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Brides of Dracula

The Brides of Dracula are fictional characters in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. They are three seductive vampire "sisters" who reside with Count Dracula in his castle in Transylvania, where they entice men with their beauty and charm, and then proceed to feed upon them. Dracula provides them with victims to devour, mainly implied to be infants.

Like Dracula, they are the living dead, repulsed by sunlight, garlic and religious objects. In chapter three of the novel, two are described as having dark hair and red eyes, like Dracula, while the other as being fair, with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Novel
Sometime near the beginning of the novel, after Jonathan Harker arrives in Dracula's castle, Dracula warns Harker that, if he leaves his room, to never sleep in any other room in the castle, but does not tell him why, clearly aware that the sisters will kill him.

Late one night, Jonathan explores the castle. He sits at a table writing in his journal and, as he begins to fall asleep, sees three women standing in the moonlight who cast no shadows. The women proceed to seduce him and, as one of them begins to kiss his neck, he feels her sharp teeth barely scrape against his flesh. Dracula then grabs her neck and hurls her away, chastising the brides for trying to feed on Harker when he was not done with him. He promises to give Harker to them after his business deal is concluded and gives them a "wiggling bag" (presumed by Harker to be a human child) to appease them. Harker soon fears for his life, at one point thinking he sees the brides dancing in the sky outside his bedroom, which strengthens his resolve to escape. Dracula makes good on his word and leaves Harker to the sisters when he heads for England. Though Harker manages to escape the castle shortly after, he is badly traumatized by the encounter and is diagnosed with brain fever. Though they lose their victim, the brides continue to haunt the castle and terrorize the nearby village.

The sisters are seen again near the end of the novel as the protagonists pursue Count Dracula to Transylvania. The sisters suddenly appear at a camp consisting of Abraham Van Helsing and Jonathan's wife Mina. Sensing that Mina is cursed with vampirism, they beckon her to join them, referring to her as their "sister" and promising not to harm her. However, Van Helsing had previously crushed a sacred wafer and scattered it in a circle around the campsite. Due to this protective barrier, both Mina and the sisters are unable to cross its border. Although the vampires keep away from the camp, they remain in the darkness until sunrise, upon which they flee back to the castle. At the coming of daylight, Van Helsing finds that their horses are dead, possibly having been drained of blood by the brides. After Van Helsing binds Mina in another ring of sacramental bread, he subsequently goes to Dracula's castle alone to destroy the vampires and sterilize Dracula's tomb, keeping him from ever being able to enter it again. After locating the vampires' graves, he finds them asleep 'open-eyed'. He attempts to kill the first but almost fails as he sees her beauty. Caught in an enchantment, he becomes entranced and lost in a state of uncertainty. Becoming overwhelmed with emotions, he feels compelled to protect her instead and even contemplates love for her. He suddenly hears a 'Soul Wail' from Mina which breaks the enchantment, allowing him to finish his work. First using a blacksmith hammer, he strikes a stake into her, then proceeds to operate on her, detaching the head from the body and filling the mouth with garlic. He repeats this process with the other two, taking him an entire day to complete. It is unknown whether or not Dracula feels any grief for their deaths.

Characters
In the novel, the three vampire women are not individually named. Collectively, they are known as the "sisters", and are at one point described as the "weird sisters". Although the three vampire women in Dracula are generally referred to as the "Brides of Dracula" in popular culture and media, they are never referred to as such in the novel. Whether they are married to Dracula is not mentioned in the novel, nor are they described as having any other relation to him.

The origin and identity of the Sisters, as well as the true nature of their relationship with Count Dracula, is never revealed. One of the three may have been identified in the short story "Dracula's Guest", as the vampire named Countess Dolengen of Gratz. The protagonist of the story, who is never identified, but presumed to be Jonathan Harker, encounters her at her tomb in Munich. Just as she is about to bite him, a great wolf who is presumed to be Dracula intervenes and destroys her. The wolf keeps the protagonist warm from the cold and yelps for nearby soldiers to come to their location. In the novel, Harker writes about one of the female vampires in the moment he is with them, stating, "I seemed somehow to know her face and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where." The two dark-haired vampire women are described as facially resembling the Count, in that the three have aquiline noses. Literary scholar Jan B. Gordon suggests this that it may have been Stoker's intent that these two are Dracula's daughters, extending the sexuality metaphor of vampirism to incest. When the brides first discover Harker, the blonde vampire is encouraged to feed on him first, with one of the others stating, "Yours is the right to begin", signifying that she has some status over the others. This could imply that the blonde vampire is Dracula's wife or consort, and the mother of the two dark-haired women if they are indeed his daughters. When Van Helsing discovers the sisters' tombs, the blonde is far more opulent than the others', as if for a loved one or one of high status. Harker describes the women as "ladies by their dress and manner", indicating that the vampires are of high lineage, further suggesting the idea that they are Dracula's family. The blonde vampire is shown to act in a mildly rebellious manner toward Dracula when he scolds her for attempting to feed on Harker; Dracula's reaction upon discovering the sisters with Harker is both that of a jealous husband and an angry father. The vampire women claim that Dracula does not love them, nor has he ever loved them, but Dracula insists he does love them and shows he cares for them by providing them with victims to feed upon. However, it is not explained why he left them behind in Transylvania rather than taking them to London with him.

Even though it is never specified, it is possible that the term "sister" was not meant in the literal sense and is, instead, more comparable to the relationship of the women and not as they are to Dracula. They are also depicted in the novel calling Mina Harker their sister after she is forced to drink Dracula's blood, afflicting her with vampirism. Mina and her best friend (and Dracula's future victim) Lucy Westenra also call each other sisters in the novel despite not having any blood relation. The vampire women may be his wives throughout his lifetime, descendants of his whom he turned into vampires or simply nonspecific women he killed and turned into vampires to create more of his kind.

As vampires, the sisters are powerful in their own right; their beauty and seductive charm belie lethal, predatory interiors. Their beauty and flirtatious manner appear to be their greatest power when it comes to bewitching their victims into a trance-like state. Harker and Van Helsing are both attracted to and yet repulsed by them. They can seemingly appear out of nowhere and are inhumanly strong, as shown when they kill Van Helsing's horses. They also have the power of flight, as seen when they fly in the air with their dresses trailing behind them.

The vampires serve as foreshadowing for the threat of vampirism in the story which, as seen with Lucy, later on, includes Dracula's power of corruption over his victims once he has drained their blood and transformed them into vampires.

Screen adaptations
Commonly all three brides appear in film adaptations of the novel, though some film adaptations depict them as a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead. They are typically depicted as enchantingly beautiful young women, coquettish and seductive in manner, often appearing like succubi in the night, dressed in flowing silk nightgowns, and behaving in a wild and sexually aggressive manner.

 * The three brides made silent appearances in the 1931 film Dracula and the Spanish language version of Drácula. (The latter film, shot simultaneously on the same sets at night with a separate cast and crew, depicts the brides as more obviously sexual than in the more chaste English-language version.) In the English-language film, they are played by Geraldine Dvorak, Cornelia Thaw, and Dorothy Tree. They are not seen after Dracula cast them aside and attacks Renfield. In the Spanish film, they themselves attack Renfield, but are not seen again after the fade out.

