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Heath/Heathen
I've added a reference leading to Etymonline. Would this be sufficient? If it isnt, I'd like your assistance please. Thanks! — ᚹᚩᛞᛖᚾᚻᛖᛚᛗ (talk) 21:24, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Hi Wōdenhelm – well, it would, but the ref doesn't really support the derivation – it just says "could be..", which is hardly definitive. Can we find any better refs?  Richard New Forest (talk) 21:31, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Just checked the OED. It discusses the heathen-from-heath theory, but essentially it dismisses it, on "etymological and chronological grounds" (for example, it appears that the word-endings in the various languages are wrong for that derivation).  The OED favours the Germanic heathen words being derived from an Armenian word derived ultimately from Greek ethnos, meaning "nation", "heathen".  Richard New Forest (talk) 22:36, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Above discussion moved from User talk:Richard New Forest Richard New Forest (talk) 23:01, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Perhaps I could reword it accordingly, so that it'll be listed as a strong possibility, rather than a definite. — ᚹᚩᛞᛖᚾᚻᛖᛚᛗ (talk) 06:49, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

I've been thinking about this further... I realised that the derivation of "heathen" actually belongs in an article about heathens, not in one about heath (still less in the lead para), so I have deleted this para altogether. In any case, the evidence for the heath-heathen derivation seems very weak, and personally I don't think it belongs anywhere, unless perhaps in folk etymology. Richard New Forest (talk) 15:46, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Sounds reasonable - I too would keep heathen out of this article. Casliber (talk · contribs) 19:47, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moveds per discussion, hatnote added  Ron h jones (Talk) 01:26, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Heath (habitat) → Heath — This is clearly the primary topic. Looking at the current "Heath" article it is just a disambiguation page and the only other contenders for an article called "Heath" are a few small towns and villages that have to be disambiguated from one another anyway. Bermicourt (talk) 20:35, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Heath → Heath (disambiguation)

 * Oppose. Between the various plants and the various towns named "Heath", I don't think we can assume that the reader is looking for the habitat.  Powers T 14:40, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. This is the most commonly accessed page after "Heath" itself, which suggests the habitat is the primary topic! --Bermicourt (talk) 18:47, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Not really. Only if the numbers are overwhelming would that be convincing evidence.  Powers T 01:18, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Support All the places are tiny, and nobody is likely to expect them to appear under the disambiguated name. Johnbod (talk) 14:08, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. I agree that the habitat is the main use of the word.  I also notice that a good number of the links to Heath are aiming at Heath (habitat).  Richard New Forest (talk) 22:14, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. Nom's vote. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:44, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose. There is no clear primary topic here.  So the articles should stay where they are.  Nothing is hurt by having the dab page at the main name space. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:12, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. So where are the contenders called "Heath"??? --Bermicourt (talk) 13:01, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Support, it's the primary meaning for me - the only one anyone would be expecting to find under "Heath". The present disambiguator isn't particularly great either (I think of it as a type of land - Heathland might be a better title if it really needed disambiguating - rather than necessarily a habitat for anything.)--Kotniski (talk) 13:45, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I think I would have supported if not for the various types of plants, but I (just barely) fall on the side of the disambig being the primary page. Kelly  hi! 03:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Support. This seems to be the primary meaning. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 14:55, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Assessment
This article seems too short to be B class. I am sure it could be more comprehensive. It only has 8 citations. Until these criteria are tended to C class is more appropriate. - Shiftchange (talk) 13:50, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

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Is it free-draining or not?
In the lead it says: "There are some clear differences between heath and moorland. For example moorland has a very peaty topsoil, and it is also free-draining, whereas a heath is not" Then under characteristics it says "Heathland is favoured where climatic conditions are typically warm and dry, particularly in summer, and soils acidic, of low fertility, and often sandy and very free-draining" These sentences are contradictory so which is correct? Also, a number of the online dictionaries say that moor and moorland are synonyms for heath and |Merriam Webster Online says a heath is "an extensive area of rather level open uncultivated land usually with poor coarse soil, inferior drainage, and a surface rich in peat or peaty humus" while the first sentence says that the peaty topsoil on moorland is one of the things that distinguishes it from a heath. Richerman ''  (talk) 23:18, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

 * You can't rely on school dictionaries for definitions of complex subjects. The Webster definition is flat out wrong when talking about the ecological meaning of heath, as evidenced by the multiple references provided in this article. Frankly I'm not sure what that definition refers to, but it clearly doesn't apply to >90% of the world's heaths. Since the moor distinction has been unreferenced for 18 months, we can safely remove it. Mark Marathon (talk) 01:21, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

 * No, moorland is not characterised by being free-draining – in fact it rarely is (this text is so much the reverse of true that it may be vandalism). There is some academic argument (which really ought to be reflected somewhere here) about what the difference actually is between heath and moor, and indeed whether there is a real difference at all.  I don't think it's accurate to say "there are clear differences" between them.  UK ecologists tend to treat heath and moor as different, whereas others often don't, in which case they usually call anything dominated by ericaceous dwarf shrubs "heathland".  Generally in the UK moorland occurs in the uplands of the north and west, where rocks are mostly impermeable and rainfall is high.  Therefore they tend to have wet soils with lots of peat.  Heaths generally occur in lowlands, usually in the south and east, where rainfall is much lower and many substrates (such as sandstone and gravels) are permeable.  Therefore they often have little or no peat – but where drainage is obstructed, they can have peat too (and then they grade into mire).

 * I agree with Mark's point about the Webster definition, which is more like 19th century (and earlier) common usage, where "heath", "waste" and "moor" were used for pretty much any rough uncultivated land regardless of vegetation or soil chemistry. I agree that the whole sentence is better omitted.  Richard New Forest (talk) 10:49, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

 * The OED says a heath is "an area of open uncultivated ground esp. on acid sandy or peaty soil and covered by heather or related plants". For moor the first definition is very similar: "An open area of uncultivated land esp. an area covered with heather etc.; a heath" but the two alternative definitions are: "A marsh or fen:Dialect and US" and "The soil of which moorland consists: Scottish and dialect" I think the main problem is that the terms heathland and moorland are fairly interchangeable in the UK. For instance Kersal Moor in the north of England has an maximum elevation of 23 metres so it hardly fits in with the  'high-ground heaths' definition. It also has mostly well-drained sandy soil with some areas of peaty soil - like Hampstead Heath (which rises to 134 metres). But as the area is surrounded by moorland on the Pennines it has always been called a moor because it's covered with heather and moorland-type plants. It does, however, also have lots of mosses in the damper areas. Also if you look at the Somerset Levels article the moors there (and there were a lot of them see:) are on low-lying land but ware characterised by having peaty soil. The moorland article does deal with this conflict of definitions a little better, although it's not clear if that bit is supported by references and the article is otherwise generally pretty poor. It would appear that, in the UK, moors are generally places with peaty soil and heaths are places with sandy soil.  Richerman ''   (talk) 12:51, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Natural England is useful. J3Mrs (talk) 16:29, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * That's interesting - they also have a page on upland heath here where they say upland heath is commonly referred to as moorland. I'm beginning to wonder why we have separate articles for them. Richerman ''   (talk) 17:00, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * And there's more, . J3Mrs (talk) 17:32, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

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nectar feeding mammal
i have removed the statement that the honey possum is the world's "only nectar feeding mammal." Just for a start, many bats eat nectar as well.Wikigreenwood (talk) 05:00, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

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1922 NFL season

The 1922 NFL season was the third regular season of what was now called the National Football League (NFL); the league changed its name from American Professional Football Association (APFA) on June 24, 1922.

The NFL fielded 18 teams during the season, including new league teams such as the Milwaukee Badgers, the Oorang Indians, the Racine Legion, and the Toledo Maroons. Technically, it was also Green Bay's first full season in the league, after their membership was suspended because the team had fielded college players in 1921.

The team representatives filed for a new franchise before the 1922 season under the name of the Green Bay Athletic club, and were registered in the league under the name Green Bay Blues. They returned to the original name a year later; most teams around the league continued to call them the Packers. Meanwhile, the Chicago Staleys changed their name to the Chicago Bears, and the Racine Cardinals changed their name to the Chicago Cardinals.

The Muncie Flyers, Cleveland Indians, Brickley's New York Giants, Cincinnati Celts, Tonawanda Kardex, Washington Senators, and Detroit Tigers dropped out of the league. A 19th team, the Youngstown Patricians, was scheduled to join the league, and had its schedule laid out, but folded before playing in the league. A 20th, the Philadelphia Union Quakers, also was set to join (but presumably not as far along as the Youngstown plans), but did not, due partly to the fact that the Quakers were merely a front for the existing Buffalo All-Americans to play extra games on Saturday. After a four-year hiatus, the Quakers instead joined the American Football League (1926).

The Canton Bulldogs were named the 1922 NFL Champions after ending the season with a 10–0–2 record.

The league's teams salary cap was $1,200 per game, while the new teams expansion fee was $500.

Teams
Eighteen teams competed in the NFL during the 1922 season, down from 21 clubs during the previous season.

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I seriously doubt that this is one of the worst translations ever. There's lots of amateur translations published by people who barely know the language (or sometimes don't know the language at all) out there. --Prosfilaes 01:56, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Merger proposal
This article J. J. Earle obviously is about John Earle (professor) or rather one single aspect of him, nameley the quality of his Beowulf translation: This might become a section in the target article or could be grossly condensed: I cannot access the objectivity and encyclopedic relevance of the statement Worst. Translation. Ever.

So far I have not been able to establish "J. J." or "John J." als forms of name for the person. Library catalogues and the title page of the 1892 Clarendon Press edition of The Deeds of Beowulf know him plainly as "John Earle". -- Gymel (talk) 09:46, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

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French schooner Belle Poule

Belle Poule is a French Navy schooner in service as a training vessel, and the fourth ship of that name in the French Navy. She was built in 1932 as a replica of a cod fishing vessel used off Iceland, as a training ship of the students of the École navale. During the Second World War, Belle Poule sailed to the United Kingdom after the Fall of France and was used by the Free French Naval Forces, returning to Brest in 1945. The schooner as well as her sister ship FRENCH SCHOONER Étoile are still used by the École Navale as training ships in European waters.

Design and construction
In the early 20th century, the French Navy scrapped its aging traditional sailing ships, FRENCH FRIGATE Melpomène in 1904, and Borda in 1914. In the following years, it emerged that student officers would benefit from at least some sailing training. Since it would consist only in short cruises around Brest rather than long cruises, the school decided not to build a three-masted ship. Instead, it chose a replica of a cod fishing schooner, which had the advantage of being both maneuverable, and strong enough to sustain the weather of the winter around Brest. in 1931, the Ministry of the Navy ordered two such ships, as to allow enough of the students to embark at the same time. The first was Belle Poule, and the second, FRENCH SCHOONER Étoile.

