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HSwMS Magne (30)

HSwMS Magne (30) was a Mode-class destroyer of the Swedish Navy during World War II. She was built at Götaverken and was launched on 25 April 1942 as the second ship of the Mode class. The ship was rebuilt in the mid-1950s and reclassified to frigate in 1953 when she received pennant number 74. Magne was scrapped in Ystad in 1973. The name comes from Magni, the son of Thor in Nordic mythology.

Design
Magne was 78 meters long, 8.1 meters wide and had a depth of 2.3 meters. The default deployment was 635 tons and the maximum displacement was 785 tons. The machinery consisted of two Penhoët A oil-fired boilers, which supplied steam to two steam turbines which propelled their propellers. The machine developed 16,000 horsepower, which gave the ship a maximum speed of 30 knots (55 km/h). The main armament consisted of three 10.5 cm guns m/42. These were placed in separate towers, one on the back deck, one on the aft deck and one on the aft superstructure. The air defense was consisted of two 40 mm anti-aircraft automatic guns m/36 and two 20 mm anti-aircraft automatic guns m/40. Three torpedo tubes for 53 cm torpedoes sitting in a triple set of the aft superstructure and further were two depth charge thrower and two rack-deployed depth charges. 42 mines could also be carried for mining.

History
Magne was built at Götaverken in Gothenburg and was launched on 25 April 1942 and was delivered to the Swedish Navy already on 26 November that year. After delivery, Magne entered the Coastal Fleet, where she served during the rest of World War II.

In 1953 Magne was reclassified to frigate and was rebuilt in the mid-1950s. One of the 10.5 cm guns as well as the torpedo racks was then removed and the 40 mm guns m/36 were replaced m/48 with the same caliber. In addition, an anti-submarine granade m/51.

Fate
Magne was decommissioned on 1 January 1966 and was subsequently used as training ship at the machinery school at the Berga Naval Training Schools. In 1973 the ship was scrapped in Ystad.

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Talk:Powers of Ten (film)

copied text in intro
The introductory section is basically just copy-pasted text from the second and third paragraphs from here: http://www.powersof10.com/film, with a few minor changes. IBrow1000 (talk) 14:10, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

big = small

 * An interresting aspect mentioned by Robbert Dijkgraaf is that when one zooms out into the universe one goes back in time and thus the farthest image, of the whole universe, is really one of the universe at the 'time' of the Big Bang, when it was infinitely small. In this sense, the two extremes come together.

That's not interesting; it's contrived for the sake of parading the French proverb les extrêmes se touchent. The largest scale in Powers of 10 is 1026 m, which is certainly not the 'whole universe'. In a square 10 billion light years on a side, the corners are just 7 billion light years from the center, where the Earth is located. That's just half the age of the universe. Most points in the square are considerably closer. —Herbee 00:47, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

I wonder if the number 1026 is really correct? The largest scale mentioned on the website is only 1025 m. Pity I haven't seen the film. —Herbee 01:03, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

 * I am not sure what you mean with that square and the points in it (how can a point be small? It has no dimensions). The comment was not on the the film specifically, but on the notion of zooming out (and thus going back in time - this might need some more explaining) until you reach the furthest point you can reach (whether the film does this or not is irrelevant - maybe that should be stated too), which corresponds with the Big Bang, just before which (there's a little flaw) the universe was immensely small ('infinitely small' is probably wrong). I don't claim to fully understand this (but then, who does?) but this is the best rendition I can give of what Dijkgraaf said. And I do find it an interresting obsevation, in the spirit of the film (mind-boggling aspects of the universe, or what should I call that). DirkvdM 07:12, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * No reaction to this yet, so I'll put it back and see what happens :) . DirkvdM 08:15, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Other Versions or Similar Movies?
I have seen this film (at School and in several museums) but I also recall once seeing a more recent movie that was very similar slightly more polished but in other ways not as good as the original. I think it may have been an IMAX (or another large format) movie. I also recall that instead of squares on the zoom out this other version had circles. Does anyone know about this or other remakes? -Waza 02:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * NASM IMAX Cosmic Voyage. There have been several other movies and books too. 66.30.119.55 14:35, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

When zooming out, the 107 m rectangle fits snuggly around the Earth, when it should really be somewhat bigger

 * Did I miss something, or is the Earth's diameter no longer greater than 12,700,000m? Aragorn2 12:28, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The Earth is slightly bigger. The article does seem a bit unclear.  I tweaked it. 66.30.119.55 14:35, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I think the earth-fitting-in-a-frame-of-10^7-m criticism is mistaken, which mostly vitiates the "errors" paragraph. The assertion of incorrect frame size ignores the angular width of the view, which will cause the view to span a larger sphere than the viewframe itself, because the earth is on the far side of the viewframe: The 10^7-meter view frame is constructed not through the middle of the earth but in a plane tangent to the near side of the earth, at Chicago. A customary angle of view for a camera shot of "ordinary" proportions (neither wide-angle nor telephoto) will be something like 32 degrees high and 49 degrees wide (for a 3:2 frame whose viewing distance equals its diagonal, the standard rule of thumb). Having a view frame of that height would place the viewpoint (the "camera") at an altitude of 1.8 x 10^7 meters from Chicago, i.e., 2.44 x 10^7 meters from the center of the earth, which would cause the view angle to lie tangent to a sphere centered on the center of the earth and having a diameter of 1.35 x 10^7 meters -- a bit larger than the earth, so this would allow leeway for a somewhat narrower view angle than I have assumed. I think Philip Morrison, who not only narrated but consulted on the film, would have done that trig. I think the Eameses could have too for that matter. Now -- I grant that as you zoom on out toward the next order of magnitude, the parallax should change and the earth should end up hanging out past the frame -- but computationally that's a bit much to ask of a film made in 1977. At the point in the film when the view frame's size was actually declared, the view was actually legitimate. And I grant that the frame is too big on the return trip. That was assuredly a lapse. But with the principal alleged inaccuracy being mistaken, I think the "errors" paragraph loses much of its point for being. Crispin miller (talk) 02:45, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