 * In both Drakula İstanbul'da (1953) and Horror of Dracula (1958) only a single bride appears. In the latter film, the unnamed bride is played by Valerie Gaunt, who tricks and attacks Jonathan Harker and later is staked by him, transforming from a beautiful young woman into an old hag as she dies.
 * The three brides make silent appearances in the 1968 television adaptation Dracula. Although they have no dialogue, the Brides are considerably feral in their behavior, snarling, screeching, and clawing at their victim, Jonathan Harker. They are also depicted as being somewhat disheveled instead of beautiful, with ragged clothing and filthy, matted hair. Notably, one of the brides is a black woman (played by Nina Baden-Semper) which appears to be unique amongst Dracula adaptations. The other two brides were portrayed by Margaret Nolan and Valerie Muller.
 * The three brides appear and have lines in the 1970 film Count Dracula.
 * The three brides appear and have lines in the Czechoslovakian TV film Hrabe Drakula (1971). The brides in this version wear elaborate gowns befitting their status as noblewomen and have personal titles: Madame, Marquise, and Countess, respectively. They are portrayed by Olga Jirouskova, Marie Joanovicova, and Vera Kresadlova.
 * The three brides are present but silent in the 1973 television adaptation Bram Stoker's Dracula (starring Jack Palance). They are played by Sarah Douglas, Virginia Wetherell, and Barbara Lindley. In this version, they kill Jonathan Harker and turn him into a vampire.
 * All three appear and have lines in the 1977 BBC production entitled Count Dracula. They are played by Susie Hickford, Sue Vanner, and Belinda Meuldijk. One of the brides in this adaptation is a Frenchwoman.
 * The 1973 television series Purple Playhouse adaptation of Dracula features only two brides rather than three. They first materialize in the library, and attempt to feed upon a sleeping Harker. Dracula prevents them from killing him and orders them to leave. They later appear to Harker shoerly after Dracula has left for England, stating that now that Dracula has left them, they are "his brides", and proceed to feed upon him. They are not seen after this.
 * In Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula, the brides were played by Monica Bellucci, Michaela Bercu, and Florina Kendrick. Bellucci, Bercu, and Kendrick's dialogue was in Romanian, and Kendrick reportedly helped her co-stars to speak her native tongue correctly. In this adaptation the vampire portrayed by Kendrick is clearly modeled on Medusa the Gorgon, and has living snakes coiled through her hair; another (played by Bellucci) appears to be based upon an Arabian princess due to her attire. It is the brunette vampire (portrayed by Kendrick) that is the leader, rather than the blonde (portrayed by Bercu). All three brides have speaking lines – the one played by Bellucci is the bride who calls Jonathan into their chamber (in English), the bride played by Bercu is the one who tells Dracula he has never loved, and the bride played by Kendrick taunts Van Helsing.
 * In the 1995 spoof Dracula: Dead and Loving It, only two brides appear. They are depicted as heavily sexualized when they first arrive in the room where Renfield is staying as they attempt to seduce him. Dracula saves him from the brides and sends them away before convincing the simple-minded Renfield he had simply had a strange dream. The brides are neither named nor have any spoken dialogue in this film and their fate at the end of the film is unknown.
 * Three brides appear in the 2002 Italian TV mini-series Dracula (known as Dracula's Curse in foreign markets). As in the 1992 version, they speak in their native tongue and play up their supernatural nature by being able to fly and phase through objects.
 * While the Brides usually remain nameless, they are named Verona, Aleera and Marishka in the 2004 film Van Helsing, respectively portrayed by Silvia Colloca, Elena Anaya, and Josie Maran. Verona is the oldest of the brides and Dracula's consort, whereas Aleera and Marishka are his concubines. Aleera, the youngest of the trio, is portrayed as the most vicious. Their roles are greatly expanded into those of secondary antagonists, motivated by a need to find a way for their offspring to live, as their vampire children are born dead. They are also given the ability to transform into harpy-like creatures and fly.
 * At the beginning of the 2012 film Dracula 3D, Dracula attacks a young woman named Tania (portrayed by Miriam Giovanelli) after she secretly meets a lover, making her a vampire and his minion. He later passes her off as his niece to Harker, whom she tries to seduce. Tania is eventually dispatched by Van Helsing.
 * In 2020 Dracula TV series, Lujza Richter plays one of the vampire brides, named Elena. In this version Dracula keeps all his brides locked up in big boxes, conducting experiments on them and not permitting them to move freely around the castle. He also seems to refer to anyone that he turns into a full vampire as a "bride" (as he also uses the term to refer to Jonathan Harker, who is killed and turned into the undead in this version).

TV series
In 2015, NBC began to develop a TV series about the Brides of Dracula characters titled Brides, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and produced by Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter. The series was built on the premise "What if Van Helsing did NOT kill the three brides of Dracula? What if they survived for centuries and are now living in New York City?", with the series being described as a sexy reimagining of Dracula as a family drama with a trio of strong, diverse female leads, a show about empowered women and their attempts to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy, and their non-traditional family. In October 2019, the series was still being developed with the intention to sell it to a streaming service.

On January 8, 2020, it was announced that ABC handed out a pilot order to the series. Aguirre-Sacasa will pen the script and exec produce alongside Berlanti and Schechter. Maggie Kiley will direct the pilot. The Brides will be a co-production between ABC Studios and Warner Bros. Television. In March 2020, Deadline Hollywood reported the cast: Gina Torres as Cleo Phillips, the leader of this vampire trio and now a maven of New York City real estate; Katherine Reis as Lily Stevens, the youngest sister and now a striving singer; Chris Mason as Roland Grant, a stylish real estate mogul who arrives in town to challenge Cleo for professional supremacy and who has secret ties to Dracula; Sophia Tatum as Justine Strang, an aspiring model; Goran Višnjić as Dracula, the powerful, ageless, and iconic King of Night who “turned” each of his three brides and was left for dead at his destroyed castle in the Carpathian mountains; Erin Richards as Renée Pélagie, the sister who is now the head of a top modeling agency in New York City, known for her torrid affairs with her beautiful female models; and Charlie McElveen as Arthur Seward, an ambitious young news reporter working the graveyard shift at his paper covering news of the bizarre, and the love interest to Lily. On June 29, 2020, ABC decided to drop the series from the 2020–2021 lineup in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the series is being pitched to other networks.

On stage

 * They appear in Dracula, the Musical by Frank Wildhorn and have their own song "Forever Young".
 * In the Czech musical Dracula, the brides are called "nymphs". They are the victims of Dracula, slightly resentful but still devoted to him. They are jealous and mischievous, and enjoy troubles and gossiping. They serve as a comical relief, but at the same time, they represent Dracula's dark, vampiric side.
 * They also appear in the French Canadian musical Dracula – Entre l'amour et la mort.
 * They appear in the Northern Ballet's Dracula by David Nixon and are portrayed by Rachael Gillespie, Minju Kang, and Sarah Chun in the 2019 production of the ballet, which was recorded and showed in UK cinemas on Halloween and then broadcast on BBC4 in 2020.