The Navy ordered the ships from Chantiers de Normandie at Fecamp. Construction was supervised by Lieutenant Richard for the Navy, and engineers Chantelot and Lemaistre for the shipyard. The ships could accommodated 30 student officers, 5 petty officers 12 seamen and 3 officers. Construction of Belle Poule began in late July 1931, and she was launched on 8 February 1932.

During her trials, Belle Poule managed 6 kn on engines. With sails, she achieved 8.5 kn close-hauled and 12 kn broad reach.

Characteristics
Belle Poule is a replica of a type of fishing vessel that was used until 1935 off Iceland for catching cod. The ship has a standard displacement of 227 LT and 275 LT at full load. The schooner is 37.5 m long with a beam of 7.4 m and a draught of 3.7 m.

Belle Poule is propelled by 450 m2 of sails and an auxiliary Baudouin DNP 8 diesel engine turning one shaft rated at 285 hp, replacing her original a Sulzer diesel engine, rated at 125 bhp. Her maximum speed in 9 kn on diesel engine. The propeller has only two blades, and can be stopped and locked vertically, as not to hinder the nautical qualities of the hull.

As a former ship of the Free French Naval Forces (French: Forces Navales Françaises Libres, or FNFL), Belle Poule still flies the flag with the Cross of Loraine in honour of her role during the Second World War.

Career
From September 1932 Belle Poule and Étoile served with the École navale in their normal role. In the morning of 18 June 1940, Lieutenant-Commander Cros, in charge of both schooners, was ordered to prepare for evacuating the students of the school in the face of the German invasion of France. By 14:00pm, both ships were manned, and they departed at 15:00pm. At 17:00pm, they had joined Président-Théodore-Tissier, Jean-Frédéric and Notre-Dame-de-France. The ships crossed the English Channel during the night, and arrived at Falmouth on 19 June around 17:00pm. The British boarded Belle Poule in the night of 2 July as part of Operation Catapult, taking the French personnel prisoner. They restituted the ships to the FNFL on 20 September. Both ships were de-magnetised as a precaution against mines, and armed with two 8 mm Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine guns.

On 16 November 1940, Belle Poule and Étoile left Falmouth and sailed to Portsmouth to join the Free French naval school, held on Président-Théodore-Tissier. On 18 November, they came under attack from a bomber, but the four bombs that it released fell hundreds of metres away and did not cause damage. From November 1940, Belle Poule sailed each day of the week to train gunners, helmsmen, gabiers and commandos for the FNFL and for the Royal Navy, with Ensign Walmeyer acting as a liaison officer. Because she was moored next to the battleship FRENCH BATTLESHIP Courbet, Belle Poule was regularly under attack from German planes. On 10 January 1941, she sustained two hits from incendiary bombs, and an officer, Blonsard'', was seriously wounded fighting the fire. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth paid the ships a visit, and Blonsard was awarded the Croix de Guerre for saving Belle Poule.

On 15 April 1944, Belle Poule and Étoile departed for West Hartlepool, Étoile towing Belle Poule for most of the journey due to an engine failure. They arrived on 13 May and were placed in reserve. In late September 1945, Belle Poule and Étoile returned to Brest. From October they were appointed to the École navale again, but were in such bad condition that they stayed under refit until mid-1947. Their engines were replaced with 120 hp Deutz AG engines taken from German trucks.

Belle Poule and Étoile sail around Brest during the winter, and occasionally participate in meetings during the summer, mainly in European waters. In 1975, they had a refit, and the engines were replaced with 245 shp Baudoin DNP8. In 2009, they crossed the Atlantic to New York. Since 13 May 1978 Belle Poule has been sponsored by the city of Pauillac. Belle Poule underwent a refit in 2006.

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Meyerland, Houston

Meyerland is a community in southwest Houston, Texas, outside of the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8. The neighborhood is named after the Meyer family, who bought and owned 6,000 acres (24 km$2$) of land in southwest Houston.

Meyerland is the center of Houston's Jewish community; the Meyerland area is the home of Houston's Jewish Community Center, Congregation Beth Israel, Congregation Beth Yeshurun, and several smaller synagogues. The area is also home to Meyerland Plaza, a large outdoor shopping center.

Meyerland is partially located within the 100-year floodplain, and houses were prone to flooding during heavy rain events. Meyerland was inundated during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and stories and images of the flooded community were prominent in media coverage of the natural disaster in Houston.

Large scale flood mitigation projects are underway which will greatly benefit Meyerland. Chief amongst such projects is Project Brays, a $400m mega scale flood mitigation project which will remove several Meyerland homes from 100 year flood plain.

Circa 2018 several new homes are being built in Meyerland and the neighborhood is seeing strong new home construction. Luxury homes over $1m in value are being built several feet above the minimum base flood elevation.

History
The subdivision was formerly rice fields. Joseph F. Meyer Sr. originally acquired the land in sections beginning around 1885.

The land was unused for many years, although part of it was leased to farmers and cattlemen. Joseph Meyer was confident that one day his holdings would be within the Houston city limits.

After Joseph’s death in 1933, the land was divided among his three sons, George, Frank and Joseph Jr. It was not until 20 years after the father’s death that George Meyer decided to develop his share of the land.

George Meyer developed 1200 acre of the fields into the Meyerland subdivision in 1955. Vice President Richard Nixon was at the subdivision's ribbon-cutting ceremony. Meyerland was one of the first deed-restricted communities in the City of Houston. Many white residents were moving away from the Third Ward area, so many houses in Meyerland were sold prior to construction.

On Memorial Day, May 30, 1961, the "Hero Tree" was dedicated as a living memorial to Capt. Gary L. Herod for his heroism. The tree and a stone marker are located near Meyerland Plaza shopping center on Beechnut Street.

On February 16, 1967, the Meyerland State Bank (now a BBVA Compass) was robbed. The bank initially believed it lost $62,211, which would have made it the most severe bank robbery in Houston at the time. The bank staff later realized that $13,000 of that was in the wrong location and was not in fact stolen, which meant it was Houston's second-most severe bank robbery.

According to Chris Lane of the Houston Press, while many Houston neighborhoods that were considered desirable in 2014 had experienced a period of decline before being gentrified, Meyerland itself had never declined even though Meyerland Plaza had experienced turmoil in the 1980s. In the mid to late 1980s families who began moving into Meyerland and Bellaire began to tear down older homes and build new ones.

A string of over twelve robberies affected Meyerland from April 23, 1989 until June 19, 1989. On June 20, 1989 a suspect, Timothy Dion Morant, had been arrested, and confessed to the crime spree. The group of robbers targeted Meyerland since the houses had valuables, and the community was in proximity to the 610 Loop and other major thoroughfares, providing easy avenues for escape. Morant said that he committed half of the robberies, while his accomplices, many of whom were young men originating from the Hiram Clarke area, committed the other half. Area residents used their funds to hire private patrols, causing crime rates to decrease. After families moved in, children who were caught speeding or with illegal substances told police that they were from Meyerland in an effort to get police to treat them more leniently. Stephen Klineberg, a Rice University sociology professor, stated that as Meyerland became wealthier, the class structure increasingly was "rigidified." At the same time, it was reported in 2006 in Texas Monthly that drugs were "plentiful" in Meyerland.

On Memorial Day, 2015, water from the Brays Bayou flooded Meyerland. Meyerland resident Chris Bell called for an outside investigation on why anti-flooding infrastructure improvements were not completed on time; he argued that the Harris County Flood Control District had assisted with the ReBuild Houston infrastructure program, approved in 2010 in the wake of the 2001 Tropical Storm Allison flooding, and therefore should not be trusted to make a neutral report on the flooding.

In 2017 the Israeli government stated it would spend $1 million to help pay for repairs for damages from Hurricane Harvey sustained by institutions of the Jewish community in Houston. Out of every thirteen Jewish families in Meyerland, one had its house flooded during Harvey.

Cityscape
In 2006 Mimi Swartz of the Texas Monthly said that the houses around Godwin Park are "cozy ranch houses from the fifties and sixties in Tudor, colonial, and contemporary variations, comfortable but never showy, with gardens lovingly tended."

Demographics
In the City of Houston-defined Meyerland Super Neighborhood, there were 21,445 residents in 2015. 58% of them were non-Hispanic white, 16% were Hispanics, 13% were non-Hispanic Asians, 11% were non-Hispanic Blacks, and 2% were non-Hispanic others. In 2000 there were 19,841 residents of the super neighborhood. 77% were non-Hispanic White, 9% were Hispanic, 8% were non-Hispanic Asians, 4% were non-Hispanic Blacks, and 2% were non-Hispanic others.

Government
Meyerland is in Houston City Council District C. In the first 1991 Mayor of Houston election most Meyerland voters voted for Bob Lanier. During the 1997 Mayor of Houston election, about 29% of Meyerland voters voted for Lee P. Brown.

Meyerland is in Texas's 7th congressional district.

Harris Health System (formerly Harris County Hospital District) designated Valbona Health Center (formerly People's Health Center) in Greater Sharpstown for ZIP code 77096. The nearest public hospital is Ben Taub General Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.

Culture
The Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, Congregation Beth Israel, Congregation Beth Yeshurun, and several small synagogues are in the area. Mimi Swartz of the Texas Monthly said "the neighborhood was a place where Jews could take care of their own and, they believed, could protect their children from negative influences while teaching them to follow religious tradition and embrace the values of family, education, achievement, and community." Every year the Jewish Book and Arts Fair is held in Meyerland.

Primary and secondary education
In 2022 the Houston Chronicle described the area schools as "sought-after".

Public schools
The neighborhood is served by several Houston Independent School District (HISD) schools. Coldwell Banker United real estate agent Teresa Lewis stated in a 2010 Houston Chronicle article that "Meyerland has long been recognized for its exemplary and recognized magnet schools."

The portion of the neighborhood north of the Brays Bayou is zoned to Lovett Elementary School; Lovett is located in Section 2. The portion of the neighborhood south of the Brays Bayou is zoned to Kolter Elementary School. The portion of the neighborhood on the west (section 10, which has a western edge boundary of Hillcroft Avenue) is zoned to Herod Elementary School. Herod is located on the edge of Section 10. Lovett was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2016.

Almost all of the neighborhood is zoned to Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School (changed from Johnston Middle school in 2016 ), also located in Meyerland. A small portion is zoned to Pershing Middle School. All students who are zoned to Pershing, Johnston, or Long have the option to apply for the regular program at Pin Oak Middle School in the city of Bellaire. Therefore, Pin Oak Middle School serves most of Meyerland. One section of Meyerland is zoned to Fondren Middle School.

Meyerland residents are zoned to Bellaire High School, which is also in the city of Bellaire. Meyerland is immediately south of Bellaire. Yushang Chang, the author of Newcomer's Handbook Neighborhood Guide: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin, wrote that since Meyerland is zoned to Bellaire one could buy a house and guarantee that one's child could go the school without paying City of Bellaire housing prices and property taxes.

