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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George W. Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina

 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 MERGE with one of several suggested articles. moink 05:46, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

George W. Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina
Unless this can be brought to a higher standard, and if there is any way of keeping it NPV, it is not something for Wikipedia Donovan Ravenhull 14:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've looked over the new version, and I still don't see it being a valid wikipedia article.  If it were expanded vastly and turned into Hurricane Katrina Timeline, maybe, but not as it is.  And if you are wondering, I am no G W Bush fan, registered Democrat even, but this article does not seem necessary in its current form. Donovan Ravenhull 10:56, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Is there a Vote to Rename or such avialable? Turning this into the above mentioned Timeline of... might be better than deletion. Donovan Ravenhull 11:31, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Changing to Merge now that I see that there is a Timeline of Hurricane Katrina already. Donovan Ravenhull 11:41, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Abstain for now, but will watch. This strikes me as ripe for skewing any way you want it, but I could be wrong.  Also not sure it needs to stand alone as its own article.  And what do we mean by response?  Verbal response?  Financial response?  Behind-the-scenes of giving orders, which one could never know?  Opens a can of worms.    paul klenk 14:34, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Also watching. I don't see that this article is very useful as is.  Possibly merge into Political_effects_of_Hurricane_Katrina??  Friday (talk) 15:25, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete — Bound to be PoV, and can be covered in the hurricane article. Besides it doesn't include his sacrifice of the last two days of his five week vacation. LOL — RJH 15:26, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Any relevant information about Mr Bush's response to Katrina should be contained in the article. Agree that it can't be comprehensive and will inevitably have a POV skew, and is of little use as its own entry. Could argue for a merge, but I don't see that it has any use really. Peeper 15:35, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Absolutely delete. What a strange thing to have an article about; what on earth can be written here that cannot be written far more appropriately, and in better contexts, in the main articles?— encephalon |  ζ   16:19:09, 2005-09-02 (UTC)
 * weak transwikinews I'm only saying it, because it seems like its trying to detail a timeline of the response of the President... Roodog2k (talk) 16:38, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * We can't transwiki to Wikinews, which is public domain, not GFDL. —Cryptic (talk) 18:43, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd say we can, actually, because the mere list of activities and corresponding dates is probably not copyrightable (ergo, not actually released under any "license" at all). -- BD2412 talk 20:04, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Currently is a rather terse timeline. Encyclopedic, verifiable, neutral. --Tony Sidaway Talk  17:40, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Discussion of Bush's response belongs in the Hurricane Katrina article where it has context. Quale 18:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Hurricane Katrina. Zoe 19:38, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Hurricane Katrina, and/or into Political effects of Hurricane Katrina to the extent that his timeline of activities has become a political issue Timeline of Hurricane Katrina . -- BD2412 talk 20:04, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete echoing Encephalon. Dottore So 01:13, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Is it just me or is there like about 100 pages on Hurricane Katrina? I think people are overkilling the coverage on it... Sasquatch   讲  看  02:25, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge Bush is going to take a lot of flak on this one, and yes there's a lot of coverage, the expected casualty rate is looking like 3 times 9/11's. --TimPope 09:57, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Hurricane Katrina, where it has context. −Woodstone 17:07:41, 2005-09-03 (UTC)
 * Weak Merge if necessary into Hurricane Katrina --PhilipO 22:29, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Tony Sidaway. El_C 01:34, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep This is a timeline of happened events, how much more NPOV can you get? It maintains neutrality by presenting only verifiable facts. --Gebuhuka 01:51, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Not enough detail. It also includes events other than Katrina response which are POV without details such as whether a 5-minute speech was surrounded by 13 hours of Katrina activities.  Maybe this article can be written when more information is available. (SEWilco 02:53, 8 September 2005 (UTC))
 * Merge into a "responses to Hurricane Katrina" article or section. There are currently a few suitable articles and sections; I would like to see all of those merged into a Hurricane Katrina disaster relief and Hurricane Katrina, each of which would have both "United States" and "Global" subsections. +sj  +  03:21, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Political effects of Hurricane Katrina or delete. This article appears to be a list, and I count four items actually relevant to its topic.  Regardless, this definitely has all the makings of a POV can of worms; I can see how a lot of activities could be conveniently overlooked. --timc | Talk 04:10, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: It's hard to ignore the irony that Russian response to Hurricane Katrina is up and running, while George W. Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina is VFDed due to a lack of content. --Gebuhuka 04:54, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Keep an eye on Vladimir Putin's response to Hurricane Katrina and see how much information is available for that. There is a difference between the action which a leader can cause to be done as opposed to how much he can do with his two hands.  (SEWilco 05:57, 8 September 2005 (UTC))
 * Comment: Article is expanded, please reconsider. I don't really object to the idea of merging it, but I'm not sure how this can be done with the existing articles. Gebuhuka 08:19, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Tony Sidaway. --Tsaddik Dervish 11:23, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge: But only if it can be kept as a separate line of events. Rename as "The President's Activity During Same Time Frame" or something like that.  Being named as his "response" doesn't allow the article to fairly include activities not directly related to Hurricane K.  Rather, it forces an implied non-response which I'd rather not see in the Wikipedia.  By renaming it, the same details could remain and the reader could decide for her/himself the relevance to Hurricane Katrina.  Wynote.blogspot.com 08:16, 8 September 2005
 * Merge into Timeline of Hurricane Katrina -St|eve 20:52, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Merge into Timeline of Hurricane Katrina Alan 23:51, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Timeline and Political effects of Hurricane Katrina. --PHenry 01:50, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

