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Aberdeen Act

The Aberdeen Act of 1845 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (8 & 9 Vict. c. 122) passed during the reign of Queen Victoria on 9 August. The long title of the Act is "An Act to amend an Act, intituled An Act to carry into execution a Convention between His Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil, for the Regulation and final Abolition of the African Slave Trade".

This law is seen in Brazilian historiography as a British retaliation against the Alves Branco Tariff, a tariff reform established in 1844 by Finance Minister Manuel Alves Branco that raised import duties followed by the ending of the British-Brazilian Convention of 1826 on the Atlantic slave trade to Brazil.

History
The Act was proposed by British Foreign Secretary Lord Aberdeen. It gave the Royal Navy authority to stop and search any Brazilian ship suspected of being a slave ship on the high seas, and to arrest slave traders caught on these ships.

The Act stipulated that arrested slave traders could be tried in British courts. The law was designed to suppress the Brazilian slave trade, to make effective Brazilian laws and the British-Brazilian Treaty of 1826 to end the Atlantic slave trade, that Brazil had signed and ratified but failed to enforce.

It provoked outrage in Brazil, where it was seen as a violation of free market, freedom of navigation, as an affront to Brazilian sovereignty and territorial integrity, and as an attempt to check Brazil's rise as a world power.

Controversies
As a result, the Royal Navy began intercepting Brazilian slavers on the high seas, and Brazilian slave traders caught on these ships were prosecuted in British admiralty courts. Over the following years, the number of cases in British admiralty courts increased dramatically due to the large number of Brazilians arrested for slave-trading - in the first six months of 1848, 19 out of 33 cases heard by the vice admiralty court in St. Helena were Brazilian.

Despite the aggressive application of this law, the volume of the Brazilian slave trade increased in the late 1840s; the demand for slaves had increased due to British free-trade legislation that lifted tariffs on Brazilian sugar. However, Anglo-Brazilian tensions continued to increase. In 1850-51, a handful of British ships began entering Brazilian territorial waters and even its harbors to attack slave ships. In one instance, a British ship exchanged fire with a Brazilian fort.

In the face of these tensions, Brazil knew that it could not afford to go to war with Britain. In addition, popular sentiment against the slave trade in Brazil was growing. The Brazilian government decided to put an end to the slave trade. In September 1850, new legislation outlawing the slave trade was enacted, and the Brazilian government began to enforce it.

As a result, the Brazilian slave trade declined, and despite some illegal slavers that continued to operate, the trade came to an end in the mid-1850s, although slavery itself was not abolished in Brazil until 1888. On 27 April 1852, the British government notified its counterpart in Brazil of its permanent withdrawal of warships from Brazilian waters, on condition that there be no resumption of the slave trade; the reports of the British minister to Brazil in 1860 and the following year, showed no indication of breach. Finally satisfied there would be no resumption of the African slave trade, the British parliament repealed the Aberdeen Act on 19 April 1869.

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National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens

The National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens (ကန်တော်ကြီး အမျိုးသား ရုက္ခဗေဒ ဥယျာဉ်; formerly National Botanical Gardens) is a 177 hectare botanical garden located in the Alpine town of Pyin U Lwin (formerly Maymyo), Burma, situated at an elevation of 1000 metres (3,605 ft) and 69 km by road from Mandalay. The current official name is National Kandawgyi Garden.

History
It was first established in 1915 as the Maymyo Botanical Gardens by Alex Roger, a Forest Officer. The original site was 30 acre, and was modelled after the Kew Gardens of England with the help of an amateur gardener, botanical collector and expedition organiser called Lady Cuffe. In 1917, the government granted it official recognition, and in 1924, the site was declared a Government Botanical Reserve. On 1 December 1942, the Ministry of Forestry designated the Botanical Gardens a "protected forest area". On 1 December 2000, Sr Gen Than Shwe renamed it "Kandawgyi National Gardens". It has been used to promote extensive ecotourism in Burma.

Flora and fauna
The Botanical Gardens has 514 species of indigenous trees and 74 foreign species, 75 species of bamboo, and 75 species of crotons. Of the 300 species of indigenous orchids, 178 were already collected in 1942. There are 25 rose species, and 6 land lily species. Medicinal plants for traditional medicines are also grown. The National Botanical Gardens is managed by the Ministry of Forestry. Forty two acres of the site are a protected forest area. The gardens are popular among tourists, who enjoy the rolling lawns and Alpine landscape reminiscent of those in England. Endangered wild animals are also kept in the National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens, including Eld's deer, Burmese star tortoise, takin, hog deer, but there are also pheasant and water fowl. It has collaborated with the UK based Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) to conserve the indigenous orchids in their natural habitat.

The Botanical Gardens has three museums. The Fossils Museum houses fossils of mammals, reptiles, and invertebrates, and the Petrified Wood Museum displays fossils of plants, colorful stones, toddy-palm roots, as well as things made from fossils of plants. The Butterfly Museum has various species of butterflies from Nepal, Taiwan, South America, Japan and South East Asia.

Special events
Celebrations of the Gardens' Diamond Jubilee were held from 14 December 2006 to 13 January 2007. Kandawgyi has expanded in recent years and reached its current size in 2000. An annual flower festival has been held in December since 2006. The 5 day event this year had over 7 million flowers of 16 local and over 70 foreign species on display. Number of visitors has averaged 400,000 since it was reopened in 2001.

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Stu Megan

Stu Megan (Stewart A. Megan, born 1952 in Bristol, England) is now retired, having been a computer software professional since 1968, a career spanning 46 years. He began this career working on early core memory computers such as the LEO Computers LEO III (a room-sized machine that used only switches for control and ferrite rods for memory) to working at Netscape as the System Test Engineering Manager for more recent internet technology products such as Netscape's Directory Server (NDS).

Stu emigrated to Canada in 1981, working for a company called GEAC as a system programmer/developer. GEAC built their own hardware and software systems, compilers and were a leading Canadian corporation. Stu then emigrated to the US with GEAC and worked on many system developer projects there. After working at First Interstate IT Services, he moved to Silicon Valley working at many companies including Syntelligence - an Stanford AI company, both in the US and back in UK, he worked for Netscape as Senior QA Manager on Directory Server ( the birth of the internet ) and more. He subsequently began his own QA TestLab Services Consulting Service, initially providing hands on testing and later becoming a QA infrastructure service for small businesses who needed to start their own internal QA. This involved building the environment and then acquiring the resources needed ( people, software, hardware).

Stu (Stewart) also worked in the computer game industry for several years, including Sierra's INN network and later MicroProse/Spectrum Holobyte where he is credited with working on several games.

In his spare time, he has been involved in volunteering on social projects. One of these was the Spacewatch project in Arizona. His time there involved searching for Near Earth Asteroids. Stu also created and ran a supplemental support site, fmogroup.org for the volunteers on the project. By analyzing online images, he discovered among others, the close-approaching asteroids 2004 BV18 on January 19, 2004 and 2004 UH1 on October 23, 2004. He analysed over 10,000 online images during his time on the project and discovered 5 asteroids of note.

In July 2004, the asteroid designated 15462 Stumegan was named 'stumegan' in honor of Stewart A Megan's at the Spacewatch FMO project. The citation states Stewart A. Megan (b. 1952) discovered the Near Earth Object 2004 BV18 in conjunction with the Spacewatch Fast-Moving-Object Project. This find, made using real-time images transferred to volunteers over the Internet, was the subject of much press coverage encouraged others to join the online search. In February 2014, Stu Megan retired after 46 years in the industry, due to health and family issues, which made it impossible for him to continue his business. He is currently working on two novels in his new career as a writer.

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Eduardo Paz Carlson, born november 6, 1958, Montevideo. Poet, Neoelectroacoustic Composer, collagist & Journalist. For more info please visit : http://eduardopazcarlsonperiodista.blogspot.com/

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Talk:Israel Zolli

Inappropriate
Why is there a picture of Martin Luther on this page, down where it says tha this article is a stub? Wouldn't it be better to have a picture of Christ or something?

