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List of the titled nobility of England and Ireland 1300–1309

The titled nobility of England and Ireland consisted of one rank until 1337, namely that of earl. Edward I (1272–1307) led a restrictive policy on the creation of new earldoms, and at the end of his reign the number of earls was at eleven. The final years of the thirteenth century had seen a dramatic fall-off in the upper level of the nobility, as six earls had died from 1295 to 1298. The earldoms of Hereford and Essex, Hertford and Gloucester, Lancaster, Oxford and Warwick had been filled by 1300, while that of Pembroke had to wait until 1307. Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, whose father William died in 1296, did not succeed until his mother's death in 1307, since the earldom descended through the female line of the family. Another great generational change occurred in the years 1306–1307, when six new earls entered the peerage. In addition to Pembroke, the heirs of the earldoms of Arundel, Richmond and Surrey entered into their inheritance. Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, whose father Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford had died in 1295, was allowed to enter into his patrimony in 1307, after it had been held by his stepfather Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer for the life of Gilbert's mother. Finally, Piers Gaveston was in 1307 given the earldom of Cornwall, left vacant by the death of Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall in 1300.

Of this group, the wealthiest and most powerful was Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster. Thomas was the son of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, who in turn was the son of King Henry III. This made Thomas the nephew of King Edward I, and the cousin of Edward's son Edward II (1307–1327). In addition to the earldom of Lancaster, Thomas was also earl of Leicester and Derby. He was also the son-in-law and heir of Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, and at Henry's death in 1311 he succeeded to the earldom of Lincoln as well. Thomas enjoyed a gross income of around £11,000 – far in excess of the second wealthiest earl, Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick with about £6,000. At the other end of the scale was Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford, whose possessions were almost insufficient to uphold the honour of an earldom, but who still maintained his status based on his ancient lineage.

King Edward II had the advantage of a young and sympathetic nobility when he succeeded his father in 1307, and the troubles with which his reign has been associated were not apparent at this point. These difficulties were largely caused by his appointment of Piers Gaveston to the earldom of Cornwall immediately after the accession. Gaveston was a relative upstart, and was seen as arrogant by the established nobility. He was considered to have far too much influence over the king, and had already been exiled once by Edward I. Matters were made worse by the fact that it was the earldom of Cornwall he was given, as this earldom had long been thought of as inalienable from the crown. Thomas of Lancaster gradually emerged as the leader of the opposition against the king, particularly after the death of the old and esteemed Henry de Lacy, who had up until then been a moderating force. Lancaster's closest associate was the earl of Warwick, who was even more fervent in his antagonism than Lancaster. Other earls, like Hertford and Pembroke, remained essentially loyal to the king.


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I have rollbacked your wikification of the Maharashtra article. We wikify only the first instance of the text. Since the states are already wikified earlier, it is not necessary to to wikify all over again. Thanks. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  06:05, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

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WFQX-TV

WFQX-TV (channel 32) is a television station licensed to Cadillac, Michigan, United States, serving the northern Lower and eastern Upper peninsulas of Michigan as an affiliate of Fox and The CW Plus. It is owned by Cadillac Telecasting Company, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with 910 Media Group, owner of Cadillac-licensed CBS affiliate WWTV, channel 9 (and its Sault Ste. Marie–licensed full-time satellite, WWUP-TV, channel 10), for the provision of certain services. Both stations share studios on Broadcast Way (near US 131) in Cadillac, while WFQX-TV's transmitter is located on 130th Avenue in unincorporated Osceola County, just northeast of Tustin.

As with other network affiliates in this vast and mainly rural area, WFQX-TV operates a full-time, full-power satellite in Vanderbilt, WFUP (channel 45), whose transmitter is located on Hudson Lookout in southeastern Charlevoix County. Unlike other network affiliates in Northern Michigan, the WFQX and WFUP combination does not incorporate the satellite station's channel number in its branding; the stations are simply referred to as Local 32. Except for required hourly legal identification, there is no on-air mention that WFUP exists, and aside from the transmitter, WFUP does not maintain any physical presence locally in Vanderbilt. Unlike its parent station, WFUP does not carry any of WFQX-TV's subchannels and has a different subchannel lineup.

History
The station first signed on the air as WGKI on UHF channel 33 on October 6, 1989. Its transmitter was just north of the current location in northern Osceola County. The original call letters referred to founder Gary Knapp, a former DJ and television personality. Despite its limited reach, WGKI was available on local cable systems. Prior to WGKI, Northern Michigan received Fox programming on cable from WKBD in Detroit.

In the station's early years, the channel was extremely low-budget. This was evident in the station's use of 1970s-era electronic graphics for the first few years of broadcasting. Due to the growing popularity of the Fox network and shows such as The Simpsons and Married... with Children, the station quickly grew. The on-screen graphics were modernized and it started to use higher-quality video equipment.

In the early 1990s, WGKI launched several repeaters in the Eastern Upper Peninsula unreached by the station's analog signal. By the mid-1990s, the station moved into permanent studios southeast of Cadillac along US 131. On January 11, 1993, the station launched WGKU in Vanderbilt on channel 40 as a full-time satellite of WGKI reaching the Gaylord and Petoskey areas. (As mentioned above, unlike the other network affiliates in the market, the station was simply known as "Fox 33" and didn't include any of the other satellites and repeaters used in the branding; they were simply listed under the graphic on the legal ID.)