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Toddington Manor, Gloucestershire

Toddington Manor is a 19th-century country house in the English county of Gloucestershire, near the village of Toddington. It is in the gothic style and was designed by Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley for himself and built between 1819 and 1840. Upon its completion, a volume on its architecture was published by John Britton (antiquary). It is a Grade I listed building.

Hanbury-Tracy was a gentleman-architect who was influenced by the work of John Carter of the Society of Antiquaries. As one of the earliest Gothic Revival houses, the building shaped the course of British architectural history in an indirect way: when the Houses of Parliament were to be rebuilt after the fire in 1834, Hanbury-Tracy headed the jury to the competition, and the architect of the winning design, Charles Barry, obviously adapted his entry to the taste exemplified in Toddington. The family owned the house until 1893 when Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley, and his writer wife Ada had to sell due to bankruptcy.

The last private owner, Isabel Andrews, whose husband had bought the estate in 1901, died in 1935 and it stood empty until September 1939, when it was purchased by the National Union of Teachers, who had moved out of London to avoid air raids. The NUT staff both lived and worked in the building. Following Dunkirk a tented encampment was erected in the grounds and temporarily occupied by men evacuated from the beaches. They were later followed by units of the British Army.

In 1942 the Pioneer Corps built a more permanent hutted encampment, which was occupied by units of the United States Army from October 1942. In August 1943 the NUT moved back to London and the US Army took over the house as well. After the war the Congregation of Christian Brothers rented the property and in 1948 the NUT sold it to them. In the late 1970s, it was converted into an international boarding school, Toddington Manor College. In 2004, following the school's closure, planning permission to convert it into a hotel was denied after the scheme had attracted considerable local opposition.

In 2005 it was purchased by the artist Damien Hirst who planned to restore it and use it as a family home and a gallery, both his own works and for his collection of works by other artists. Since 2006, Toddington Manor has been encased in what Hirst claims is the world's biggest span of scaffolding. As at 2022, the manor remains encased in scaffolding and sheeting, restoration work having stalled for over 17 years. The manor is listed on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.

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Winyaw

The Winyaw were a Native American tribe living near Winyah Bay, Black River, and the lower course of the Pee Dee River in South Carolina. The Winyaw people disappeared as a distinct entity after 1720 and are thought to have merged with the Waccamaw.

Name
The meaning of the name Winyaw is unknown. Winyaw has also been written as Winyah, Weenee, and Wineaw.