 * Then the Christianity bio template should be edited with a different picture. But don't remove it from the article - yes, I know the picture of Luther is distasteful to many Jews, Catholics, and others, but that is no good reason to move the template from articles - after all, wikipedia is no place for POV, however justified it may appear to us.  It IS a good reason, however, to edit the template and find a better image. David Cannon 10:27, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

disputed
-- Austrian 00:08, 2 September 2005 (UTC) no reference is made to zolli's abandoning of the jewish community to seek refuge in the vatican during ww II. when he returned, the jews refused to recognizew him as their leader. he converted shortly thereafter see encyclopedia judaica.217.132.235.87 13:49, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) The article claims that Trieste was under Austrian control in 1920.    I don't think so.    Trieste was part of Austria-Hungary, but not of Austria after 1918.
 * 2) The article claims that Zolli was baptized as Eugenio Pacelli in 1945.   "Eugenio Zolli" is more likely.
 * 3) I have some doubts about the name Bodji, too;  it does not sound Galician at all, but I may be mistaken.

Previous concerns
Trieste does seem to have been transferred from Austrian or Austro-Hungarian to Italian authority at the end of World War One, although I can't say whether it was before or after Zolli became the chief rabbi there. Having said that, I'm not sure it's absolutely necessary to even address the issue (in this article).

Other websites seem to confirm that he took the name "Eugenio" but not the last name "Pacelli" (indeed my understanding of induction into the Church is that you would be given a Christian name, i.e., John, Michael, etc., but not a new last name).

64.0.113.158 17:24, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

POV
"This summary seems to be slightly biased, as many Jews took refuge in Vatican monasteries from 1943 to 1944, when Nazi deportations to concentration camps started in Italy, which until 1943 had been relatively "safe" despite Fascist rule."

This is extreme POV. It is not for Wikipedians to decide to edit other's memoirs and encyclopaedia notes even if they disagree and begs the question of censorship/apologetics.

karas 08:39, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the removal explained above. It at least is not worded in NPOV fasion. Also, the rationale behind "singeling out" Zolli was propbably his position as Rabbi.

However, the removal further down I cannot agree with. It mutilated an existing sentence, implying that Zolli had secretly converted in 1937. Which is nonsense. Not the conversion but the spiritual quest began in 1937. Str1977 (smile back) 09:24, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

This article is very biased. "He hid at the Vatican really??" The vatican hid over 60,000 jews on papal estates,  the Swiss guard trippled in size to take in Italian jews who could live safely in the Vatican. When the nazis demanded gold for the Roman jews Pius wa going to melt down all the Vatican could offer, he was stopped by Italian women who gave up their wedding bands instead —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.175.76.65 (talk) 17:45, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

 * I don't think the above critique by 24.175.76.65 is correct. There were a lot of Jews hiding in Vatican buildings, but 60,000 seems like an overstatement. Also, re the gold, Jewish representatives asked Pius to loan them some 1/3rd, I think, if they couldn't gather the amount needed; he said yes, but in the end the Jews collected the necessary amount themselves and the Vatican provided none. Randomalphanumericstring (talk) 05:19, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Zolli or Zoller?
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 * According to the Italian Wikipedia page Eugenio Zolli, his name in the lede sentence appears thus: Eugenio Pio Zolli nato Israel Anton Zoller. That looks definitive. I believe the page name here should be changed and content edited to match. -- Deborahjay (talk) 14:12, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

misunderstanding in Jane Scrivener 's book and the destruction of the files
Scrivener writes: "The Rabbi did not destroy his registers and they know where every Jews lives." but previously she writes: "the German authorities sent for the Chief Rabbi and told him that unless by midday today the Jews delivered one million lire and fifty kilogrammes of gold"... the problem is that the 'rabbi' who had the meeting with Kappler was Foà and not Zolli! Zolli never met Kappler. So Scrivener is blaiming Foà and not Zolli.

Was Zolli who asked the Community to destroy the files and was Foà who refuted: "Zolli then urged Foà to destroy the community's list of Roman Jews, but Foà did nothing." "A bitter controversy arose over Foà's failure to destroy the community's lists"

Fixed
I went ahead and condensed the article into less sections, removed some unsourced info from 2011, added a source, and removed some out of place content. I know nothing of this man myself, I simply stumbled on an article that was too fragmented and decided to lend a hand. Hope it help! 98.198.85.83 (talk) 00:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

"his villainous behavior"
Are you serious? outreachjudaism.org - is an authoritative source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Алессия (talk • contribs) 14:29, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

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This is a fairly exhaustive list of sources from an internet search and Google scholar search as of April 2019:

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Israel or Eugenio
Sorry for the anonymous edit (just a passer by), and thank you for the work done in creating this page. Serious question. Isn't titling this page "Israel" a form of deadnaming? Thank you and apologies if this is inappropriate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:B07:ADD:C4B2:AD94:2E1A:DDDE:D7B (talk) 16:44, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * I'm sorry, I thought I'd done it correctly. I tried to just copy (and modify) the examples given on Instruments/Adding; I guess I messed up.  Well, thank you for notifying me.  Adso de Fimnu 20:10, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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Hello, thanks for posting the comment on Rachmaninoff's setting of the Liturgy. I also appreciate your starting the article on the Vespers as well and helping fill another gap in Wikipedia's coverage of classical works. When I have the time, I'll post a list of other compositions which, IMHO, deserve Wikipedia entries so that anybody else who's interested can work on turning the redlinks blue. In response to your query on the Liturgy, I suggest that the article begin with a general introduction about its origins, purpose, and the manner of its celebration (maybe you know more about Eastern Orthodoxy or Byzantine Catholicism, but copying over this section of the biography of John Chrysostom could nevertheless provide a good start). Information on the arrangements that composers like Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky (any others?) have made can then follow. Interested to hear your ideas, Defrosted 01:01, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi again, glad to hear about your enthusiastic plans for the article. I haven't listened to anything by Gretchaninov but hope to explore some of his music, if recordings are readily available, now that you have mentioned him in relation to Rachmaninov.  Definitely cover him in the entry on Rachmaninov's Vespers since they studied with each other and belonged to the same late Romantic tradition in Russia.
 * You might also want to browse through the list of classical works I've uploaded at Requested articles/music/Operas, stage musicals and classical compositions. Thanks, Defrosted 07:55, 19 February 2006 (UTC).

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I see what you mean about the copying thing there. Im kinda new to this editing stuff, I figured I'd get the information up and than people would rewrite it. If there are certain articles that stick out in mind please let me know! By the way, I play cello as well.

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Thanks for the info. Now I can have a nice profile. Nuclearmound 03:46, 15 July 2006 (UTC)Nuclearmound

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wisdom of the Body

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The result of the debate was Redirect to Homeostasis. -- Phroziac (talk) 01:13, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

Wisdom of the Body
Close to being. Concept is described as a theory, but no details of what that theory is are given. Esoteric discussion of chaos theory and strange attractors without describing relevance to subject matter. Final sentence "This wisdom ought to be taken for granted in the same way is gravity is" offers no supporting evidence as why this theory should be taken for granted. BillC 00:10, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Provisional delete . I get a lot of Googles for "Wisdom of the Body", but as it stands this article is OR of the first degree, it's only 'reference' is a...interesting...website. But the Googles indicate some possible scientific interest in the phrase. Nevertheless, here would not seem the place to start so we should remove the OR and start again. -Splash 00:22, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Homeostasis per Dpbsmith; I think redirect to the topic rather than the author. -Splash 18:37, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * See my comment below. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Full delete Total Nonsence and OR 70.51.172.85 01:47, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless the article is completely rewritten. - ulayiti (talk)   (my RfA)  02:51, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as original research. Other references to the phrase as such do not seem to correlate to this OR theory. MCB 07:07, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - it does sound like original research UniReb 10:48, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, OR. See also Articles for deletion/Streaming organism. the wub  "?/!"  13:29, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Chunitaku 14:04, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete OR Amren (talk) 14:26, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Homeostasis and add a brief note somewhere giving the title of Cannon's book. Cannon's book is famous, as is Walter Cannon, and the phrase "wisdom of the body" is frequently mentioned in conjunction with homeostasis. The present contents of the article is more or less nonsense and original research. I don't think there's anything that can needs to be said under the heading "Wisdom of the body" that would be separate from Homeostasis. The book itself could conceivably be worthy of an entire article but if anyone wants to write about the book the should start by writing a section in Walter Cannon and breaking it out if and when it grows big enough. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:31, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Walter Cannon might be a better target than Homeostasis then, as there is already a mention of the book in the article on Cannon. (Good comments, Dpbsmith). --BillC 17:59, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment Wisdom of the Body is a broadened version of the metaphor conceived by Starling and adopted by Cannon. It provides a common framework for seemingly unrelated concepts e. g., equilibrium, steady state, and strange attractor, and is applied to interpret health and disease in a new way. In other words health and disease can be expressed by these disciplines in different ways.
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London Protocol