When CBS affiliate WJBK-TV in Detroit switched its affiliation to Fox in December 1994 (which caused WGPR-TV to become the new CBS affiliate for Detroit), WGKI started using that station's resources. The move also disallowed rival WKBD from distributing Detroit Red Wings and Tigers games to WGKI. Knapp made a station promo explaining the situation between the three stations. When the Fox affiliation switch in Detroit was made, WGKI replaced WKBD on cable systems in Mid-Michigan and the Eastern Upper Peninsula. This was done so viewers without a local Fox station would maintain access to the network's programming. As a consequence, WGKI also expanded into parts of the Flint, Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Detroit markets via cable carriage. As a result, some cable viewers (especially in Bay City, Saginaw, and Michigan's Thumb area) found out that most of WGKI's programming, especially those from Fox, were being blacked out by request of the local affiliate. Soon after, many systems outside Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula dropped WGKI and/or brought back WKBD.

On January 16, 1995, WGKI became a secondary affiliate of UPN. It aired the network's shows outside of prime time. WGKI continued to air UPN programming until 2006, when UPN merged with The WB to form The CW, at which point WGKI ended its affiliation.

In 1999, the channel increased its ERP from 219 kW to 774 kW, significantly increasing its coverage area. In 2000, Knapp retired and sold his stations to Rockfleet Broadcasting for $12 million. Part of the deal called for both channels to change call letters. WGKI became WFQX-TV and WGKU became WFVX. In 2003, Rockfleet moved the WFVX call sign to a low-power station it had acquired in Bangor, Maine, and changed the Vanderbilt station's call letters to WFUP.

On February 10, 2007, WFQX upgraded its digital signal on UHF channel 47 (from a transmitter shared with WGTU east of Kalkaska) to begin airing all Fox programming in high definition for over-the-air viewers. (Prior to then, the station offered a low-power digital and HDTV signal near its studios southeast of Cadillac.) WFQX is available on Charter digital channel 783. On May 10, Rockfleet Broadcasting announced its intentions to sell WFQX/WFUP to Cadillac Telecasting. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the sale in late October. After this approval, the new owner entered into its SSA with Heritage Broadcasting Group.

It had been announced with the switch to digital broadcasting (then scheduled for February 17, 2009), WFUP would shut down. However, that channel had an application to perform a flash-cut to digital-only broadcasting on June 12. At one point, the station operated a digital signal on UHF channel 59 from its tower on Hudson Lookout. WFQX had an FCC-issued construction permit to air a digital signal on UHF channel 32 using the previous analog channel 33 equipment but based from the WWTV tower at its studios. That spot is the highest point in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

On August 4, 2009, WFQX switched its longtime moniker "Fox 33" to "Fox 32" while adding a logo matching Fox owned-and-operated stations. The station made the channel move with its PSIP also being adjusted to match the new signal. WFUP's digital signal remained the same. The previous allotment is now used for WPBN-TV's digital broadcasts.

WFQX/WFUP are affiliates of the Detroit Lions Television Network which airs pre-season games and the weekly syndicated show The Ford Lions Report during the regular season. The station also airs all regular season NFL on Fox Lions games. WFQX and PBS member station WCMU-TV were the only stations in the Northern Michigan market that offered analog translator stations. There had been one on channel 31 in Alpena but this was shut down with WFUP serving the area.

At one point, WFQX operated a repeater on channel 40 in Traverse City. That signal was shut down with the addition of one on channel 54. This too has since been shut off. Two translators that served the eastern Upper Peninsula were replaced with digital signals on new digital subchannels of WWTV and WWUP. WFQX also operated a repeater in Alpena, W31BO on channel 31. This would be shut down in November 2009 when WBKB-TV added a new digital subchannel featuring primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV programming on 11.2.

In December 2017, WFQX-TV/WFUP rebranded from "Fox 32" to "Local 32". Despite the name change, the station remains a Fox affiliate.

WFQX-DT2
WFQX-DT2, branded on-air as The CW Northern Michigan, is the CW+-affiliated second digital subchannel of WFQX-TV, broadcasting in 720p HD on channel 32.2. On cable, the subchannel is available on Spectrum channel 61 in Cadillac, Cheboygan, Gaylord, Manistee, Petoskey, Sault Ste. Marie, Traverse City, and surrounding areas. It is also seen on cable channel 17 in Big Rapids, Evart, Ludington, and Reed City and cable channel 13 in Grayling and Roscommon. DirecTV and Dish Network do not offer a CW affiliate. AcenTek in Mesick, which is one of very few non-Spectrum cable systems in the Traverse City market, gets The CW via Kalamazoo's WWMT-DT2.

History
What would become WFQX-DT2 began in 1998 as "WBVC", a WB affiliate. It was part of The WB 100+ which was a similar operation to the current CW Plus service. "WBVC" was identified on-air as "Northern Michigan's WB 61" and the call sign was used in a fictional manner because it only aired on cable. WGTU provided promotional and advertising services for "WBVC" which was based at the ABC affiliate's studios on East Front Street in Downtown Traverse City. Prior to the cable-only "WBVC", Northern Michigan received WB programming on cable from WGN-TV in Chicago, which carried the network's lineup nationally via its superstation feed until 1999.

On January 24, 2006, Time Warner and CBS Corporation (the latter of which took over UPN after the split of Viacom into two companies occurred in December 2005) announced that they would shut down The WB and UPN in September 2006 and merge those two networks' resources to create The CW, a new television service whose initials represented the names of both of those respective companies. UPN aired in a delayed arrangement on Fox affiliates WFQX-TV/WFUP. On July 25, a new logo for "WBVC" appeared on WGTU's website. At that time, there were no announcements posted about its future as a CW affiliate. However, that changed a few weeks before the new network started. The CW began broadcasting on September 18. On that date, "WBVC" became known on-air as "Northern Michigan CW" and WFQX dropped its secondary affiliation with UPN. After the station was added to a new second digital subchannel of WGTU, it began to use the WGTU-DT2 call sign in an official manner.

On September 19, 2007, there was an application filed to the FCC by Max Media to sell WGTU to Tucker Broadcasting for $10 million. After approval in April 2008, Tucker entered into a shared services agreement with Barrington Broadcasting that resulted in WPBN operating WGTU. After the closing of the deal with Tucker Broadcasting, the CW subchannel went dark and the programming service became exclusively available via cable with no local affiliate selling advertising. It resumed using the fictitious "WBVC" call letters.