History
The Winyaw might have been the Yenyohol mentioned in 1521 by Francisco de Chicora, a Native American captive held by the Spanish. If so, they may have been carried away during Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón's expedition during that same year.

The Winyaw were first mentioned by colonists of South Carolina after 1670. The tribe at first allied with the English colonists who settled in Charles Town, but this friendship soon was shattered when European slave dealers instigated a war against them in 1683 as an excuse to capture slaves. During the Tuscarora War of 1711, John Barnwell brought 24 "Wineaws" on his expedition into North Carolina, but they deserted him before arriving because they refused to go further with no guns or ammunition. In 1715, the Cheraw tried to pressure them into participating in the Yamasee War against the English but they refused, staying on friendly terms with the colonists.

Later in 1715, the Winyaw lived in a single village of 106 people. By 1716, a number of them moved to the Santee River. After two years the Winyaw on the Santee returned to their former residence to be near the trading house operated by Meredith Hughes at Uauenee, a location believed to have translated to "Great Bluff."

When the Waccamaw moved to the Black River in 1718, the Winyaw may have felt crowded, for they apparently helped the English in the Waccamaw War during 1720. A 1722 map depicts the Winyaw staying on the south side of the Pee Dee River.

Nothing more is known of the Winyaw as they disappeared as a distinct entity. It is assumed that they later merged with the Waccamaw.

Legacy
While the tribe disappeared from history during the early 18th century, Winyah Bay in South Carolina still bears their name.

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Charles E. Allen

Charles E. Allen (born 1936) is an American public servant, notable for his roles at the United States Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis and, before that, the Central Intelligence Agency.

Department of Homeland Security
In August 2005, President George W. Bush appointed Charles E. Allen, to the dual role of Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security as well as the DHS Chief of Intelligence. Effective November 2007, Charles Allen's position was elevated to Under Secretary for the renamed Office of Intelligence and Analysis at DHS, an office he held until January 20, 2009. Prior to his appointment to DHS, Allen served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

In October 2008, Allen warned that Anwar al-Awlaki "targets US Muslims with radical online lectures encouraging terrorist attacks from his new home in Yemen." Quoting Allen, Al-Awlaki responded in December 2008: "I would challenge him to come up with just one such lecture where I encourage 'terrorist attacks'". The FBI later investigated (but dismissed) al-Awlaki's connections to both the November 5, 2009 Fort Hood shooting sole suspect, Nidal Hasan, as well as to the Northwest Flight 253 bombing attempt in which he is believed to have played a part in the al-Qaeda operation, and trained and blessed the suspect.
 * Anwar al-Awlaki

Career highlights Central Intelligence Agency

 * Served with the CIA since 1958, holding a variety of positions of increasing responsibility, both analytic and managerial.
 * Analyzed intelligence from the Berlin Tunnel operation.
 * Served as an analyst tracking the names of Soviet missile technicians in Cuba, 1962.
 * CIA's national intelligence officer for counterterrorism (1985)
 * Director of the National Security Council's Hostage Location Task Force (1985)
 * National Intelligence Officer for Warning (1986)
 * Served as Assistant Director of Central Intelligence [ADCI] for Collection, June 1998 until June 2005. In that capacity, he was in charge of coordinating all the community spy systems and chaired the National Intelligence Collection Board, which ensures that collection is integrated and coordinated across the intelligence community.

 * "Appointed as Assistant Director of Central Intelligence (ADCI) for Collection, coordinating the entire intelligence community intelligence collection system, was Charles Allen, a thirty year veteran operations officer. He will oversee the decisions of the various committees deciding the targets of national systems. He allegedly was chosen on the basis of his reputation for holding contrariness views and willingness to challenge the system."

C.I.A. Inspector General's report on 9/11 intelligence failures
In August 2005 the New York Times reported that supporters of former C.I.A. Director George Tenet were critical of the CIA Inspector General's report on the intelligences failures ahead of the September 11 terrorist attacks for having failed to interview Allen, who was assistant director of central intelligence for collection.