Characters based on the original Brides

 * In the 1960 Hammer film The Brides of Dracula, the Baron Meinster (David Peel) is a vampire who attacks an unnamed local village girl (played by Marie Devereux) and the heroine Marianne's friend Gina (Andrée Melly), turning them into vampires and his "brides". Although he actually proposes to Marianne (Yvonne Monlaur), his plan to turn her is thwarted by Professor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing), who kills the Baron while the two vampire brides seemingly escape. Despite the film's title, Dracula never appears in it.
 * In Count Yorga, Vampire (1970), which is a modern-day re-telling of Dracula, Yorga likewise has his own set of Brides, first starting out with two: a red-haired Bride and a blonde (who is later revealed to be Donna's deceased mother), then later adding the protagonist's brunette friend, Erica to the ranks. The sequel, The Return of Count Yorga increases the number of Brides to a least a dozen, with the protagonist's sister, Ellen, and a friend, Mitzi, joining them.
 * The Brides of Dracula concept was also present in the 1987 horror-comedy The Monster Squad, in which Dracula abducts three young women and turns them into his vampire brides.
 * In Dracula 2000, the brides are turned at different times throughout the movie. Jennifer Esposito, Jeri Ryan and Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick portray the brides, Solina, Valerie, and Lucy respectively.
 * The brides also appear in the television series Buffy The Vampire Slayer in the season 5 premiere of "Buffy vs. Dracula" (2001). They are referred to as "The Three Sisters" and are credited as "Vampire Girls". They are portrayed by Marita Schaub, Lesli Jean Matta, and Jennifer Slimko.
 * In Hotel Transylvania (2012), Dracula's wife Martha (voiced by Jackie Sandler) is an homage to the Brides of Dracula.
 * In the Dungeons & Dragons adventure module Curse of Strahd, three brides of Strahd (named Ludmilla Vilisevic, Anastrasya Karelova, and Volenta Popofsky) appear as enemies in the catacombs of Castle Ravenloft. Also in the catacombs are tomb markers mentioning a wife (Sasha Ivliskova) and a bride (Patrinna Velikovna), both of which can return as undead and attack the players. A male companion of Strahd named Escher appears in the adventure as well, possibly based on Harker.
 * In Resident Evil: Village, Alcina Dimitrescu's three adopted daughters, Bela, Cassandra and Daniela, are a homage to the Brides.

In literature
In the first sequel, The Bloody Red Baron, the Brides of Dracula are mentioned as including Mata Hari, Lady Marikova (from the novel The House of Dracula by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes), Lola-Lola (from the film The Blue Angel), Sadie Thompson, Lemora and Baron Meinster (from the film The Brides of Dracula). In the beginning of the second sequel, Dracula Cha Cha Cha, a list of Dracula's official Brides is given. They are: Elisabeta of Transylvania (from Bram Stoker's Dracula), 1448–1462; Ilona Szilagy (Vlad III's real-life second wife), 1466–1476; Marguerite Chopin of Courtempierre (from Vampyr), 1709–1711; Queen Victoria, 1886–1888; and Sari Gábor, 1948–1949. The plot surrounds Dracula's engagement to Princess Asa Vajda (from Black Sunday).
 * In The Dracula Tape (1975) they are seen not long after Harker comes into the castle with Dracula warning them to leave him be. In this story, the brides are disrespectful to Dracula and try to undermine him where they can. Dracula later reveals that he has tired of them and does not even remember why he turned them in the first place. It is implied that unlike Dracula (who did not want to scare or harm anyone), the women let the power go to their heads once they became vampires and he had more or less planned to abandon them in the castle. But while Dracula was trying to make friends with Harker, their visit as depicted in the novel only makes the situation and misunderstanding worse. In this adaptation, they are named Melisse, the tall, dark-haired bride. Wanda, the second dark-haired one and described as full-breasted as well as mentioned to be Melisse's younger sister. And Anna, the blonde bride who is noted to be the senior of the three and the one who is most outspoken and rebellious against Dracula. Later in the story when Dracula returns to the castle, he finds that the three have terrorized the village Dracula was friends with and promptly confronts them. Anna attempts an assassination by controlling a partially turned farmhand to attack him, but Dracula easily thwarts the attempt, reprimands them, and sends them away. When they are killed by Van Helsing, Dracula does mention that, while he was glad that their deaths prevented jealously with Mina, that he did not wish that fate on them as well.
 * In the alternate history novel Anno Dracula (1992), Dracula becomes dominant in Britain and eventually weds Queen Victoria, becoming Prince consort and Lord Protector. Despite being married to Victoria he keeps his retinue of Brides. It is mentioned that one of the Brides is Barbara of Celje.
 * Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has written a trilogy called Sisters of the Night, with each book featuring the story of one of the Brides: The Angry Angel (1998) featuring Kelene, The Soul of an Angel (1999) featuring Fenice Zucchar and The Angel of Death (unpublished) featuring Zhameni.
 * In The Diaries of the Family Dracul by Jeanne Kalogridis, the Brides are imagined as Zsuzsanna Tsepesh, a descendant of Vlad Dracul (believed in the novels to be his niece); Dunya, a Transylvanian servant of Vlad's mortal descendants, and Elisabeth Bathory, the notorious Hungarian noblewoman who murdered hundreds of her servants and bathed in their blood.
 * In Fangland (2007), author John Marks re-imagines the Brides of Dracula as Greek brothers.
 * In Dracula's Diary by Michael Geare and Michael Corby, the Brides are named Trandafira, Vlastimila and Pavola.
 * In The Satanic Brides of Dracula by Lucas Thorn, the Brides are named Vasilja, Senka and Hailwic.
 * In the Daughters of Shadow and Blood trilogy by J. Matthew Saunders, the Brides are named Yasamin Ashrafi, Elena and Elizabeth James.
 * In the Vampire Bride Dark Rebirth series by Rhiannon Frater, the original three Brides are named Cneajna, Elina and Ariana. The protagonist Glynis Wright becomes Dracula's fourth bride.
 * In the Being Mrs. Dracula series by Faith Marlow, the three Brides are named Valeria, Ilona and Fleur.
 * In The Brides by Raven c.s. McCracken, the Brides are named Katrina, Anna and Silvia.
 * In The Fourth Bride by Carole Gill, the three Brides are named Verona, Aleera and Marishka (the same names given to them in the film Van Helsing). The main character Dia becomes Dracula's fourth bride.
 * In Dracula's Brides: A Paranormal Romance Anthology, the three Brides are named Crina, Emilia and Isabella.
 * In The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, the two dark-haired brides are sisters Kisaiya and Lillai. The blonde bride is an unnamed countess.
 * In the graphic novel Dracula Motherf**ker, the Brides are again called Verona, Aleera and Marishka. Aleera is depicted as a black woman.
 * In A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson, the Brides are named Constanta, Magdalena and Alexi. Alexi is a male "bride", turned after the events of the Dracula novel.
 * In the novel The Mummy Kills the Brides by Erik Handy, the three Brides are named Camilla, Athyne and Eve.
 * In the anthology The Legend of Dracula: Into the Mouth of Death by Perry Lake, the three Brides are named Ulrica Dolingen, Anica Zelkovic and Mara Costachescu. Earlier versions of these stories were previously published in the Brides of Dracula and Dracula Arisen anthologies.
 * In the novel The Three Brides: Resurrection by Sal Caradonna, the Brides are named Alexandra, Mihaela and Ioana.
 * In the novel Brides of Dracula by J Palliser, two of the Brides are named Justina and Marcilla.
 * In the Marvel Universe, the three Brides in the original novel are identified as Nikolett Bodo, Bettina Kaposvar and Emese Kisfaludi. They have been Brides since at least 1691 as revealed in the story Suffer Not a Witch in the Dracula Lives series. In the two-part story called The Pit of Death, set in 1809, the protagonist Lupescu is thrown into the titular pit while invading Dracula's castle. He is attacked by seven of Dracula's Brides, among them his blind wife, Velanna Lupescu. He manages to stake all seven and arranges their bodies into the shape of a cross so that Dracula would be unable to approach them to remove the stakes.
 * A number of Brides are seen in the Marvel Comics series The Tomb of Dracula, ranging from victims long since turned from ancient times to recent ones of modern-day. In the story The Return to...Transylvania!, Dracula seeks out his Bride Marissa Constanda to turn him into a vampire, after he had previously become human. She refuses, telling Dracula that she now serves a new master. In the story Into the Tomb, Blade encountered two Brides named Beatrix Nanai and Catherine Kiskvnalas while looking for his mother Tara Cross, who had also been turned into a Bride. All three were killed by Blade.
 * The Brides are seen in the DC Comics mini series, Victorian Undead II: Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula led by Lucy Westerna in trying to ambush the heroes when they come to investigate a possible hiding spot of Dracula's. Curiously despite the Brides being centuries older, Dracula gave Lucy command over them, likely because of her resistance to religious symbols due to being turned in a modern era.
 * Dracula and his brides make a cameo appearance in the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story "Night of the Living Gingerbread".
 * In the mini-series Grimm Fairy Tales present Helsing, three of the Brides track down the protagonist and try to kill her. She kills two of them before the third retreats. Near the end of the story, when the heroes track Dracula to his mansion during a party, we see he has amassed a large group of women as his Brides though orders them to let the protagonist pass so she may confront him. They show up briefly in the first issue of the sequel mini-series "Helsing vs Dracula".
 * In the original English language manga Dracula Everlasting, Dracula decides to start creating Brides again in the third volume to give him an edge against the protagonists. He starts with three: Vanessa, a classmate of the boy he was possessing and initially has a crush on who rejected him, the mother of the protagonist who studied wiccan magic when she was human whom he kills to stop her from stopping him, and a hooker brought to him by the Renfields to feed on. Dracula had especially hoped to use the mother's powers against her daughter. After he loses her, he creates six more Brides in preparation for the final battle, one of whom was a reporter seen in an earlier volume covering the mysterious murders, whom Dracula turns when she does a report outside his manor.
 * In the Alucard novel by Matthew Scott, Dracula has three vampire brides: Illyana, Camilla and Silvia. Each is described respectively as blonde, raven-haired and a redhead and are highly sexual vampires and enjoy inflicting chaos and bloodshed whenever the opportunity presents itself. There is also a fourth bride mentioned in the novel, Jana, but who is ultimately killed by her and Dracula's son Alucard shortly after her resurrection as a vampire.
 * In the anthology Brides of Dracula: The Legend of Dracula Book Two, Dracula's many brides include Lady Katya, Elizabeth Bathory, Mircalla Karnstein, Lady Lenore, Ulrica Dolingen and others.
 * The Brides appear in Jonathan Green's ACE gamebook Dracula: Curse of the Vampire, here named Lilith, Lamia and Melusina. They are described as three seeresses who seek refuge with Dracula and are turned into his vampiric consorts. At one point, if the player takes the role of Jonathan Harker, he can see the Brides transform into monstrous forms: The eldest Bride into a living corpse, the other two into a snakewoman and a werebat, respectively.