History of public schools
From the opening of the subdivision in 1955 until 1958, Meyerland residents attended Horn Elementary School in Bellaire. Bellaire High School opened in 1955. Lovett opened in September 1958. Johnston Junior High School opened in 1959. Kolter opened in 1960. Herod Elementary School opened in 1961.

In December 1991, before Christmas, an HISD document was given to an attendance boundary committee convened by the district. The document, labeled as a "draft", illustrated Meyerland being moved into the attendance zone of Westbury High School. This caused panic in Meyerland as the community feared that moving to Westbury, which was less prestigious than Bellaire High, would cause a decrease in property values. On May 21, 1992, the HISD board adopted attendance boundary committee recommendations stating that the Bellaire High attendance zone would not be altered.

The current Herod Elementary building opened in mid-January 2011. The current Lovett building opened in August 2011. The rebuilds of Herod, Lovett, and Horn Elementary of Bellaire together had a cost of $49 million and were a part of a $1 billion bond program approved by HISD voters in 2007.

Due to the effect of Hurricane Harvey on the Kolter campus in 2017, it was rebuilt and opened for students in 2020.

Private schools
Highlands Latin School, a private K-12 Christian School, is in Meyerland Section 3. The campus previously housed Pilgrim Lutheran School, a private K-8 Christian School, which later closed its K-8 section and now only has early childhood.

Nearby Catholic schools, under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galveston-Houston, include St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School (K-8), and Corpus Christi Catholic School. Several other private schools, including St. Thomas' Episcopal School and Beth Yeshurun Day School, are located in the Meyerland area. The Robert M. Beren Academy, Episcopal High School (Bellaire), Westbury Christian School (grades K-12) and Emery/Weiner School are near Meyerland.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, as of 2022, more students attended Beth Yeshurun Day School and The Shlenker School than previously. An organization called Prizmah stated in a 2021 report that families with a preference for education in a school setting during a pandemic, as opposed to via the internet, often preferred schools that continued offering such.

Public libraries
Effective 2023, Dr. Shannon Walker Neighborhood Library of the Houston Public Library (HPL), located in Westbury, is the library location for Meyerland. Its namesake is Shannon Walker.

The HPL formerly operated the George B. Meyer, Sr. Neighborhood Library, which was near Meyerland at 5005 West Bellfort; it opened in 1962. In 1994 the library received renovations to accommodate disabled people. By 2013 HPL planned to purchase land for a new Meyerland branch with $442,000. HPL spokesperson Sandra Fernandez stated that HPL wants to build a new facility in order to increase the size and parking capacity. There is a proposal to move the library to Westbury Square in Westbury, supported by the Westbury community but opposed by Meyerland residents. In 2015 various proposals on where the replacement library should go were being debated. Prior to Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the Houston community considered the Meyer Branch to be the Houston library in the poorest state of maintenance. Hurricane Harvey gave the library moderate damage, and the city government closed it afterwards, with demolition scheduled. The new library, which will also replace HPL Express Frank, will be at 5505 Belrose on a 2.5 acre plot of land in Westbury.

Transportation
The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) operates public transportation.

Around 1988 METRO proposed having Beechnut Street widened. Residents of Meyerland, Maplewood, and Robindell appeared before the METRO board and protested the plans, stating that they would result in increased traffic. METRO dropped the plans.

Police service
The neighborhood is within the Houston Police Department's Southwest Patrol Division. The homeowners association maintains a contract with Harris County Precinct 5 Constable for improved local security.

Parks and recreation
Two city-operated parks are in Meyerland. Meyerland Park, located at 5151 Jason, is classified as a neighborhood park; it is in Meyerland Section 2.

Herbert Godwin Park, located at 5101 Rutherglen, is classified as a community park. The Godwin Community Center, on the same lot, has an outdoor pavilion, a playground, and a lighted sports field. The sports facilities include a baseball diamond, a soccer field, and a covered basketball court. Godwin Park, adjacent to Kolter Elementary, is about one city block large. Many mothers and children gather at the park on weekends. Mimi Swartz of the Texas Monthly said "[t]he grass is shorn and green, the playground equipment freshly painted and sturdy. The park is shaded by benevolent oaks that are about the same age as the homes that surround it[...]"

In the early years of Meyerland's existence, eight garden clubs formed. Little league baseball was first organized in Meyerland in 1957, with games occurring at Meyerland Park. By 1958 the Meyerland Teen Club and the Meyerland Civic Club opened. On May 24, 1958, the Meyerland Club officially opened; families gathered at the club, which hosted a swim team. The club closed in 1996 and was sold to the Jewish Community Center, which redeveloped the facility into the Merfish Teen Center.

The Weekley YMCA in Houston includes Meyerland in its service area. It opened in 1951 as the Southwest YMCA, in West University Place. The current facility in Braeswood Place, Houston broke ground in 2001.

Media
The Houston Chronicle is the area regional newspaper. On Thursdays, residents receive the Bellaire/West U/River Oaks/Meyerland local section.

The Bellaire Examiner is a local newspaper distributed in the community.

The Village News and Southwest News is also published in the community.

The Meyerland Journal is an alternative weekly political paper that covers the Meyerland and Bellaire regions.

The Bellaire Texan, which served the Meyerland area community in the mid-20th Century, was headquartered in Bellaire and published by the Texan Publishing Corporation. By 1975 it became known as the Bellaire & Southwestern Texan and was published by the Preston Publishing Company. It was then headquartered in Houston.

Notable residents

 * Chris Bell

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The Lost King of Oz

The Lost King of Oz (1925) is the nineteenth book in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fifth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. The novel was followed by The Hungry Tiger of Oz (1926).

The book went into the public domain on January 1, 2021.

Thompson's approach
As she sometimes does in her books, Thompson exploits a detail in Baum's work to generate her story. Baum mentions Pastoria, Ozma's father and former ruler of Oz, only briefly in the twentieth chapter of The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904); Thompson spins Baum's hint into a full tale of Pastoria's exile and rescue.

Thompson dedicated The Lost King of Oz to her invalid mother. She suggested to her publishers that the dedication be made in the form of a crossword puzzle — but Reilly & Lee rejected the idea.

Plot summary
Old Mombi, formerly the Wicked Witch of the North, is now a cook in the land of Kimbaloo. One day she comes across Pajuka, the former prime minister of Oz, transformed by Mombi into a goose years before. She sets out to find Pastoria, the king of Oz, whom she also enchanted in the past. However, she has forgotten what shape she transformed Pastoria into. She kidnaps a local boy called Snip as her unwilling assistant and bearer of burdens. Eventually deciding, however, that he knows too much, Mombi throws Snip down a well; he ends up in Blankenburg, populated by the invisible Blanks. Snip meets and soon rescues Tora, an amnesiac old tailor. Tora has been held prisoner for many years by the Blanks, to do their tailoring; he has compensated by sending his detachable ears flying about the countryside to hear the news.

Meanwhile, Dorothy is accidentally transported to Hollywood, where she meets Humpy, a live stunt dummy, whom she brings back to Oz. They escape the Back Talkers in Eht Kcab Sdoow (by running backwards), and meet the Scooters who help scoot them on their way. Kabumpo the Elegant Elephant shows up to provide transport (of the mundane sort). Dorothy's party encounters Snip and Tora, and Mombi and Pajuka too. They come to the conclusion that Humpy the dummy is the enchanted Pastoria.

Eventually, matters are clarified and settled: Pajuka is restored to humanity, but Humpy proves not to be the missing king after all. Old Tora is disenchanted and turns out to be Pastoria. He spurns any notion of returning to his throne, however; he is content to settle down as a humble tailor in the Emerald City, with Snip as his apprentice and Humpy as his tailor's dummy.

In a rare act of Ozite capital punishment, Mombi is ruthlessly doused with water and melts away like the Wicked Witch of the West, so that nothing is left of her but her buckled shoes.

Promotion
Reilly & Lee took a new approach to publicizing its Oz books in 1925. Thompson wrote a short play for child actors titled A Day in Oz, with songs composed by Norman Sherrerd. The play was performed in bookstores and department stores by local children, with costumes provided by Reilly & Lee. The performances promoted each year's Oz book, and continued through the 1920s.

Reception
In A Brief Guide to Oz, Paul Simpson notes that Mombi being put to death "caused considerable controversy with Oz fans."

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Arkady Renko

Arkady Renko (Russian: Аркадий Ренко) is a fictional detective who is the central character of ten novels by the American writer Martin Cruz Smith.

Character timeline
In Gorky Park, the first novel, he is a chief investigator for the Soviet Militsiya in Moscow, where he is in charge of homicide investigations. In the sequels, he takes on roles varying from a militiaman to a worker on a fish processing ship in the Arctic.

Born into the nomenklatura, Arkady is the son of Red Army General Kiril Renko, an unrepentant Stalinist also known as "the Butcher", who sees Arkady as a bitter failure for choosing the simple life of a policeman over a military career, or even a career in the Communist Party. Arkady was also never able to forgive himself for indirectly and unwittingly helping his mother commit suicide (he helped her gather the rocks she used to drown herself with in the lake at their family estate when he was a young boy). Wary of the official lies of Soviet society, Arkady exposes corruption and dishonesty on the part of influential and well-protected members of the elite, regardless of the consequences. When exposed to Western capitalist society, he finds it to be equally corrupt and returns to the Soviet Union. Despite this, and his own tough nature, he emerges as a man capable of displaying both compassion and a faith in the future.

The first three books published between 1981 and 1992 form a trilogy culminating with the fall of the Soviet Union, at the August Coup in 1991. The action in Gorky Park takes place in the Soviet Union and in the US, Polar Star on board a Soviet fishing vessel in the Bering Sea, and Red Square in West Germany and the Glasnost-era Soviet Russia. Havana Bay is set in Cuba; Wolves Eat Dogs is set in Moscow and in the areas affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Stalin's Ghost, published in 2007, returns Arkady to a Russia now presided over by Vladimir Putin, followed by Three Stations published in 2010, Tatiana in 2013, The Siberian Dilemma in 2019, and Independence Square in 2023.

The Arkady Renko novels
(with years of publication)

 * 1) Gorky Park (1981)
 * 2) Polar Star (1989)
 * 3) Red Square (1992)
 * 4) Havana Bay (1999)
 * 5) Wolves Eat Dogs (2004)
 * 6) Stalin's Ghost (2007)
 * 7) Three Stations (2010)
 * 8) Tatiana (2013)
 * 9) The Siberian Dilemma (2019)
 * 10) Independence Square (2023)

Film
In 1983 Gorky Park was adapted as a film starring William Hurt as Renko.