In 1998, after the bombing of two American embassies in East Africa, Mr. Allen was assigned by George Tenet to organize the agency's efforts against the terrorist network, according to testimony Mr. Tenet gave last year. He said that at the advice of Mr. Allen, he created a special unit with officers from the C.I.A., the National Security Agency and the NGA to meet daily and focus on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Comments about Charles Allen
Mark Perry offers this commentary about Allen based on information from colleagues:
 * "An eccentric workaholic who often picked fights with superiors"
 * "A tall graying man given to sober suits and precise grammar."
 * "More than just a little weird; it was hard to know just where he was coming from."
 * "At times during his career Allen seemed almost out of control as he often spent all night at his office and made unreasonable demands on his secretarial staff."
 * "Allen was known for his offbeat views, and his detractors said he had a huge ego."
 * "A 'brilliant man' with 'a yen for controversy'"

From an August 2004 U.S. News & World Report article:

"…more of a legend than a man around the CIA. 'If you don't think you're getting your money's worth out of the federal government,' says an admirer, 'you should meet Charlie Allen.' A workaholic, Allen had served as an intelligence officer for 40 years and earned a reputation as a plain-spoken professional who regularly bucked the bureaucracy…"

Duane Clarridge remarked in his memoir:

"He (Allen) was a bit of a maverick; bright absolutely dedicated, on occasion short on diplomacy, and a workaholic."

Continuity of government
From 1980 to November 1982, Allen was detailed to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he was deputy director of a continuity of government planning project. A colleague quoted Allen as saying during a COG meeting, "our job is to throw the Constitution out the window." His assignment to the COG project brought him into contact with Oliver North, who was delegated to monitor COG's findings by National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane.

Iran Contra

 * From the nomination of Robert M. Gates of Virginia, to be Director of Central Intelligence (Senate: November 5, 1991), Congressional Record: Extract:

 * "On September 9, 1986, a senior CIA analyst, Charles Allen, wrote a memo on the arms sales to Iran, a copy of which went to Mr. Gates. He also claims to have talked to Mr. Gates regarding shipments of arms to Iran. Mr. Gates cannot recall the conversation or receiving the Nomination memo." Re Iran-Contra scandal.

 * "A number of outspoken analysts bitterly criticized him [Allen] for bending his views to political expediency during the Iran initiative. Allen, they said, took advantage of his access to Casey to promote a political line – that an opening could be made to Iranian moderates-that could not be supported by the information they had gathered on Iran's internal politics. Allen played the White House game, these critics claimed, by using contrived information provided by CIA consultant George Cave to support the Iran program. 'Charlie Allen briefed the NSC on the basis of Cave's disinformation,' a senior CIA analyst explains."

Reprimand by William Webster
Director of Central Intelligence William Webster formally reprimanded Allen for failing to fully comply with the DCI's request for full cooperation in the agency's internal Iran-Contra scandal investigation. After failing to have the reprimand lifted through the regular appeal process, Allen retained future DCI James Woolsey as an attorney and was successful in applying pressure to have the reprimand lifted.

Mark Perry observes "Ironically, Allen's attack on Webster was as unjustified as Webster's reprimand." The reprimand stemmed from a set of missing papers found in Allen's office containing information on the arms-for-hostages deal. Allen claimed they had been inadvertently overlooked in a messy office. Supporters of Allen pointed out that Webster reprimanded the one person in the CIA who had brought his suspicions of a funds diversion to Robert Gates. Others asserted that Allen simply did not respect Webster.

Gulf War: warning of war

 * Richard L. Russell, Political Science Quarterly, Summer 2002:

 * "One high-level intelligence official on the National Intelligence Council (NIC), charged with advising the DCI, was more forward leaning than the analytic judgments published in the NID. The National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for Warning Charles Allen on July 25 [1998] issued a 'warning of war' memorandum in which he stressed that Iraq had nearly achieved the capability to launch a corps-sized operation of sufficient mass to occupy much of Kuwait. The memo judged that the chances of a military operation of some sort at better than 60 percent."

