Spanish Armada. I will not touch the article (for now) until I have enough information. But a force of 77 ships repelled by a Dutch fleet of 13 ships sounds to me a very weird account, no matter how much ferocity the Dutch exhibited (being Oquendo too much used to fight and defeat the Dutch fleets, to be ultimately afraid in his last combat). Nitramón

 * The date is wrong: has to be 21 not 31. If you took it from the dutch wkipedia, there it was wrong too. I won't alter it. The first and last time I tried to alter a date I was promptly accused of vandalism. Josje (dutch)

 * 21 October was the date in the Julian calendar, equivalent to 31 October in the Gregorian calendar. Gdr 23:57, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Date has been hyper-corrected to 31 October. 21 October in Dutch sources is absolutely correct as per the Gregorian Calendar already in use by the Dutch and is in Dutch primary sources (see, for example, printed material in the Rijksmuseum, accessible on rijksmuseum.nl via search for Duyns 1639).

English sources refer to this battle as 11 October Julian style, still in use in England (and continued to be so until 1752), again from primary sources, e.g. Calendar of State Papers Domestic, accessible via british-history.ac.uk). Thus this battle is 11 October Julian/21 October Gregorian, and 31 is a hyper-correction based on the assumption that 21 is Julian, which it isn't. Heritagegeek (talk) 16:27, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

 * I've corrected the dates to 21 Oct etc. Hard to tell sometimes. I've just seen sources that say 11 October also. Another is the Battle of Chesma, just saw a source saying 24 & 26 rather than 5 & 7 July. But the source mentioned does (I don't speak Dutch) mention 21 Oct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.199.69 (talk) 07:54, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

 * By the way. Nitramón is wright. On the Dutch Wikipedea the Dutch had 95 ships plus 10 old ships to set on fire and sent to the Spanish. The Spanish had only 55 ships. Josje again

 * Do you have an English-language reference? Gdr 00:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The correct number of ships are those Josje gave: of the total ships which took part in the battles (the first one lasting 3 days, between Beachy Head and the French rade of Boulogne in September, and the second one, a month later at the Downs) the spanish war ships were 51, the rest were suply vessels, transports and a variety amount of small ships. Tromp managed to stop the first attack by Oquendo on the 16th of september with just 17 ships by using for the first time in naval history the line of battle tactics in a rather defensive (and intelligent) way (despite what english historians says about being Blake the first to used it at the first-anglo ducht war), while the Spanish didn´t have any strategy at all (last time the "media luna" tactic was used was in 1588). Oquendo was a great captain but not an admiral (he had the charge but not the skills), the Spanish fleet had better admirals (Lope de Hoces, Miguel de la Horna or francisco Feijoo) but they were under Oquendo´s command. A very important and forgotten battle which deserves a better (one of the highest) place in naval history. A spaniard. Ruru

 * I don't think there is a credibility problem here. It's quite clear to me that it is an attack on a Spanish convoy transporting troops, which puts the Spanish at a disadvantage. Whether 13 ships can ward of 77 is not the issue: 13 might be able to dissuade 77 from going to Dunkirk for a few days, depending on the wind direction, and the 77 didn't want to engage. The major issue is whether the suggestion of the Spanish having superior firepower on October 31st can be substantiated. It is very well possible, if the majority of Dutch ships were merchantmen hired for the occasion.

 * A comment about the sentence "Tromp also formally asked de Oquendo why he refused battle ...".

This is the first reference to de Oquendo in the article. Who was he? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.115.75.230 (talk) 11:11, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Very good point.--MWAK (talk) 09:09, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

The article is right in asserting that it was a significant moment in the shifting balance of sea power, it did mark the decline of Spanish seapower, although those who claim it was destroyed are ignoramuses. The battle box figures look very suspiciously like ancient Dutch propaganda. Many of the soldiers had been transported from Britain by Dunkirkers before the main battle and Spanish naval gunnery had improved greatly (as had everybodys) since the days of the Armada. Can somebody check them against modern scholarly sources? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.221.95.95 (talk) 02:53, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Dutch losses
I've reverted again since none of the Dutch sources makes mention of lost Dutch ships other then one that got entangled with the Santa Teresa. Catsclaw 11:28, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Misleading infobox
The number of Dutch ships is put at 95, which was only at the very end. The Spanish numbers are put at their very lowest. Doesn't seem very fair. Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 19:00, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

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George de Lacy Evans

General Sir George de Lacy Evans (7 October 1787 – 9 January 1870) was an Irish officer in the British Army who served in four of the United Kingdom's 19th century wars. He became a long-serving Member of Parliament.