London Protocol can refer to one of many treaties signed in London, England:

Treaties

 * Eight Articles of London (1814), secret protocol awarding the territory of modern Belgium and the Netherlands to William I of the Netherlands
 * London Protocol (1828), statement of war aims of European powers in Greek War of Independence
 * London Protocol (1829), amendment of protocol of 1828 expanding Greek borders
 * London Protocol (1830), recognized Greece as an independent, sovereign state
 * London Protocol (1832), ratified and reiterated terms of Treaty of Constantinople
 * London Protocol (1852), altered succession of duchies of Schleswig and Holstein to maintain personal union with Denmark
 * London Protocol (1862), reiterated terms of Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce
 * London Protocol (1877), British pledge of neutrality in Russo-Turkish War in exchange for limitation of Russian war aims
 * London Protocol (1944), Allied agreement to divide Nazi Germany into three occupation zones after World War II
 * London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (1972), international agreement limiting dumping of hazardous waste at sea
 * London Agreement (2000), reduced requirements to translate patents granted under European Patent Convention

Other uses

 * London Protocol (2004), protocol established at Imperial College London for responding to clinical incidents

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Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport

Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (שלמה יהודה כהן רפאפורט; June 1, 1786 – October 15, 1867) was a Galician and Czech rabbi and Jewish scholar. Rapoport was known by an acronym "Shir", שי"ר occasionally שיל"ר, formed by the initial letters of his Hebrew name "Sh"elomo "Y"ehuda "R"apoport. Shir literally means "song" in Hebrew. He was one of the founders of the new Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.

Life
Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport was born in Lemberg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. His father, Rabbi Aharon Hayim Rappaport was a renowned scholar, and his primary teacher. Rappaport was also recognized as an illui. In 1810, he married Franziska Freide Heller, the daughter of the well-known Aryeh Leib Heller. He died in Prague.

After various experiences in business, Rapoport became rabbi of Tarnopol (1837) and of Prague (1840). He had been "thrown upon his own resources" about 1817, and became the collector of the meat-tax on farmers. Because of his work on Saadia Gaon, see below, he received recognition in the scholarly world and gained "many enthusiastic friends", especially S. D. Luzzatto, leading to his appointment as Rabbi.

Works
Rapoport was instrumental in publishing his father-in-law's work Avnei Miluim, writing the index, sources, and numerous comments.

His chief work was the first part of an (unfinished) encyclopaedia "Erekh Millin", 1852. Equally notable were his biographies of Saadia Gaon, Nathan ben Jehiel (author of the Arukh), Hai Gaon, Eleazar Kalir, and others. His early writings were poems and translations. Thereafter his publications showed "evidence of marked critical ability". In 1824 he wrote an article for Bikkure ha-'Ittim on the independent Jewish tribes of Arabia and Abyssinia. His work on Saadia Gaon and his times was published in the same journal in 1829, the first of a series of his biographical works on the medieval Jewish sages.

Ten Sephirot as vowel sounds
Rapoport notes that according to the Masoretes there are ten vowel sounds. He suggests that the passage in the Sefer Yetzirah, which discusses the manipulation of letters in the creation of the world, can be better understood if the Sephirot refer to vowel sounds. He posits that the word sephirah in this case is related to the Hebrew word sippur ("to retell"). His position is based on his belief that most Kabbalistic works written after Sefer Yetzirah (including the Zohar) are forgeries.

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Talk:Rectification (electricity)

THere doesnt seem to be much on this page now I have tidied it up. Unless this subject can be expanded, I think it could probably be merged with rectifers. How much can you say about rectification without mentioning rectifiers diodes etc? Light current 00:15, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

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Dokkaebi

 are legendary creatures from Korean mythology and folklore. , also known as "Korean goblins", are nature deities or spirits possessing extraordinary powers and abilities that are used to interact with humans, at times playing tricks on them and at times helping them. Legends describe different in many forms and beings with a thousand faces, and  often wear hanbok.

Origins
The earliest known documentation of is in the Silla-era tale of "Lady Dohwa and Bachelor Bihyeong" from the Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms compiled during the Goryeo period. are featured in many folk tale anthologies compiled during the Joseon period.

Characteristics
are different from ghosts, called gwishin in Korean, in that they are not formed by the death of a human being, but rather by the spiritual possession of an inanimate object such as old discarded household tools like brooms, or objects stained with human blood.

The physical appearance of the is presented in many different ways and has varied by different time periods, but they have always been depicted as fearsome and awe-inspiring. The most common depiction of them is based on ancient roof tiles with patterns.

Different versions of the mythology assign different attributes to them. In some cases, they are considered harmless but nevertheless mischievous, usually playing pranks on people or challenging wayward travelers to a ssireum (Korean wrestling) match for the right to pass. are extremely skilled at wrestling and cannot be beaten unless their right side is exploited. In other tales, only have one leg, so one should hook their leg and push them to win.

fire is a glimmering light or tall blue flames that herald the appearance of.

possess magical items, such as the hat called the dokkaebi gamtu (도깨비 감투), which grants the wearer the ability of invisibility, and the  magic club called the , which can summon things and act functionally as a magic wand. like Buckwheat jelly, Sorghum and red bean rice cakes, mashed Sorghum and the drinks. So in gosa, there are foods which  like.

Abilities
It is believed that have immense supernatural powers, can bring good harvests, big catches and great fortunes to humans, and are defenders against evil spirits. Depending on the region's traditional folklore, some traditional practices are held to appeal to to bring good luck to humans and other practices are done to chase away, who are thought to be the causes of bad luck that brings fires and contagious diseases. In Jeju Island, the Durin-gut healing ceremony for mental illnesses is said to drive away the from the patient, similar to driving away the bad energy from a person.

Legends
Many Korean legends have featured in them. In several, play pranks on mortals or punish them because of their evil deeds. One such tale describes an old man who lived alone on a mountain. One day, a visited his house. Surprised, the kind old man gave the an alcoholic beverage and they become friends. The visited the old man often and they had long conversations together, but one day, the man took a walk by himself in the woods near the river. He discovered that his reflection looked like the. He fear, and realized that he was gradually becoming that creature. The man made a plan to prevent himself from becoming a and invited the creature to his house. He asked, "What are you most afraid of?" and the answered, "I'm afraid of blood. What are you afraid of?" The man pretended to be frightened and said, "I'm afraid of money. That's why I live in the mountains by myself." The next day, the old man killed a cow and poured its blood all over his house. The, with shock and great anger, ran away and said, "I'll be back with your greatest fear!" The next day, the brought bags of money and threw it to the old man. After that, never came back and the old man became the richest person in the town.

Types
Although have no set form, some people divide them into types. These are some common types:

 * Cham dokkaebi : A mischievous dokkaebi. Contrast with Gae Dokkaebi.
 * Gae dokkaebi : Evil . Contrast with Cham.
 * Kim Seobang dokkaebi : A dumb dokkaebi that looks like a farmer.
 * Nat dokkaebi : Unlike other dokkaebi, these appear during the daylight. They are known to give dokkaebi gamtus to humans.
 * Go dokkaebi : Dokkaebi known to be good at fighting and handling weapons, especially arrows.
 * Gaksi dokkaebi and chonggak dokkaebi : Dokkaebi, known to attract humans.
 * Oenun dokkaebi : A one-eyed that eats a lot.
 * Oedari dokkaebi : A one-legged that likes to play Ssireum.

Media
Based on the folktale of Goblin, the South Korean cable network tvN showcased a Television series called Guardian: The Lonely and Great God starring Gong Yoo as title role which was written by Kim Eun-sook, a notable writer in the industry. It earned 3rd place in the nationwide television ratings.

In 2017, K-pop girlgroup CLC released a song called Hobgoblin, which lyrics seem to be casting a spell through seducing so it holds the attention of the listener. The formerly cute group brought a darker and sexier concept, as well a fresh EDM Trap sonority. The song succeeded at bringing attention and performed greatly overseas.

In 2018, a novel called Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint by Sing Shong came out, in which the Dokkaebi play a big role as antagonists.