Gulf War: bombing of Amiriyah shelter
Allen supported the selection of bomb targets during the first Gulf War. He coordinated intelligence with Colonel John Warden, who headed the Air Force's planning cell known as "Checkmate." On February 10, 1991 Allen presented his estimate to Col. Warden that Public Shelter Number 25 in the Southwestern Baghdad suburb of Amiriyah had become an alternative command post and showed no sign of being used as a civilian bomb shelter.

Satellite photos and electronic intercepts indicating this alternative use were regarded as circumstantial and unconvincing to Brigadier General Buster Glosson, who had primary responsibility for targeting. Glosson's comment was that the assessment wasn't "worth a shit." A human source in Iraq, who had previously proven accurate warned the CIA that Iraqi intelligence had begun operating from the shelter. On February 11, the Amiriyah shelter was added to the Air Force's attack plan. At 4:30 am the morning of February 13, two F-117 stealth bombers each dropped a 2,000 pound, laser-guided, GBU-27 munition on the shelter. The first cut through ten feet of reinforced concrete before a time-delayed fuze exploded. Minutes later the second bomb followed the path cut by the first bomb.

In the shelter at the time of the bombing were hundreds of Iraqi civilians. More than 400 people, mostly women and children were killed. Men and boys over the age of 15 had left the shelter to give the women and children some privacy. Jeremy Bowen, a BBC correspondent, was one of the first television reporters on the scene. Bowen was given access to the site and did not find evidence of military use.

Australia
From 1974 to 1977, he was stationed in Canberra, Australia, in an intelligence liaison capacity. Served under CIA Station Chiefs M. Corely Wonus (1934–1992) and John Walker (1921–2002).|

National Security Space Association
As of 2024, Allen serves on the advisory board of the National Security Space Association.

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Mortensrud station

Mortensrud is a rapid transit station on the Østensjø Line of the Oslo Metro. It is located in Mortensrud in the Søndre Nordstrand borough of Oslo, Norway. Construction of the station started in 1995, which was taken into use on 24 November 1997, when it became the terminal station of the line—following a 2.4 km extension from Skullerud. The extension cost NOK215 million to build, and most of the section is in tunnels. The station is built in concrete, wood and stone, and cost NOK 35 million. It is served by line 3, in addition to being an important bus terminal for the borough, including a feeder service to Bjørndal. Travel time along the 13.6 km section to the city center is 24 minutes. In 2001–02, the station had 2,077 daily boarding passengers. The station serves the surrounding residential area, as well as an adjacent shopping center. South of the station is a turning line for trains.

History
The Østensjø Line opened as a light rail on 18 December 1923. On 29 October 1967, the upgraded metro standard was first used, and the line was connected to the Oslo Metro. A month later, the extension to Skullerud opened. The work with building the extension between Skullerud and Mortensrud was originally planned to start in 1992, with completion planned for 1994. However, construction did not start until 1995. The 2.4 km extension is built to allow speeds of 100 km/h, and represents a considerable longer distance between stations than what is normal on the network. Most of the section is in tunnels, though there are also two viaducts. The extension (without the new station) cost NOK 215 million. The line runs somewhat south of the station, allowing space to line up trains, and for future further extension of the line.

The station was taken into use on 24 November 1997, but not officially opened until 4 January 1998. On the day of the official opening, the bus terminal was taken into use. The station costs NOK 35 million. At the time, it was estimated to have about 6000 daily users—both boarding and disembarking, including the bus terminal.

Facilities
The station is located in the residential area of Mortensrud, in Søndre Nordstrand. Mortensrud is an open station without any barriers and free access from the bus stops. The station area is one storey below from the surrounding area. It has step-free access, and at the same level as the buses. Only the western portion of the two side platforms is in use, where direct connection can be made with buses. The station is located adjacent to the shopping center at Mortensrud. The station is designed by Arkitektskap. It is built in concrete, covered in red brick, steel, natural rock and wood, that will allow lianas to grow on them. The roofover the western platform is curved, and made of wood and glass. There is an underground parking lot in two levels.