As WFQX-DT2
In 2018, WFQX-DT2 had assumed the CW affiliation from the once cable-exclusive "WBVC", allowing over-the-air access to the network for the first time in 10 years, rebranding it as "The CW Northern Michigan". By March 2020, the over-the-air feed of WFQX-DT2 was upgraded into 720p HD; it had been airing in the 16:9 widescreen standard definition picture format, before then.

News operation
As WGKI, the station simulcast WKBD's hour-long prime time newscast at 10 o'clock. In June 2000, WFQX launched a news department of its own and began producing a nightly 10 o'clock broadcast. Known as Northern Michigan's Fox News at 10, this was plagued from the start by a lack of basic resources such as reporters and engineering upkeep. The station initially had its own weather department, but later began outsourcing weather duties to AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania, which pre-taped weather segments and fed them to WFQX via satellite. As a result, WFQX was criticized for being too late when severe weather was an issue or choosing not to cover an event. At some point in time, the news title changed to Fox 33 News at 10 and weekend broadcasts ended.

On January 8, 2007, WFQX began to air a simulcast of the weekday morning show of WJBK, Detroit's Fox owned-and-operated station. Branded as Michigan's Fox News Morning and running from 6 to 8 a.m., it featured local weather cut-ins from AccuWeather, and was established as part of a cooperation between the two stations to provide advertising opportunities in Detroit to businesses of Northern Michigan. On February 5, WFQX also began simulcasting the second half of WJBK's 10 p.m. news.

After the sale of the channel to Cadillac Telecasting, the station's news department was shut down. On October 31, WWTV began producing the weeknight 10 p.m. newscast and the WJBK simulcast at 10:30 p.m. was dropped. On January 7, 2008, when CBS began requiring affiliates to carry The Early Show in its entirety, the third hour of WWTV's Michigan This Morning, which had been running from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m., was moved to WFQX/WFUP and expanded to two hours. That evening on WFQX, WWTV launched the area's first 7 p.m. news. In April 2013, WFQX (along with sister station WWTV) began airing its newscasts in high definition.

Notable former on-air staff

 * Jim Kosek – weeknights

Technical information
The stations' signals are multiplexed:

WFUP subchannels
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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 05:30, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Liquid Spears
Non-notable and/or unverifiable band. Only hit for "Liquid Spears" "Monique Willemsen" is Wikipedia, and "Liquid Spears" doesn't fare much better. No allmusic.com listing. Niteowlneils 02:47, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; nn | Celcius 02:52, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; nn band vanity. Jaxl | talk 03:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; Band Vanity WP:MUSIC — Linnwood 05:37, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; Not notable enough, only one single released in Melbourne. Khanada 08:38, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
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I suppose moving the Dukat page page makes some sense, although to be nitpicky most of the Trek-related characters' pages don't include their rank (even folks who aren't promoted over the course of the series). More importantly, though, I want to point out that the move means that a large number of redirects now no longer work (because they are double redirects). I've put patching them on my list of things to do, but thought that since you made the move, you might take it upon yourself to help. --EEMeltonIV 19:26, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

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No offense, but you do not write in an encyclopedic tone. Take this line for instance: "LaCroix then shouts "DAMN YOU NICHOLAS!!" as he raises the stake and ..." First off, writing in all caps and italics is silly. You are not a horror writer, you are a wikipedia editor. The problem continues when you end an article with an ellipses. This is once again a story-telling tool, not an encyclopedic one. You site few sources and insert a lot of interpretation. It would probably be best if you un-invest yourself from these articles and move on; but your work is appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Claytonian (talk • contribs) 16:29, August 27, 2007 (UTC) sounds like other people did things to the article. if so, ignore what doesn't apply and use your best judgement. Be bold. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Claytonian (talk • contribs) 19:44, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

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GURPS Infinite Worlds

GURPS Infinite Worlds is a supplement for the Fourth Edition of the GURPS role-playing game, published by Steve Jackson Games in 2005 and written by Kenneth Hite, Steve Jackson, and John M. Ford. It expands upon the campaign setting of conflict between the Infinity Patrol, which is the dimension-jumping agency on "our" Earth, referred to as Homeline, and Centrum across a multiplicity of alternate history Earths. This was presented in the Fourth Edition GURPS Basic Set (and originated in the Third Edition supplements GURPS Time Travel, GURPS Alternate Earths, and GURPS Alternate Earths II).

Contents
GURPS Infinite Worlds builds on the idea of player characters travelling from one world to another, even across genres, for the fourth edition of GURPS.

GURPS Infinite Worlds has eight chapters: Infinity Unlimited, Enemies Everywhen, Present at the Creation, Worlds Enough, ...And Time, Infinite characters,  Infinite Campaigns, and Alternate Infinities.

Infinity Unlimited
This chapter describes one of the two worlds (known locally as Homeline) that have full-fledged, public "parachronics" programs (the technology behind traveling between parallel universes). Travel between worlds is generally done through ground-based equipment ("projectors") or vehicles ("conveyors"), but magic, parahuman abilities and even stranger methods can and have been utilized by both. Alternate worlds (also known as realities or worldlines) are grouped into "quanta", which have varying degrees of ease of access not only to Homeline but to her opponents.

Enemies Everywhen
This is the chapter that describes Homeline's adversaries and hazards. The major adversary is Centrum, the only other reality known to have a public parachronics program, who can be played as a deadly adversary, occasional opponents or grudging allies depending on the GM's preference.