Life
Evans was born in 1787, in Moig, County Limerick, Ireland. Educated at Woolwich Academy he followed his elder brother Richard (1782–1847) into the military, joining the East India Company's forces in 1800 before volunteering for the British Army in India in 1806. He obtained an ensigncy in the 22nd Regiment of Foot in 1807 then exchanged into the 3rd Light Dragoons in order to take part in the Peninsular War. He was sent on the expedition to the United States of 1814 during the War of 1812 under Major General Robert Ross. Evans was quartermaster general to Ross at the Battle of Bladensburg on 24 August 1814, and during the Burning of Washington, as well as at the Battle of North Point on 12 September 1814, where Ross was killed.

Evans was actively involved in the New Orleans campaign at the conclusion of the War of 1812. He was the only British Army officer present at the Royal Navy 'small boat action' on Lake Borgne, and was wounded at the battle of New Orleans.

Returning to the European war with the restoration of Emperor Napoleon I, Evans was present at the battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815 and the battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, and went on half pay in 1818.

Although he had no personal experience in Central Asia, Evans became increasingly concerned that Russia had designs on India posing a threat of an attack through Central Asia. He wrote two books, “On the Designs of Russia” (1828) and “On the Practicability of an Invasion of British India” (1829). highlighting this threat. These books were influential in persuading Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, President of the Board of Control of India, to gather intelligence from all sources, including sending out young officers to explore the possible invasions routes into India, as part of the Great Game.

Evans commanded the British Legion, which volunteered to assist Isabella II of Spain in the First Carlist War (1833-1840). In 1846, he was promoted to Major-General, and on the outbreak of the Crimean war in 1854, he was promoted to Lieutenant-General.

In 1853 he was given the colonelcy for life of the 21st Regiment of Foot (Royal North British Fusiliers) and promoted full general on 10 March 1861.

He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Rye in 1830, and from 1831 to 1832, and for Westminster from 1833 to 1841 and from 1846 to 1865. He was also awarded the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honour.

In 1854, Evans was appointed to command the 2nd Division at the start of the Crimean war, and fought at the Battle of the Alma. Around the time of the Battle of Inkerman, he was sick, so Major General John Pennefather was in command of the division. He was later invalided home. On his return home, he received the thanks of the House of Commons.

Beginning in the middle 1850s Evans became a strong advocate for reform of the British army. In particular he was harshly critical of the system by which British army officers purchased their commissions and were expected to pay for each rank of promotion. While he did not live to see the final abolition of the purchase system which occurred in 1871, his persistent call for amelioration was instrumental in its ultimate demise.

Evans died on 9 January 1870, and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

Portraits of Evans were painted by Peter Edward Stroehling (above) and Richard Buckner. The original life-size Buckner portrait was rediscovered in 2012 and was authenticated by art historian Philip Mould on the BBC Antiques Road Show at Cheltenham in 2013.

Sir George de Lacy Evans's medals and awards are on display at the Queens Own Royal Hussars Museum located in the Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick.

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Talk:Michael Dutton Douglas/to do

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Cover to the Freak Show album by Silverchair.

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KFAX

KFAX (1100 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to San Francisco, California, and heard around the Bay Area. Since 1984, the station has been owned by Salem Media Group and programs a Christian radio teaching and talk format.

The studios and offices are in suburban Fremont and the transmitter is in nearby Hayward, near the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge. KFAX broadcasts with 50,000 watts, the highest power permitted for AM stations, but because 1100 AM is a clear-channel frequency reserved for Class A WTAM in Cleveland, KFAX must use a directional antenna to avoid interference, aiming most of its signal away from the east. The station is the most powerful Christian-formatted AM station west of the Mississippi.

As KJBS
The station now assigned the KFAX call letters was first licensed in 1925 as KFUQ, and made its first broadcast on January 3, 1925. Its five-watt radio transmitter provided an advertising gimmick for Julius Brunton & Sons, operators of an automobile service station and local distributor of Willard Storage Batteries, which were popularly used in both experimental transmitters and receivers during radio's early days. Shortly after making its debut, KFUQ became KJBS.

The station's first address was 1380 Bush Street, a building which remains an auto-service facility today. In its early years, the station broadcast police dispatch calls, among its regular schedule, in the days before police departments could afford their own radio transmitters.

In 1927, KJBS's power was increased to 50 watts and, on March 1, 1928, to 100 watts. On April 5, 1929, the station's frequency was changed to 1070 kHz. On April 19, 1930, KJBS debuted its Owl program, signing on at midnight. In the mid-1930s, its power was increased to 500 watts.