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The result of the debate was MOVE to Immunopathology. -Splash 06:50, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Immunopathologic
My first reaction was that this was a dictionary entry. On reflection, it's plain wrong - immunopathologic is pertaining to the immune system. Dlyons493 09:36, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Immunopathology (changed from 'Move to Immunopathogenic'). Alf 15:07, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Immunopathology... I think? gren グレン 16:22, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Move as per gren now that it's been stubbed. Dlyons493 16:08, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
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Kékes

Kékes  is Hungary's highest mountain, at 1014 m above sea level in the Mátra mountain range. It is Hungary's third most popular tourist attraction, after Lake Balaton and the Danube, and has a number of skiing pistes. The Kékestető TV Tower stands at the summit. Kékes is a resort place of the town of Gyöngyös in Heves county. The territory of Kékestető have an own postal code: 3221. It is 18.1 km away from the town center. As of 2022 census, it has a population of 14. The resort place reachable by bus from the capital city.

History
The built a 20 m high wooden watchtower at east of the summit in 1889. With the Treaty of Trianon, Kékes became the highest mountain in the country in 1920. Before that, the Gerlachovský štít was the highest peak of the Kingdom of Hungary. The watchtower was rebuilt and named after József Vass in 1926. The Kékes luxury hotel, the meteorological station and the road to Mátraháza were built in 1934. The watchtower was demolished in 1938. The luxury hotel was converted into a sanatorium in 1951 and the trade union resort was built. The skiers' houses were built in 1953. A 65-meter TV tower, made of andesite, was handed over in 1960. A new 178-meter-high TV tower was built in 1980, and the older one was converted into a hotel. The new TV tower also functions as a lookout point. Two ski pistes were built beside of the TV tower. Since 1990, the former trade union resort was demolished, and a parking lot was created in its place. The hotel operating in the old TV tower is also closed.

Climate
Kékes Peak is the highest altitude region in Hungary, so it has the highest altitude weather station in the country. Although the mountain is still classified as a temperate humid continental climate (Dfb) according to the Köppen climate classification, it is very close to a subarctic climate (Dfc). Unlike cities in the plains such as Miskolc, which is also classified as a humid continental climate (Dfb), it is closer to an oceanic climate (Cfb) and may even be subtropical humid (Cfa). The annual average temperature of Kékes is 6.4 C, which is about 5 C-change lower than that of Budapest or Miskolc. August is the warmest month with an average temperature of 16.4 C; January is the coldest month with -3.4 C. Temperature extremes ranged from -22.6 C in 1987 to 31.4 C on July 20, 2007.

Road cycling
For road bicycle racing enthusiasts, the mountain can be climbed by two main routes.
 * South from Gyöngyös: 839 m over 17.8 km. This is the most famous and difficult ascent.
 * North from Parád: 775 m over 16.9 km. About equal in difficulty as the Bédoin ascent, but better sheltered against the climb.

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Percy Weatherall

Edward Percy Keswick Weatherall (born 1957) is a British businessman, formerly active in Hong Kong. He was managing director of the Jardine Matheson Group from 2000 to 31 March 2006, having joined the board in 1999.

Weatherall joined the Jardine Group in 1976 and worked in a number of senior executive positions in Hong Kong, the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia, Korea and the Philippines, prior to becoming "Tai-Pan". Weatherall was chief executive officer of Hongkong Land.

Weatherall is a member of the Keswick family, which control Jardine Matheson through complex cross-shareholdings, despite holding only around 10% of the shares in the company. During Weatherall's period in charge, the company defended itself against Brandes Investment Partners who proposed the company break itself up to release extra shareholder value, and Jardines undertook large scale strategic investment in Astra International of Indonesia via the Singapore company Jardine Cycle & Carriage. He was succeeded as group managing director by Anthony Nightingale on 1 April 2006.

Family
Weatherall was born the elder son of Captain Anthony Weatherall and Sophy Keswick.

He is married to Clara Mary Johnston (b. 1960), elder daughter of Nicholas John Johnston by his wife Susanna Maria Chancellor, younger daughter of Sir Christopher Chancellor CMG They have four children - Bertram, Stella, Ruby and Honor Weatherall. The family lives in South West Scotland, having left Hong Kong in April 2006.

Weatherall has two sisters and a younger brother (who is married to his wife's younger sister). Weatherall's elder sister Catherine Nony was married to Nicholas Soames as his first wife. His younger sister Isobel Charlotte, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (b. ca. 1963) was married from 1984 to 2005 to the 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and is mother of the earl's three elder surviving sons.

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Walkaway, Western Australia

Walkaway is a small town in the City of Greater Geraldton local government area of Western Australia. At the, Walkaway had a population of 270.