The secondary adversary is Reich-5, the worst of the five known 'Nazis win/survive WWII' realities in the setting. An ill-advised raid by Spetsnaz troops from Homeline Russia resulted in the capture of a troop conveyor, a handful of live prisoners, and the corpse of a scout with a genetically-linked psionic world-jumping ability. A quick-thinking local Brigadeführer made a deal with the mystical SS society of the Ahnenerbe to take possession of the booty (and to keep it all secret from the mainstream Nazi hierarchy); Reich-5 scientists and sorcerers are using occult rituals and horrific medical experiments to slowly spread their Thousand Year Reich to other realities.

Present at the Creation
This chapter describes how to create your own alternate reality and offering inspirational concepts to look at such as the Great Man, Great Moment, and Great Motherland.

Worlds Enough
This is the chapter on some of the alternate worlds in the setting. Reich-5, Caliph, Dixie, Ezcalli, Gernsback, Roma Aeterna, and Shikaku-Mon all appeared in slightly different forms in the older Alternate Earths volumes.

Armada-2
So named because it is the second world discovered by the Infinity Patrol in which the Spanish Armada was victorious over the English in 1588, Armada-2 is a world just now (in "current year" 1812) emerging from the shadow of Catholic Spanish hegemony, with Sweden, an industrialised Egypt and Huguenot Nouvelle France as other powers.

Attila
A parallel where city-razing Mongol hordes under Genghis Khan destroyed first Beijing and then all the cities of Europe, where now their descendants (in "current year" 2004) rule an entirely nomadic continent. The world was mistakenly named for Attila the Hun by early Infinity Patrol researchers who were confused as to which nomadic leader was responsible for the destruction. Meanwhile, Japan trades across the Pacific Ocean with the urbanized tribes of North and South America, and city-states of Africa, where steam engines have just been developed.

Azoth-7
When Isaac Newton discovered the secret of the philosopher's stone in 1693, he paved the way for an Alchemical Revolution that has left Azoth-7 dominated by the magical might of Britain, Venice, Prussia, and Spain by "current year" 1780. Notable for having space travel - though whatever Polaris and Sirius may be, they are not balls of hydrogen tens or hundreds of light-years away from Earth. (The Rivers of London series is also based on the premise of a magical Isaac Newton)

Bonaparte-4
In Bonaparte-4, Napoleon sacrificed the romance of an Egyptian campaign (which he conducted in 1798 in our timeline) for a stealthy invasion of Ireland, granting him victory over Britain. By "current year" 2024, the world is divided between French, Japanese, Russian, and Brazilian Empires, along with the United States and the Russian Republic, and the world has achieved a stage of technological achievement and social disaffection and tension reminiscent of cyberpunk.

Britannica-3
The success of the rebellion of James, Duke of Monmouth against James II of England in 1685 is the point of divergence between our own world and Britannica-3; wiser and more Protestant rule in Britain meant that tensions with the North American colonies never reached the point of rebellion as they did in real history. Despite the rise of other strong European powers, the world is free of major conflicts, which can be attributed to the strong influence of Centrum in this parallel.

Caliph
In this world the printing press was invented in Baghdad in 796 and was shortly followed by the widespread adoption of the scientific method and an oil-based industrial revolution. The current year here is 1684, but the technological acceleration stemming from these changes has resulted in a society seemingly centuries ahead of Homeline. Unfortunately a burgeoning global war between the tradition-minded major states (Sofala, Persia, Andalus, the Bulgarian Caliphate and the Ummah) and the technocratic Jamahiriya of the western continents threatens the existence of this advanced society.

Campbell
Named for the early death of influential science fiction editor John W. Campbell which occurred in this parallel but not in real history, Campbell is a world notable for the poverty of its scientific advancement. While military applications of scientific research advanced rapidly enough, science as an intellectual pursuit became associated exclusively with death, destruction, and catastrophe (especially after World War II ended with the bombardment of Germany with radioactive dust, killing hundreds of thousands of people). This led to an anti-scientific wave of pacifist Luddism and charismatic religious revival in the 1960s. Lacking the positive fruits of scientific inquiry, the world heads (in "current year" 2004) through ecological disaster and failing economies to a nigh-inevitable showdown between its capitalist and communist societies.

Centrum
The nominal villains of the campaign, Centrum is a totalitarian, homogenized world-state, and the only world other than Homeline to have a major parachronic program. Its point of departure was in 1120, when the White Ship carrying William the Aetheling, the heir of Henry I of England, did not hit a rock in the English Channel. William's survival precluded The Anarchy and the Hundred Years War, and ultimately the "Anglo-French Empire" became a world-spanning power, with technological progress centuries beyond that of Homeline.

However unbearable tensions existed just below the surface, and in 1902 unknown parties decapitated the ruling house by detonating a nuclear device in London. The resulting succession wars included nuclear and biological weapons, wiped out much of humanity and reduced most of the survivors to preindustrial barbarism. But Terraustralis (Homeline Australia) escaped much of the destruction, and the techno-military cabal known as "The Centrum" that took control there ultimately extended its authority across the globe.

Centrum is a socialist technocratic meritocracy; the government provides all employment and handles the economy, which is bolstered by the massive resources acquired from other worldlines. They believe other worlds should be aiming to follow their example and have a dedicated program of supporting political and economic groups that reflect their own values—stability, meritocracy and an unconscious prejudice against non-English speakers. They view the mix of competing government agencies and private companies from Homeline as dangerously reminiscent of the period prior to their own "Final War".

Centrum Beta
One of the most important parallel Earths from the Infinity Patrol's point of view, Centrum Beta appears to be an exact copy of the home parallel of Centrum - except that the "current year" is only 1895. Understanding Centrum Beta as it is now might give the Infinity Patrol the key to understanding and besting Centrum proper.

Deadly Settings
Also known generally as "Reality Vanish", there are at least 41 parachronic coordinate settings where people or objects sent into them never return. These are assumed to be worlds where the laws of physics are sufficiently different from that of our own universe to kill visitors and/or cripple their equipment (see Rustic under Puzzle Worlds, below).