In the 1940s, in order to increase its range of coverage, KJBS was assigned to 1100 kHz, sharing time with the dominant station in North America on 1100 kHz, which was in Cleveland. This required that KJBS go off the air at local sunset, but allowed it to come back on the air when Cleveland signed off at 1:00 a.m. in the East, 10:00 p.m. local time. By this time, KJBS had moved to 1470 Pine Street, a building incorporating a stand-alone vertical transmitting tower at the front entrance to the building.

In 1959, KJBS was granted a construction permit to increase its daytime power to 50,000 watts. This change in broadcasting power required the station to operate one of the most distinctive schedules in the history of broadcasting. It operated from a directional set of four towers in the suburban town of Hayward from 6:00 a.m until local sunset, then from the Pine Street 1,000 watt transmitter from 10:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. (when Cleveland's WTAM would come back on the air, at 6:00 a.m. Eastern time). During the summer, this meant that KFAX was off the air for only 1.5 hours (8:30 sunset until 10:00 p.m.).

As KFAX
In 1960, KJBS was sold to Argonaut Broadcasting for $425,000. On May 16, 1960, its call sign was changed to KFAX and it changed formats from music, news and sports to become the first all-news radio station in the US. This format drew listeners but was unprofitable and it was changed the following year. KFAX later adopted a religious format, with Christian music and religious talk.

In 1977, KFAX began operating with 50,000 watts full-time, using a directional array.

In 1984, KFAX was sold to Salem Media Group, an operator of both religious and secular talk stations. KFAX runs programs such as Dr. Charles Stanley, Jay Sekulow and "Life! Line" with Craig Roberts (the Bay Area's longest running conservative talk show).

Trivia
In light of a radio often being the first electrical device in a home not connected to centrally generated electric power, both the Cleveland-based Willard Storage Battery Company and a local outlet for Willard Batteries founded and owned stations in the early 1920s, as with WTAM in Cleveland (9 months' ownership) and KJBS (apparently for several decades). In this case, however, these two stations with an early link began in 1941 sharing clear channel use of the 1100 kHz frequency.

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Talk:Liberal People's Party (Norway, 1972)

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Hi all, I suggest merging the two articles as there is some ideal continuity between the two parties (the new one was founded by members of the old one), enough to justify one article treating both. The new one can be seen as a refoundation.

The Norwegian Wikipedias (in bokmål and nynorsk) have each one article only for the party. --Orzetto 08:43, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I would disagree with a merger. Many former DLF members remained in Venstre and there is a different political orientation. Legally there is no continuation. It is better to keep separate articles. Electionworld 09:11, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, also other parties experience modifications in their politics, but keep an article. True, there is no legal continuity between the two, but the second was founded by members of the first. It would be also difficult to point to English translations from the Norwegian Wikipedias, since they have only one page each: which should they point in the English version? And, lastly, the current names are quite ugly. --Orzetto 08:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I suggest keeping two separate articles, Liberal People's Party (Norway, 1972) and Liberal People's Party (Norway, 1992). --Soman 17:26, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep the articles separate. They are still separate parties. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:35, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I strongly urge to keep the articles separate. The party that was started in 1992 has very little in common with the original party apart from the name. I have heard the claim that it was started by members of the old party, but haven't seen any confirmation of this. The members of the old DLF that I have spoken with are certainly quite appalled by the use of their old name by this new party. (Barend 18:00, 13 November 2005 (UTC))

One argument to merge them is what happened in 2001 when expulsees from Progress Party tried running under that name, claiming that they had the rights from the old party.


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Talk:Forty-eighters

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Re. the number of Germans in the Union Army, there seem to be several sources confirming this figure, e.g: "216,000 German born men were on the rolls of both the North and the South, with 177,000 in the Union Army" "Statistics show that about 177,000 German born men were on the rolls of the Union Army. There were many more of German parentage, of course. Some served out of sheer patriotism, some to gain acceptance from their fellow Americans. " germanheritage.com "During the American Civil War, more than 180.000 German-born men fought in the Union armies East and West, plus tens of thousands of Austrians, Poles, Hungarians, and Czechs. Out of this number, possibly up to an estimated five thousand had previously served in the revolutionary armies and insurrections in Baden, the Palatinate, in Hungary, the Rhineland, Transsylvania, Poland, Bohemia, Berlin, or Saxony." Geschichtstheatergesellschaft "1848" Saint|swithin 08:43, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

I wouldn’t assume that these were all “Forty-Eighters.” A large number of Germans (Saxons and others) emigrated to the United States and Australia through the 1830s and 1840s who were conservative “Old Lutherans”.