Its name is a corruption of the native "Wagga wah", referring to the bend in the nearby Greenough River, and was originally given to the railway station when a line was built from Geraldton in 1887.

Rail
In 1894 Walkaway was linked with the Eastern Railway at Midland Junction, 15 kilometres east of Perth, by a private land grant railway constructed by the Midland Railway Company. With the railway and an expanding agricultural area, the township grew. Decline set in with labour shortages associated with the First World War and the construction in 1915 of the parallel state government-owned Northern Railway, 50 kilometres to the east of the Midland Line.

Renewable energy
A number of renewable energy generation projects are located near Walkaway. Current projects (2014) produce 162 Megawatts of electrical power. Additional projects along with upgrades to current projects are scheduled for construction. The Mid West region is identified as a potential location for developing renewable energy technologies that include additional wind and solar photovoltaic electricity projects, solar thermal, geothermal, bioenergy, and ocean energy.

Walkaway Wind Farm
The Walkaway Wind Farm, 9 km east of Walkaway, was completed in August 2005. It consists of 54 turbines, each producing 1.8 MW, 80 m high, and with 40 mblade spans. Development consent has been given for an expansion of the project to up to 400MW.

Mumbida Wind Farm
The Mumbida Wind Farm, 5 km east of Walkaway, is a 55 MW renewable energy project developed by a joint venture of Verve Energy and Infrastructure Capital Group (ICG). Mumbida was completed in 2013 and is now fully operational. Mumbida Wind Farm utilises the 2.5 MW General Electric 2.5xl wind turbines, the first time that this model of wind turbine has been used in Australia. The Mumbida wind farm has been designed to be expanded to 85MW in the future.

Greenough River Solar Farm
The Greenough River Solar Farm is the first stage of a 40MW solar photo voltaic (PV) electricity generator. Stage 1 currently produces 10MW and was commissioned in 2012. At the time of commissioning, it was the largest solar PV generator in Australia. Construction of Stage 2 is scheduled to begin in 2014 and will add an additional 30MW to the project, located 30 km east of Walkaway and 50 km southeast of Geraldton, on the Walkaway-Nangetty Road.

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Coso Range

The Coso Range of eastern California is located immediately south of Owens Lake, east of the Sierra Nevada, and west of the Argus Range. The southern part of the range lies in the restricted Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and the northern part of the range is designated as the Coso Range Wilderness. The mountains include Coso Peak, at 8160 ft above sea level, as well as Silver Peak and Silver Mountain, both more than 7400 ft in height.

The range is underlain principally by Mesozoic granitic rocks that are partly veneered by upper Cenozoic volcanic rocks of the Coso Volcanic Field. The volcanic units (in apparent decreasing age) include (1) widespread basaltic flows, (2) dacitic flows and tuff, and (3) rhyolitic domes and flows and basaltic cones and flows. These volcanic rocks are encompassed by an oval-shaped zone of late Cenozoic ring faulting that measures about 24 mi east to west and 45 km north to south and that defines a structural basin. Most of the Coso Range and a slice of the adjacent Sierra Nevada lie within this ring structure. The youngest volcanic rocks are Pleistocene and, with associated active fumaroles, occupy a north-trending structural and topographic ridge about 18 by near the center of the basin. The ring structure and associated volcanic rocks suggest a large underlying magma chamber that has periodically erupted lava to the surface during the past few million years.

Prehistory
Numerous rock art sites (the Coso Rock Art District) are found in the range, left by the ancient Coso people. The prehistoric Coso inhabitants exported volcanic glass (Coso obsidian) and this highly valued toolstone has been found as far distant as the Channel Islands of California. Little Petroglyph Canyon and Renegade Canyon within the Range are open for guided tours through the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California.

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User:Reader781

Hi, I'm Reader781, also known in the real world as Brad. I have many interest subject areas, but I seem to be most interested in ensuring article references are as high quality as possible, including ensuring that online references include archived copies from services such as the Wayback Machine, in case the original resource is changed or removed.

I have a German language showing in my Babel box on the right because I studied the language in high school. I remember some phrases, but it has mostly fallen out of use.

Interested Subjects

 * Television in Australia, specifically
 * Australian game shows
 * Australian children's game shows
 * Australian reality television series
 * Big Brother (Australian TV series)
 * I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Australian TV series)
 * National Rugby League
 * St George Illawarra Dragons
 * St. George Illawarra Dragons players

Pages I have created

 * The Sims Spark'd (through the WP:DRAFT system)

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Petrovka settlement

The Petrovka fortified settlement, namesake of the 2nd millennium BC Sintashta-Petrovka culture lies at the Ishim River, near the modern village of Petrovka in Zhambyl District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan (54.28333°N, 68.25°W).

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Charles Turner

Charles Turner may refer to:

American

 * Charles E. Turner (politician) (1886–1936), American real estate developer and mayor of Dallas, Texas
 * Charles H. Turner (attorney) (1936–2018), U.S. Attorney for Oregon
 * Charles Henry Turner (U.S. representative) (1861–1913), U.S. representative from New York
 * Charles W. Turner (attorney) (1846–1907), Adjutant General of Montana
 * Charles Turner Jr. (1760–1839), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
 * Chuck Turner (1941–2019), Boston councilor

British

 * Charles Turner (MP) (1803–1875), MP for Liverpool, South Lancashire and South West Lancashire
 * Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Warham (1666–1738), British Member of Parliament for King's Lynn, 1695–1738
 * Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Kirkleatham (c. 1727–1783), British Member of Parliament for York, 1768–1783
 * Sir Charles Turner, 2nd Baronet (1773–1810), British Member of Parliament for Hull, 1796–1802

Canadian

 * Charles Turner (Canadian politician) (1916–1993), Liberal MP for London East, then Senator from Ontario

Arts

 * Charles Henry Turner (painter) (1848–1908), American painter
 * Charles Yardley Turner (1850–1918), American painter
 * Charles Turner (engraver) (1774–1857), English engraver
 * Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879), British poet
 * Charles Turner (English composer) (1907–1977), minor English composer, who took the last pre-war photographs of Hitler

 * Charles Turner (musician) (1936–2006), American jazz trumpeter

Sciences

 * Charles E. Turner (botanist) (1945–1997), American botanist
 * Charles Henry Turner (zoologist) (1867–1923), American zoologist, early pioneer in the field of insect behavior
 * Charles Turner (engineer) (1901–1994), New Zealand mechanical and civil engineer, engineering administrator and consultant

Sports

 * Charles Turner (Australian cricketer) (1862–1944), Australian cricketer
 * Charles Turner (English cricketer) (1862–1926), English cricketer
 * Charles Turner (water polo) (born 1953), Australian water polo player in the 1980 and 1984 Olympics
 * Charlie Turner (Canadian football) (born 1944), Canadian football player
 * Charlie Turner (footballer) (born 1910, date of death unknown), Irish association footballer

Other people

 * Charles Turner (British Army officer) (died 1826), British soldier and colonial administrator
 * Charles W. Turner (Medal of Honor) (1921–1950), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
 * Charles Turner (bishop) (1842–1923), suffragan Bishop of Islington
 * Charles Turner (merchant) (1773?–1856), British businessman, now known as a collector and gardener
 * Charles Arthur Turner (1833–1907), British jurist

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How You Remind Me

"How You Remind Me" is a song by Canadian rock band Nickelback. With lyrics written by lead singer Chad Kroeger and music composed by the band, the track was released on July 17, 2001, as the lead single from their third studio album, Silver Side Up (2001). A "Gold Mix" was made for latter editions of the single, with the heavier guitars edited out of the chorus.