Dixie-1
In this world, William Walker succeeded in conquering Nicaragua in 1856; during the American Civil War this provided a way around the Union blockade for the Confederacy that ultimately ensured their victory. In revenge for British support of the rebels, the United States invaded and annexed most of Canada; meanwhile the Southrons reintroduced their "peculiar institution" into Central America and the Caribbean at gunpoint. Today ("current year" 1993) the U.S.A. and C.S.A. watch each other warily across an armed border that stretches to the Pacific, while India, the Chinese republics and their neighbors expand their economies at the expense of the moribund European monarchies that never fell after 1918. (See American Civil War alternate histories).

Ezcalli
Here the Columbian Exchange occurred two thousand years early, when a Carthaginian fleet was blown across the Atlantic to discover the New World. This premature contact gave the Native American civilizations time to recover from the shock of new diseases and adopt the newcomers' technology; in addition, the early introduction of maize and the potato to the Old World eventually reduced Rome's ability to control its subjects through Egyptian grain. The Empire ended with Nero, and the patchwork of European successor states were ill-equipped to resist subsequent barbarian invasions. In the "current year" of 1848, the expansionist, steam-powered Tenochca Empire faces off against the Hotinohsavannih League to the north and the Songhay Empire (the last remnant of Roman culture) to the east; whoever wins is likely fated to take on the somnolent but fearsomely large Mongol Khaganate that covers most of Eurasia.

Friedrich
This parallel world is named for the Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa, who in this timeline managed to be the great imperial unifier and conqueror that the vagaries of fortune prevented him from being in our history. In "current year" 1219, seventeen years after his death, Friedrich is notable for being a hotbed of activity by the SS Raven Division from the Nazi-dominated parallel Reich-5, who seek to turn his Holy Roman Empire into a First Reich and breeding ground for Aryan warriors.

Gallatin
Gallatin is named for Albert Gallatin, the dominant member of Thomas Jefferson's government due to Alexander Hamilton having died in the Battle of Trenton. Without Hamilton to defend and explain the United States Constitution in the Federalist Papers, it was never ratified and the independent colonies balkanized into nine separate republics across the continent by 1860. In "current year" 2004, Gallatin's great powers include Texas (whose nuclear arsenal shields the other libertarian American republics), German-dominated Europaverein, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Japanese Empire; peace is maintained by the fear of mutual destruction in an atomic war.

Gernsback
This parallel world is named after editor Hugo Gernsback, due to the futuristic architecture and technology being used there. The divergence happened in 1893, when Nikola Tesla married Anne Morgan, daughter of millionaire and philanthropist J. P. Morgan, an event that helped him to stabilize his life and make many of his inventions reality thanks to the support of his father-in-law. In 1902, he created a radio tower that broadcast to the entire world from Long Island, and he later managed to develop wireless electricity broadcasting, which eventually helped Germany to stabilize and avoid falling under the control of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, and strengthening the League of Nations, avoiding World War II. When, in 1951, Andrei Sakharov managed to defect to the West and tell of Stalin's plans to create atomic weapons, the League of Nations declared war on the Soviet Union, which fell on April 30, 1953, with the death of Joseph Stalin. In "current year" 1965, the World Science Council and the League of Nations are putting down all threats to the techno-utopia that has resulted from the inventions derived from Tesla's work. However, this is a world where race and sex discrimination still run rampant. The main mission of the I-Cops in here is to prevent Centrum from taking over, as Centrum regards Gernsback as a potential ally.

Hell Worlds
Many timelines have suffered catastrophes (some natural, others man-made) that have rendered humanity either extinct or nearly so. These are colloquially known as the "hell worlds". Examples include Ariane (where the Spanish flu killed 99.9% of the population), Lenin-2 (where nuclear war and unconstrained industry have combined to crash the biosphere) and the worrisome Gotha parallels (where a prion-based disease has turned almost all humans into bloodthirsty cannibals on 19 otherwise dissimilar worlds).

Homeline
The main world in the game. The world of "our" timeline (apart from the development of parachronics) and home base of Infinity Patrol, and of players in the game. Seeks to counteract Centrum and its efforts to interfere with natural development of alternate worlds.

Lenin-1
Here Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained Henry A. Wallace as his vice president when he was reelected in 1944; consequently Wallace became president on April 12, 1945 upon Roosevelt's death. His passive stance (and that of his successors) against the Soviet Union resulted in the steady expansion of Communism across the globe. In the "current year" of 1989, the isolated and malaise-stricken United States is essentially the sole remaining capitalist country on the planet.

Merlin-1
Named after the wizard of that name, Merlin-1 is a world where magic entered the world due to the Trinity nuclear test in August 1945. In "current year" 2004 America (where much of the magic is centred) uses both magic and technology to be the dominant superpower. Homeline has begun investigating this world to obtain information about this mana-rich reality, but unbeknownst to them the Merlin-1 American government is aware of their actions and has begun spying on them in return. The setting of GURPS Technomancer.

Merlin-3
A world where magic entered the world in 1916, and is centered in Germany. In "current year" 1942, World War II is being fought with magic. The setting of GURPS WWII: Weird War II.

Myth Parallels
Many worlds have inhabitants that closely resemble characters from the myths, legends and stories of Homeline. The characters from the Arabian Nights stories, three different King Arthurs (Riothamus, the Vulgate Cycle Arthur, and Thomas Malory's version) and Sherlock Holmes are all represented by various worlds, along with hundreds of others.

Nergal
Shalmaneser III of Assyria wiped out Jerusalem and Tyre in this world in 854 B.C., and his successors destroyed the Greek city-states a century later. In the "current year" of 1678, various empires based on slavery and human sacrifice cover the globe (except for an Infinity Patrol-supported haven in southern Africa) while an anomalous ice age threatens to wipe out those unfortunate to live in a world where monotheism, democracy and the Greek and Latin alphabets were destroyed almost before they could begin.