Service
Mortensrud is served by line 3 on the Østensjø Line, operated by Oslo T-banedrift on contract with Ruter. The rapid transit serves the station every 15 minutes, except in the late evening and on weekend mornings, when there is a 30-minute headway. Travel time along the 13.6 km portion to Stortinget in the city center is 24 minutes. In 2001–02, the station had 2,077 daily boarding passengers.

The station functions as a major bus terminal for Søndre Nordstrand. Ruter operates feeder bus services to Dal, Brenna, Kantarellen (all no. 73) and Bjørndal (no. 71A). The station is the end station of route 74 (Jernbanetorget) and route 76 (Helsfyr). Line 71A during rush hour also terminates/starts at Jernbanetorget.

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Talkback (production company)

Talkback is a British television production company established in 1981 by comedy duo Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.

History
Talkback was sold to Pearson Television in 2000. The company merged with Thames Television in 2003 and the combined entity was renamed Talkback Thames. However, on 1 January 2012, Talkback Thames was split into four separate production companies; Boundless, Retort, Talkback and Thames. On 2 September 2018, FremantleMedia UK was renamed to simply Fremantle UK. This was soon followed by Talkback receiving a new logo after six-and-a-half years of the old one, which was inspired by the original design from 1984 since its launch whilst retaining the green colour the company has been associated with since 2003, when it merged with Thames to form Talkback Thames. It was designed in-house.

Productions

 * The 11 O'Clock Show (Channel 4, 1998–2000)
 * Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow (ITV, 2020–2022)
 * Alas Smith and Jones (BBC One & BBC Two, 1991–1998; Sketchbook: BBC One, 2006)
 * The Armando Iannucci Shows (Channel 4, 2001)
 * Bernard and the Genie (BBC One, 1991)
 * Big Train (BBC Two, 1998–2002)
 * Bonjour la Classe (BBC One, 1993)
 * Brass Eye (Channel 4, 1997–2001)
 * Celebrity Juice (ITV2, 2008–2022)
 * Da Ali G Show (Channel 4, 2000–2004; HBO, 2003–2004)
 * The Day Today (BBC Two, 1994)
 * Demob (ITV, 1993)
 * Distraction (Channel 4, 2003–2004)
 * Friends and Crocodiles (BBC One, 2006)
 * Gash (Channel 4, 2003)
 * Gideon's Daughter (BBC One, 2006)
 * Green Wing (Channel 4, 2004–2007)
 * Hippies (BBC Two, 1999)
 * House Doctor (Channel 5, 1998–2003)
 * I'm Alan Partridge (BBC Two, 1997–2002)
 * In a Land of Plenty (BBC Two, 2000)
 * Jam (Channel 4, 2000)
 * Jamie's Kitchen (Channel 4, 2002)
 * Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier (Dave, 2018–2019)
 * The Keith & Paddy Picture Show (ITV, 2017–2018)
 * The Keith Lemon Sketch Show (ITV2, 2015–2016)
 * Keith Lemon's LemonAid (ITV, 2012)
 * Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge (BBC Two, 1994–1995)
 * Lemon La Vida Loca (ITV2, 2012–2013)
 * Look Around You (BBC Two, 2002–2005)
 * Los Dos Bros (Channel 4, 2001)
 * The Lost Prince (BBC One, 2003)
 * Meet Ricky Gervais (Channel 4, 2000)
 * Monkey Dust (BBC Three, 2003–2005)
 * Murder Most Horrid (BBC Two, 1991–1999)
 * Nathan Barley (Channel 4, 2005)
 * Never Mind the Buzzcocks (BBC Two, 1996–2015; Sky Max, 2021–present)
 * Perfect Strangers (BBC Two, 2001)
 * QI (BBC Four, 2003–2008; BBC Two, 2003–2008 & 2011–present; BBC One, 2009–2011)
 * The Sex Inspectors (Channel 4, 2004)
 * Shooting the Past (BBC Two, 1999)
 * Shoreditch Twat (Channel 4, 2002)
 * Smack the Pony (Channel 4, 1999–2003)
 * Sweat the Small Stuff (BBC Three, 2013–2015)
 * Sword of Honour (Channel 4, 2001)
 * They Think It's All Over (BBC One, 1995–2006)
 * Through the Keyhole (ITV, 2013–2019)
 * Too Hot to Handle (Netflix, 2020–present)
 * Virtually Famous (E4, 2014–2017)
 * Would Like to Meet (BBC Two, 2001–2004)
 * Your Face or Mine? (E4, 2002–2003; Comedy Central, 2017–2019)