There is also a reference to a in a video game called Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. Grace "Dokkaebi" Nam is an operator. Her nickname is a reference to her ability to tamper with the opposing team's phones, by causing them to vibrate, revealing their location. She can also infiltrate CCTV cameras and observe the enemy.

Sujin, a non-binary, is a character in the novel Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee.

In September 2020, K-pop boy group A.C.E released a song called Goblin: Favorite Boys. In Korean fairy tales, traditional goblins like to wrestle with humans. Using that, their choreographer found a way for them to use traditional Korean wrestling in their choreography as well as in their clothing styling and set imagery.

An upcoming video game that prominently features, titled DokeV, and developed by South Korean video game developer Pearl Abyss, is currently in development as of August 2021.

In August 2021, the K-pop boy group Stray Kids made a -theme video for their comeback song "Thunderous".

In March 2023, the K-pop boy group Xikers debuted with their song "Tricky House" and first introduced their  related lore with a -themed MV.

The appear in the Mickey Mouse Funhouse episode "HALT, Tiger". They reside in the Shadow Mountain part of the Land of Myth and Legend.

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Phantasm II

Phantasm II is a 1988 American science fantasy action-horror film and the sequel to Phantasm (1979). It was written and directed by Don Coscarelli and stars Angus Scrimm, James LeGros and Reggie Bannister. The first film's protagonist, Mike, recently released from a mental institution, recruits Reggie and some new friends in an effort to defeat the villain Tall Man.

The film caused controversy among fans by recasting main character Mike with LeGros, and was not well received by critics. It was followed by two direct-to-video sequels: Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994) and Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998) as well as the final film in the Phantasm series: Phantasm: Ravager (2016), which received a theatrical release. Following distribution problems in the U.S., Phantasm II was released in Region 1 on DVD in 2009 and Blu-ray disc in 2013.

Plot
Liz Reynolds is a young woman whose psychic bond to Mike Pearson and the Tall Man manifests in the form of prophetic nightmares. Liz pleads for Mike to find her, as she fears that when her grandfather dies, the Tall Man will take him. The scene then transitions where the first film left off, the Tall Man and his minions attempt to kidnap Mike but Reggie manages to save him by blowing up the house.

In 1986, after being institutionalized for seven years, Mike, now 19, has faked his recovery to get released. That night he returns to Morningside Cemetery where he proceeds to dig up graves. Reggie interrupts him and explains that what happened in 1978 and the Tall Man were not real. In response, Mike reveals all the coffins he exhumed are empty and urges Reggie to help him hunt down the Tall Man. En route to Reggie's house, Mike has a premonition and frantically tries to warn Reggie seconds before an explosion kills Reggie's entire family. Convinced by Mike's precognition, Reggie agrees to accompany Mike. They break into a hardware store and stock up on supplies and weapons. Traveling north-western country roads, they encounter abandoned towns, pillaged graveyards, and a few of the Tall Man's traps; one is the apparition of a young woman's naked corpse. A gruesome encounter with a creature resembling Liz leads them to travel east towards the town of Perigord, Oregon.

Meanwhile, Liz's grandfather dies, and her sister Jeri disappears during the funeral; while searching for Jeri, Liz finds the Tall Man and flees. The presiding priest, Father Meyers, maddened with fear and alcoholism, desecrates the grandfather's body with a knife in a desperate attempt to thwart its reanimation, but the corpse rises and kidnaps Liz's grandmother. In the morning, Liz finds a funeral pin in her grandmother's empty bed, and the Tall Man psychically tells Liz to return at night if she wants to rescue her grandmother. Prior to their arrival in Perigord, Mike awakens to find that Reggie has picked up a hitchhiker named Alchemy who eerily resembles the nude apparition. They find Perigord deserted and dilapidated. When Liz arrives at the mortuary, she is confronted by Father Meyers, who tries to convince her to escape with him, but he is killed by a flying sphere. She encounters the Tall Man and discovers that her grandmother is now one of his Lurkers; she flees and runs into Mike in the cemetery. Later that night, the Tall Man captures Liz and drives away in his hearse; Mike and Reggie chase after him. After the Tall Man runs them off the road, their car explodes.

At the crematorium, Liz is taken to the furnace room by the Tall Man's mortician assistants, but she escapes and sends one into the furnace. Mike and Reggie break into the mortuary and find the embalming room. While Reggie pours acid into the embalming fluid, Mike discovers a dimensional portal that requires a sphere to open. They then split up to find Liz. Reggie searches the basement, where he fights off a Graver and several Lurkers with a chainsaw and quadruple shotgun. After a vicious fight Reggie castrates the Graver to death and guns down the Lurkers. Mike saves Liz from a silver sphere which drills itself through the other mortician's hand, embedding him to the wall. A larger, gold sphere emerges and begins to chase Mike and Liz. Meanwhile, the other mortician's assistant chops his own hand off to escape the wall. Dodging the gold sphere's upgraded arsenal such as scanners lasers, and spinning blades, Mike and Liz manage to hold off the attack by barricading themselves in the parlor after the sentinel rammed through multiple doors. The mortician assistant surprisingly returns and almost kills Liz before the gold sphere blasts through the door and drills its way into his back and up his throat with a buzz saw. Liz, Mike, and Reggie reunite and use the still embedded silver sphere to access the portal. Before they can destroy the building, the Tall Man surprises them, but they fight him off and pump him full of the acid-contaminated embalming fluid, which causes him to melt. They set the building on fire, escape, and are greeted by Alchemy, who has procured an abandoned hearse.

As they ride off, Alchemy reveals herself to not be human, and the hearse swerves wildly, then stops. Reggie, bloody and battered, falls to the ground; Mike and Liz, trapped in the hearse, try to convince themselves that this is all just a dream, but the slot to the driver's cabin opens and reveals the Tall Man, who tells them, "No, it's not." Hands break the rear window and pull Mike and Liz through it, mirroring the ending of the first film.

Cast

 * Angus Scrimm as The Tall Man
 * James LeGros as Mike Pearson
 * Reggie Bannister as Reggie
 * Paula Irvine as Liz Reynolds
 * Samantha Phillips as Alchemy
 * Kenneth Tigar as Father Meyers
 * Rubin Kushner as Grandpa Alex Murphy
 * Ruth C. Engel as Grandma Murphy
 * Stacey Travis as Jeri Reynolds
 * A. Michael Baldwin as Young Mike
 * J. Patrick McNamara as Psychologist
 * Mark Anthony Major as Mortician

Themes
John Kenneth Muir states that, like many horror films of the 1980s, Phantasm II shifted its focus to guns. Sequels in the 1980s were required to be bigger, gorier and have more firepower than previous installments. The theme of "bigger is better" means that everything is upgraded: a quadruple shotgun, golden spheres with increased weaponry, a chainsaw duel and the nature of the Tall Man's death. Muir states that the narrative of a boy dealing with the loss of his family is unchanged, but it is approached differently: instead of the surrealism of Phantasm, it is approached in a conventional, less abstract manner.

Production
Writer-director Don Coscarelli says that he had been under pressure to film a sequel, but could not come up with a story. Coscarelli considered the first film's ending to be conclusive, and did not feel knowledgeable about writing sequels, but he had what he described as a breakthrough when he realized he could start the film immediately after the previous film's final scene. He also added a road movie element in how Reggie and Mike combat the Tall Man, after which he described the process as straightforward. Universal Studios, who took an interest in the film because they wanted a horror series, allocated three million dollars; this was the lowest budget of any of their films in the 1980s, but it was the highest budget of any Phantasm film. Greg Nicotero and Robert Kurtzman, later of K.N.B. EFX, were recruited for special effects. The studio exerted much control over the film, and they did not allow Coscarelli to include any dream sequences or ambiguity.

This is the only installment in the Phantasm series that does not include the entire original main cast (Bill Thornbury and his character did not appear in this film), and the only one to re-cast a main character with another actor. Universal forced Coscarelli to recast the character of Mike, as they wanted a working actor. In an interview, Bannister said that LeGros' casting was initially controversial among hardcore fans, but has become more accepted. Brad Pitt auditioned for the role of Mike Pearson.

Release
Phantasm II was released theatrically on July 8, 1988, and played on 1227 screens. It was later characterized by Pat H. Broeske of the Los Angeles Times as a box office bomb. The film was released on VHS on MCA Home Video later that same year.