How Big Are Things? was an experiment in avoiding some of the pedagogical pitfalls of "Powers of Ten". 66.30.119.55 14:35, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

 * This may be relevant to the date discussion below also. There were at least two versions of the film.  The first, which I saw (repeatedly) at the Air and Space Museum in DC maybe around 77/78 was in black and white, the picnicker was alone without the female companion, a few details like the dna were inferior, and the first narrator may indeed have been a female voice.  I assume it was a prototype for the color version that followed, though the music was identical.  Probably worth adding in, but wanted to check on discussion first.  Chris Rodgers (talk) 06:54, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

@ Chris Rodgers-- "A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe" (1968) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0063525/ "Powers of 10" (1977, the finished version the above "rough sketch" eventually resulted in) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0078106/

In fact, I recall seeing the former version at the Air & Space Museum as recently as 1997. I was rather startled upon hearing the female narration, 'cos it wasn't the same as the male narration I'd heard in repeated screenings of the latter on 16mm at school..... ;o)  MXocross 00:33, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Images
This article would definitely benefit from images. I imagine the cover jacket of the book or video are considered fair use? 24.63.125.78 14:51, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Very Similar to Cosmic Zoom
This sounds almost identical to the 1968 Canadian short documentary Cosmic Zoom, which was based on the book Cosmic View. Pufnstuf 03:09, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Other Related works and references in pop culture
Contact and Men in Black had scenes that involved zooming out from earth to a scale much larger. Should they, too, be listed in this section of this article? --HantaVirus 19:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Not all these works are references to this film. This is a very old concept and only works which are verifiable reference should be listed. (no original research!)

Stephen Dedalus

Class of Elements

Clongowes Wood College

Sullins

County Kildare

Ireland

Europe

The World

The Universe A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kwenchin (talk) 18:16, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

According to SCOTT QUINN's website (http://www.withoutuntil.com/sq.htm) Shawn Lane's record's named after the book. Kwenchin (talk) 03:40, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

shown at NMPFT Bradforf, UK
During the late 80's to mid 90's (AFAIK) this was shown continuously in a dedicated seating area in the bottom floor of bradford's national museum of photography film and television, saw it several times there when growing up and it totally blew my mind :-)

may be relevant to this page somehow, may not

Is it definitely 1977?
I could almost swear I saw this Powers of Ten (I'd forgotten the title, but I remember the man on the blanket) much earlier in the '70's, because it was in "Bull Moose Films" which were shown during lunch-ish time when I was at the University of Washington, and I wasn't there after about 1973. Can there have been an earlier version? 81.43.76.71 21:30, 23 February 2007 (UTC) Catanea

 * I'm very curious about this too, because in Schrader on Schrader (Faber, revised ed. 2004), there is an essay by Paul Schrader on Eames' work in film ("Poetry of Ideas: The Films of Charles Eames") which mentions Powers of Ten. The essay was originally published in Film Quarterly in Spring 1970 (seven years earlier than 1977, to emphasise the obvious), and the description it gives is that of a film the same as that on the Google website (currently linked to from the bottom of this article) in general terms, but not in specifics. It says that "the right central section of the screen pictures the actual zoom, at the left of the screen a dashboard with several clocks shows the total distance travelled, the power of ten achieved, the traveller's time, the earth time, and the percentage of the speed of light." This is all greatly simplified in the version linked to. Schrader also writes that "a dispassionate female voice ... describes every second of the journey in full" (in the linked version the voice is male). The score, however, seems to have been the same ("an eerie score supplied by Elmer Bernstein on a miniature Japanese organ").

 * So it seems there was indeed an version of the film earlier than 1977 (Schrader calls the film "recent", but I can't see a specific date). I'm reluctant to edit the article myself, since this is just something I've stumbled upon, and working it into what we've got already seems like a non-trivial task (especially given that I've never seen the original and know nothing about the circumstances under which it was apparently revised), but it's surely something that ought to be mentioned. --Camembert 17:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Without knowing its actual year, there was an earlier version; see discussion above under versions. Chris Rodgers (talk) 06:57, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

(See above section) Earlier version was "A Rough Sketch..." (1968) Kwenchin (talk) 02:59, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I have fixed the date as 1968 (with a 1977 rerelease), as given in (the correction to) the NYT obituary cited. Powers of Ten is also indirectly referenced in a 1972 book by Arthur C. Clarke, if necessary. Goochelaar  (talk) 18:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Men in Black reference
I'm not sure that the feature film was referencing this short film specifically in that sequence. I've never seen this short film, nor can I recall having even heard of it until now, but I have seen a sequence before similar to the one in Men in Black, where zooming out ultimately showed something like what was portrayed in the feature film, with the entirety of the known universe as merely some trivial object in a fantastic setting, because I was reminded of it while I watched that part of Men in Black. Unfortunately right now I can't think of the source or even the details of this alternate reference. Of course, whatever it was I was reminded of could have been referencing Powers of Ten anyway. B7T 16:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * You maybe were thinking of the opening sequence of Contact, where we zoom out from Earth orbit to the edges of the universe and end up in a reflection of the main protagonist's eye. Contact is by now included in the article. Men in Black (released one week earlier than Contact) ends with a zoom out from Earth's surface to (merely) our own galaxy, to reveal it's in a marble some alien is using to play with (see youtube ) --87.239.206.56 (talk) 01:07, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Removal of "needs infobox" tag
This article has had its infobox tag removed by a cleanup using AWB. Any concerns please leave me a message at my talk page. RWardy 19:01, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Zoom out but traveling in?
One thing that has struck me as odd about Powers of Ten is whether we're really "zooming out" and "zooming in" as the article implies. When we travel into the blood vessel, we're not just magnifying / zooming in, but actually travelling INTO the body, no? Coop (talk) 15:34, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

 * The two are not mutually exclusive. The proton in the C nucleus is intended to be the center point; to look at it from far away, you must emerge from the atom, the human, the Earth's atmosphere, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Glengarry (talk • contribs) 21:52, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

free alternatives?
Are there any free videos to the same effect? With Wikipedia's new powers of video hosting, this would be an encyclopedic project. The macroscopic part could be rendered quite easily with Celestia or similar, but I am not familiar with software that could be used for the microscopic part. --dab (𒁳) 17:41, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Google Maps
This article currently includes the statement:
 * Google Maps notes the location of the blanket with text reading, "Powers of Ten".