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Talk:Kilmacud Crokes GAA

Untitled
Can be removed now.--Fenian Swine 01:59, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup tag
(From User talk:Pearle)

In what way does the article need to be cleaned up.--Play Brian Moore 01:32, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Because it is shite. Avril
 * I'm not entirely sure. Pearle did not add the cleanup tag; she only changed it to a date-specific one.  An anonymous editor (18.60.3.22) added the cleanup tag on 27 August.  I see User:Petaholmes had added the cleanup-importance tag on 14 August.  I guess this team is notable because they've won an all-Ireland championship?  If so, that should probably be mentioned first.  I think the article could probably use a copyedit (though there may be some Irish English variations that look like errors to me) and maybe some tweaking to make it sound less like the evening sports report and more like an encyclopedia.  Sometimes similar articles are supposed to have a similar format, so you might check other teams of the same type to see if there's a template or anything. -- Beland 01:11, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * right,can this tag be removed then if it was added by an anonymous user and there is no real way of cleaning up the article.--Play Brian Moore 15:19, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Beland is entirely correct, the style needs to be cleaned up to conform to encyclopedic norms. Please do not keep removing the AfC tag. --84.66.155.225 18:21, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * encyclopedic norms. Please explain this to a simple Irish Fenian such as myself. Also, if you're so interested in this project, create an account. --Play Brian Moore 22:46, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The first encyclopedic norm is that of proper spelling and punctuation. I have no need of an account, I need no expression of vanity and I am happy to edit this fine project anonymously. --84.68.206.219 18:47, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah goodluck with that .Live the dream.--Play Brian Moore 00:11, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

champion or championships
which would look best in the infobox? (Gnevin 13:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC))

How can you say the second best team behind cuala - cuala are shite!! I'm removing that! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.189.64.35 (talk) 13:50, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Crokes Jersey
The Kilmacud Crokes jersey is simular to the Wexford jersey. It is purple with a yellow belly. The wear white shorts with a purple stripe up the side and they wear purple socks with a yellow line running along around the top. I would add this myself but I don't nno how.--Play Brian Moore 18:18, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

The Crokes jersey doesn't look like the one on the page any more - it was changed a few years back. It's now almost all purple. Also, although Silverpark is often used for hurling it is by no means a "hurling pitch" as many football games are also played here.

Vandalism
It seems that every time you on wiki, you notice more vandalism on the Kilmacud Crokes page and also the Mark Vaughan page, (if you go to the 2000's section you will notice that someone refers to him as a 'cunt'. It would be worth restricting ths Crokes and Vaughan pages to registeres editors only? Frainc 14:22 16 May 2006

 * Argee  does anyone know about how to do this (Gnevin 22:39, 16 May 2006 (UTC))
 * Ps According to ripe[]

the address of the latest attack and a few others are ucd based (Gnevin 22:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC))
 * Added request for WP:RFPP (Gnevin 23:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC))

Thanks, itd save lots of hassle, (Frainc 01:50, 17 May 2006 (UTC))
 * Admin word says that their is not enough vandalism to justify protection we'll just have too rv what we see (Gnevin 01:02, 18 May 2006 (UTC))
 * Not enough vandilism?. These pages are vandilised every single day. It is becoming a joke. They should be restricted to registered users.--Play Brian Moore 21:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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PVH Corp.

PVH Corp., formerly known as the Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, is an American clothing company which owns brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Warner's, Olga and True & Co. The company also licenses brands such as Kenneth Cole New York and Michael Kors. PVH is partly named after Dutch immigrant John Manning van Heusen, who in 1910 invented a new process that fused cloth on a curve.

Organization
PVH is headquartered in Manhattan New York, with policy-making offices in Bridgewater, New Jersey and handling plants in Reading, Pennsylvania, Jonesville, North Carolina, and McDonough, Georgia all in the United States.

In September 2020, PVH announced that Stefan Larsson was named CEO on February 1, 2021, succeeding Emanuel Chirico, who remains as chairman.

As of April 2023, globally, PVH had over 120,000 employees and was positioned in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Mongolia, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and Honduras.

Trade Names and Early Mergers
The history of Phillips-Van Heusen (PVH) goes back in part to Dramin Jones, a Prussian immigrant who founded the shirt manufacturing company D. Jones & Sons, c. 1865. Separately, in 1881, Moses Phillips and his wife Endel began sewing shirts by hand and selling them from pushcarts to local anthracite coal-miners in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. This grew into a shirt business in New York City that placed one of the first ever shirt advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post. D. Jones & Sons merged with M. Phillips & Sons in 1907 under the name Phillips-Jones after Dramin Jones's death in 1903. Later Isaac Phillips met John Van Heusen, resulting both in their most popular line of shirts (Van Heusen), and in the subsequent acquisition of Van Heusen by Phillips-Jones and its renaming to Phillips-Van Heusen in 1957. In 2011, Phillips-Van Heusen was renamed to PVH.

Acquisitions and Divestitures
The Phillips-Jones Corporation received a patent for a self-folding collar in 1919; the corporation released the product to the public in 1921 and it became successful. The first collar-attached shirt was introduced in 1929. The Bass Weejun was introduced in 1936. Geoffrey Beene shirts were launched in 1982. In 1987, Phillips-Van Heusen acquired G. H. Bass. In 1995, the corporation acquired the Izod brand, followed by the Arrow brand in 2000, and the Calvin Klein company in 2002. In 2004, PVH began manufacturing clothing for the Donald J. Trump Signature Collection as part of a licensing agreement with Donald Trump.

After acquiring Superba, Inc., in January 2007, PVH now owns necktie licenses for brands such as Arrow, DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, Perry Ellis, Ted Baker, Michael Kors, JOE Joseph Abboud, Original Penguin and Jones New York. The corporation began making men's clothing under the Timberland name in 2008, with women's clothing following in 2009, under a licensing agreement.

On March 15, 2010, Phillips-Van Heusen acquired Tommy Hilfiger for $3 billion. In the third quarter of 2010 losses made on the "Van Heusen" brand led to the decision to pull it out of all European trading markets. the company sells no products under that name in Europe. All European staff became redundant as a result.

In February 2013, PVH acquired Warnaco Group, which manufactured the Calvin Klein underwear, jeans and sportswear lines under license, thus consolidating control of the Calvin Klein brand. The Warnaco acquisition also added the Warner's and Olga intimate apparel brands, as well the Speedo swimwear brand (the latter in North America only). In November 2013 PVH sold the G.H. Bass brand and all of its assets, images and licenses to G-III Apparel Group.

PVH ended its licensing agreement with Trump in July 2015, after Macy's discontinued sales of his Trump Signature Collection due to controversial comments that he made regarding undocumented immigrants.

In 2017 Forbes ranked PVH, 25 out of 890 companies on the "Just company" list.

In March 2017, PVH acquired lingerie brand True & Co.

In June 2018, PVH acquired the Geoffrey Beene clothing brand, which PVH previously produced under license. On August 28, 2018, PVH announced that it would expand the Izod brand to portions of Europe beginning with the Fall/Winter 2018 collection.

In January 2020, PVH sold back the rights for the Speedo swimwear brand, previously marketed under "Speedo USA" and "Speedo North America", back to Speedo's international parent, the British Pentland Group for $170 million.

In May 2021, it was reported that PVH was exploring a sale of the Heritage Brands division consisting of Van Heusen, Izod, Arrow, Warner's, Olga, True & Co., and Geoffrey Beene, with Authentic Brands Group as a potential buyer. The sale to ABG was officially announced on June 23, 2021, consisting of Izod, Van Heusen, Arrow, and Geoffrey Beene. The sale closed on August 2, 2021. Under Authentic Brands Group, United Legwear & Apparel Company was granted the license for the Van Heusen, Arrow, and Geoffrey Beene brands, while Centric Brands was granted the license for the Izod brand.

Distribution
PVH provides products to many popular department stores, such as JCPenney, Macy's, Myer, David Jones, Kohl's, Belk and Dillard's as well as online retailer Amazon both through its own labels and private label agreements. PVH also sells its products directly to customers through about 700 outlet stores under the brand names Van Heusen, Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein.

The Calvin Klein stores sell the full range of products at full price, differing from existing outlet stores. These stores range from 10000 sqft to 20000 sqft.

The brands are sold in different price segments; for the dresswear and business-casual brands, from lowest to highest priced are Arrow, Van Heusen, Geoffrey Beene, Pierre Cardin and Calvin Klein. For the preppy-styled brands, Izod occupies a more moderate price range while Tommy Hilfiger occupies a more premium segment.

Phillips-Van Heusen closed its Geoffrey Beene outlet retail division in 2008. Approximately 25 percent of the Geoffrey Beene outlet stores became Calvin Klein stores, while the remaining 75 percent of stores closed entirely. The company continued to license the Geoffrey Beene brand name for Geoffrey Beene brand dress shirts and men's sportswear until 2018 when it acquired the brand outright. In 2015, PVH closed its Izod retail division due to an increasing competitive environment driven by more premium brands in the outlet retail channel; this did not affect Izod's wholesale business to department stores and online retailers. Select Izod products are now available at some Van Heusen stores; initially this only included the golf line, but now includes products from Izod's other lines (mostly from the Advantage and Saltwater lines). In July 2018, PVH launched a direct online sales platform on the Izod and Van Heusen websites where both brands are featured and can be cross-shopped on each other's site. On July 14, 2020, PVH announced that it would close its remaining Heritage Brands retail outlets operating mainly under the Van Heusen/Izod Golf names. The Izod and Van Heusen brands are not being discontinued; the wholesale business, which sells their product to department stores, warehouse clubs, and online retailers, is not affected. The direct online sales platform for the Izod and Van Heusen brands will also remain active.

Marketing
In October 2007, PVH took over naming rights to the Meadowlands Sports Complex arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The arena's name was changed to the Izod Center, and the change became effective on October 31, 2007. PVH paid about $1.4 million a year for two years, then paid $750,000 a year and included the arena employees Izod uniforms. In 2015, the Izod Center was permanently closed.

In July 2022, PVH announced the creation of a first sustainable supply chain finance program, in partnership with HSBC Bank USA.

Environmental Practices
In July 2011, PVH—along with other major fashion and sportswear brands including Nike, Adidas and Abercrombie & Fitch—was the subject of a report by the environmental group Greenpeace entitled "Dirty Laundry". PVH is accused of working with suppliers in China who, according to the findings of the report, contribute to the pollution of the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers. Samples taken from one facility belonging to the Youngor Group located on the Yangtze River Delta and another belonging to the Well Dyeing Factory Ltd. located on a tributary of the Pearl River Delta revealed the presence of hazardous and persistent hormone disruptor chemicals, including alkylphenols, perfluorinated compounds, and perfluorooctane sulfonate.

In 2020, PVH announced for its sustainability policy for its Izod and Van Heusen brands to eliminate single use plastic from packaging by 2024, and use 100% sustainable cotton, polyester, and nylon by 2025.

Use of Animals
Concerns have also arisen about PVH 's practices with regards to animal testing.

In 2020, PVH announced that as part of their animal welfare policy, the company does not use exotic skins and would be banning their use in Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein collections when "our annual update of that policy is released."