199.229.240.252 (talk) 08:18, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Communists
Albeit brief, but no mention that many of the 48'ers were Communists? From a source that is supposed to neutral in its POV, it would be well to analyze the political leanings of the immigrants, no matter what its nature, as it had a direct bearing on the shape of our country today. Another Wikipedia article simply called 48'ers "freethinkers". I'm starting to detect an intentional bias in hiding the Communistic/Socialistic/Progressive nature of many of the 48'ers. Granted I don't want the result to be a diatribe for the Sons of the Confederacy, but some recognition of the political leanings of such men is warranted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.73.52.194 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 12 September 2006
 * You need to read freethought. Not all freethinkers were left-of-center; not all leftists were freethinkers. (Same as nowadays.) And it didn't take much to be thought of as "progressive" by the anti-revolutionaries of 1848, so your argument is incredibly thin. -- Orange Mike  |   Talk  17:43, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Does Karl Marx qualify for inclusion? He was compelled to leave first Germany then France as a result of his beliefs. DancesWithGrues (talk) 01:50, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Margarete Schurz
Margarete Schurz, wife of Carl Schurz, seems out of place here. She was born in 1833, making her only 15 during this period. She was certainly not obligated to go into exile, and left the Germany voluntarily to care for her sister in England c. 1851 and emigrate with Carl Schurz to the U.S. in 1852. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 21:06, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Switzerland and England; Netherlands?
Switzerland (Friedrich Beust and Gottfried Kinkel — not until 1866 — are examples) and England (Gottfried Kinkel and Johanna Kinkel were here for some time) were also popular destinations for Forty-Eighters. They should have sections along with the current ones of Australia and the United States. And perhaps the Netherlands as well. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 21:16, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Bibliography: Carl Wittke, Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America
Carl Wittke, Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America, Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn. Press, 1952. at archive.org http://www.archive.org/details/refugeesofrevolu008276mbp

This book was available for download as a PDF-file. I recently had to erase my HD and lost the file before I could finish reading the book. Now, I can't seem to download it a second time from archive.org. Either something has changed on the site or I'm simply not doing the same thing as last time. Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? Or is the download really no longer available? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.225.102.172 (talk) 20:52, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Poles
You forgott the polish Forty-Eighters like Wlodzmierz B. Krzyzanowski: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82odzimierz_Krzy%C5%BCanowski--89.70.88.251 (talk) 20:12, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Onother one Alexander Bielaski: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bielaski89.70.88.251 (talk) 21:16, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Then add them. -- Orange Mike |  Talk  02:01, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The first might be correct but the second was in the U.S. for decades? before the '48 incidents. Rmhermen (talk) 02:18, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

 * You are right, Bielaski left Europe before the 48ighter Revolution in Europe. But he took paart in the Polish November Uprising in 1831 which was connected to the later democratic movements in Germany and Europe. The so called "Europäischer Völkerfrühling" was a process which peak was in '48/'49. So it is maybe a question of defintion. In a very strict definition hi is not a 48ighter...89.70.88.251 (talk) 11:03, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

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Henry Wirz, War-Criminal and Forty-Eighter from Switzerland?
According to the entry on Henry Wirz he left Switzerland as consequence of a court sentence for being indebted. What is more, Switzerland was a save haven for 1848 political refugees. It seems merely coincidental that Wirz migrated to the USA at the same time as the Forty-Eighters.

Wirz is listed as 'notable German generals in the American Civil War. He stands out in more than one way from this group. Foremost by being a Confederate and a tried and executed war criminal (perhaps as scape goat).

Now, this reasoning might be considered original research. While I consider it only pointing out inconsistencies of an unsupported, I still don't go ahead and change it right away. 91.34.109.230 (talk) 19:59, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

I'm deleting the unsupported reference to Wirz as a "forty-eighter" in the meaning of this article. - (Tribune) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plebs Tribune (talk • contribs) 19:20, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

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Milton Johns

John Robert Milton (born 13 May 1938), known professionally as Milton Johns, is an English character actor who has worked almost continuously throughout his career. A versatile talent, he specialises in sinister or obsequious roles and has featured regularly in many British popular television series for both adults and children. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Biography
Johns was born on 13 May 1938 in Bristol. He is known for being in Happy Families (1989) as Mr Alphonso, the café manager of Mrs Wobble, Coronation Street as Brendan Scott (1991–93), the shopkeeper who died of a heart attack while pedalling along the eponymous cobbled street. Other roles have included parts in Poldark, Born and Bred, Ever Decreasing Circles, Home to Roost, Dempsey and Makepeace, Murder Most English, Shoestring, Yes Minister, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Softly, Softly, Going Straight, The Good Life, Don't Wait Up, Butterflies, Minder, Campion and Z-Cars. He played the landlord in The Basil Brush Show (2002–07). He also played jobsworth Mr Cassidy in Murphy's Mob, an ITV children's television drama series (1982–85). His character helped to manage the building used by the junior supporters of the football club, Dunmore United. Johns has appeared in Doctor Who on several occasions: as Theodore Benik in The Enemy of the World; Guy Crayford in The Android Invasion; and Castellan Kelner in The Invasion of Time.