A Region 1 DVD was released by Universal on September 15, 2009. Shout! Factory released a new collector's edition DVD and Blu-ray release under their sub-label "Scream Factory" on March 26, 2013. Both the DVD and Blu-ray contain audio commentary with Don Coscarelli, Angus Scrimm and Reggie Bannister, new interviews, deleted scenes, and more. The film was played at the Phantasm-ania festival in February 2013.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, 38% of 16 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review, and the average rating is 4.80/10. On Metacritic the film has a score of 42% based on reviews from nine critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

In a negative review, Roger Ebert rated the film one out of four stars, and likened it to an extended dream without logic or a coherent plot, full of nightmarish images and no character development. Time Out also said that "the only valid reason for seeing this belated sequel is that it goes some way towards explaining the incomprehensible plot of its predecessor." Variety called the film "an utterly unredeeming, full-gore sequel" and "incredibly morbid and meaningless". Carrie Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer described the film as "a series of apparently unrelated horrors visited upon good-looking blond people" and criticized the gore. Roger Hurlburt of the Sun-Sentinel criticized LeGros' acting and called the film a waste of time. Writing in The New York Times, Caryn James stated that "there are some grotesquely stylish and scary moments" but they "seem to take as long to arrive as the sequel did." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called the film "a fast, entertaining fright show" but needlessly literal and gratuitous, as the film series transforms from a surreal thriller to a trite horror film. In a positive review, Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune stated that "Coscarelli has captured the texture of a disjointed, half-remembered nightmare" and likens it to the 1920s surrealist film movement. The Philadelphia Daily News' Amy Alexander said the film "has all the elements of a classic serial horror film" and praised the special effects.

Some critics reviewed the film on home video. Scott Weinberg of Fearnet called the Phantasm sequels indecipherable and too weird to understand, though he recommends Phantasm II to fans of the original. Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club rated the film a B and wrote of the cult appeal. Matt Serafini of Dread Central rated the film four out of five, but criticized the more realistic approach taken in favor of the surrealism of the first film. Bloody Disgusting rated the film three-and-a-half out of five, but said that the film seems dated now and does not quite live up to its nostalgic value. Andy Klein of the Glendale News-Press cited the film's weirdness and creepiness as making up for breaking the rules of what makes a good horror film. Marco Lanzagorta of PopMatters rated it ten out of ten stars, and wrote: "The narrative of Phantasm II may sound absurd and ridiculous, but the feelings of dread and anxiety that we get while we watch it are very real." UGO included Phantasm II in its list of Surprisingly Decent Horror Sequels and called it a "sturdy continuation".

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Talk:Soap Box Derby

Article history is weird
The history of this article exhibits suspicious behavior. In particular, the following paragraph seems to have been inserted and removed repeatedly:"Keep in mind the World Championships held in Akron, Ohio are ran on a "first to the finish line wins" meaning that it is a wheel race and is usually fixed so the local favorite wins the race. The National Derby Rallies is a rotating wheel swap race and is considered the "real race" which yeilds the fastest car and driver. NDR is considered the fair race." Quite aside from the various problems with this paragraph (no sources cited for what would obviously be a potentially controversial statement; use of the second-person imperative; various grammatical issues; no attempt to explain the difference between a wheel race and a rotating wheel swap race; no link to any article on the NDR, nor any information about where that race is held), its insertion has been marked as a "minor edit". Please don't mark edits as "minor" when they introduce (or re-introduce) entire paragraphs; the "minor edit" checkbox is intended for stuff like adding or removing a punctuation mark or fixing a misspelled word. I noticed this because I was considering commenting on this talk page regarding the various issues (chiefly in terms of the lack of cited sources) with that paragraph, but when I revisited the article to pick up a copy of the paragraph for quoting, it was gone. Then I looked at the history. Apart from that, if the material in the above paragraph were to be re-added, it ought to be accompanied by a citation or reference, an explanation of the difference between the two types of races and what implications this has for fixing, and better NPOV wording (e.g., with a statement like "NDR is considered the fair race" there should be a qualifier indicating who considers it to be so). -- Jonadab 13:17, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Biased removal of content?
I just reverted the two anonymous, edit-summary-less content-deletions by 68.117.193.232, (who's only two edits are these removals of paragraphs from this article). The content-removal may have been justified, though I don't see how. The only vein of similarity between these specific paragraphs is that they are all critical of, or speak to the decline in popularity of, soap box derbies. I undid the removal as the edit served to push the article away from a NPOV. —Joel D. Reid (talk) 04:32, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Scandals
I suggested to contributors to cite references to these instances, the last having been written in a rather non-encyclopedic style. -- Bill Wrigley, 01:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Added insert about my pics and explained what had been written
These are my pictures used on this site. The girl with the white and blue car is my sister Daralyn Fitzgerald. I read the insert and it is correct. There are 2 forms of derby racing All American and NDR. NDR was formed in 1977 because the All American race was not fair. It has been going every since. Its usually the week after Akron and contestants compete in both organizations. The other pics are of the disqualified 1973 magnet car of James Gronen. For more references checkout www.zero-error.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.151.140.233 (talk) 19:18, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

German Soap Box Derbies?
There are several links and a photo for the German counterpart but nothing actually in the page. Perhaps the person who added them would like to explain the significance? Ando228 (talk) 18:55, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by TXDERBY (talk • contribs) 00:49, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Ultimate Speed Challenge
http://cmubuggy.org/gallery/Ultimate-Speed/separated-at-birth-2010
 * Message posted to taunt other team

 * “John Wargo, from California, put together the 2006 Ultimate Speed Challenge winning team with driver Jenny Rodway.” (Factually Zero Error racing)

 * “working with wheel expert Duane Delaney and driver” This text is not used in any official publication. It is a taunt since I am was the team’s captain. My name is in the official literature but omitted by intent on this site.

 * “Wheel expert Duane Delaney” another intentional insult (not comments above)

 * Selected car in picture is from the taunting team.

 * Official method of tracking fastest time (not the method in the chart used to mislead actual results). http://cmubuggy.org/gallery/Ultimate-Speed/lowest-ETs

Facts:
 * Only the one fastest heat per each championship event is recognized.

 * The car with the fastest time does not always win the race.

 * Fastest times can vary significantly year to year. This is due to changes in track surface, track temperature at the times of each heat, and the height and location of the starting ramp.

Track Surface and Temperature: In 1999 in the day in 2010 and 2011 on a significantly smother surface (2011 track was hotter and smother than 2010)
 * Track was just repaved and it was relatively cold and rainy during her fastest heat
 * 1999 fastest heat was run earlier in the day then the hotter heats other teams ran later

Height and location of the AASBD starting ramp: Each year the AASBD recalibrates lanes to offset track changes that have occurred since the past race (if the track never changed this would not be necessary each year). When all three lanes are raised (even slightly) together during calibration, the times can significantly drop. While AASBD paradigm shift in derby speed have been rare, changes in ramp height have not (i.e. all significant changes in times year to year cannot be attributed to race car advancements). In fact, times that are significantly slower due to the reasons noted above (cars typically do not get slower).

Point 1: There has been years, even with the older much slower derby cars area, where times are lower than all current USC records. In fact, in 1940 the Akron local had cars in the 25-second range. In previous years with times faster than all modern USC teams, almost every car entered had a faster time than all AASBD current USC records. By ignoring other variables accounting for speed recent USC 2010 and 2011 team times are in the hundreds in order of success. Therefore, only this posting ignores USC times all run at later times of the day (all hotter) and on a much smother track surface (with the ramp possibly higher in the back).

Point 2: Significant ramp changes during that two-year period. There should be no pleasure in unfairly diminishing a competitor’s success.

Point 3: Claiming success on the hottest USC day on the fastest USC track is like the rooster than believes that it brings the sun up each morning by crowing.

Point 4: CMU method of tracking fastest time’s methods is not used by the AASBD due to differences in events (but used here to mislead actual results).

Summary: Falsely and misleadingly diminished the success of all other past USC willing teams and the sport.

Reply to Ultimate Speed Challenge thread
TXDERBY, it is clear that you recognize the AASBD.org "history of the USC" publication that is referenced in the article that you keep deleting. You point out that you name is in the reference but not in the wiki article and you point out the D Delaney is in the article but not in the reference. If you recognizes the AAUSC history reference, then deleting the article content is nothing more than base vandalism. One may not like the way history has gone, but that does not give one the license to vandalize.