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Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán

Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán y Ureta (August 22, 1821 - December 31, 1886), Peruvian historian and geographer, was born in Arequipa, Peru. He was Minister of Justice and Instruction and Minister of Foreign Relations.

Education and early career
Paz Soldán was the son of Manuel Paz Soldán and Gregoria de Ureta Araníbar and was educated at Seminary of San Jerónimo and University of San Agustín, where he obtained a degree in Law. He had three brothers Mateo, José Gregorio and Pedro.

He studied law and, after holding some minor judicial offices, was minister to New Granada in 1853. After his return, he occupied himself with plans for the establishment of a model penitentiary at Lima, which he was enabled to accomplish through the support of General Ramon Castilla. In 1860, Castilla made him director of public works, in which capacity he superintended the erection of the Lima statue of Simón Bolívar. He was also concerned in the reform of the currency by the withdrawal of the debased Bolivian coins.

Great atlas
In 1861, he published his great atlas of the republic of Peru, and, in 1868, the first volume of his history of Peru after the acquisition of her independence. A second volume followed, and a third, bringing the history down to 1839, was published after his death by his son.

Geographical Dictionary of Peru
In 1870, he was minister of justice and worship under President José Balta, but shortly afterwards retired from public life. He edited his brother Mateo's great geographical dictionary of Peru, which was published in 1877. During the disastrous war with Chile, he sought refuge in Buenos Aires where he was made professor in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and where he wrote and published a history of the war (1884). He died on December 31, 1886.

Publications

 * Índice alfabético del Código Civil y de Enjuiciamientos y de Reglamento de Tribunales (1853)
 * Geografía del Perú (1860)
 * Atlas Geográfico del Perú (1865)
 * Diccionario geográfico del Perú (1877)
 * Historia del Perú independiente 1819-1827 (1868)
 * Biblioteca Peruana (1879)
 * Narración histórica de la guerra de Chile contra Perú y Bolivia (1883)

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RFactor

rFactor is a computer racing simulator designed for hardcore simulation racers. rFactor claimed to be the most accurate race simulator of its time. Released in August 2005, it competed with games like Nascar 2003, Live for Speed, and GTR.  The game featured many technical advances in tire modeling, complex aerodynamics and a 15 degrees of freedom physics engine. It also featured multiplayer.

rFactor was developed by Image Space Incorporated (ISI), which has been developing simulators since the early 1990s for both commercial and military purposes. The isiMotor2 on which the game is based is a direct successor to the engine used in previous titles developed by ISI, most notably F1 Challenge '99–'02, released through EA Sports. The isiMotor2 engine was also used in many other simulation games, and in rFpro. The game was made without ISI's longtime publishing partner at the time of EA Sports, and featured exclusively custom tracks rather than licensing real ones.

Development
rFactor is an evolution of F1 Challenge '99–'02, but without the licensing of Formula One circuits and teams. As such, rFactor's initial release only included four fictitious circuits (seven as of v1.087), with about a dozen layouts within these facilities and there were about six vehicle classes, including two open wheel and four sedan classes. Among its most notable features was a rich interface for creating custom game contents, which made it possible for amateurs to create additional vehicles and tracks for the game. In August 2006, ISI released the full update, with many changes and new features, including the new 2006 BMW Sauber F1 and a much requested manual. Another notable and often requested feature was driver-swapping, which allowed to change drivers during the race, enabling up to 24 hour events like Le Mans.

A feature was added to allow the AI to "learn a track", which teaches the AI the ideal way to drive a particular circuit. As of v1.150, the AI was improved, leading to notably faster driving styles. Version 1.250 was released in January 2007. A patch was released on October 12 the same year that brought the version to 1.255 build F. rFactor also advertises an advanced tire model, aiming to be much better than the Pacejka model previously used in most simulators. rFactor's tire model simulates a non-linear tire use cycle according to temperature and wear.

F1 Challenge proved to be popular for online racing over the Internet through GameSpy, which allowed any player to find available games. rFactor has extended this in several ways. The central server is handled by ISI themselves, so finding other games is effectively the same, but the central server will show all races and practice sessions over a web interface known as Racecast. There are also career statistics available for registered drivers. The game server can be run from a dedicated program, free from the need to render graphics. It can run mixtures of human and computer controlled (AI) vehicles.

In an evolution from F1 Challenge, the circuits now include all layouts at a particular facility, which greatly reduces the need to duplicate track geometry. The game can easily accommodate different sorts of vehicles and games between multiple classes of vehicles are possible. rFactor also has a plugin-interface for third-party addons to hook in, which allows for features like screen-overlays or radio chatter.

Reception
In an early review of an rFactor preview, published on AutoSimSport, Jon Denton said: "What the tire model in rFactor does very well is that it models the relationship between slip angle, self aligning torque and cornering force - and it does this better than anything that has come before".

Writing on HonestGamers, Paul Josua concluded: "It's a little unfair to hold rFactor's lack of accessibility against it as it has clearly set out to be a simulation racer. It does a fine job of that, but those who don't demand flawless simulation are better served looking elsewhere".

rFactor was a finalist for PC Gamer US's "Best Racing Game 2005" award, which ultimately went to GTR: FIA GT Racing.

Sequel
ISI developed rFactor 2, which includes weather effects, reflections and accurate shadows on a variety of textures. It was released on March 28, 2013.

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French schooner Étoile

Étoile ("star") is a French naval schooner used as a training vessel. She was built in 1932 as a replica of a cod fishing vessel used off Iceland, as a training ship of the students of the École navale. During the Second World War, Étoile sailed to the United Kingdom after the Fall of France and was used by the Free French Naval Forces, returning to Brest in 1945. The schooner as well as her sister ship FRENCH SCHOONER Belle Poule are still used by the École Navale as training ships in European waters.

Description and design
In the early 20th century, the French Navy scrapped its aging traditional sailing ships, FRENCH FRIGATE Melpomène in 1904, and Borda in 1914. In the following years, it emerged that student officers would benefit from at least some sailing training. Since it would consist only in short cruises around Brest, France, rather than long cruises, the school decided not to build a three-masted ship. Instead, it chose a replica of a cod fishing schooner, which had the advantage of being both maneuverable, and strong enough to sustain the weather of the winter around Brest. in 1931, the Ministry of the Navy ordered two such ships, as to allow enough of the students to embark at the same time. The first was FRENCH SCHOONER Belle Poule, and the second, Étoile.

Étoile was launched on 7 July 1932, at the unusual hour of 0100 in the morning. Lieutenant Richard, who oversaw construction for the Navy, was worried that Étoile would not be completed for the launch date, and had had an argument with Lemaistre, the engineer in charge of construction. Lemaistre proceeded to the launch in the night of the day chosen for the ceremony, and officials coming for the occasion were surprised to find Étoile already afloat.

Career
From September 1932 Belle Poule and Étoile served with the École navale in their normal role. In the morning of 18 June 1940, Lieutenant-Commander Cros, in charge of both schooners, was ordered to prepare for evacuating the students of the school in the face of the German invasion of France. The crew of both ships were ready by 1400, and they departed at 1500. At 1700, they had joined Président Théodore Tissier, Jean-Frédéric and Notre-Dame-de-France. The ships crossed the English Channel during the night, and arrived at Falmouth on 19 June around 1700.

The British boarded Belle Poule in the night of 2 July as part of Operation Catapult, taking the French personnel prisoner. They turned the ships to the FNFL on 20 September. Both ships were demagnetised as a precaution against mines, and armed with two 8 mm Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine guns. On 16 November 1940, the Belle Poule and Étoile left Falmouth and sailed to Portsmouth to join the Free French naval school, held on Président-Théodore-Tissier. Two days later, they were attacked by a bomber, but the four bombs that it released fell hundreds of metres away and did not cause damage. From November 1940 Étoile underwent a refit, when she was painted grey, and she was used as a store ship for the gunnery school HMS Excellent (shore establishment).

On 15 April 1944, Belle Poule and Étoile departed for West Hartlepool, Étoile towing Belle Poule for most of the journey due to an engine failure. They arrived on 13 May and were put in the reserve. In late September 1945, Belle Poule and Étoile returned to Brest. From October they were appointed to the École navale again, but were in such bad condition that they stayed under refit until mid-1947. Their engines were replaced with 120 hp Deutz AG engines taken from German trucks.

Belle Poule and Étoile sail around Brest during the winter, and occasionally participate in meetings during the summer, mainly in European waters. In 1975, they had a refit, and the engines were replaced with 245 shp Baudoin DNP8. In 2009, they crossed the Atlantic to New York.

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Cecil Street

Cecil John Charles Street (3 May 1884 – 8 December 1964), better known as John Street, was a major in the British Army and a crime fiction novelist.

He began his military career as an artillery officer and during World War I, he became a propagandist for MI7. During the Irish War of Independence, he acted as an Information Officer for Dublin Castle alternating between Dublin and London and working closely with the British official Lionel Curtis. He later earned his living as a prolific writer of detective novels written under several pseudonyms including John Rhode, Miles Burton and Cecil Waye.

Early life, education, and career
Street was born in Gibraltar to General John Alfred Street CB of Woking, and his second wife, Caroline, daughter of Charles Horsfall Bill of Storthes Hall, Yorkshire, head of a landed gentry family. Caroline had married comparatively late and her only son was born when she was thirty five. General Street, having retired from the Army at the age of sixty two just after his son's birth, died suddenly. Consequently, Street and his mother went to live with his maternal grandparents at their house in Firlands, Woking, which was "comfortably staffed with seven domestics". Street remained "modestly circumspect" about his privileged background in later life and valued "a man's personal accomplishments over his family heritage".

Street was educated in Wellington College, Berkshire and later in Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1903, before getting transferred to the Special Reserves. Before the First World War, he lived at Summerhill, a regency country mansion outside Lyme Regis (later owned by the Scottish educator A. S. Neill and run as a school, the name being subsequently used for his school at Leiston, Suffolk), where he was a shareholder in, and chief engineer for, the Lyme Regis Electric Light & Power Company.

He later served as a Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was wounded three times in combat and won the Military Cross for his services. As a Major, he headed a branch of British Military Intelligence and later, he acted as an Information Officer at the headquarters of the British administration, based in Dublin Castle.

Marriages
In 1906, Street married Hyacinth Maud Kirwan, daughter of Major John Denis Kirwan of the Royal Artillery. They had a daughter, Verena Hyacinth Iris Street, who spent most of her life living with her grandmother and died in 1932 aged 25. The marriage was unsuccessful, with Maud suffering mental imbalance and getting admitted to a private asylum. They were separated by the late 1930s.

Street later lived with Eileen Annette Waller, granddaughter of the Irish writer John Francis Waller, who belonged to a landed gentry branch of the Waller baronets of Tipperary. They married in 1949, shortly after his first wife's death. They lived "a comfortable life together" living in "attractive older homes" including The Orchards, Laddingford, Kent, and Swanton Novers, Norfolk.