Puzzle Worlds
Some worlds that do not follow the generally accepted laws of physics in one way or another or otherwise demonstrate unusual characteristics—it is important to note that in the Infinite Worlds setting, most magic fits under the category of "accepted laws of physics". Rustic (where artificial electric discharges are impossible to generate), Enigma (where the entire population of the world disappeared on July 12, 1982) and Blip (where one day spent there is equal to a little over six minutes on other worlds) are some examples.

Reich-5
Widely regarded as one of the most disturbing and potentially dangerous worlds so far discovered, in this parallel Giuseppe Zangara succeeded in assassinating Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933. His successors Garner, Lindbergh and Wallace proved unable to handle the Great Depression, and America stood by while Hitler conquered Europe and Japan took over most of Asia. In 1944, Japan attacked Guam, the Philippines and Hawaii; in the ensuing chaos William Dudley Pelley was elected president. Pelley quickly assumed dictatorial powers, and his blatant theft of the 1948 election from Robert A. Taft triggered wholesale civil war. The president called for aid from Nazi Germany, which quickly sent 40 Wehrmacht divisions through Canada. The pro-democracy resistance collapsed after Werner Heisenberg developed the atomic bomb which was used on four American cities in 1950. A second attempt at rebellion in 1976 failed, and America is now a (very) junior partner of the World-Axis that dominates the planet. Reich-5's technology (military or otherwise) is superior to that of any Homeline country, and despite being the only known timeline besides Homeline and Centrum to possess world-jumping technology, their parachronic program is well behind those of the other two.

Roma Æterna
Here Nero Claudius Drusus did not die in 9 B.C. In turn, he became the successor to Augustus instead of Tiberius. The imperial line that followed was so successful that when the First Empire fell apart in the 5th century the guiding ideals of Rome were never discarded and were ultimately restored. After the Mongol invasions broke the Second Empire in the 14th century, colonies in the Hesperides preserved these ideals in turn and ultimately re-restored the empire in the late 18th century. The "current year" is 1893, and the Musket-wielding legions of the Third Empire are found from the Magna Campania to the Ganges, with no sign of retreating anytime soon. The only other significant political entities in the world are Serica (China) and its North American kingdom Fu-Sang (centered on San Francisco), Taehan (a growing empire based on the Korean Peninsula), and the isolationist South American kingdom of Huaraca.

Shikaku-Mon
In this "four-cornered world" Juan, Prince of Asturias, the son of King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain survived to take the Spanish throne as King John III. The resulting changes in history spread all the way to Japan, where an increased Jesuit presence prolonged the life of Oda Nobunaga and prevented the closing of the country by the Tokugawa shogunate. In the resulting cyberpunk "current year" of 2027, the dominant powers include a Japanese Empire that covers China, India, New Zealand, and much of East Asia, the economic superpower of Brazil, the totalitarian Swedish Empire and the technologically advanced Kingdom of France.

United States of Lizardia
A world very similar to our own, except reptilian creatures descended from a species of Troodon are the dominant sentient lifeform. The similarities exist down to cultural and political divisions (resulting in this world's colloquial name) and are assumed by Homeline scientists to be evidence of a "law of temporal inertia" (or "gods with a strange sense of humour").

Yrth
A world reminiscent of several fantasy tropes, inhabited by humans, dwarves, elves etc., all of whom have been involuntarily taken from other worldlines. The setting of GURPS Banestorm.

... And Time
This chapter deals with the many theories of Temporal Physics both real and fictional that exist.

 * Paradoxes (Assumes Fixed Time with one past, present, and future.)
 * The Grandfather Paradox
 * The Free Lunch Paradox (also known as the Ontological paradox The example is taken from The Eyre Affair and has the time traveler give Shakespeare a book detailing his plays which Shakespeare copies. The result is no one actually writes the plays!)
 * Plastic Time (past can be changed but there are dangers to doing so)
 * Traveler at Risk (Example: Back to the Future)
 * World at Risk (Examples: Back to the Future II, and New Twilight Zone Episode "Portrait in Silver")
 * Past or Traveler at Risk (Combines Traveler at Risk and World at Risk)
 * Returned Blocked
 * Chaotic Time (extreme version of Plastic Time where small changes can result in big alterations. Example: short story "A Sound of Thunder")
 * Plastic Time with High Resistance (It is very hard to change history and the larger the event the more difficult it is to change. Examples: Twilight Zone episode "Back There", The Time Machine (2002 film)
 * Paradox-Proof Time (Extreme version of Fixed Time where the past cannot be changed and any attempt to do so snaps you back to your present.)
 * New Timelines
 * Parallel Worlds (Time travel is really parallel universe travel. Examples: Timeline (novel), James P. Hogan's The Proteus Operation and the Parallels (Star Trek: The Next Generation) episode all use the Parallel Worlds mechanic for alternate timelines (Data calls them Quantum Realities).

There are some other ideas provided to make things either easier or more difficult for your intrepid travelers such as Linearity Principle, Oscillating Time, Recency Effect, and Temporal Exclusion as well how communication works.

Infinite Characters
Special notes on certain rules in the setting and character templates.

Infinite Campaigns
Designing the campaign's scope and direction.

Alternate Infinities
This chapter provides alternatives to the "default" Infinity setting.
 * The Order of the Hourglass - psychic time travel
 * The Time Corps - a setting similar to that of Pacesetter's Time Master series where the player's homeworld is battling against an alternate timeline (called Stopwatch) with access to the past as the prize.
 * The Horatio Club - a house whose doors open on to other times and other histories.