I've removed the following external link: from that sentence because it does not show what the statement says it should. I don't know if it's because there's something wrong with the link, if Google removed the text, or whatever else the problem might be. I've fact-tagged the statement in hopes that someone might fix this. Otherwise we should remove the sentence. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:14, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sll=41.865007,-87.613381&sspn=0.00312,0.006952&ie=UTF8&ll=41.864967,-87.613376&spn=0.001512,0.004495&z=19

 * It's visible here:
 * http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=powers+of+10&sll=41.863433,-87.616621&sspn=0.00306,0.004565&ie=UTF8&hq=powers+of+10&hnear=&ll=41.87052,-87.615023&spn=0.01224,0.01826&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A
 * —Fred (talk) 17:59, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Cultural References
Did this article used to have a section for these?

I wanted to add a link to this very popular internet cartoon:

http://xkcd.com/271/

--Adxm (talk) 15:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Many Wikipedians love xkcd, but we don't add mention to articles for every cultural reference (xkcd or otherwise). Only notable instances generally belong. Otherwise Biblical and Shakespearean articles would be 90% "cultural references" sections... :) -- Quiddity (talk) 19:39, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Ah yes, "notable" - one of the many subjective inconsistencies that Wikipedia is riddled with. Ah well. Adxm (talk) 19:43, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Yes, but it was silently removed in March Kwenchin (talk) 19:51, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Articles are notable, or they are removed. Content is encyclopedic or not. See WP:NNC. Lentower (talk) 08:05, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

conflict in citations?
There are two citations to the revised book. The year differs, as well as minor details:

Can they be combined into one? If yes, please do so. Lentower (talk) 07:56, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

broken link
The article contained a broken link to http://www.powersof10.com, which is a broken link. I deleted the link. User Lentower reverted my edit without explanation. I'm redeleting the broken link. Lentower, please don't make further counterproductive edits without participating in discussion or giving reasons for your actions.--Fashionslide (talk) 00:27, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The addition of dead link to my revert of your edit is explanation enough for most editors (dead link was also in my edit summary). But in looking further, I see that dead links are handled differently in External links sections. I about to revert your last edit with the active link to an archive copy. Did you check for an archive copy before deleting this "broken" link? The information is valuable to Wikipedia's readers. — Lentower (talk) 03:22, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

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Category:Colonies of Magna Graecia

Colonies in antiquity of Magna Graecia founded by Greeks.

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Bubba Church

Emory Nicholas "Bubba" Church (September 12, 1924 – September 17, 2001) was an American professional baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (1950–52), Cincinnati Reds / Redlegs (1952–53), and Chicago Cubs (1953–55).

A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Church posted a 36–37 record, with 274 strikeouts, and a 3.37 earned run average (ERA), in $999 2⁄3$ innings pitched, over the course of his six-season big league career.

Baseball career
During his rookie season, Church was playing a key role for the famed 1950 "Whiz Kids" Phillies in their fight for a pennant. He pitched a week later, but after the game his season was over, and he did not play in the 1950 World Series. He finished 1950 at 8–6 with an ERA of 2.73 and two shutouts in 142 innings.

Church enjoyed his most productive season in 1951, when he collected career-highs in victories (15), strikeouts (104), shutouts (4) and innings (246), including a one-hitter over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Early in the 1952 season, he was traded to the Reds. Church was 5–9 for Cincinnati, and 7–8 for the Reds and the Chicago Cubs in 1953. He pitched for the Cubs until his career ended in 1955.

Prior to Church's professional baseball career, he served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II serving in the China Burma India Theater.

Death
On September 17, 2001, Church died at his home in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 77.

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Talk:Collateral Damage (Stargate SG-1)

Episode separation
I feel this should be merged with the SG1 article as it really would be too much if we should have articles relating to each episode of every TV-show... which I'm sure various fans would happily write. I wouldn't mind deleting it... but I suppose this is the lesser evil Celcius 00:49, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't understand what the problem is with having an article for each episide. As you note there will be no shortage of people prepared to write the articles.  I was considering which ones to write myself when I saw this the proposal to merge this article with the main article.  Startrek and many other programs are moving towards one article per episode.  It seems to be a natural progression for a medium such as Wikipedia.  Wikipedia certainly has no problem storing the data.  If people want to write the articles and others wish to read them why artificially restrict access to this information?  A merge with the main article would necessarily limit the amount of information that would be stated on each episode.  Let's try to expand Wikipedia not cut it down. Robertbrockway 00:06, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

As it stands, Stargate SG-1 has a spin-off series and is finished at 10 seasons. I agree each episode deserves a page of it's own. I will be working on this article in the meantime... -- Mattathias

I think it is worthwhile having a separate page for each episode. Steven Plunkett 23:24, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Sourcing information
This page is a clear and blatant cut and paste job from Gateworld.net, and needs serious refinement. Steven Plunkett 23:24, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Fixed that little problem.--KrossTalk 09:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Copy edited and minors edits
All of this looks and sounds fine(grammer/english-wise). Made two minor spelling edits.Avsn 20:24, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Dedicated to...
This episode had an "In memory of..." in it's closing credits but I didn't catch it. Does anyone know whom it was to and why (other than he died)? I think this should be mentioned in a notes section or something.