Considered to be Nickelback's signature song, "How You Remind Me" reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 and was named the number-one most played song on US radio of the 2000s decade by Nielsen Soundscan, being spun over 1.2 million times on US airwaves since its release in 2001 to the end of 2009. The song was ranked fourth on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade and 75th on the UK decade-end chart. It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. "How You Remind Me" was also rated the number-one rock song and number-four alternative song of the decade of the 2000s by Billboard.

The song was featured in the music video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and in a recut, PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 titled Once Upon a Deadpool. The song played a large role in a Saturday Night Live skit on March 10, 2018, with Sterling K. Brown in which the lyrics are a dying woman's final words.

Background
Lead singer Chad Kroeger had the first four lines of the song written in his black book of notes. One day he got into an argument with his then-girlfriend in their Vancouver apartment. He went to the basement, turned on his recording microphone, and started improvising and singing the song loudly, hoping she would get the message how upset he was. Instead, she told him it sounded great. "Somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour, I had the whole thing fleshed out: lyrics, melody, chords, the whole nine yards," he said.

He added, "It wasn't supposed to be a vengeful anthem; it was supposed to be what it was. I think it always felt like that in the moment, because we just had an argument, and I felt like striking back. But I find it to be a sarcastic look at relationships. [Like the line] 'Are we having fun yet?' That's full sarcasm."

Kroeger brought a skeleton version of the song to his band as a last-minute addition a week before they were to start recording Silver Side Up, and they worked on the song together.

Chart performances and awards
"How You Remind Me" peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Nickelback's only American chart-topper. Due to its high sales and massive airplay, "How You Remind Me" was ranked as the top single of 2002 by Billboard magazine. The single was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2022, for sales and streams of over 4,000,000 units. The song went on to rack up four Billboard Music Awards, four Juno Awards. "How You Remind Me" was the number one Most Played Song of 2002 in the United States, across all formats, according to Billboard Monitor. In 2003, the song was nominated for Grammy Award for Record of the Year. "How You Remind Me" was the number one song on the Billboard's 2002 Year-End Hot 100 Singles Chart, and VH1 ranked the song as the 16th-greatest power ballad.

The song was listed at number 36 on Billboard's All Time Top 100. In 2021, for the 40th anniversary of the Mainstream Rock chart, Billboard ranked "How You Remind Me" as the fourth-biggest hit in the chart's history; the same magazine later ranked the song as the 20th-biggest hit in the history of Alternative Airplay in 2023, for that chart's 35th anniversary. The song also hit number one on the Kerrang! feature, 21st Century's Official 100 Rock Best Sellers. The song was the 75th best-selling single of the 2000s in the United Kingdom. In Germany, it's not just the band's best-charting single by reaching number 3 on the German Singles Chart, it's also Nickelback's longest-staying single on that chart, namely a total of 30 weeks. In 2011, Fuse TV named it the number one song of the decade. It was listed as number 9 at the Billboard Hot 100 top 100 Rock Songs of the last 50 years. Loudwire listed the song as number 30 on its list "Top 21st Century Hard Rock Songs".

Music video
The music video for "How You Remind Me" was directed by Greg and Colin Strause and features Nickelback playing a small venue with focus on a female audience member. Kroeger admitted to disliking the idea of a small venue performance at first, opting for a bigger scale arena concert; however, he found the outcome of the video satisfying.

In the video, in scenes that alternate with the concert setting, Kroeger plays a man who is haunted by the memory of his ex-girlfriend (played by model Annie Henley). He constantly imagines or perceives her presence, making the world around him seem vibrant; when he realizes she is not there, the lighting changes to a blue-gray filter. At the end, she attends the concert, where Kroeger's character is also in the crowd. She approaches him but he rejects her; he is depicted physically pushing her away in the memory setting, as well as aggressively singing the song's lyrics at her in the concert setting. She is left alone in the dully lit setting.

Another version of the video exists, and has been played on some UK and Australian music channels. The video simply features the footage of the band playing from the main video, added to footage of the band's live performances and tour movies.

Track listings
US CD single
 * 1) "How You Remind Me"
 * 2) "Leader of Men" (acoustic)

UK CD single
 * 1) "How You Remind Me" – 3:43
 * 2) "How You Remind Me" (acoustic) – 3:28
 * 3) "Learn the Hard Way" – 2:54
 * 4) "How You Remind Me" (video)

UK cassette single
 * 1) "How You Remind Me" – 3:43
 * 2) "How You Remind Me" (acoustic) – 3:28

European CD single
 * 1) "How You Remind Me" (album version) – 3:43
 * 2) "How You Remind Me" (Gold mix) – 3:43

European maxi-CD and Japanese CD single
 * 1) "How You Remind Me" (Gold mix) – 3:43
 * 2) "How You Remind Me" (album version) – 3:43
 * 3) "How You Remind Me" (acoustic version) – 3:28
 * 4) "How You Remind Me" (video)

Australian CD single
 * 1) "How You Remind Me"
 * 2) "How You Remind Me" (acoustic)
 * 3) "Little Friend"

Credits and personnel
Credits are taken from the Silver Side Up booklet.

Studios
 * Recorded at Greenhouse Studios (Burnaby, British Columbia)
 * Mixed at Armoury Studios (Vancouver, British Columbia)
 * Mastered at Sterling Sound (New York City)

Personnel

 * Nickelback – music, production
 * Chad Kroeger – lyrics, lead vocals, guitars
 * Ryan Peake – guitars, vocals
 * Mike Kroeger – bass
 * Ryan "Nik" Vikedal – drums
 * Rick Parashar – production
 * Joey Moi – engineering, digital editing
 * Pat "Sajak" Sharman – assistant engineering
 * Alex Aligizakis – assistant engineering, Pro Tools
 * Geoff Ott – assistant engineering
 * Kevin "Chief" Zaruk – production cooradination
 * Randy Staub – mixing
 * George Marino – mastering

Avril Lavigne version
Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne recorded a version of "How You Remind Me" for the anime film One Piece Film: Z. It was reported on October 17, 2012, that Lavigne would be contributing two cover songs to the film: the latter track and a cover of Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation". Lavigne later confirmed the new recording on November 5, 2012. It was released on December 12, 2012, as a digital download from the One Piece Film: Z Original Soundtrack. The 2-track promotional CD single was released on the next day, exclusive to Japan.

The song was re-released on December 19, 2013, by iTunes Stores as a digital download promotional single for her self-titled fifth album. Later, it was included in the Japan, Taiwan and China Tour Edition of the album as one of the bonus tracks.

Background
Lavigne was in the studio with Kroeger working on her fifth studio album when she was asked to contribute a song to the film, but didn't have time to write another song during the studio sessions they had left. Kroeger later explained that it was Lavigne's idea to cover the song, stating: "Avril jokingly suggested to cover a Nickelback song, but then we both figured it'd actually be a good idea to do "How You Remind Me". We recorded a version more similar to the original, but we both were not happy with it, thinking it needs its own spin. Avril then rearranged the song and we all liked it."

An audio-only video was put on Lavigne's official Vevo on January 8, 2013.

Track listings
CD single
 * 1) "How You Remind Me" – 4:05
 * 2) "Bad Reputation" – 2:42

Digital download
 * 1) "How You Remind Me" – 4:05

Other versions
Greek singer Alkistis Protopsalti released a cover of the song entitled Όλα αυτά που φοβάμαι (All my fears) in her 2004 album Να σε δω να γελάς (To see you laugh).