He also appeared in the TV mini-series Moll Flanders in 1996. He played a pawnshop owner.

In 1972 he starred in the children's Sunday evening series The Intruder and in 1977, appeared in another children's series, Midnight Is A Place. In the 1980s, he also appeared in the Grange Hill spin-off Tucker's Luck. Johns also appeared as an Imperial Officer (Captain Bewil) in the 1980 film, The Empire Strikes Back. He played Perker in the 1985 adaptation of The Pickwick Papers. In the 1988 television mini-series War and Remembrance, he took the role of Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann.

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Salamat Dok

Salamat Dok (lit. 'thanks doc') was a Philippine medical television program broadcast by ABS-CBN. Originally hosted by Cheryl Cosim. It aired from April 24, 2004 to May 3, 2020, replacing Magandang Umaga, Bayan Weekend. The program which provides information on diseases and medical concerns. The show also provides free on-air consultation with guest physicians. The program also conducts regular free medical/dental missions within the ABS-CBN complex in the Philippines. Bernadette Sembrano and Alvin Elchico served as the final hosts

History
The program premiered on April 24, 2004 with Cheryl Cosim as its host alongside ABS-CBN reporter Pier Pastor as one of its segment hosts. It won several awards from prestigious award-giving bodies like the Anak TV Seal in 2006 and 2007, KBP Golden Dove in 2007 and the USTv Students' Choice 2008 as Best Public Service program. It celebrated its 4th anniversary with their anniversary episodes, which featured recent scandals and controversies that rocked the medical community.

In March 2010, Bernadette Sembrano permanently replaced Cheryl Cosim, who had moved to TV5. This rivalry is due to GMA launch its own program, Pinoy M.D.

In August 2011, Alvin Elchico joins Sembrano as the new host of the show.

Veteran news personality and celebrity mom, Jing Castañeda, also joined the team as Program Host in December 2012, taking care of family issues/health, as well as the show's medical missions and healthy cooking segment.

On March 30, 2019, it aired its final episode on Saturday to give way for the 2 News and Current Affairs programs of ABS-CBN, namely: Mission Possible and My Puhunan.

From March 22 to June 21, 2020, the program temporarily suspended airings due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it was temporarily replaced by the live simulcast of ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC)'s coverage on the enhanced community quarantine as provisional programming on its timeslot until the temporary closure of ABS-CBN because of the cease and desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), following the expiration of the network's 25-year franchise granted in 1995.

The show resumed thru online and social media platforms as Thank You, Doc! on November 24, 2020.

Final hosts

 * Bernadette Sembrano (2010–2020)
 * Alvin Elchico (2011–2020)
 * Jing Castañeda (2012–2020)

Final Segment hosts

 * Pier Pastor (2004–2020)
 * Bryan Termulo (2016–2020)

Former hosts

 * Cheryl Cosim (2004–2010)
 * Sol Aragones (2011–2012)

Awards and nominations

 * 6th UPLB Gandingan Awards Best Public Service Program Host (2012)
 * 7th USTv Students’ Choice Awards Awards Best Public Service Program (2011)
 * Winner, Best Public Service Program: 8th Gawad Tanglaw (2010)
 * Winner, Best TV Public Affairs Program (2010) 19th Golden Dove Award
 * Winner, Best TV Public Affairs Program (2009) 18th Golden Dove Award
 * Winner, Best Public Service Program: 7th Gawad Tanglaw (2009)
 * 5th USTv Students’ Choice Awards Awards Best Public Service Program (2009)
 * Winner, Best TV Public Affairs Program (2008) 17th Golden Dove Award
 * Winner, Best TV Public Affairs Program (2008) 16th Golden Dove Award

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Thomas Oliver Selfridge Jr.

Thomas Oliver Selfridge Jr. (February 6, 1836 – February 4, 1924), son of Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge, was an officer in the United States Navy.

Early life
Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Selfridge graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1854. He was the first officer to receive a diploma from the Academy.