You do make one valid point. I have not supplied a reference for Mr Delaney's inclusion in the article. While we both know that it is true that he was involved n the race as a member of Zero error racing from 2008 to 2009 and as a member fo CSSN from 2010 unntil today, and that he is a wheel expert, I have not provided a reference to that fact. Thus, I have removed all mention of him from the article.

Also, feel free to add your own name to the article in reference to 2009. That is the point of Wikipedia. That would be a constructive edit, vs. vandalism caused by deleting entire sections. As the rest of the article is referenced to a source you recognize, please stop deleting it.

I see no taunts in the posted content. The winners, the teams, the records, the times are all referenced to AASBD.org or other external links. For example, the official history sites John Wargo as being the crew chief of the winning team in 2006. You have not provided any data or reference to refute this. You argument seems to be with the external source that we both agree exists and I have referenced. I suggest you contact AASBD.org and have them 'fix' their error and desist with your vandalism. Additionally, if the AASBD.org is not convinced to recognnize a different team leader, you could provide a reference some other source that proves that John Wargo was not the winning team leader or record in 2006.

As for the 'CMU" reference posted to taunt other teams. There is no taunting there. The reference supports the statement that there is overlap in technology between the two events. It also is not clear who would be taunted by this statement. The reference links to photos of vehicles from both events showing the same or similar wheels in use in both events over the past 4+ seasons.

As for the selected car photo, that is the car that won the most recent race (2011) and holds the current track record 26.585. I had also posted the prior photo of the 2010 top 3 finishers that was referenced in a previous edit of the article. I replaced it with this one as it is is more current and all 3 of the cars in the 2010 photo were either not involved in 2011 or had undergone significant revision prior to the race. I believe anyone rational would agree that the fastest car ever to have run the race is central to the topic. Feel free to post other photos, the more the merrier.

The things you have stated as 'facts' are not supported by any references. As the data I have posted here is direct from the official AAASBD.org website, I suggest that your 'facts' are a combination of irrelevant, unsupported, and incorrect. The governing body of the race has clearly recognized multiple record setters within the same year on more than one occasion. This is not my 'spin' on the facts. This is not a misrepresentation of the facts. This is what actually happened and what is documented in their published history.

on your numbered points:

 * 1) 1 I referenced the org that runs the race, the AASBD.org. They describe the results as I have described the results. You provide no alternative reference. While there were faster times from other starting locations (higher up the hill) for different races, run with different rules at the Akron track in the past, they are not part of the Ultimate speed history. Those cars were not in the AA USC race and the AA USC race was not run from those faster locations. I have made no statements about results or history outside of the scope of the AA USC race and have included as complete a history of the data as can be referenced. It is an inclusive approach that recognizes every winner, several top finishers, and every record setter for the AA USC race. Your discussion of non USC races from different years, conducted under different rules (fastest times does not always win which is not the case with the AAUSC race) and has no bearing on the topic of the AA UCS race. You may wish to contribute to the other sections on this page with this information.

 * 1) 2 Who's success is being diminished? These are statements of facts (team members, winners, top finishers, record setters, and record setters who also won). It is not clear how being listed as one of those things is diminishing. It is recognition of success.

 * 1) 3 I do not understand what roosters have to do with this entry. Please provide a reference. As an aside, I will note that you and the rest of the zero error team celebrated your victory and record in 2009 with tweets, buttons, banners, and internet posts. You also made a stink in 2010 with accusations of cheating when you finished 2nd. The winners in 2010 and 2011 avoided buttons, banners, and tweets and had the grace to accept their 3rd place finish in 2009 without accusations of cheating.

 * 1) 4 I have made no reference to a "CMU method". I have quoted the organization that runs the race being discussed.

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Scandal - Colorado
The section on the scandal, includes the following: "Colorado was also banned from any future participation in the All-American Soap Box Derby." Does that mean that no one from the state of Colorado may ever, even today, compete in the derby -- just because of one family's two (one proven) cheating? If so, that makes NCAA, MLB, NBA and NFL sanctions look like prizes. 211.225.33.104 (talk) 00:01, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

"Boulder, Colorado" is (was?) the name of this specific, banned car. 176.0.108.245 (talk) 22:27, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

FIRST BLACK Soap Box DERBY WINNER IN JOHNSON CITY TENNESSEE
In Johnson City Tennessee in 1968 -1970 Joe M. Taylor winner in Johnson City went to Akron,Ohio. Upon return an after years their are no mention of this race. Why — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.115.135.24 (talk) 06:45, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Racer Cost Limit
When I built my four racers in the 1950s, I couldn't spend more than $15.00 on parts. I had to buy a set of soap box derby wheels for an additional $25. This put derby racing in reach of just about any ten year old boy who wanted to build a racer. Now, entrants apparently must buy a whole kit and put it together, for around $400 -- and they can spend a lot more money to finish that kit. This removes the educational value and just plain fun of building a racer, from practically every 10 year old child who wants to compete.

We should add a Section that traces these cost limits, how these rules changed over time, why they changed, and the associated rules changes that made cost changes necessary.

When were girls and afroAmerican children allowed to enter?
Only boys were allowed to compete in the Soap Box Derby up through the middle 60s. We should add a Section that traces who was eligible and who was not eligible to compete, and why those eligibility rules were modified. We should state the specific year that girls were allowed to enter and the specific year that black children were allowed to enter. we should also trace changes in the financial backing each entrant could receive, and from whom. For example, fifty years ago, a boy could request a local business to pay just enough to advertise on his car, to cover the ($40) cost of building that car.

We should add a short Section discussing whether (and when) the Soap Box Derby has ever allowed organizations like the Boys' Club or the Scouts to sponsor (or assist) children who wanted to build their racers together with some limited supervision -- especially children without support from their families or from local small businesses. All of this is frankly more important than naming the winner of the Akron race on a specific year.

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The Crystal Cave

The Crystal Cave is a 1970 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart. The first in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian legend, it is followed by The Hollow Hills.

Plot introduction
The protagonist of this story is a boy named Myrddin Emrys, also known as Merlin, which is the Welsh form of the word "falcon". (Welsh dd is pronounced th as in thus, so Myrddin is roughly pronounced Murthin.) This story is told in first-person narrative and includes his journey to find a home as he travels through Wales, Brittany, England and Ireland. Emrys is also known as Ambrosius, or Prince of Light.

Plot summary
This novel covers the time from Merlin's sixth year until he becomes a young man. The Romans have recently left Britain, which is now divided into a number of kingdoms loosely united under a High King. Merlin is the illegitimate son of a Welsh princess, who refuses to name his father. Small for his age and often abused or neglected, Merlin occasionally has clairvoyant visions. These visions and his unknown parentage cause him to be referred to as "the son of a devil" and "bastard child". Educated by a hermit, Galapas, who teaches him to use his psychic powers as well as his earthly gifts, Merlin eventually finds his way to the court of Ambrosius Aurelianus in Brittany. There, he assists in Ambrosius's preparations to invade and unify Britain, defeat Vortigern and his Saxon allies, and become its High King. Also exiled in Brittany is Uther, Ambrosius's brother, heir and supporter.

It is revealed that Merlin is Ambrosius's son, the result of a brief relationship between Ambrosius and Merlin's mother. Merlin returns to Britain but finds Galapas killed. He is captured by Vortigern who is attempting to build a fortress at Dinas Emrys – but each night the newly built walls collapse. The king's mystics say the fort will only be built when a child with no father is sacrificed and his blood spilt on the ground. Vortigern plans to use Merlin as the sacrifice. Merlin realises that the fort's foundation is unstable due to the caves below ground, but he plays to their superstition and pretends to attribute the problems to dragons beneath the ground. (The dragon is Ambrosius's emblem.) As a result of this, Merlin briefly becomes known as Vortigern's prophet. Days later, Ambrosius invades and defeats Vortigern.

Merlin uses his engineering skills to rebuild Stonehenge, but has visions of Ambrosius's death, which are fulfilled when a comet appears in the sky and Ambrosius dies. Uther, Ambrosius's younger brother, becomes King Uther Pendragon. However, Britain is thrown into chaos when Uther, besotted with Duchess Ygraine, goes to war with her husband, Gorlois, the Duke of Cornwall. Merlin helps Uther to enter Tintagel Castle by stealth, knowing the tryst will lead to the birth of King Arthur.