Publication history
GURPS Infinite Worlds was designed by Kenneth Hite, Steve Jackson, and John M. Ford, and published by Steve Jackson Games in 2005.

Reception
GURPS Infinite Worlds won the 2005 Origins Award as Best Game Supplement.

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Talk:Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant)

relevance?
What is the relevance of the fact that Hatch bought real estate in Nova Scotia in 2002? He's a real estate dealer; he undoubtedly has made many such purchases. MK2 02:48, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

that the money that he owes on his taxes were probably used to pay for it. The word Tax Shelter or something like that as something to do with it. Your right it is not relevent in so far as that it is a property that he by canadian standards bought legally. Whippletheduck (talk) 05:14, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Hatch won the $1 million in 2000. He was indicted on charges of tax evasion in 2005, but he steadfastly maintained his innocence and refused a plea bargain. Prosecutors eventually dropped the tax evasion charges, and eight months later, indicted him on those charges again plus bank fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud and charity fraud (10 counts total). Hatch still refused to plea bargain and went to trial in Jan 2006 where he was aquitted of all charges except "attempting to evade taxes." Hatch contends he was only convicted of the tax charges because prosecutors' obfuscation and dissembling prevented anyone from following the facts. The IRS had never assessed him as having owed any taxes, and as of 2011, Hatch continued to fight to be exonerated with (despite all media claims to the contrary) never having been assessed to owe any taxes. Hatch continues to maintain his innocence. Bottom line, the properties Hatch bought in Nova Scotia and elsewhere in 2002 were bought at tax sales, and then, as a decade later, no money Hatch owed was ever used to pay for anything. Triwhale (talk) 09:04, 21 August 2012 (UTC)R.Hatch

Guilty
he's so guilty of the tax evasion thing it's absurd. this guy is a crook. he set up a fake charity and solicited donations, then spent the money on himself. i read the whole indictment on thesmokinggun.com--Alhutch 22:32, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Roffle @ being sentenced for tax evasion Cookn4evar 00:26, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

See answer above. Hatch was acquitted of any wrongdoing with respect to his charity, Horizon Bound. In fact, it was funded entirely of his own money. Three contributions/donations were at issue in trial, and all three were received by Hatch for Horizon Bound in lieu of payment for services (appearance on The Weakest Link, speaking engagement, and appearance on a pilot television program). While Hatch was sentenced for "attempting to evade taxes", those taxes had never been determined to be due and the details/facts have been so skewed by corrupt prosecutors and complicit media, there will likely be a book in which tax experts explain what really happened. Triwhale (talk) 09:10, 21 August 2012 (UTC)R.Hatch

Son?
Who has custody?

Officially, it's none of our business. I read somewhere though that his sister usually takes care of his son while he is doing reality TV shoots and stuff. Whippletheduck (talk) 06:15, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Is it really none of our business? Don't all biographies have a section relating to the person's known family life?  Hatch's son was shown on Episode 8, Season 1 of Survivor.  Wouldn't that merit a sentence such as "Hatch has one known son" or something like this?--Petzl (talk) 15:47, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Hatch's son, Christopher, is an adult in his last year at University. Hatch has also recently connected with biological children who were the result of his sperm donations. Triwhale (talk) 09:12, 21 August 2012 (UTC)R.Hatch

"...aligned with ex-Navy seal Rudy Boesch who was homophobic"
I just stumbled across this article, so this will be a casual viewer's perspective: The second paragraph mentions him forming an alliance with Rudy Boesch, who is noted as being homophobic. I wondered how that would be relevant to their alliance. I wondered a long time until in the end, I read he lost a position as a host on a gay dating game show. So I figure he is homosexual, right? If this is so, one should either mention it in the second paragraph so it makes sense - or remove the note completely. Tierlieb 23:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * User:SatyrTN fixed that. Seems like you worked hard to find a reference. Thank you, now it makes much more sense. Tierlieb (talk) 14:32, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Rudy Boesch is openly anti-homosexual, and in the Survivor 1 DVD, there is a part where Rudy is being interviewed by Mark Burnett prior to the show. He is asked if he would vote for someone SOLEY because the person was gay. Rudy answered "Yes". He was asked if he would vote for someone whom was a lesbian. Rudy answered "Yes". When asked if he would vote for someone soley because they were black, Rudy answered "No". This is in both the Season 1 DVD as well as the SURVIVOR MOST OUTRAGEOUS MOMENTS dvd as well. Whippletheduck (talk) 05:16, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

 * I just watched this again, and this is my completely original interpretation. The way it is presented on the show, Rudy did not know Richard was gay until after he'd formed a favorable impression of Richard due to Richard's decisive personality, which Rudy admired (presumably due to his military background). Rudy did not like the tendency of some of the other survivors, especially the women, to make decisions by committee or via consensus building; he thought there should be a "big man in charge" who makes the decisions and everyone goes along with that, and he saw Richard as that person. So when he later found out that Richard was gay, he didn't like it, but he managed to accept Richard in a leadership position within the alliance. In a later episode Richard remarked that Rudy would simply ask him whom to vote for, and was very loyal and obedient. So it seemed that his comfort with chain-of-command power structures allowed him to overcome his homophobia (which also may have been a result of his military background). I don't think there's any way to get that into the article since it's my own purely original thought, but I hope it helps anyway. ⟳ ausa کui × 22:06, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Rudy is very open that he is anti-homosexual. However, I don't see how that is relevant to the article, and I see that it has been fixed, which is good. I have something that might help shed some light on the situation. Around Episode 2 or 3, I remember Rudy saying something along these lines, "The homosexual is one of the nicest people I have ever met. I don't appreciate his life style, but I guess I will try to until this game is over." He came to respect Richard, I believe. Whitestorm17 (talk) 00:42, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

I believe the line Rudy used about Hatch is, "He's fat, and he's queer, but he's smart." Triwhale (talk) 09:16, 21 August 2012 (UTC)R.Hatch

Smuggled matches
The following message was left on my talk page. Because it's about this specific article rather than about me personally, I'm moving the discussion here.