Civil War
At the beginning of the American Civil War, he helped with efforts to destroy the untenable Norfolk Navy Yard; and he then escaped from that burning and beleaguered base in the USS Cumberland, helping to save the sloop of war for the Union Navy. He participated in the capture of the Hatteras forts and was on board Cumberland on 8 March 1862 when she was sunk by Confederate ironclad, CSS Virginia. He then briefly commanded USS Monitor, after Lieutenant John L. Worden was wounded; and then commanded the USS Alligator, an experimental submarine, in testing operations based at the Washington Navy Yard.

In August, he joined the Mississippi Squadron, and subsequently commanded the USS Cairo and the USS Conestoga when those ships were sunk in action. Late in the war, he returned to the Atlantic where he commanded the USS Huron in the attacks on Fort Fisher; and he participated in the ensuing bombardment of Fort Anderson and the capture of Wilmington, North Carolina.

Postwar
His postwar service included command of USS Nipsic, USS Enterprise, and USS Omaha – the last two on the Asiatic Station. In 1870, while in command of the first of these ships, he led an expedition to Panama, surveying the landscape for a route that could be used for a canal. He also conducted subsequent expeditions to this area later in 1870 and again 1873. Although the route he proposed was not actually used for the Panama Canal, his work did show that Darien was not a good choice, thus narrowing down the construction possiblities.

He was promoted to captain in 1881. While in command of the Omaha in 1887, Selfridge conducted target practice off the coast of the Japanese island of Ikeshima which resulted in the deaths of four Japanese and the wounding of seven others. This created an international incident, but Selfridge was acquitted at a court martial in 1888.

In 1885, Captain Selfridge, of the U. S. man-of-war Omaha, delegated a lieutenant to present his compliments to Captain De Saune, the French commander of the Isère, laden with the Statue of Liberty, and suggest that Gravesend Bay would be a safer anchorage than the Sandy Hook Horseshoe.

He was promoted to commodore in 1894 and then had duty as Commander in Chief of the European Squadron from 1895 to 1898. While commanding the European Squadron his flagship was the cruiser USS San Francisco. He was promoted to rear admiral in 1896, which made him and his father the first father and son to be admirals in the United States Navy.

His nephew, Thomas Etholen Selfridge, a US Army Field Artillery officer and one of the first pilots in the nascent Army Air Service, became the first person ever to die in the crash of a powered airplane in 1908.

Rear Admiral Selfridge retired on February 6, 1898. He died from heart disease in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 1924.

Like his father, he was a Veteran Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and an Honorary Hereditary Companion of the Military Order of Foreign Wars. He was also a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor.

Namesake ships
USS Selfridge (DD-320) was named for the elder Rear Admiral Selfridge, while USS Selfridge (DD-357) was named for both officers.

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Christine Amertil

Christine Amertil (born 18 August 1979 in Nassau, New Providence) is a Bahamian athlete competing mainly in the 400 metres. She graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University.

Achievements

 * 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships – bronze medal
 * 3rd World Athletics Final – fifth place
 * 2004 Olympic Games – seventh place
 * 2nd World Athletics Final – fourth place
 * 2003 World Indoor Championships in Athletics – silver medal

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Vampire
Can you please cite/add a source for the remark you just added? Also the first line contained the word, "citites", which I assume you ment just city.--Kim Nevelsteen 08:49, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

King Diamond
Stop adding these paragraphs:

"King Diamond is widely regarded as the best vocalist in all of death metal. It is necesarry to say that there are two King Diamonds, the stage and offstage. King Diamond's wide octave range and Satanic lyrics provided an amazing basis for Mercyful Fate's success. Diamond wide octave range was used in everyone of his albums and even through his most famous work, A Corpse Without a Soul. Even James Hetfield from Metallica could not imitate his wide octave singing when Metallica released a Mercyful Fate Cover song in the Garage Inc. album.	 King Diamond uses a trademark Microphone stand made out of two human femur bones in the shape of an inverted cross. His makeup design was quite similar to that of Gene Simmons from Kiss and was sued because of it. His singing abilities are amazing and his stage prescence cannot be overstated as are his deeply occult allthough elaborated lyrics."