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Teo Bee Yen

Teo Bee Yen (born 1950 in Fujian, China) is a photographer from Singapore.

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User:DirkvdM/Photographs

=Photographs by Dirk van der Made=

These are the photographs I have uploaded to the English Wikipedia. In August 2006 I decided to switch to Wikimedia Commons, so look there for

a better selection of my photographs

I have, however, not yet uploaded all these photographs there, only the ones of my trip to Cuba, Costa Rica and Panamá (at the bottom here).

Photography has become a bit of a hobby of mine in the last few years, so I thought I'd upload some nice ones. In the process I've created an online portfolio. Not necessarily of the best ones, just some of the better ones that I thought might be useful for Wikipedia articles.

The captions are the exact names of the photographs (with an occasional break to make long names fit). I've also added the articles the photograph is linked from. If you or someone else has placed a photograph elsewhere, please add that link. If a link is no longer valid (ie if someone has had the nerve to remove one of my beautiful photographs (grrr...)) please tell me so I can confront the culprit :).

SAIL Amsterdam 2005

Netherlands

Glaspaleis

Various

Photographs by my father

Photographs by others

Schunck / Glaspaleis
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=Photos better viewed at Wikimedia Commons=

Cuba

Costa Rica

Panama

Plants and Animals
These are some nice photographs that probably deserve a place somewhere, but either I don't know what they are or they need a more precise description. So if you recognise anything, please tell me (preferably on my talk page, so I won't miss it - I've created a special header for this at the top). Of course, if you've got anything to say about other photographs than those in this section, please feel free.

My window
First of a series of photos I plan to take from my window, to record when leaves fall and such (at least, that's what I originally took the photo for):

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Charles Tennyson Turner

Charles Tennyson Turner (born Charles Tennyson; 4 July 1808 – 25 April 1879) was an English poet. Born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, he was an elder brother of Alfred Tennyson; his friendship and the "heart union" with his brother is revealed in Poems by Two Brothers (1829). Another poet brother was Frederick Tennyson.

In 1833, Charles was ordained a priest in the Church of England. On 1 October 1835, he changed his surname to Turner after inheriting the estate of his great-uncle, the Reverend Samuel Turner of Caistor in Lincolnshire. On 24 May 1836, he married Louisa Sellwood, the younger sister of Alfred's future wife; she later suffered from mental illness and became an opium addict. Charles died on 25 April 1879, at the age of 70, at 6 Imperial Square in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Turner was key in the construction of Grasby, a small village on the outskirts of Caistor. He helped construct part of the school (Grasby School) and was the vicar of Grasby Church for a while.

Published works

 * Sonnets (1864)
 * Small Tableaux (1868)
 * Sonnets, Lyrics and Translations (1873)
 * Collected Poems (1880, 8 months after death), assembled by Alfred and Hallam Tennyson, and James Spedding

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User:Anclation~enwiki

Right now I'm not too active on the English-language Wikipedia (mostly adding Romanian interwiki links when I'm here) as I'm focusing my energy on the Romanian Wikipedia, where I in January 11th 2007 became an aministrator.

My contributions (original articles):

Romanian-related articles

 * FCM Bacau - Romanian football club playing in the Divizia A
 * FC Argeş - Romanian football club playing in the Divizia A
 * Sportul Studenţesc - Romanian football club playing in the Divizia A
 * Bucharest Business Week - English-language Romanian business weekly
 * Norman Manea - Romanian writer and intellectual, currently living in New York
 * Open Romania - Romanian tennis tournament
 * Ghencea Stadium The home stadium of Steaua Bucuresti
 * Nicolae Mitea Romanian football player
 * Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian table tennis player

Video games-related articles
ro:Utilizator:Anclation
 * Ada Character in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
 * Henry Oldrey Playable character in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
 * Ortega Character in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
 * Gilles de Rais Character in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness

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User talk:Anclation~enwiki

Welcome from Redwolf24
Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. We as a community are glad to have you and thank you for creating a user account! Here are a few good links for newcomers:
 * The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page
 * Editing, policy, conduct, and structure tutorial
 * Picture tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Naming conventions
 * Manual of Style
 * Merging, redirecting, and renaming pages
 * If you're ready for the complete list of Wikipedia documentation, there's also Topical index.

Yes some of the links appear a bit boring at first, but they are VERY helpful if you ever take the time to read them.

Remember to place any articles you create into a category so we don't get orphans.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, or three tildes (~~~) for just your name. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome.

Redwolf24 (Talk) 09:50, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I like messages :-P

Our forum
Welcome to the Romanian Wikipedia notice board! This page is a portal for all Romanian-related topics and a place for Romanian editors to gather and socialize and debate. Discussions are encouraged, in both English and Romanian. Post any inquiry under their relevant cathegory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Romanian_Wikipedian%27s_notice_board

--Anittas 18:05, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

I'll check it out Anclation 18:29, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Welcome to our forum! Please anytime when you need some help, just ping me on my talk page.-- Bonaparte  talk  18:46, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Adminship nomination for Anclation
I've nominated you for adminship at (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Anclation). Thankx. -- Bonaparte  talk  12:03, 11 December 2005 (UTC) Iti respect decizia. Oricand vei fi pregatit si vei accepta vei avea sprijinul meu. Mult succes mai departe! -- Bonaparte  talk  12:53, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

WTF? You don't even know the guy! Are you out of your mind? --Anittas 17:28, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Romania
Hi Anclation! I've read your page about Romania and I just want to congratulate you for it! It's also great to see you're collaborating at Romania-related articles? Have you been to Romania recently? Which part of Norway are you from? I've been to Oslo and Bergen in Norway, and it was great! Cheers, Ronline ✉ 11:39, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Ronline, it's always nice to receive praise, especially from such a respected Wikipedia contributer such as yourself. And to answer your questions, I visited Romania this Easter and hope to visit the country yearly from now on. I currently live in Oslo, the capital of Norway. Anclation 12:46, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah! Good job Anclation! Keep working we stand by you! Bonaparte   talk  22:11, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

This might interest you... ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_hunting

The article could need some expansion. --Anittas 11:38, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Noticeboard
Thank you 4 defending us, but pls, don't feed them. They are in the troll state right now. Mihai -talk 20:02, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * LMAO, what a n00b. Go and listen to manele! --Anittas 20:06, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Anittas
Hi Anclation! I think the recent behaviour of Anittas is very worrying, particularly since he has continued to make personal attacks even after two RfC have been conducted regarding his actions. I'm thinking of starting an RfArbCom against him, since it seems that he doesn't want to refrain from making personal attacks, even though multiple users have tried to explain to him why his comments were against policy. What do you think? Thanks, Ronline ✉ 05:54, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * He doesn't care about your opinion. He already made up his mind. He just wants your vote, that's all. --Anittas 06:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I do care very much about other people's opinions. This is not about getting anyone's vote, it's about coming up with a solution that satisfies all parties. [[Image:Flag of Europe.svg|20px]][[Image:Flag of Romania.svg|20px]] Ronline ✉ 06:02, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * You already made up your mind about this, so why ask for his opinion? --Anittas 06:05, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Because I respect community consensus. If no one else thinks that starting an RfArb is appropriate, I will reconsider. I don't want to start arbitration just for the sake of it, since I think it's quite a significant move. However, seeing as you have continued making personal attacks, RfArb remains the only option after two unsuccessful RfCs. [[Image:Flag of Europe.svg|20px]][[Image:Flag of Romania.svg|20px]] Ronline ✉ 06:15, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't lie. You already made up your mind when you said this:

'''I'm currently in the process of starting a request for arbitration against Anittas, for the personal attacks he continued making after his second RfC, as well as for the insults that were not rectified in that RfC. I would like to know if you would support this RfArb.'''