 * I rewached the episode for you and the mention is: "In memory of Jeff Upton"
 * Who that is? I don't know! :D Sjowie 22:44, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[According to the director's commentary on the Season 9 DVD's, Jeff Upton was a Gaffer (lighting electrician) on Stargate: SG-1, who passed away during the filming of this episode. (Kevin, October 2006)]

[Same found on imdb ]Héfahistos (talk) 01:01, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Father of Mitchell
I don't have the sources to back it up, but having just watched the episode, and seeing how much Mitchell looks like his father in the episode, I'm beginning to think it's Ben Browder's real father. Can anyone confirm this? 82.75.183.164 15:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, Ben Browder was born in 1962 and Ian Robison, who plays Mitchell's father, was born in 1965. So, probably not. (this is a reply with a 6.5 year delay, not bad) 188.62.65.80 (talk) 22:49, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

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Michael Hogan (Gaelic footballer)

Michael Hogan (27 October 1896 – 21 November 1920) was a Gaelic footballer and one-time Captain of the Tipperary county team. He was a member of the Irish Volunteers and was born in the Grangemockler area of County Tipperary. He was the only player shot dead (along with 13 spectators) by the Royal Irish Constabulary at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday during the Irish War of Independence. The Hogan Stand at Croke Park is named in his memory.

Bloody Sunday
Hogan took part in a challenge match between Tipperary and Dublin at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920. The day before, he travelled on the train with the other members of the team. A number of the players, including Hogan, became involved in a fight with soldiers from the Lincolnshire Regiment before throwing them from the train. On arrival at (Kingsbridge) Heuston Station, they quickly went their separate ways anticipating arrest. Michael and Thomas Ryan, the two IRA members on the team, decided to stay at Philip Shanahan's pub in Monto that night, rather than Barry's Hotel as planned. There they learned that 'there was a 'big job coming off' the following day, but were unaware of the details. The following morning, Phil Shanahan informed them of the shooting of British agents. Ryan claims that Dan Breen advised them it would be better not to attend the match, but instead to return to Tipperary. During the match, Black and Tans entered Croke Park and opened fire on the crowd. Hogan was one of the 14 people killed. Tom Ryan, a young spectator from Wexford, entered the pitch to pray beside the dying Hogan and was also fatally shot. Another player, Jim Egan, was wounded, but survived.

The Hogan Stand at Croke Park, built in 1924, is named in his memory.

Personal life
Hogan was the brother of Major General Daniel (Dan) Hogan, who was Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces in the 1920s. His family were close friends of the Browne family, also from Grangemockler, that included the late Cardinal Michael Browne, Monsignor Maurice Browne (aka Joseph Brady), and Monsignor Pádraig de Brún, who later wrote that "he had identified Mick Hogan at the military inquiry to spare his brother Tom the ordeal."

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Drake of the 99 Dragons

Drake of the 99 Dragons is a third-person shooter video game developed by Swedish studio Idol FX and published by Majesco Sales. The game stars Drake, an undead assassin who is on a quest to avenge his murdered clan, the 99 Dragons, by recovering their ancient "Soul Portal Artifact" from antagonist Tang. Tang intends on using the artifact to harvest the souls of dead beings and power his undead cyborg army.

Idol FX intended for Drake of the 99 Dragons to be the launchpad for a multimedia franchise, which would include comics and a potential animated television series. However, these plans were scrapped due to the game's negative reception, and is often noted as one of the worst video games ever made. On March 7, 2018, the Microsoft Windows port of the game was rereleased on Steam.

Gameplay
Drake has a number of special moves, such as the abilities to double jump and to run up walls. He also has the ability to slow down time. Drake's health depends primarily on absorbing the souls of his fallen opponents, although there are also red "lost souls" which deplete Drake's health.

As a means of defense, Drake uses a wide arrangement of guns and firearms. The player is able to control two guns by using the left and right triggers. In the Xbox version, an aiming reticle (a common staple of third-person shooters) is excluded; instead, an auto-targeting feature is implemented to help Drake aim and fire at the player's enemies. In the PC version, however, an aiming reticle is used.

Plot
Drake is the premier assassin of a Hong Kong based clan known as the 99 Dragons. While training in the Kwoon, he hears a break in. He enters the chamber containing the Soul Portal Artifact, given to the clan over 3000 years ago, battling enemies before a mysterious Ghost Assassin swoops out of the room with the artifact. The assassin is in cahoots with Tang, a businessman and the clan's mortal enemy. Drake then pursues the assassin, but is unable to stop the villain when he phases out of a window of the penthouse. He returns to the Master's chamber, only to find the corpses of himself, the Master, and the other members of his clan.

Shocked, Drake collapses, and the tattoo on his chest glows. In a flashback, Drake is given the tattoo of the Undying Dragon by The Master, which provides him with supernatural powers as well as immortality. The tattoo glows, and Drake unleashes the abilities to run up walls, slow down time, and freeze time. He explores the penthouse and collects thirty souls of his fallen comrades and enemies. When the powers go to Drake's head, he leaps out a window and falls to his death. He then awakens in the Spirit Realm and is scolded by the four Spirit Gods. They inform him that he must collect more souls for the Undying Dragon and recover the Soul Portal Artifact in order to avenge his Master's death. They give him a new body and return him to the mortal realm. He pursues a courier and follows his blood trail to a fireworks factory. Drake shoots at him but is killed in a sudden explosion.

The gods, annoyed once more at Drake's lack of competence, bring him back to life and send him to the House of the Dreaming Cloud casino. There, Drake attempts to find the courier but is attacked by the casino's owner Pok and his demon dogs. After defeating Pok, Drake tails the courier to the Hung Fook Casino Palace, where it turns out he lost the Soul Portal Artifact in a gambling match. A thug beats Chun to near-death for his mishap, but Drake saves his life in time and learns the location of the Soul Portal Artifact. Drake quickly sets off through the city, fending off biker gangs along the way, and returns to the House of the Dreaming Cloud.

While fighting Pok, now in his "true" demonic form, Drake once again gets caught up in an explosion. Serpent-Eye Sung, a business partner and accomplice of Tang, steals the Soul Portal Artifact from a dying Drake and heads off to his canned seafood factory, where they are harvesting the soul from an albino orca. Drake goes to stop Serpent-Eye and take the Artifact back but is attacked by Tang's henchwoman Banshee and killed once more. The Spirit Gods decide to cut their losses and send Drake back to the penthouse, where the Tang Undertakers are stealing the corpses of the 99 Dragons. Drake chases after a truck holding his master's body and finds himself taken to a cyborg creation facility. There, he finds that Master has been turned into a cyborg, but manages to defeat the robot and retrieve his Master's body from the remains.