Novelist
John Street wrote three series of novels; one under the name of John Rhode, mostly featuring the mathematics professor Dr. Lancelot Priestley; another under the name of Miles Burton, mostly featuring the retired naval officer Desmond Merrion; and a third under the name of Cecil Waye, featuring the Perrins Investigators.

The Dr. Priestley novels were among the first mysteries after R. Austin Freeman's Dr. Thorndyke books to feature scientific detection of crimes, such as analysing the mud on suspects' shoes. However, the Burton novels were stylistically different as Merrion worked with Inspector Arnold of the Scotland Yard.

Notable crime fiction critic Julian Symons considered Street to be a prominent member of the "Humdrum" school of detective fiction. According to Symons, "Most of them [the "Humdrums"] came late to writing fiction, and few had much talent for it. They had some skill in constructing puzzles, nothing more, and ironically they fulfilled much better than S. S. Van Dine his dictum that the detective story properly belonged in the category of riddles or crossword puzzles. Most of the Humdrums were British, and among the best known of them were Major John Street." The historian Jacques Barzun was more positive towards Street, praising several Rhode books in particular, even though he reviewed only a small proportion of the more than 140 novels written by Street.

In recent years, copies of many Rhode and Burton books have become hard to obtain and are highly sought after by collectors, often commanding "eye-wateringly" high prices.

The only detailed account of Street's life and works was written by the crime fiction historian Curtis Evans in his 2012 book Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery who wrote the book "in part to give a long overdue reappraisal of these purportedly "humdrum" detection writers as accomplished literary artists. Not only did they produce a goodly number of fine fair play puzzles, but their clever tales have more intrinsic interest as social documents and even sometimes as literary novels than they have been credited with having."

Dr. Priestley novels
Featuring Lancelot Priestley, Inspector Hanslet and Inspector Waghorn

 * The Paddington Mystery (1925)
 * Dr. Priestley's Quest (1926)
 * The Ellerby Case (1927)
 * The Murders in Praed Street (1928)
 * Tragedy at the Unicorn (1928)
 * The House on Tollard Ridge (1929). (On first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street)
 * The Davidson Case (1929) (U.S. title Murder at Bratton Grange; on first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street)
 * Peril at Cranbury Hall (1930)
 * Pinehurst (1930) (U.S. title Dr. Priestley Investigates; on first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street)
 * Tragedy on the Line (1931). (On first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street)
 * The Hanging Woman (1931)
 * Mystery at Greycombe Farm (1932) (U.S. title The Fire at Greycombe Farm; on first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street)
 * Dead Men at the Folly (1932)
 * The Motor Rally Mystery (1933) (U.S. title Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap; on its publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street)
 * The Claverton Mystery (1933) (U.S. title The Claverton Affair)
 * The Venner Crime (1933)
 * The Robthorne Mystery (1934) When one of the Robthorne twins commits suicide, there is a question over which one it is and whether it was suicide or murder.
 * Poison for One (1934)
 * Shot at Dawn (1934)
 * The Corpse in the Car (1935) Dr. Priestley solves how Lady Misterton was killed whilst sitting, alone, in her car. Supt Hanslet attempts to track down her killer.
 * Hendon's First Case (1935). (In first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street)
 * Mystery at Olympia (1935) (U.S. title Murder at the Motor Show)
 * Death at Breakfast (1936)
 * In Face of the Verdict (1936) (U.S. title In the Face of the Verdict)
 * Death in the Hopfields (1937) (U.S. title The Harvest Murder)
 * Death on the Board (1937) (U.S. title Death Sits on the Board)
 * Proceed with Caution (1937) (U.S. title Body Unidentified)
 * Invisible Weapons (1938)
 * The Bloody Tower (1938) (U.S. title The Tower of Evil) – Inspector Waghorn identifies a ruthless murderer and solves a set of clues to the whereabouts of long-hidden treasure
 * Death Pays a Dividend (1939)
 * Death on Sunday (1939) (U.S. title The Elm Tree Murder)
 * Death on the Boat Train (1940)
 * Murder at Lilac Cottage (1940)
 * Death at the Helm (1941)
 * They Watched by Night (1941) (U.S. title Signal For Death)
 * The Fourth Bomb (1942)

 * Dead on the Track (1943)
 * Men Die at Cyprus Lodge (1943)
 * Death Invades the Meeting (1944)
 * Vegetable Duck (1944) (U.S. title Too Many Suspects)
 * Bricklayer's Arms (1945) (U.S. title Shadow of a Crime) (Dr. Priestley plays only a minor role in this book, all the actual detection being done by Inspector Waghorn)
 * The Lake House (1946) (U.S. title Secret of the Lake House)
 * Death in Harley Street (1946)
 * Nothing But the Truth (1947) (U.S. title Experiment in Crime)
 * Death of an Author (1947)
 * The Paper Bag (1948) (U.S. title The Links in the Chain)
 * The Telephone Call (1948) (U.S. title Shadow of an Alibi)
 * Blackthorn House (1949)
 * Up the Garden Path (1949) (U.S. title The Fatal Garden)
 * The Two Graphs (1950) (U.S. title Double Identities)
 * Family Affairs (1950) (U.S. title The Last Suspect)
 * The Secret Meeting (1951)
 * Doctor Goodwood's Locum (1951) (U.S. title The Affair of the Substitute Doctor)
 * Death at the Dance (1952)
 * Death in Wellington Road (1952)
 * Death at the Inn (1953) (U.S. title The Case of the Forty Thieves) – Inspector Waghorn breaks a gang of thieves who have found an ingenious way to defraud the Post Office and, along the way, murder a man by poisoning
 * By Registered Post (1953) (U.S. title The Mysterious Suspect)
 * Death on the Lawn (1954)
 * The Dovebury Murders (1954)
 * Death of a Godmother (1955) (U.S. title Delayed Payment)
 * The Domestic Agency (1955) (U.S. title Grave Matters; on first publication in the U.S. the novel was promoted as being by C J C Street)
 * An Artist Dies (1956) (U.S. title Death of an Artist)
 * Open Verdict (1956)
 * Death of a Bridegroom (1957)
 * Robbery With Violence (1957)
 * Death Takes a Partner (1958)
 * Licensed For Murder (1958)
 * Murder at Derivale (1958). (On first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street)
 * Three Cousins Die (1959)
 * The Fatal Pool (1960)
 * Twice Dead (1960)
 * The Vanishing Diary (1961)

Non-series novels

 * A.S.F.: The Story of a Great Conspiracy (1924) (U.S. title The White Menace)
 * The Double Florin (1924)
 * The Alarm (1925)
 * Mademoiselle From Armentieres (1927)
 * Drop to His Death (1939) (U.S. title Fatal Descent; on its first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being solely by C J C Street), with "Carter Dickson", a pseudonym of John Dickson Carr
 * Night Exercise (1942) (U.S. title Dead of the Night). Sir Hector Chalgrove, acerbic businessman and Home Guard Colonel, disappears during a World War II night exercise. Major Ledbury (Officer Commanding the Wealdhurst Company, Home Guard) assists police to find the killer and assuage local suspicion of his guilt.

Non-fiction books

 * The Case of Constance Kent

Short stories

 * The Elusive Bullet. Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror - Second Series, Ed. Dorothy L Sayers, 1931 (Dr. Priestley story). Reprinted: Bodies from the Library. Ed. Tony Medawar. HarperCollins, 2018
 * The Vanishing Diamond. The Great Book of Thrillers. Ed. H. Douglas Thomson, 1935 (Dr. Priestley story)
 * The Yellow Sphere. Sunday Dispatch, 3 April 1938. Reprinted: Bodies from the Library 3. Ed. Tony Medawar. HarperCollins, 2020.
 * The Purple Line. Evening Standard, 20 January 1950. Reprinted: Evening Standard Detective Book, 1950 (Inspector Purley story)

Non-fiction articles

 * Constance Kent. The Anatomy of Murder, Bodley Head, 1936
 * Why People Like Detective Stories. The Listener, 2 October 1935
 * Unsolved Mysteries No. 6: Solution to the "Mystery of the Murdered Lieutenant". The Star, 1938

Stage plays

 * Sixpennyworth. Bodies from the Library 2. Ed. Tony Medawar. HarperCollins, 2019. The play features Inspector Jimmy Waghorn and is set in the lounge of The Spotted Dog, a pub in a town whose name is not given, "emphatically so"; the play features a neat method of creating an instant blackout. No performances have been identified

Radio plays

 * Dr. Priestley, BBC Empire Service, talk as part of the series 'Meet the Detective', 1935
 * The Strange Affair at the Old Dutch Mill, play featuring Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, BBC National Programme, 7 October 1938, as part of the series 'What Happened at 8:20?"
 * Death Travels First, two-part play featuring Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, BBC Home Service, 2 and 9 July 1940 as part of a series of plays by members of the Detection Club

Non-fiction radio programmes

 * Thoughts of a Detective Story Writer, BBC National Programme, 7, 14, 21 and 28 September 1935

Desmond Merrion novels
Featuring Desmond Merrion and Inspector Henry Arnold

 * The Secret of High Eldersham (1930) (aka The Mystery of High Eldersham)
 * The Menace on the Downs (1931)
 * The Three Crimes (1931)
 * Death of Mr. Gantley (1932)
 * Fate at the Fair (1933)
 * Tragedy at the Thirteenth Hole (1933)
 * Death at the Crossroads (1933)
 * To Catch A Thief (1934)
 * The Charabanc Mystery (1934)
 * The Devereux Court Mystery (1935)
 * The Milk Churn Murder (1935) (U.S. title The Clue of the Silver Brush)
 * Where is Barbara Prentice? (1936) (U.S. title The Clue of the Silver Cellar)
 * Death in the Tunnel (1936) (U.S. title Dark Is the Tunnel)
 * Murder of a Chemist (1936)
 * Death at the Club (1937) (U.S. title The Clue of the Fourteen Keys)
 * Murder in Crown Passage (1937) (U.S. title The Man with the Tattooed Face)
 * Death at Low Tide (1938)
 * The Platinum Cat (1938)
 * Mr. Babbacombe Dies (1939)
 * Death Leaves No Card (1939)
 * Death Takes a Flat (1940) (U.S. title Vacancy With Corpse)
 * Murder in the Coalhole (1940) (U.S. title Written in Dust)
 * Mr. Westerby Missing (1940)
 * Up The Garden Path (1941) (U.S. title Death Visits Downspring)
 * Death of Two Brothers (1941)
 * This Undesirable Residence (1942) (U.S. title Death at Ash House)
 * Dead Stop (1943)
 * Murder M.D. (1943) (U.S. title Who Killed the Doctor?)
 * Four-Ply Yarn (1944) (U.S. title The Shadow on the Cliff)
 * The Three Corpse Trick (1944)
 * Early Morning Murder (1945) (U.S. title Accidents Do Happen)