Most of it is either complete bullshit (death metal??? - come on) and highly POV. Spearhead 21:28, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * This contains wrong information: eg KD has nothing to do with Death metal, two KDs. and lots of POV issues: Best vocalist, amazing basis, his most famous work, His singing abilities are amazing. Besides that, don't rely on everything you read. Spearhead 08:27, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

"OK, lets say King Diamond has nothing to do with Death Metal as you say. Death metal is by definition any Heavy Metal song that speaks about death, suffering or mayhem. "
 * Just read the death metal page. It describes death metal as quite something different. Also look at the King Diamond (band) and Mercyful Fate page. Neither describes KD/MF as death metal. I've never heard any one describe KD as death metal either, KD is mostly progressive heavy metal with some power metal overtones and MF is proto black metal early on and later also progressive heavy metal. Spearhead 21:18, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * BTW sign your msgs using four tildes (~) Spearhead 21:18, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Michael Myers
Please stop adding the line about Captain Kirk to the Michael Myers article. The mask he wears in the movies is a Shatner mask, not a Kirk mask. Also, the "accurate guess" as to his height is speculation and is thus not encyclopedic. I changed this line to "[Myers] is well over six feet tall." I hope this will satisfy your desire to have his height listed. --Myles Long/cDc 18:45, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

van halen
you state that you don't understand why i keep reverting the same edits you make at Van Halen. you claim, "all the information I'm writing down is factually correct", and you ask why i keep erasing your changes.

your edits are being reverted not because it is you writing them, but because they are unacceptable for an encyclopedia. you're correct that i "do not own the article". if you'll notice, i have had my material erased/modified as well. that is how wikipedia works. the difference though is how you react to it. i can assure you that as long as i'm around, those changes are not going to stay in the article, especially since we're hoping for Featured Article status soon.

first, please do not insert slop into the article. i am not going to participate in a dynamic where you toss whatever you want in, then i'm supposed to clean it up because it's precious. wikipedia guidelines support you learning that you need to bring basic competence to the edit.

 * The Album was heavy on cover songs and included famous songs such as Ain't Talking 'bout love, Ice Cream Man-cover song- (Featuring Roth on Acoustic Guitar), Atomic Punk and a Kinks Cover of You Really Got Me.

that will eventually make it into the article in some form, provided you don't expect me or anybody else to format it for you.

maybe you can examine the following items against your claim that what you've written is "factually correct" rather than POV.

 * The secret to Van Halen's success were the complex compositions ranging from the hardest rock to the softest pop. Eddie Van Halen's self-taught technique of Guitar Tappings proved to so innovative that there has not been a change of this significance in guitar playing before (except for Jimi Hendrix) or since. The sound produced by Van Halen was nothing anyone had every heard before. Its influence cannot be overstated and it is clear that it set the tone for Hard Rock bands since.

you've dropped in from heaven to tell us what the secret to VH's success was, huh? no, that's utter POV, amid the poor grammar. it's POV that VH played from "the hardest rock to the softest pop" ("softest pop"? you can't seriously believe that). EVH acknowledges that his "Guitar Tappings", as you put it, were inspired by angus young. again, you're using the god voice to inform us that, "there has not been a change of this significance in guitar playing before (except for Jimi Hendrix) or since."? what about allan holdsworth (one of eddie's idols)? what about yngwie malmsteen (who i can't stand, but is held by some to be as significant as EVH)? the point is not that i'm arguing those players cross this line you've set up; the point is that it's your opinion, and is not something that can be called "factually correct". there are ways to convey the opinions of others (not your opinions though, or mine), and if you study and apply wikipedia guidelines and policy to your edits, i think we'll be headed toward agreement with your edits. "cannot be overstated"? oh, i disagree.

you changed:
 * Sammy Hagar - lead vocals (1985-1996), (2004-)

to
 * Sammy Hagar - lead vocals Acompany Guitar (Live Venues) (1985-1996), (2004-)

the article does not need misspellings, nor incomprehensible additions such as "(Live Venues)". why would you capitalize that? why would you not, after being reverted so many times, not attempt to spell "Acompany" correctly, though that's not even remotely how to express what you're trying to?

you want to up your game, i'm all for it. as a fellow VH fan, i'll be one of your biggest supporters. but if you're not interested in doing anything but inserting the same rejected material over and over as if it's going to change anything, please just stop. thanks. SaltyPig 10:12, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Personal attacks
No personal attacks. I've removed comments by you and SaltyPig that violate this policy. Please don't make me do it again. --Scimitar parley 23:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

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User:Lostprophyt

About Me

I'm a 32 year old Nerd/Musician, currently tethered to the boondock hills of Central Pennsylvania. I've been quite a few diverse things in my lifetime, including pizza delivery guy, bar DJ/KJ, insulator, college teacher, roadie, web site designer, media guru, technology guru, and general hellraiser. Currently, I work in wholesale.