Outraged, Drake decides to go after Tang. Upon infiltrating Tang Towers, he discovers Tang's true scheme: to use the artifact to reap the souls from the Spirit Realm and use those souls to power his cyborg army. Drake then breaks into Tang's secret morgue facility and recaptures his clan members' souls. He then travels to the basements of the facility, where Tang is using the artifact to open the portal to the spirit realm. Drake fights and defeats a demon-like creature, but the Ghost Assassin steals the Soul Portal Artifact and escapes into the spirit realm. Drake enters the realm and pursues the assassin, ultimately defeating him. He then retrieves the Soul Portal Artifact and collects the Master's soul.

Drake then falls down to a nest of a three-headed beast called the Spirit Lord Supreme and defeats it. Drake then goes back to the Serene Garden and revives the Master with the artifact. Master thanks Drake for his efforts, stating that he achieved a level of proficiency even he was unable to reach, and he has proven himself to the Gods.

Reception
Drake of the 99 Dragons received "generally unfavorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. It was ranked as the second-worst game for the original Xbox. In July 2006, X-Play called Drake the single worst game ever released for the Xbox, even going so far as to state that it had eclipsed the game Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis as "the standard by which they rate all bad games". Alex Navarro of GameSpot named it the second worst "frightfully bad" game of 2003 in Halloween 2004, right behind Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

The game was criticized for its controls, along with frustrating gameplay. The game's dual-wielding system, in which players could control two guns independently by using the trigger buttons to shoot and an analog stick to aim, was notably criticized for having a poorly-implemented targeting system that made it difficult to aim. Frequent criticism centered around its unwieldy camera that often got stuck or prevented the player from seeing the on-screen action, and was mapped to the same analog stick as the aiming reticle.

The game was also panned for its poor voice acting, low-quality graphics, character animations, and sound design; in particular, GameSpot's Navarro felt that the game was a "cacophony of terrible effects and voice acting"—noticing the re-use of stock sounds notably used in AOL Instant Messenger, and comparing the title character's voice to a cross between a game show host and "the Moviefone guy". He also felt that, due to the game's "disjointed" cutscenes and narration, the storyline of the game was nearly incomprehensible.

While Aaron Boulding of IGN praised the game's unique visual appearance and presentation, along with the "bullet time" audio effects whilst slowing down time, he concluded that Drake of the 99 Dragons was "a good idea that went horribly astray and ended up disastrous" and that "there's no need to rent, purchase or entertain the thought of playing this one". GameSpot's Navarro considered the Xbox version "an out-and-out failure in every single discernable category".

Reviewing the game retrospectively in light of the Steam release, Luke Winkie of PC Gamer opined that the PC port was "somehow the best version" and credited his assessment with the removal of the notoriously inaccurate auto-aim functionality found in the console versions. While he deemed it "still a bad game," Winkie expressed that he overall enjoyed the experience, and lamented that it had left him nostalgic for the era of video game releases during which Drake had been published. Ultimately, Winkie concluded his retrospective stating that Drake 's rerelease was a sign of Majesco "calcifying their legacy" after ceasing active business in the video games market, and that it was ultimately "a triumph" that the game had resurfaced.

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Talk:History of the Los Angeles Lakers

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It's about time someone did this article. As much as I dislike the current version of the Lakers, their history is well worth its own page. Great job! Dknights411 00:50, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'd noticed that the "Team History" section of the Lakers article had been blank for a while, so I went ahead and put this together. I'll go back and add some images at a later time. Hope you don't mind the edits I did on that page too. --Howcheng 06:15, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree. Big props for creating this article, and also to the people, including myself, who have improved it as well. I've read many books on the Lakers' history but this one is right up there ;) keep it up guys. MCDRLx 08:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

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The 07-08 Season is "overly" overdone
Dude, you gotta be kiddin me about that section. Nearly every one of their playoff games are overly detailed. We gotta cut it down. It was just one half of a season. Crackdahack (talk) 12:25, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Agreed. The playoff info is basically a cut and copy of from the 2007-08 season article and the 2008 NBA Finals article. The majority of it can simply be deleted. A little bit of info about the current season should maybe be added also. --Ted87 (talk) 06:15, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Also: Do we need these ridiculous section headlines. "A new sheriff in town" or whatever? I don't see the purpose. This isn't a book. You don't give heading little witty chapters on wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AntiangelicAngel (talk • contribs) 00:49, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

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2016-present: Post-Bryant era
ok, I really think it shouldn't be called Post-Bryant era because really if you think about it the Post Bryant era started in 2013 when he injured his achilles on April 12th, 2013, he wasn't the same after that, the Bryant/Gasol duo was over, and ever since then the Lakers had Management problems, The era started 3 years late, I think it should be "The Young Core" and Arrival of LeBron James. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Speller (talk • contribs) 21:30, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

I think we should change the name of it The Speller (talk) 14:42, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Can we change it please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Speller (talk • contribs) 17:01, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

 * The last season wasn't notable. Lonzo and Kuzma played one season, Ingram missed a lot of games, and LeBron hasn't played one game yet. "The Young Core" is not an official nickname. Almost every NBA team has a young core. This is WP:CRYSTAL. --Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 18:59, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

The Post Bryant era started three years too late, this is the start of the LeBron James era — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Speller (talk • contribs) 02:06, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

 * I suggest you discuss this at WT:NBA instead so you can get more responses. --Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 04:04, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

FYI: The most recent discussion on this topic was at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Basketball_Association/Archive_38.—Bagumba (talk) 05:49, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

History
Update the headers up to date. 2019-present Rich 0144 (talk) 18:25, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Update the header! It's the got damn 2019-present. Dumb as hell to still have Post Kobe still as ongoing while the Lakers are 1st seed and are title contenders. Y'all are narrow minded. And Kobe Bryant passed away in January. Rich 0144 (talk) 02:51, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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Sandan

Sandan SD may refer to:
 * Dan (rank)
 * Desmodium oojeinense, a flowering tree native to India and Nepal
 * Hittite god Šanta
 * Sandan District, Cambodia
 * Sandan-kyō, ravine in Japan

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HSwMS Sjölejonet (1936)

HSwMS Sjölejonet was the lead ship of a class of nine naval submarines in the service of the Swedish Navy from just before World War II into the early Cold War. The submarines were ordered in response to the rising German threat to the south in the interwar period. Sjölejonet remained in service until 1959 and was sold for scrap in 1962.