 * Not A Leg to Stand On (1945)
 * The Cat Jumps (1946)
 * Situation Vacant (1946) -Two secretaries for Alys Whyttington die within months of each other. Arnold, Merrion and local confidant Mr Clipsham investigate the deaths and the mysterious past of Mrs Whyttington.
 * Heir to Lucifer (1947)
 * A Will in the Way (1947)
 * Devil's Reckoning (1948)
 * Death in Shallow Water (1948)
 * Death Takes the Living (1949) (U.S. title The Disappearing Parson)
 * Look Alive (1949)
 * Ground for Suspicion (1950)
 * A Village Afraid (1950)
 * Beware Your Neighbour (1951)
 * Murder Out of School (1951)
 * Murder on Duty (1952)
 * Heir to Murder (1953)
 * Something to Hide (1953)
 * Murder in Absence (1954)
 * Unwanted Corpse (1954)
 * A Crime in Time (1955)
 * Murder Unrecognized (1955)
 * Death in a Duffle Coat (1956)
 * Found Drowned (1956)
 * The Chinese Puzzle (1957)
 * The Moth-Watch Murder (1957)
 * Bones in the Brickfield (1958)
 * Death Takes a Detour (1958)
 * Return from the Dead (1959)
 * A Smell of Smoke (1960)
 * Legacy of Death (1960)
 * Death Paints a Picture (1960)

Non-series novels

 * The Hardway Diamonds Mystery (1930)
 * Murder at the Moorings (1932)

Unfinished material

 * Untitled, 48-page typescript of the opening chapters of an apparently non-series novel, set in the villages of Kildersham and Dreford and concerning a death at a pheasant shoot and a drowning.

"The Perrins" novels
Featuring Christopher and Vivienne Perrin
 * Murder at Monk's Barn (1931)
 * The Figure of Eight (1931)
 * The End of the Chase (1932)
 * The Prime Minister's Pencil (1933)

Novels

 * The Worldly Hope (Eveleigh Nash Company), 1917, a war novel.

Non-fiction books

 * With the Guns (Eveleigh Nash Company), 1916
 * The Making of a Gunner, 1916

Non-fiction books

 * The Administration of Ireland, 1920, 1921 at Internet Archive

Non-fiction books and pamphlets

 * Ireland in 1921Ireland in 1921], 1922 Full text at Internet Archive
 * Hungary and democracy;Hungary and Democracy], 1923 Full text at Internet Archive
 * Rhineland and Ruhr, Alfred Couldray, 1923
 * East of Prague, 1924 Limited view at Google Books
 * The Treachery of France, 1924 Limited view at Google Books
 * Lord Reading, 1928 Limited view at Google Books
 * President Masaryk Bles, 1930

Translations

 * French Headquarters: 1915-1918 by Jean de Pierrefeu, 1925, translated with notes.
 * Vauban, Builder of Fortresses by Daniel Halvey, 1929, translated with notes.
 * The Life and Voyages of Captain Cook by Maurice Thiery, 1929, translated with notes.

Short fiction

 * The Artillery Signaller. Sydney Morning Herald, 29 December 1917
 * The Artillery Duel. West Australian, 1 January 1918
 * A New Army Battery. Brisbane Courier, 1 January 1918
 * A Quiet Night Watch. Launceston Examiner, 4 January 1918
 * The Duel. Hobart Mercury, 8 January 1918
 * On the Flank of the Battle. Melbourne Leader, 12 January 1918
 * Paying a Morning Call. New Zealand Times, 14 January 1918
 * An Airman's Evening. Oamaru Mail, 18 January 1918
 * Ending a Nuisance. Taranaki Herald, 21 January 1918
 * A Night Alarm. Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, 30 January 1918
 * ''A Combined Shoot’’. National Advocate, 31 January 1917
 * The Sacrifice. Townsville Daily Bulletin, 18 February 1918
 * Running the Gauntlet. Hobart Daily Post, 22 February 1918
 * The Counter Attack. Taranaki Herald, 26 February 1918
 * Gunner Morson, Signaller. Trench and Camp (Camp Logan Edition), 11 March 1918
 * Ending a Nuisance. Brisbane Evening Telegraph, 11 March 1918
 * Ready for Action, Sir. Launceston Examiner, 12 April 1918
 * An Overhaul. The World's News, 13 April 1918
 * A Quiet Night. Mary Borough Chronicle, 26 April 1918
 * Getting the Wind Up. War Supplement for Week Ending 27 April 1918
 * Stuck in the Mud. Chicago Tribune, 2 June 1918
 * The Musketeers: The Tale of Their Adventures in France. Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners’ Advocate, 4 June 1918
 * Slaves of the Guns. World’s News, 29 June 1918
 * An Unexpected Shoot. The Age, 20 July 1918
 * Under Fire. Feilding Star, 29 July 1918. Reprinted; Taranaki Herald, 1 August 1918
 * The Thick of It. Leeds Mercury, 14 August 191* ‘’The Time of Watching’’. Perth Daily Need, 20 August 1918
 * Not a Blank. Leeds Mercury, 21 August 1918
 * The Watcher. (Washington) Sunday Star, 25 August 1918
 * Guy Fawkes’ Day. Adelaide Journal, 21 September 1918
 * Behind the Front. Hobart Mercury, 28 October 1918
 * Destroying the Tower. Grafton Argus & Clarence River General Advertiser, 4 November 1918

Short stories

 * On the High Seas. Cassell's Magazine, September 1920
 * TITLE UNKNOWN. Lloyd's Story Magazine, September 1922 - Not confirmed
 * The Ship's Doctor. Sea Stories, 5 October 1923

Non-fiction articles

 * TITLE UNKNOWN. Every Week Illustrated. 18 April 1914 - Not confirmed
 * The Time of Waiting: Synchronising Watches. Perth Daily News, 7 June 1917
 * Gives Mask to Girl and Dies. Indianapolis Star, 9 December 1917
 * The Artillery Signaller. Brisbane Telegraph, 29 December 1917
 *  A New Army Battery: The Making of a Gunner. Brisbane Courier, 1 January 1918
 * The Artillery Duel. The West Australian, 1 January 1918
 * On the Flank of the Battle. Melbourne Leader, 12 January 1918
 * On the High Seas. Taranaki Herald, 18 January 1918
 * A Combined Shoot. National Advocate, 31 January 1918
 * The Equipment of a Battery. Oamaru Times, 2 February 1918
 * The Heavy Artillery Chaplain. Taranaki Herald, 22 February 1918
 * Artillery Registration. Newcastle Journal, 25 February 1918
 * Gunners and Their Targets. Leeds Mercury, 2 March 1918
 * Barrage. Straits Times, 6 March 1918.
 * Supplying in the Field. Straits Times, 12 March 1918
 * Cambrai. New Zealand Times, 12 March 1918
 * In a German Gun-Pit. Taranaki Herald, 20 March 1918
 * The Hedjaz Railway. Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, 2 April 1918
 * Mechanical Transport. New Zealand Herald, 6 April 1918
 * Armentieres. Wilmington Morning News, 6 April 1918
 * The Paris Long Range Gun. Leeds Mercury, 8 April 1918
 * Artillery in War. The Age, 13 January 1918
 * Reaping the Whirlwind. Straits Times, 15 April 1918
 * Watching a Shoot. Every Week Illustrated, 18 April 1918
 * Rifle First and Last. Coventry Evening Telegraph, 20 April 1918
 * Arabian Campaign Operations of the Arabs. Launceston Daily Telegraph, 20 April 1918
 * When Gas Ceases to be Deadly. Lincolnshire Echo, 22 April 1918
 * How Guns Move Forward. Darling Downs Gazette, 22 April 1918
 * Muscle and Brain. Daily Record, Monday 22 April 1918
 * Constructional Material in the Field. Oamaru Mail, 22 April 1918
 * The Hedjaz Railway. Taranaki Herald, 25 April 1918
 * Artillery Ammunition. Nelson Evening Mail, 26 April 1918
 * Importance of Amiens. Northern Whig, 27 April 1918
 * Before the Dawn. Taranaki Herald, 27 April 1918
 * The Fall of Jericho. Taranaki Herald, 27 April 1918
 * The 'Number One'. Mainland Daily Mercury, 27 April 1918
 * Physical Training. Leeds Mercury, 29 April 1918
 * Austria's Next War. Maryborough Chronicle, 3 May 1918
 * The 'Number One': The Day's Work of an Artillery Sergeant. Brisbane Courier, 7 May 1918
 * A Junker's Boastings. Tamworth Daily Observer, 8 May 1918
 * Artillery in Modern War. Perth Daily News, 13 May 1918
 * The Right-of-Way. Dominion, 14 May 1918
 * A Forgotten Project. Dominion, 14 May 1918
 * Spying out the Land. Perth Western Mail, 17 May 1918
 * The Tail of the Convoy. Taranaki Herald, 29 May 1918
 * The Preliminary Bombardment. The Age, 1 June 1918
 * Artillery Training. Taranaki Herald, 4 June 1918
 * The Musketeers: The Tale of Their Adventures in France. Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, 4 June 1918
 * The Line of Fire. Evening Star, 7 June 1918
 * Artillery Ammunition, The Food of the Guns: How It Is Made. Bowen Independent, 8 June 1918
 * Mechanical Transport in War. Singapore Free Press & Mercantile Advertiser, 8 June 1918