I've made some minor edits to Wikipedia, though they're few and far between. Mostly, I try to clean up grammar and structure, or add little details whenever I can. The only article I've done alot of work on that's actually stuck is the one on the Rowland Theater...

I also participate in such sites as Fark.com, Wil Wheaton's blogs, and Slashdot.org as a commenting community member.

In my spare time, I enjoy music, movies, writing and reading.

A Long Story Short
I was born in Baltimore, MD in late 1977, immediately given up for adoption, and brought to live in Pennsylvania, where I've spent the majority of my life. I've lived in Clearfield County as well as Pittsburgh, and prefer the latter much, much more. After graduating from the Art Institute in 1999, I returned home, where I've eeked out a decent living for myself, with the usual (and not-so-usual) hurdles to jump.

Music
My three all-time favorite bands are, from third to first: Tool, KMFDM, and Pink Floyd.

I have recorded one album, "Slip Into Never" with Tempered Edge. The trouble is, the guy who recorded it sucked ass at engineering and producing, so the album sounds flat and crappy. While I don't feel that my vocal performance that day was up to snuff, I'm still immensely proud of that album, since recording one at all was a dream I've had since I was a kid.

From the above, you can guess I'm a singer. I also play a little guitar, and a few simpler instruments. I lack the ability to play and sing at the same time for some reason, resulting in me doing one or the other.

The fact that I edit here will forever bond the "Weird Al" song "White and Nerdy" to the soundtrack of my life. Other notable songs include:
 * "Hold Me Now" by Thompson Twins
 * "Us and Them" by Pink Floyd
 * "Stray Bullet" by KMFDM
 * "True Companion" by Donald Fagen (from the soundtrack to Heavy Metal)
 * "Piano Man" by Billy Joel
 * "Get Over" by Marvelous 3
 * "Pet" by A Perfect Circle
 * "Jerk Off" by Tool
 * And many more I won't bore you with. Sinatra's in there, though...

The core members of Buck-It lack a spine, so for now, I'm a free agent.

Shows

 * Toons: Foster's Home, KND, Futurama, Gundam, Tenchi, Robot Chicken, Family Guy, ATHF, Sealab 2021, Dragonball/Z/GT, Ranma, old school Saturday Morning Cartoons
 * Live Action: ''Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Jericho, Mythbusters, Smallville, MacGyver, Star Trek/TNG/DS9/Voyager/Enterprise

Movies

 * The Top 5 (and then some)
 * 1) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 * 2) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - (Yes, three, I know, but it's one story.)
 * 3) The Star Wars Saga (Six this time. I know how to cram.)
 * 4) History of the World, Part I
 * 5) The Neverending Story
 * Other Favorites: Demolition Man, The Notebook, James Bond flicks, Stand By Me, Labyrinth, Blade Runner, War Games, films by Hayao Miyazaki, Moulin Rouge!, Without a Paddle, Adam Sandler flicks, and many, many more...

Links

 * Fark.com - It's Not News, It's Fark.
 * TotalFark.com - It's Not Fark, It's TotalFark: For those of you with an extra $5 a month...
 * Slashdot.org - News For Nerds. Stuff That Matters.
 * Wil Wheaton dot Net: In Exile - Wil Wheaton's not-so-temporary Blog

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Cover to the Diorama album by Silverchair.

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Article Comments
Got something to say about my edits? Say it here! Lostprophyt 18:46, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Friend Zone
For friends of mine who happen to be Wikipedians... Lostprophyt 18:46, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Other Crap
General comments and chatter welcome here! Lostprophyt 18:46, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

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User:Myrtti

I'm Miia Sample, I'm also known on the Internet as "Myrtti". I'm 30 years old female, living in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. I concentrate on the Finnish Wikipedia, but I might poke into some of English Wikipedia too.

I've been an admin and member of the Finnish Arbitration Committee in the Finnish Wikipedia.

If you need to contact me via my discussion page, I beg you, do so in English, Finnish or Swedish. I do understand German, French, Italian and Latin to some degree, but if you want me to understand everything you're saying...

I've contributed in
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Links
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 * My user page in fi.wikipedia
 * I am I listen
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Delta Academy of Dance

 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 Delete. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:35, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Delta Academy of Dance, Pacific Rim Performing Arts Studios
Looks like self-promotion for a local business offering dance classes since 1966 in a town (Tsawwassen, British Columbia) with a population of 25,000. See also links from 56th Street. Uppland 08:56, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable, and wikipedia is not an advertising agency. The JPS 15:18, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per JPS. --GraemeL (talk) 18:47, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --[[Image:Ottawa flag.png|20px]] Spinboy 00:35, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.