 * An edit you reverted on me. Lets discuss

On this page Richard_Hatch_(Survivor_contestant) You undid my edit about Richard Hatch smuggling in matches. I edited under my IP. But im using my account to contact you. I am in the process of watching all the seasons of survivor and it just so happens I am watching all-stars. In the second episode, all 3 tribes got fire when they opted to get flint instead of blankets when one tribe won. Prior to this there was no fire from any tribe, nor a mention of it. In fact, Richard helped make the fire with the flint and was annoyed he couldnt get it started right away. Yes, the information is 'souced' But the inquirer is not a valid source in my opinion. To the best of my knowledge, they make up news mixed in with truth. Second, no survivor contestent is strip searched. Ever.

So the debate begins. I believe that the source is false. I wanted to discuss this with you first before taking it to a public discussion.

THanks! Ivtv (talk) 23:15, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Since this is an issue about a particular article, it's best to bring it up on the article's talk page. TJRC (talk) 23:37, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

I'll go along with whatever the consensus is. My sense is that your own recollection and synthesis from what you saw on the TV show is more original research and less of a reliable source than the cited Philippine Daily Inquirer story. TJRC (talk) 23:48, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Yeah but is the source itself reliable? Ivtv (talk) 23:54, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Nothing in Philippine Daily Inquirer and the many references to it in the WP: space suggest it isn't. Is there any reason to disbelieve that they accurately reported what Jeff Probst said; or to disbelieve Probst himself?  Mind you, this is a little point; reliability of sources aside, the consensus might be that it's just not worth including. TJRC (talk) 04:32, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

I'd have to look but I do remember seeing an interview with Jeff Probst somewhere where he say's a former Survivor did indeed smuggle matches in his rectal area, don't remember what the exact quote was. He never actually said whom it was, but it did not take a lot of imagination picturing Richard Hatch doing the deed. Whippletheduck (talk) 18:04, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, this topic seems to have been forgotten, and yes, I agree that unless we have an actual confirmation, it shouldn't be added to the article. Whitestorm17 (talk) 00:46, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

As described above, all three tribes got fire when they got flint. This "smuggled matches" discussion is wholly concocted speculation unrelated to actual events. Triwhale (talk) 09:15, 21 August 2012 (UTC)R.Hatch

in a prison gang?
is there any info on if he is in a prison gang or not. I know he is in a hardcore prison. and when you go to prison you have to join a gang. so if anyone can update that section thanks Galaxiehoon (talk) 07:49, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

When you go to prison, you do not have to join a gang. Hatch has never been in any gang. Triwhale (talk) 09:17, 21 August 2012 (UTC)R.Hatch

 * I heard he was trading his a$$ for anything he wanted in prison. He was selling a$$ o'plenty.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.76.151.56 (talk) 21:51, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Hatch being a villain in 20th season of survivor
In this interview Jeff Probst, survivor's host, talking about Hatch not making it to the Heroes Vs. Villains season. He claims that both in the game and in real life Richard Hatch was THE villain of the series, but since he only got out of prison and still in house arrest, he's not allowed to leave the US and couldn't join. http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/02/08/survivor-heroes-vs-villains-jeff-probst/ Alongo86 (talk) 09:50, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

This is a very intresting article, although I don't think there is any reason to add it to the article. Whitestorm17 (talk) 01:33, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Hatch was prevented by hypocritical prosecutors who were demanding Hatch make payments toward some tax liability that may someday be determined to be due while simultaneously preventing him from participating in Survivor. After serving a sentence Hatch should never have served, Hatch was twice invited to return to Survivor after All-Stars, and both times, prosecutors objected to Hatch's request that he be allowed to participate. Triwhale (talk) 09:21, 21 August 2012 (UTC)R.Hatch

Going back?
They are asking to put him back in prison. - 67.224.51.189 (talk) 21:01, 31 January 2011 (UTC)\

The link doesn't work. Whitestorm17 (talk) 01:38, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

 * On March 11, 2011, Hatch was ordered back to prison, no later than Monday, March 14, 2011. Article has been updated. Famspear (talk) 21:00, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Tax evasion conviction and imprisonment
The section "Tax evasion conviction and imprisonment" needs a lot of work. It is extremely POV and the prose is so bad that you can't really pull the important facts out of it, such as how long he was imprisoned. 66.74.161.163 (talk) 07:04, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Hatch was sent back to prison for an alleged probation violation (not amending his 2000 tax return) despite respected experts' testimony at Hatch's hearing that it was not possible for Hatch to have been more compliant with the IRS process and, in fact, it is not possible to amend tax returns that are the subject of an ongoing audit. Just as Hatch had been brought to trial without an assessment ever having been completed, Hatch had been pursuing his day in tax court all along. Triwhale (talk) 09:26, 21 August 2012 (UTC)R.Hatch

The last comment above was meant for the previous section.

Hatch was sentenced to 51 months for "attempting to evade taxes", longer than anyone else in U.S. history for the amounts prosecutors wrongfully claimed Hatch owed. Hatch owed nothing at the time of trial, and resolution of his assessment continues to this day. Prosecutors have done a brilliant job of preventing the public from recognizing that no matter what taxes may eventually be determined to be due, it is not possible for Hatch to have evaded taxes in 2000 that have yet to be determined to be due. Triwhale (talk) 09:31, 21 August 2012 (UTC)R.Hatch

SAG issue with the other Richard Hatch
While the entry line references actor Richard Hatch, Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant)'s wikipedia page should have a section noting the problem that their identical names (without the use of middle initial or name) briefly created for the Screen Actors Guild. 143.232.210.38 (talk) 17:17, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

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