 * Directing the Guns: How a Barrage is Controlled. Launceston Examiner, 10 June 1918
 * Towards the Front: How the Battery Goes up. Maryborough Chronicle, 13 June 1918
 * Artillery Registration. Straits Times, 15 June 1918
 * The Line of Fire: Modern Gunnery Methods. Launceston Daily Telegraph, 15 June 1918
 * Modern Gunnery. Malaya Tribune, 18 June 1918
 * British Forces in Italy, Their Important Task: Italian Chivalry. Ballarat Star, 27 June 1918
 * Slave of the Guns. Sydney World's News, 29 June 1918
 * Long Range Artillery. Cornhill Magazine, July 1918
 * Artillery Training: The New Battery's First Days in Framce. Ballarat Star, 13 July 1918
 * Bombarded French City: Reims before the War, Its Former Attractions. Ballarat Star, 15 July 1918
 * The Day of Assault: What the Barrage Means. Launceston Daily Telegraph, 18 July 1918
 * War Shows Need of Long Forgotten Euphrates Road. Lincoln Star, 21 July 1918
 * In the Background: The Training of Personnel. The Herald (Adelaide), 7 August 1918
 * The Day of Assault. Evening Post, 28 August 1918
 * Side-Lines in Munition. Doninion, 15 August 1918
 * The Time of Waiting. Dominion, 27 August 1918
 * On the Highway. Pictorial Supplement for Week Ending 31 August 1918
 * The Bombing School: Modern Methods of Training. Adelaide Journal, 31 August 1918
 * Big Guns in Hiding. Auckland Star, 31 August 1918
 * My Billet. Pictorial Supplement for Week Ending 6 September 1918
 * War Clearly Proved Artillery Value. (Wilmington) Daily Journal, 21 September 1918. Street's original title was 'Counter Battery Work'
 * 'The Mad English': Guy Fawke's Day. Adelaide Journal, 21 September 1918
 * The Liberty Columns. Dominion, 24 September 1918
 * Railways and Their Importance in War. Windsor Magazine, September 1918
 * Directing the Guns. Windsor Magazine, October 1918
 * Behind the Front: A Morning Drive in France. Hobart Mercury, 28 October 1918
 * My Billet. Hobart Mercury, 29 October 1918
 * A Prisoner of War Camp: The Link with Napoleonic War. Hobart Mercury, 29 October 1918
 * Munitions of War. Auckland Star, 2 November 1918
 * Destroying the Tower, a Risky Job: American Artillery Scores. Grafton Argus & Clavener River General Advertiser, 4 November 1918
 * Education at the Front. The Age, 7 November 1918
 * At the Crossroads. The Age, 9 November 1918
 * Artillery Training: The Telephonists. Hobart Mercury, 9 November 1918
 * Active Service Army Schools. Sydney World's News, 9 November 1918
 * Kite Balloon Section's Experience in Big Run. Richmond Times-Dispatch, 15 November 1918
 * The Value of the French Railway System in the War. Toodyay Herald, 23 November 1918
 * In the Background: The Repairs of Material. Hobart Mercury, 28 November 1918
 * Behind the Front. Boston Globe, 5 January 1919
 * Propaganda behind the Lines, Cornhill Magazine, November 1919
 * Transport Problems and Reconstruction. Windsor Magazine, December 1919
 * Fuel and Power. Windsor Magazine, March 1920
 * The Fuel Problem and the Near Future. Tambellup Times, 14 April 1920
 * The Wireless Telephone and the Development of Modern Communications. Windsor Magazine, June 1920
 * Irish Secret Societies. The Bookman, November 1922
 * Slovak Peasant Art, Illustrated Review, August 1923
 * Railways of Czechoslovakia. Railway Gazette, 14 December 1923
 * Slovakia Past and Present. Illustrated Review [Not confirmed], 1923
 * Eastward through Czechoslovakia. Illustrated Review [Not confirmed], 1923
 * In the Land of the Ruthvenes. Illustrated Review [Not confirmed], 1924
 * Prelate Chancellor. Daily Mail, Date unknown. Reprinted: Otago Daily Times, 6 August 1924
 * The Hungarian Forgeries. The Observer, 7 February 1926

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ABPI

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 * Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, the trade association for companies in the UK producing prescription medicines

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Desktop Management Interface

The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server computer, by abstracting these components from the software that manages them. The development of DMI, 2.0 version June 24, 1998, marked the first move by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) into desktop-management standards. Before the introduction of DMI, no standardized source of information could provide details about components in a personal computer.

Due to the rapid development of DMTF technologies, such as Common Information Model (CIM), the DMTF defined an "End of Life" process for DMI, which ended on March 31, 2005.

From 1999, Microsoft required OEMs and BIOS vendors to support the DMI interface/data-set in order to have Microsoft certification.

DMI and SMBIOS
DMI exposes system data (including the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) data) to management software, but the two specifications function independently.

DMI is commonly confused with SMBIOS, which was actually called DMIBIOS in its first revisions.

Optional additional services: MIF data and MIF routines
When software queries a memory-resident agent that resides in the background, it responds by sending data in MIFs (Management Information Format) or activating MIF routines. Static data in a MIF would contain items such as model ID, serial number, memory- and port-addresses. A MIF routine could read memory and report its contents.

DMI and SNMP
DMI can co-exist with SNMP and other management protocols. For example, when an SNMP query arrives, DMI can fill out the SNMP MIB with data from its MIF. A single workstation or server can serve as a proxy agent that would contain the SNMP module and service an entire LAN segment of DMI-capable machines.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dépèche Môde

 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. Fernando Rizo T/C 23:23, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Dépèche Môde
It's a old hoax, this architectural term not exist. Postmodernism in 1890? Vertical lines in Secession? Szwedzki 02:05, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Depeche Mode and delete the dab from that page. I can't find any evidence that this is real, nor that it is a notable hoax. Pburka 03:02, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Pburka. "Depeche Mode" means "fashion dispatch", which the band got out of a fashion mag. JDoorjam 03:55, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I seem to recall that it also means "sending mode", as used on speak buttons on intercoms. It's certainly not an architectural term, though. Grutness...  wha?  01:30, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The band does not go by Dépèche Môde, so no redirect is necessary. - Thatdog 07:16, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Thatdog. It's a hoax; no need to redirect hoaxes. Nandesuka 11:01, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It's not a common misspelling, in fact I doubt if we'll ever see it again, so redirect is a waste of server space. --Outlander 16:01, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not a common misspelling for an English speaker. But it is a reasonable misspelling for a French speaker. Wikipedia should consider people for whom English is a second language. Also, redirects make it less likely that the page will be recreated. Pburka 21:09, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete apparent hoax. No redirect, I serious doubt anyone would type that in. --  Etacar11   03:19, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no redirect per Outlander and Etacar11. ESkog 00:03, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Dr. Lancelot Priestley

Dr. Lancelot Priestley is a fictional investigator in a series of books by John Rhode. After 1924, Dr. Priestley took over from Dr. Thorndyke as the leading fictional forensic investigator in Britain and featured in 72 novels written over 40 years, solving many ingenious and misleading murders.

Background
Priestley was born in July 1869.

Dr. Priestley previously held the chair of Applied Mathematics at a leading Midlands University until he abandoned his chair and retired to the house in Westbourne Terrace, which he inherited from his father. He is described as an independent researcher who delights in scientific controversy. Described in "The Ellerby Case", Dr. Priestley's book "Fact and Fallacy":

"..contained in every one of its two hundred odd pages a direct and trenchant attack upon those whom the author was apt to allude to as 'The Orthodox Scientific School'. and 'So the reviews poured in by every post: denunciatory, indignant, sometimes distinctly abusive. And Dr. Priestley would sit and gloat over them, as a primitive warrior might gloat over the blood of his adversaries'"

Method and process
Dr. Priestley's involvement is usually at the request of the police, but only if the case piques his scientific curiosity; having little, or no, interest in criminal justice:

"Hanslet had brought many problems which confronted him in the course of his duties to Dr. Priestley's notice, usually with results highly satisfactory to himself. But in nearly every case Dr. Priestley's interest in the problem ceased when he had solved it to his own satisfaction. The fate of the criminal was a matter of complete unconcern to him. He treated detection much as he would have treated a game of chess. The pieces in the game had no more than a passing interest to him. Not that he was unsympathetic by nature, as many people had good cause to know. But, in the problems which Hanslet set before him, he purposely took a detached and impersonal attitude. Only in this way, as he more than once remarked, was it possible to maintain an impartial judgment"

Associates and family
In the early books, Dr. Priestley assists mainly his friend Chief Inspector Hanslet. In later books, Dr. Priestley becomes an armchair detective and the bulk of the legwork is done by Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn of Scotland Yard and Priestley's secretary and companion, Harold Merefield. Merefield, whom Dr. Priestley cleared of a murder charge in the first book, The Paddington Mystery, is engaged to Dr. Priestley's daughter April. Superintendent Hanslet (now retired) appears in several later works as a dinner guest of Dr. Priestley, passing on his professional wisdom to Waghorn. Lastly, an old friend of Priestley's, Dr. Oldland, in later novels frequently joins the conclave at the professor's Saturday evening dinners and provides the medical viewpoint attendant on the various cases.

Novels

 * The Paddington Mystery (1925)
 * Dr. Priestley's Quest (1926)
 * The Ellerby Case (1927)
 * The Murders in Praed Street (1928)
 * Tragedy at the Unicorn (1928)
 * The House on Tollard Ridge (1929)
 * The Davidson Case (1929)
 * Peril at Cranbury Hall (1930)
 * Pinehurst (1930)
 * Tragedy on the Line (1931).
 * The Hanging Woman (1931)
 * Mystery at Greycombe Farm (1932)
 * Dead Men at the Folly (1932)
 * The Motor Rally Mystery (1933)
 * The Claverton Mystery (1933)
 * The Venner Crime (1933)
 * The Robthorne Mystery (1934)
 * Poison for One (1934)
 * Shot at Dawn (1934)
 * The Corpse in the Car (1935)
 * Hendon's First Case (1935).
 * Mystery at Olympia (1935)
 * Death at Breakfast (1936)
 * In Face of the Verdict (1936)
 * Death in the Hopfields (1937)
 * Death on the Board (1937)
 * Proceed with Caution (1937)
 * Invisible Weapons (1938)
 * The Bloody Tower (1938)
 * Death Pays a Dividend (1939)
 * Death on Sunday (1939)
 * Death on the Boat Train (1940)
 * Murder at Lilac Cottage (1940)
 * Death at the Helm (1941)
 * They Watched by Night (1941)
 * The Fourth Bomb (1942)
 * Dead on the Track (1943)
 * Men Die at Cyprus Lodge (1943)
 * Death Invades the Meeting (1944)
 * Vegetable Duck (1944)
 * Bricklayer's Arms (1945)
 * The Lake House (1946)
 * Death in Harley Street (1946)
 * Nothing But the Truth (1947)
 * Death of an Author (1947)
 * The Paper Bag (1948)
 * The Telephone Call (1948)
 * Blackthorn House (1949)
 * Up the Garden Path (1949)
 * The Two Graphs (1950)
 * Family Affairs (1950)
 * The Secret Meeting (1951)
 * Doctor Goodwood's Locum (1951)
 * Death at the Dance (1952)
 * Death in Wellington Road (1952)
 * Death at the Inn (1953)
 * By Registered Post (1953)
 * Death on the Lawn (1954)
 * The Dovebury Murders (1954)
 * Death of a Godmother (1955)
 * The Domestic Agency (1955)
 * An Artist Dies (1956)
 * Open Verdict (1956)
 * Death of a Bridegroom (1957)
 * Robbery With Violence (1957)
 * Death Takes a Partner (1958)
 * Licensed For Murder (1958)
 * Murder at Derivale (1958)
 * Three Cousins Die (1959)
 * The Fatal Pool (1960)
 * Twice Dead (1960)
 * The Vanishing Diary (1961)

Radio plays

 * Dr. Priestley, BBC Empire Service, talk as part of the series 'Meet the Detective', 1935
 * The Strange Affair at the Old Dutch Mill, a play featuring Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, BBC National Programme, 7 October 1938, as part of the series 'What Happened at 8:20?"
 * Death Travels First, a two-part play featuring Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, BBC Home Service, 2 and 9 July 1940 as part of a series of plays by members of the Detection Club

title: Dr. Lancelot Priestley