Background and description
After 1930 the rise of the German threat to the south produced more investment in Sweden's military. The Swedish Navy was given more funds and new submarine designs were ordered. Sjölejonet was the lead ship of her class of submariness. The vessel measured 64.2 m long with a beam of 6.4 m and a draught of 3.4 m. Sjölejonet had a standard displacement of 580 LT and 760 LT submerged. The vessel was propelled by two propellers powered by two MAN diesel engines when surfaced creating 2100 bhp and two electric motors when submerged rated at 1000 hp. This gave the submarine a maximum speed of 16.2 kn surfaced and 10 kn submerged. The submarine had a crew of 38. Sjölejonet was armed with six 21 in torpedo tubes, three of which were situated in the bow, one in the stern and the remaining two in a single traversing deck mounting. For anti-aircraft defence, the submarines had two 40 mm guns in disappearing mounts.

In the 1950s, Sjölejonet underwent a major refit where the guns and deck torpedo tubes were removed and the conning tower was streamlined. The submarine's displacements remained the same, now 650 LT surfaced and the diesels capable of 3000 bhp and electric motors 2000 hp, but only a maximum speed of 15 kn surfaced. The number of crew was reduced to 32.

Construction and career
Constructed by Kockums MV A/Bat their shipyard in Malmö, Sweden, Sjölejonet's keel was laid down in 1935. The submarine was launched on 25 July 1936 and was commissioned on 21 August 1938. The submarine remained in service until stricken on 15 May 1959. The vessel was sold for scrap in 1962.

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Glenside

Glenside may refer to:

Places

 * Glenside, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide
 * Glenside, Saskatchewan, Canada, a village
 * Rural Municipality of Glenside No. 377, Saskatchewan
 * Glenside, Bristol, a campus of the University of the West of England
 * Glenside Museum
 * Glenside Hospital, formerly Beaufort War Hospital, Bristol, England
 * Glenside, New Zealand, a suburb of Wellington
 * Glenside railway station, South Ayrshire, Scotland
 * Glenside, Pennsylvania, United States, in Montgomery County
 * Glenside station, a regional rail station in Glenside, Pennsylvania

Other uses

 * CFAV Glenside (YTB 644), a Canadian Forces tugboat

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McCoy

McCoy, McCoys or McCoy's may refer to:

United States

 * McCoy, Colorado, an unincorporated town
 * McCoy, Indiana, an unincorporated community
 * McCoy, Oregon, an unincorporated community
 * McCoy, Atascosa County, Texas, an unincorporated community
 * McCoy, Kaufman County, Texas, an unincorporated community
 * McCoy Mountains, southern California
 * McCoy Air Force Base, near Orlando, Florida
 * Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, a United States Army base
 * Lake McCoy, south of Lake Placid, Florida

Canada

 * McCoy Lake, near Port Alberni, British Columbia

Arts and entertainment

 * McCoy (TV series), an American series that aired during the 1975–1976 season
 * The McCoys, an American 1960s rock band
 * McCoy (band), a British heavy metal band
 * The Real McCoys, an American sitcom that aired during 1957-1963

People and fictional characters

 * McCoy (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the surname
 * McCoy McLemore (1942–2009), American National Basketball Association player
 * McCoy Tyner (1938–2020), American jazz pianist and composer
 * McCoy de Leon (born 1995 as Marc Carlos Francis de Jesus de Leon), Filipino actor, dancer and model

Other uses

 * McCoy (pottery), American pottery company (1910–1990)
 * McCoy's (crisp), a brand of UK crisps (potato chips)
 * McCoy Stadium, a minor league baseball stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States
 * McCoy College of Business, the business school at Texas State University

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Jatimatic

The Jatimatic is a Finnish 9×19mm Parabellum submachine gun developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s by Jali Timari. The submachine gun made its debut in 1983. The Jatimatic was manufactured in very limited numbers (approx. 400) initially by Tampereen Asepaja Oy of Tampere and later—Oy Golden Gun Ltd (as the GG-95 PDW, re-introduced unsuccessfully in 1995). The firearm was designed primarily for police, security forces and armored vehicle crews. It was never adopted into service by the Finnish Defence Forces, although the later GG-95 PDW version was tested by the FDF in the 1990s.

Operating mechanism
The Jatimatic is an automatic, open bolt, blowback-operated firearm. A unique feature of this design is the angle of the bolt guide rails in relation to the bore axis. When fired, the telescopic bolt, which encloses the barrel for most of its length, recoils up an inclined plane at a 7° angle to the barrel, giving an element of braking to the bolt, and also resisting the upward movement of the barrel during fully automatic fire. This arrangement aligns the shooter's hand wrapping the pistol grip directly with the longitudinal axis of the barrel. The pistol grip is also located higher than on many other submachine guns, causing recoil to be directed backwards to the user rather than upwards, eliminating muzzle climb and making the weapon more controllable when being fired one-handed.

Features
The casing extractor is contained in the bolt while a fixed ejector is installed in the trigger housing. Due to the upward angle that the bolt must traverse in order to fire, the weapon has no feed ramp, so bullets are pushed by the bolt directly from the magazine into the chamber.

The weapon's ejection port is covered in both the forward (closed) and retracted positions of the bolt assembly, protecting the gun's internal mechanisms from dust and debris. The left exterior surface of the bolt is engraved with a visual warning sign labeled "FIRE", which is visible through the ejection port when the weapon is cocked (the bolt is moved to the rear position).

The firing mechanism features a two-stage progressive trigger that provides two modes of operation: semi-automatic fire, when the trigger is squeezed momentarily, and fully automatic fire—produced when the trigger is pulled all the way through and held back. No fire control selector is provided. The Jatimatic features a striker firing mechanism with a fixed firing pin installed inside the bolt (the dual-purpose return spring also serves as the firing pin spring).