In fact, you made up your mind long before you started the RfC. This was a part of your masterplan. --Anittas 06:17, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I probably shouldn't be writing this to you on another user's talkpage, since it's cluttering up the page, but there is no masterplan. You seem to think that everything is a conspiracy against you. To be honest, my first reaction after you made the anti-gay statements and after the messages to your talk page regarding them, was to start an RfArb. However, I figured that an RfC would be better in that case because it's more flexible and less punitive. What worries me is that you haven't taken anything in that RfC seriously - you've continued to make just as harsh personal attacks. So, it's not some grand masterplan where I seek to intentionally make you say personal attacks. I've got absolutely nothing against you as a user. However, when you make personal attacks, I've told you. And it seems that discussion doesn't help - and I've tried that so many times - because you just don't want to respect policy and be civil and no make personal attacks on other users. [[Image:Flag of Europe.svg|20px]][[Image:Flag of Romania.svg|20px]] Ronline ✉ 06:25, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * My point here was simple: you did not come here to ask for his opinion. You came here to have his support. Your statement to other users, that I have posted here, proves this. --Anittas 06:27, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

 * No, that's not right. To the other users that you made personal attacks against, I asked for their support. To Anclation, I asked for his opinion, since he is a neutral observer. [[Image:Flag of Europe.svg|20px]][[Image:Flag of Romania.svg|20px]] Ronline ✉ 06:36, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * If you asked for their support, it means that you have already decided to start the Arb. In that case, what good will Anclation's opinion do? Answer me that one. --Anittas 06:43, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late answer. Yes, I have decided to start the Arb, but that doesn't mean that it's all set in stone. I just wanted Anclation's opinion, since he is neutral and I value his opinion on this matter. Also, he witnessed the dispute quite extensively and so knew about the case. I hope this makes sense. [[Image:Flag of Europe.svg|20px]][[Image:Flag of Romania.svg|20px]] Ronline ✉ 12:37, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Anittas, revision of position
Thanks for the reply, Anclation. I am actually considering not starting an RfArb at the moment, if only because Anittas did engage in more constructive dialogue relating to his talk page, and the issue with Node's picture was resolved (resulting in a 24 hour block). I would just really appreciate it if he stops making any personal attacks from now on. It would also be good if he apologises to Orioane for calling him a "traitor to Romania". Ronline ✉ 12:37, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

template / apologies
I apologize fot template deletion without much thinking. I see you didn't edit much in English wikipedia and probably have no good idea about my attitude to Romanians. My problem was long fight with sick ultra-nationalist troll Bonaparte, which actually did much harm to the reputation of Romanians; much more than he wrote useful articles. Please take a look to my contributions in Romanian topics.
 * Armenians in Romania
 * Deportation of Romanians in the USSR
 * Radu Negru
 * Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya
 * Callimachi
 * Moldavian Democratic Republic
 * Rumcherod
 * History of the Moldovan language
 * Daco-Romanian
 * Historical Romanian ranks and titles

May be you understand that I am not enemy of Romania. I happen to have a different kind of knowledge, a hisory that is little known. mikka (t) 18:58, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

reply
Thank you for introducing me to the Romanian portal.I was in fact in need for some guidance about a Romanian related article and that was the best place to post my plea!And it came at the right tim:)Thanks--Radufan 20:46, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: The Romanian forum
Thanks for poining it out, I wasn't aware of it. Dmaftei 16:20, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Be careful !
Bai, fi atent, ca dobitocii astia vor sa ne stearga tag-urile care spun ca suntem in favoarea unificarii Romania-Moldova, pentru ca vasazaica sunt "polemice si inflamatorii" ! Gimme a friggin' break ! Sa nu cumva sa-i lasi sa-ti modifice pagina, daca it-i vor scoate elemente din, ea, sa le pui la loc. Am sa transmit mesajul si la ceilalti Romani. Bafta. -Voievod 18:28, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Lucian Bute
Hey, nice work on Lucian Bute on the Romanian wikipedia. You can always add stuff like stats and career highlights on the English article as well. Thanks for taking interest in my article and one of the best young prospects in boxing ! -Voievod 23:38, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Votează contra ştergerii articolului Heaven of Transnistria
Împreună cu EvilAlex (un tip din Tighina - Transnistria) am creat un articol despre propaganda separatistă a Tiraspolului Heaven of Transnistria. I s-a cerut ştergerea. Te rog ajută-ne să păstrăm articolul, votînd contra ştergerii. Destul s-a şters din articolul principal Transnistria, Wikipedia e plină de propagandă a Tiraspolului, să avem măcar un articol care explică această propagandă--MariusM 18:40, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but you voted for opening of Siberian Wikipedia, so maybe you will vote against the proposal for it's closure: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects

--62.68.146.96 03:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Racism Breaks the Game
Hi! Thanks for telling me about the Racism Breaks the Game initiative. I have created an article on the topic at Racism Breaks the Game. Cheers, Ronline ✉ 05:13, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

"Siberian" Wikipedia
Hello! Recently, you cast a vote against closure of the "Siberian" Wikipedia, presumably basing it on the supposed existence of the "Siberian language" with millions of speakers. Perhaps the issue was misunderstood. There is no Siberian language or Siberian nation, apart from the native Turkic and other peoples who lived there long before Russian colonists arrived in the 16th century. The matter in question is an artificial "language" created based on several archaic Russian dialects in 2005 by a Mr. Zolotarev and a few of his friends, inclusion of which fairly blatantly violates the No Original Research policy of Wikipedia. Siberian Slavs speak Russian and list themselves on censuses as Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusans - this you can verify for yourself. I invite you to return to participate in the discussion and reconsider your vote, and appreciate constructive debate on the topic. Cossack 00:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Siberian wikipedia thanks you for your vote in our support. Unfortunately, many votes in this voting http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Siberian_Wikipedia are alleged to be falsified. We need you to verify your vote. There are two ways of doing it: you can confirm it right below this request or you can do this by adding to your user page a link to your meta account (like this:") --Yaroslav Zolotaryov 23:50, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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Voting
Hi! Here is a voting about Bendery/Bender/Tighina: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bender%2C_Moldova#Statement_of_Title_Solution --80.142.252.220 (talk) 19:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Dacia
Bună! I've been working to set up the WikiProject Dacia to organize better the articles about Dacia and improve their quality. We need help expanding and reviewing many articles, and we also need more images. Maybe you find it interesting and wish to join. Thanks and best regards! --Codrin.B (talk) 22:19, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Romania
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Your account will be renamed
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Cupa României
Can you help me by editing more seasons of Cupa României ? I already started, just create a few and soon will be done !Alexiulian25 (talk) 20:24, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

and also Liga II.--Alexiulian25 (talk) 01:24, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Category:Wikipedians who like NationStates
Hey! Based on your edits to NationStates, I thought maybe you would be interested that I started a series of userboxes for the game NationStates. Feel free to add any or add your own!- 🐦Do☭torWho42 ( ⭐ ) 05:27, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

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Deep-fried pizza
Thanks for the photo. How come you removed Category:Comedy junk food? Don't you think Deep-fried pizza is kind of funny? Edward 11:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you!
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I'm a huge my bloody valentine fan and wanted to say thank you for the edits and upkeep you do on the Loveless page! Thirdurl (talk) 01:07, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

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