Characters

 * Merlin, known also as Myrddin, with Emrys as a sort of patronym. The stories explore his learning to use magic and his centrality in the Matter of Britain.
 * Niniane, his mother, a Christian who joins the local nunnery when he is 12.
 * King of Maridunum, an unnamed king of South Wales; grandfather of Merlin, father of Camlach and Niniane, married to Queen Olwen.
 * Camlach, uncle of Merlin, he is prepared to kill Merlin to remove him from the line of inheritance.
 * Galapas, a local mage who teaches Merlin much natural lore and some magic, and who bequeathes to him the crystal cave.
 * Cerdic, a Saxon slave, friend to Merlin; he accidentally causes the death of the king.
 * Vortigern, an ambitious warlord-king who battles Ambrosius for Britain.
 * Ambrosius Aurelianus, Merlin's father; a Romanized Celt, he invades England from Lesser Britain when Merlin is 18 and has joined him.
 * Uther Pendragon, Merlin's uncle, Ambrosius's younger brother, eventually High King of Britain and father of King Arthur. He and Merlin retain an alliance, if not friendship, throughout their lives.
 * Cadal, servant to Ambrosius and then to Merlin.
 * Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, is loyal to Ambrosius but later betrayed by Uther and Merlin, who conspire to get his young wife, Ygraine, together with Uther; Gorlois dies in battle that same night.
 * Ygraine, Duchess of Cornwall and mother of Arthur.
 * Ralf, loyal page to Ygraine; he later serves Merlin.
 * Ulfin, servant to Uther and, at times, Merlin.

The Cave
The crystal cave itself is a spherical mini-cave hidden in the back of a hillside cave six miles from the king's palace at Maridunum. It is described, in young Merlin's first discovery of it, as "a globe, a round chamber floored, roofed, lined with crystals. They were fine as glass, and smooth as glass, but clearer than any glass I had ever seen, brilliant as diamonds." The facets are possibly those of geodes.

The hill is considered by the locals to be a home or haunt of a deity named Myrddin, a god of air and heights, so its cave is imbued with magical properties. Merlin lives there whenever not called upon for political duties. The small crystal cave is where he frequently retreats to seek revelations or prophecies.

Reception
In Stewart's obituary, The New York Times described her as an "author of romantic thrillers who jumped genres in her 50s to create an internationally best-selling trilogy of Merlin books, reimagining the Arthurian legend from a sorcerer's point of view," and said, "Reading Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, she was inspired to retell the story of King Arthur as seen by Merlin, the king's adviser and house magician. The trilogy introduced her work to a new generation and, in many cases, to male readers for the first time. ... The books, set in the fifth century, were praised for their unusual blend of fantasy and historical detail."

The Guardian spoke of Stewart's own considerations as well as that of her publishers: "The Crystal Cave (1970), the first of a fictional trilogy about Merlin, arose from her fascination with Roman-British history. The unexpected switch at first alarmed her publishers – she was, unusually, published by the same firm, Hodder & Stoughton, for her entire career, never using an agent – but the book was a No 1 bestseller for weeks. Of all her books, The Crystal Cave is the most enduring, and has lost none of its freshness. It is a masterful imagining of Merlin's upbringing that vividly evokes fifth-century Britain. The Hollow Hills (1973) and The Last Enchantment (1979) completed the trilogy, earning Stewart favourable comparisons with another leading Arthurian, TH White. They were the books of which she was most proud."

Kirkus Reviews said with a touch of disdain, "With its mythic mists and galloping legends, fifth century Britain is fair game and Miss Stewart takes to whole cloth with a couturier's skill. ... Period play, ripe and windy, for ladies easily lulled--and there are many of them."

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
The novel was adapted into a television series by the BBC in the 1990s, retitled Merlin of the Crystal Cave, and starred Robert Powell as Ambrosius.

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Removed "reports" likely to be urban legends. We should start sourcing the incident reports. Zora 00:19, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

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Furore?
Is that the british spelling? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Puddytang (talk • contribs) 05:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

Furore is the British spelling, and also the Indian English spelling. Wiki spelling policy determines that the if the article is about a subject specific to a particular geographical area the spelling of that area ought to be used. 'Furor' is the American English spelling and, as such, less preferable in this article about India.

Hail to the monkey man!

hahaha monkey man... thats rich

intriguing and hilarious story. i've read the related articles and the Time one seems to poke fun at this notion. monkey man, hahaha. 220.245.7.233 (talk) 10:20, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Not reliable
This doesn't meet Wikipedia standereds.

I think this doesn't befit the granduer of Wikipedia. I mean, are you serious? a monkey man? This is stupid. Common, are there any right-minded scientists out there? This is shiz (s**t).Just like spring heeled jack i propose linking the two together there are a number of similarities

-Yahya Al-Shiddazi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.138.47.13 (talk) 11:34, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Needed?!!
Seriously?! Does this topic need a wiki page? i was surprised to find another article linking "monkey man of delhi". Wll, it's been a long time since i logged in to wikipedia. I would have proposed a deletion, if i remembered how. (I hope four tildes is still the way to sign) -Vijay 117.192.59.82 (talk) 17:43, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

recent edits by ip editor 182.74.4.10
182.74.4.10 has added a number of edits reverted by me and other editors. These edits are very low quality, based on both personal experience and "Mr maliks wall on favebook (sic). There are some references (not formatted) that link to Indian newspapers in a local script (these really are not WP:VER, the one English reference goes to an article that clearly states the "Monkey-man" is totally made up which is i'm sure not what the editor is trying to say.  And yes I have been to India and no I don't really know about the Monkey-Man except that this and other crypto-zoological manias are just that - a mania.  Andrewgprout (talk) 22:59, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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The Pleasance (street)

The Pleasance is a street just outside the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, a remnant of the Flodden Wall flanking the west side of the street between Drummond Street and the Cowgate. Historically, the street was one of the main routes into Edinburgh from the south, meeting St Mary's Wynd (now St Mary's Street) at St Mary's Wynd Port, one of the gateways of the town walls. The name derives from the Scots plesance, meaning a park or garden. It first appears in 1507 as the name of a nearby house, and was later transferred to the street and then the suburb which was part of the regality of the Canongate. The derivation of the name from a nunnery of St Mary of Placentia, often mentioned in histories of Edinburgh, is an invention by William Maitland in his 1753 History of Edinburgh.

The street is largely residential - mainly 19th century tenements and 20th century flats - although the University of Edinburgh owns property in the area, including a large new [2017] university student flats complex on St Leonard's Street, the southerly extension of the Pleasance, on a site formerly occupied by a Homebase home improvements and gardening store. In addition, although the Pleasance along with St Leonard's Street is a quieter area than the nearby main commercial centres and streets of the Southside there are several restaurants, pubs, a few shops, lawyers' offices, churches, and the modern St Leonard's police station. After years of planning blight from the 1960s and 1970s in which redevelopment of the formerly rather run-down area was hampered after the abandonment of bizarre plans to build a major road comparable to a motorway, from the late 20th century onwards the area benefited from a gradual renaissance.

University of Edinburgh union buildings
The Pleasance contains a complex of university-owned buildings which, for nine months of the year, operate as one of the four Student Union venues that serve the Edinburgh University Students' Association. In August, the complex is converted to use as one of the major venues of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for which it is most publicly well-known. The Pleasance Theatre Trust, named after the complex, runs the venue during the Fringe, as well as a sister venue in London.

The Pleasance complex consists of two main bars: The Pleasance Bar and The Cabaret Bar; the Pleasance Theatre (with a capacity of 320 ); and several rooms that can be booked out for society use. Two LCD televisions and a large projector also ensure that all major sporting events are shown in the main bar. The Pleasance is the only one of the four student unions to hold a public licence, which means anyone can gain access without having to be a university student or signed in by a member.