Many of the weapon's parts, including the frame, pistol grip/charging handle, trigger, sear, and disconnector are made of plastic, while many other parts are made of stainless steel; altogether, it has only 39 individual components. The receiver is made from stamped sheet steel with a hinged cover.

The Jatimatic lacks an integrated folding stock common for this class of firearm; the weapon is instead fired unsupported from the hip or raised arm, without resting the firearm on the shooter's shoulder. However, separately sold stocks were available which fasten to the lower side of the pistol grip and give it much greater accuracy, while also protecting the rear sight from being bent or broken.

Feeding
The submachine gun uses 20 or 40-round detachable box magazines, made of extruded aluminum with a plastic follower and a steel spring and floor plate. The weapon can also accommodate magazines designed for the Swedish Carl Gustav M/45 and, with some modifications, the Smith & Wesson M76. The weapon is chambered for the NATO-standard 9×19mm Parabellum pistol cartridge.

Reloading the weapon involves charging the folding vertical forward grip, which is simultaneously the cocking handle. The grip is deployed and locked forward with a spring latch and then charged to the rear and guided back forward in order to chamber a round. The forward grip does not reciprocate with the bolt during firing and also acts as a safety mechanism in the stowed (folded) position, immobilizing the bolt in either its forward or rear positions by using a lug on the grip to engage and recess into a notch in the bolt. This allows the weapon to be carried safely either loaded or unloaded and provides a drop safety feature.

Sights
The Jatimatic has an open-type iron sight fixed for 100 m.

History
The gun, designed as a stakeout gun for easy hiding in civilian clothing, soon gained a criminal reputation, when a batch of 22 pieces was stolen from the workshop in 1984. The manufacturing license of the shop, Tampereen Asepaja, was revoked, and no pieces are produced anymore. The firearm can be seen in the 1984 movie Red Dawn, as well as in the 1986 film Cobra, wielded by Sylvester Stallone. It is also used as the primary weapon of DC Comics vigilante Wild Dog.

Clones
The Norinco Model 411 is a clone of the Jatimatic that was manufactured in China and exported by Norinco. It is mostly identical to the original Jatimatic, with the exception of simplified iron sights. It is chambered in not only 9×19mm Parabellum like the original, but is also available in 7.62×25mm Tokarev. Production dates and quantity are unknown.

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Talk:EveryDNS

Requests from Davidu
I've never been an "IT Consultant" -- Can someone fix that so I don't self-edit?

--Davidu 08:26, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

In regards to the recent edit about being the largest free DNS provider, there are all kinds of definitions of large from amount of bits transferred to number of zones served and a 100 things in-between. Not sure if anyone can either dispute it or prove it. I'm not overly concerned, just figured I'd point it out since someone made the edit and the revert.

--Davidu 05:51, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Ongoing Denial of Service Attack
EveryDNS appears to be undergoing a denial of service attack, hence the service disruption that was recently described on the article page. I added a timestamp and description as a denial of service attack to the page, if anyone happens to notice that the service comes back up before that item is removed from the article, please help out and remove it. —Krellis 00:17, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Aha. Thanks for the update.  It's a bloody pain in the arse, though, since it means almost all of the websites I maintain are now dead, heh.  Good luck to the EDNS guys in stabbing the people that are purportrating it. --Veratien 00:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * damn... that's why my webpage is going up and down... I hope the guys from Everydns can solve this ASAP. --190.45.133.23 00:50, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Quite. It's causing rather a lot of issues for me. --Veratien 01:05, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Anyone knows where to get official info about this? --190.45.133.23 01:20, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * The OpenDNS Blog has a posting about an interruption of their service. More details are posted in the OpenDNS status entry, where they promise that further information about the attack will be shared on the OpenDNS blog.  So that's probably a good place to watch for updates. —Krellis 03:12, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * IT is creating issues for thousands of domains and probably millions of people. However, last time this happend was early 2003 so overall quality of the service is great for being Free. Just sad that there are so many complete idiots destroying stuff for people. Sad really. --83.227.78.203 01:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

So this is why macports.org (which uses the everydns nameservers) is down. :( I'm considering editing the macports article to mention the attack. Hopefully Murphy's Law will go into effect and they'll be back up right after I make the edit. Kerohazel 01:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * It seems to be over now. --190.45.133.23 02:50, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Seems to be a hit and miss type of thing, one moment it is up than the next moment it is down. --BC 03:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

 * That's the nature of the beast with this type of attack. Get effective filters in place for one nameserver, and it'll be overloaded with legitimate requests.  And worst of all, if the attackers are actively pursuing the attack, they can work around filters as fast as the EveryDNS team can put them in. —Krellis 03:08, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

From www.everydns.net: "Update #3: December 2st, 2006. EveryDNS is currently under a wide-scale DDoS attack. The attack is currently being mitigated and service is restored. All services are under close watch by a team of network administrators around the world."

"I want to give a special thanks to Richard Steenbergen at nLayer for going above and beyond the call of any network operator to help keep EveryDNS online and to Barrett Lyon of BitGravity for his excellent abilities in turning a 400mbps attack into a 2mbps stream of valid DNS requests."

It looks like several of the everydns.net nameservers have changed IP address. Old IPs may be cached for some time, which would explain why the services still appear to be down for some people while they're working fine for others. —Krellis 17:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

New Update From Everydns's website:

Update: EveryDNS is currently experiencing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which started last Friday. We have not been contacted by the person doing the attack and have no idea why it is happening. If you have any information about why this attack is taking place, please email me personally (david [at] ulevitch.com). Thanks for all your support while we get through this. --190.45.133.23 03:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

EveryDNS Geographic Distribution After Dyn Inc. Transition
Maybe this can/should make its way into the main article? Rabbitcore (talk) 14:52, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Define "DNS", "DNS Management" and why would someone need it
I get the impression having some kind of DNS service is necessary to run a web-site, but do not know what "DNS" is, how it works, why it needs management. Also, what's the difference between a free service vs. (I assume) paid, and why would you pick one or the other?

All of these questions fall within the larger context of how it relates to the Wikileaks story, which is why I am here. ````Jonny Quick —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.137.251.249 (talk) 07:08, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

No longer free
Just a quick mention that everydns no longer will be providing free dns service as of (well I forget the specific date. three months from now) The article needs to be changed to reflect that. --168.215.131.150 (talk) 21:47, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Discontinued, August 30th, 2011
EveryDNS started redirecting remaining user's domains on August 30th, 2011. Also even though they said they had sent out emails telling people about this, not many have seen them. Kayfox (talk) 17:48, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Extra Saucy

 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. Redwolf24 (talk) 02:49, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Extra Saucy
vanity, not encyclopedic Wyss 00:55, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN, vanity rubbish, maybe a Speedy Delete?, anyway send it straight to the Abyss - Digital Thief 01:09, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; Van, nn | Celcius 02:35, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per WP:Music. Hamster Sandwich 02:46, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity --Dysepsion 04:12, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:N, WP:V, WP:MUSIC. Note, this is not a CSD candidate, please don't speedy. Thanks— Encephalon |  ζ   18:02:07, 2005-08-20 (UTC)
 * del Stoph 00:39, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Agamemnon2 10:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn with extra sauce. Klonimus 13:43, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - nn CLW 09:44, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
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Arvid Wittenberg

Arvid Wittenberg or Arvid Wirtenberg von Debern (1606 – 7 September 1657), Swedish count, field marshal and privy councillor. Born in Porvoo, Finland, died in prison in Zamość, Poland, 7 September 1657. Arvid Wittenberg preferred call himself by the original Wittenberg family name, which was Wirtenberg von Debern.

Life and career
Arvid Wittenberg was born on Johannesberg in Porvoo, Finland as a son of the assessor Johannes Wirtenberg von Debern and Magdalena Schönfeld or Magdalena Johansdotter till Skinnarbacka. The title of count was given to Arvid Wittenberg in 1652. He was married twice, with Eva Margareta von Langen from 1642 to her death in 1646 and in 1648 he married Maximiliana Elisabeth von Schönburg.

Arvid Wittenberg began his military career in 1622 and participated as a colonel in the Battle of Nördlingen in 1634. He was captured there but later freed. He then participated in the battles of Wittstock 1636 and Chemnitz 1639 before being promoted to major general. He later came under the command of Lennart Torstenson with whom he participated in the rest of the Swedish campaign in the Thirty Years' War until Torstenson resigned in 1645, including the battles of Breitenfeld 1642 and Jankov 1645, in which he on both occasions commanded the Swedish right flank. He then took command of the Swedish army until the arrival of Carl Gustaf Wrangel.

As Charles X Gustav prepared for Second Northern War, Wittenberg was promoted to field marshal in 1655 and was assigned command of an army of 17,000 men to attack Poland with. He surrounded the Polish army of nobles and forced it to capitulate at Ujście on 25 July 1655, and conquered the voivodships of Poznań and Kalisz. He besieged Kraków, which capitulated 7 October 1655, and forced the Polish commander Koniecpolski and his army to submission. He was given the command of Warsaw which he defended against the Polish army under John II Casimir of Poland until the city was given up 21 June 1656. Contrary to what had been stated in the terms of capitulation, he was placed in prison in Zamość where he later died.

Arvid Wittenberg combined military skills with a hard and cruel treatment of enemies, which made him hated amongst the Poles.

In 1657, after Arvid Wittenberg had died in Polish custody, his son Leonard Johan Wittenberg (born 1646) was accommodated as a ward by Arvid's friend, Carl Gustaf Wrangel. In the summer of 1673, Leonard Johan married Wrangel's daughter Polidora Christiana. Arvid Wittenberg was also the father of Beata Magdalena Wittenberg.

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Talk:Comparison of the AK-47 and M16

Comparability truly inherently given?
I’m a bit bewildered about the lemma. There’s many distinguishing particularities between the two, beginning with unmatched prevalence (100M vs. a mere 8kk) and development philosophies, regarding caliber and ballistic profiles, etc., and even more eminently, concerning rather recent perspectives, i.e. the AK still happily been deployed around the globe, with the M-16 mostly replaced by civilian and ordinance derivatives. Sure, you can always compare two assault rifles, but both layman and specialist ought to perceive incomparable features of these unrelated makes. And of course the article is far too substantial to be contested, yet still, I find the comparison of those models, to at least some degree, questionable. -- Gohnarch░ 20:56, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Why does is the STG44 on this page instead of the SKS?
The M14 was the rifle the USA army used before they started using the M16, and this is not the case with the STG44 and the AK WHYYYYYYYY!!!!!1??????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hafflockman (talk • contribs) 14:08, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion
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Direct Impingement vs Internal Piston
The article incorrectly refers to the mechanism for the M16 platform as "direct impingement" multiple times, but does also call out this general misconception in one section. Is there any opposition to fixing the incorrect terminology? The operating mechanism is more correctly called "internal piston." Jasavina (talk) 18:46, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

 * Well if no one has any objections I'm going to start fixing the incorrect descriptions. Jasavina (talk) 04:48, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Citation Convention Question, Can't Find Answer
I just removed a repetitive citation from a bullet point list, since it's all the same source and left the one at the end of the sentence introducing the bullet points. This seems a lot cleaner, but I can't find a wiki style guide saying how to deal with violet point citations. Anyone know what the convention is? Jasavina (talk) 22:36, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

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Chroming

Chroming can refer to:

 * chrome plating
 * the use of inhalants

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Talk:Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania

Taylor family
Looking for family history of Frank and Clara Taylor. Children Cora. William and one other son ll born in 1800's


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Dearne

Dearne may refer to:

 * River Dearne, a river in South Yorkshire, England
 * Dearne Valley, an urban area in South Yorkshire, England; formerly known as Dearne Urban District

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Category:Allotropes of carbon

Pertains to the various forms that the Carbon element can assume, naturally or otherwise.

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