As well as providing the opportunity to purchase food and drink, the Pleasance complex maintains a program of evening entertainment. Live comedy traditionally takes place on Tuesday evenings, with acts such as Russell Howard and Jim Jefferies appearing in recent years. The Edinburgh Folk Club use the Cabaret Bar as the venue for their gigs on Wednesday nights. However the busiest evenings of the week normally fall on Monday nights, with the Pleasance Pub Quiz for instance attracting up to 40 teams on occasions in recent years.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Caproni’s

 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. - Joolz 21:59, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Caproni’s
Doesn't seem particularly notable. A dance hall that used to be popular, but doesn't exist anymore? It might be noteworthy anyway, depending on how "well known" it was, but nothing in the article establishes notability. 148.78.243.51 00:22, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Strong Delete I which articles like those meet speedy delete but they dont. I agree with that annoynious user which is rare.Just an non Important Dance Hall that closed --Aranda56 00:49, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn 70.51.172.85 01:48, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn  --rob 06:31, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Abstain - the author of the article needs to provide more information about this past dance hall in reasonable time; please provide any possible notable information! UniReb 10:54, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete As it stands, no notability asserted. Dottore So 13:29, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It appears that the proper name of the place was Caproni's Ballroom, and it was a venue for Irish "showbands" in the 50's-60's. But unless someone comes up with more information about notability there is no reason for it to remain. Crypticfirefly 13:49, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Chunitaku 14:04, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - nn. UniReb 18:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
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Golden Oldies

Golden Oldies may refer to:

 * Golden Oldies (album), a 2014 studio album by Focus
 * Golden Oldies (TV program), a South Korean TV program
 * "Golden Oldies", a 2019 song by Kaiser Chiefs
 * "Golden Oldie" (song), a song by Anne Murray

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Jakochampolska
Jakochampolska--the exact definition is I love Poland. Though it should be to quilfiy to be grammeitically correct in polish; jakochampolske. But Paticia Pogodzinski the creator of this screen name thought that English/other languages would understand it easilier by having it 'polska' not 'polske'.

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A problem with this page is that it does not seem to link to many actual cathedral pages: e.g. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin or St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral. List_of_cathedrals at least tries to. --Henrygb 00:24, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

The picture shown is not Enniskillen cathedral. It looks like that: http://www.enniskillencathedral.com/gallery.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mk4711 (talk • contribs) 07:05, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the first post above. I don't think there's one website in the column headed 'Location & Website'.ShropshirePilgrim (talk) 17:41, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

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Federal Union

The Federal Union is a pro-European British political group launched in November 1938, to advocate a federal Europe as a post-war aim.

The founders of the organisation were Charles Kimber, Derek Rawnsley and Patrick Ransome. Other noted members of the Federal Union included Harold Wilson, Barbara Wootton, C. E. M. Joad, Stephen King-Hall and Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian. In 1940 the group set up a Federal Union Research Institute (FURI), chaired by William Beveridge, to discuss the direction of post-war European integration. FURI attracted contributors from across the political spectrum, including F.A. Hayek, J. B. Priestley, H. N. Brailsford, Lionel Robbins and Arnold Toynbee. In 1956 it argued for British participation in the European Economic Community. It continues to exist today, arguing for federalism for the whole of Europe and the world.

The organisation argues that federalism is the division of political power between levels of government to achieve the best combination of democracy and effectiveness, and does not necessarily involve the bureaucratic centralisation of common assumption.

The Federal Union believes that democracy and the rule of law should apply between states as well as within them. It is also the British section of the Union of European Federalists and of the World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy.

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User talk:Manfat

This is my member editor page which no longer links to other web sites as requested by previous editors.

I am aware that the term 'manfat' is currently usually a slang word for semen but this has always been my IRC nick since more innocent times...

I am a fairly experienced internet user since around 1996 and occasionally have productive moments in which I decide to add to the collective knowledge base...

I have not yet edited many Wikipedia pages, mostly just obvious spelling mistakes and important missing facts.

I recently edited a page which was then reverted as vandalism, so have vowed from now on to only put useful information on the site.

Regards,

M

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 * The truth the mainland Chinese government doesn't want you to know...

Your edits
FT, you keep on adding this article about the Panchen Lama to completely unrelated articles like Himalaya. What do the mountains have to do with the Panchen Lama? Did you write the article or something? If that is true, what you're doing is considered self-promotion. --Hottentot

 * But why are you reverting it in ALL articles? Don't you think that's kind of rude??--FT in Leeds 00:49, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * What you're doing is adding the link to almost every Tibet-related article. Also, the article is very one-sided. --Hottentot

 * Ok, but you may only add the article to the 3 articles related to the Panchen Lama. That's all. Also, use a different title for the link to the article. --Hottentot

 * I can add the article to all of them. Why do you get to decide which article!?--FT in Leeds 00:58, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, you may add it to any article you like, but I'll revert every time. --Hottentot

 * Isn't that considered vandalism?--FT in Leeds 01:00, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * No, because I'm removing something that shouldn't be there. --Hottentot

 * At least I don't create accounts solely to add one external link. --Hottentot

 * You're actually wrong. I have your point of view and think it's rediculous that the Chinese appointed their own Panchen Lama, but I respect Wikipedia's NPOV (Neutral Point of View) policy. --Hottentot

Administrator intervention against vandalism
Not taking sides, but this is a content dispute. See Vandalism. Evil Monkey∴Hello 01:13, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Adding links
Please do not add links unless they are relevant to the specific content of the article to which you are adding them. Adding meaningless external links is considered vandalism and is frowned upon. Please stop. Thank you. —chris.lawson (talk) 01:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * mean'·ing·less adj. Having no meaning or significance. Your link is not relevant to every single article about Tibet. At best, as Hottentot pointed out, it is relevant to the Panchen Lama, and only the Panchen Lama. Furthermore, the manner in which you are referencing the link is in violation of Wikipedia's policy of neutral point of view. Please do not attempt to add this link to any more articles unless they directly concern the Panchen Lama.—chris.lawson (talk) 01:44, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * See my comments above, and see Falphin's comment below. The link you insist upon adding is not related to the articles so please refrain from adding it.—chris.lawson (talk) 02:58, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * You're not listening. The article talks about one specific individual who is the Panchen Lama. It does not discuss the present Dalai Lama. It does not relate to past Dalai Lamas, nor does it relate to past Panchen Lamas. It does not relate directly to Tibet. Furthermore, you are using Wikipedia as a propaganda machine, which is something Wikipedia is not. Please read and understand this page as well as neutral point of view before posting further links. Thank you. —chris.lawson (talk) 03:03, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I am "bugging you so much," as you so kindly put it, because I care about ensuring that Wikipedia retains its high standards of content. I care about Wikipedia's having the highest possible article quality. I care about neutral point of view.

 * You, unfortunately, do not seem to share these goals. Fortunately, there are many administrators on Wikipedia, and sooner or later, one of them will tire of your vandalism and block you from editing. To that end...

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you.—chris.lawson (talk) 03:10, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Adding a link is indeed not vandalism.

Adding the link you keep adding to articles in which it is out of place, in a POV manner, is vandalism. Stop it. —chris.lawson (talk) 03:13, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Not neutral
It is only one perspective not both sides and to maintain NPOV both sides should be shown. Secondly, Hottentot is no vandal look at his edits he simply reverted yours, thats not uncommon although he should of explained his reasoning. Finally, the link does not belong there now because it is unrelated to anything in the article or in the external links. When that information is added then it is relevant. Cheers! Falphin 02:31, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Neutral point of view
It is official Wikipedia policy to take a neutral point of view. Whether or not the link is relevant -- and it is not relevant to every single lama article, as you seem to think it is -- it is of the utmost importance that you conform to neutral point of view when editing articles.

The manner in which you continue to add this link is in violation of this policy. Please desist from editing Wikipedia until you have read and understand neutral point of view. Thank you. —chris.lawson (talk) 03:18, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Removing a point of view from an article that discusses both sides of an issue necessarily causes the article to be slanted toward one viewpoint, in violation of neutral point of view policy. Please do not remove balanced discussion of disputed viewpoints from articles.—chris.lawson (talk) 03:34, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.—chris.lawson (talk) 03:49, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I will gladly be more specific. The section headers you just changed on Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama were changed contrary to the Manual of Style and you deliberately inserted a character in the BBC external link on the same page so as to make it 404.—chris.lawson (talk) 03:53, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Penis pictures?
Uhm...

Where?—chris.lawson (talk) 03:58, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * There were some a few minutes ago. I was going to complain about them myself, but they disappeared. Probably someone vandalising one of the templates.--130.95.128.51 04:01, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Neutral point of view
Looking at some of your edits I think you may have misunderstood the NPOV policy. Including one sides POV does not violate the policy if we state that this is a certain groups POV. Also I do not think that including the Chinese word of Tibet violates the policy. Evil Monkey∴Hello 06:47, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

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