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Judiciary Act of 1802

The Judiciary Act of 1802 was a Federal statute, enacted on April 29, 1802, to reorganize the federal court system. It restored some elements of the Judiciary Act of 1801, which had been adopted by the Federalist majority in the previous Congress but then repealed by the Democratic-Republican majority earlier in 1802.

The 1802 Act effectively cancelled the 1801 Act's legally-called-for reduction in the size of the Supreme Court. The 1801 Act had provided that the Court's size would be reduced by one Justice to a court of five, by not filling its next future vacancy. Instead, the 1802 Act restored the Court's full-strength size to six members by referring to its then-present membership, which had been unchanged since the passage of the 1801 Act. This reaffirmed full-strength size of the Court as consisting of six Justices would not be changed again until the addition of a seventh seat by the Seventh Circuit Act of 1807:

"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, the Supreme Court of the United States shall be holden by the justices thereof, or any four of them, at the city of Washington, and shall have one session in each and every year, to commence on the first Monday of February annually, and that if four of the said justices shall not attend within ten days after the time hereby appointed for the commencement of the said session, the business of the said court shall be continued over till the next stated session thereof. (bold added)"

The Act restructured the circuit courts into six circuits, and assigned one Supreme Court justice to each circuit. Unlike the 1801 Act, no new circuit judgeships were created, so the justices were faced with having to return to the practice of "riding circuit" to hold court in each district within their circuit, along with the local district judge, during the majority of the year. No circuit courts were created for the judicial districts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Maine, or the territories, although the 1801 Act would have done so.

Since the circuit courts were now to consist of only two judges, the Act permitted them to certify to the Supreme Court any question of law on which the two could not agree. Also, the district judge was not permitted to hear appeals of his own decisions, so appeals from the district courts were decided by the circuit justice alone. But the most important part of the Act was the provision that a quorum of only one judge was needed to convene a circuit court. As a result, Supreme Court justices could often rely on district court judges to convene circuit courts. With circuit riding largely optional, Supreme Court justices were no longer saddled with what they had previously felt was a tremendous burden. The Act's flexibility proved crucial to the demise of circuit riding, which essentially disappeared by 1840.

The Act also created additional district courts by dividing the District of North Carolina into the districts of Albemarle, Cape Fear, and Pamptico, and by dividing the District of Tennessee into the Eastern and Western Districts of Tennessee. No new judgeships were created for these courts; however, the district judges in North Carolina and Tennessee had to hold court in each district within their state, and the North Carolina judge also had to sit on the circuit court (which, however, continued to sit for the state as a whole, not in the separate district court districts).

The Act established a United States District Court for the District of Columbia, although this court is not the direct predecessor of today's court bearing the same name.

The Act also postponed the dates of the Supreme Court term from the two months of June and December to the month of February of 1803. This effectively cancelled the Supreme Court term for the remainder of 1802.

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Bogumil Goltz

Bogumil Goltz (20 March 1801 – 12 November 1870) was a German humorist and satirist known mostly for his work Buch der Kindheit ("Book of Childhood").

Biography
He was born in Warsaw. After attending the classical schools of Marienwerder and Königsberg, he learned farming on an estate near Thorn, and in 1821 entered the University of Breslau as a student of philosophy. But he soon abandoned an academic career and, after returning for a while to country life, retired to the small town of Gollub, where he devoted himself to literary studies. In 1847 he settled at Thorn, the home of Copernicus, where he died.

Writings
Goltz is best known to literary fame by his Buch der Kindheit ("Book of Childhood", Frankfurt, 1847; 4th ed., Berlin, 1877), in which, after the style of Jean Paul and Adalbert Stifter, but with a more modern realism, he gives a charming and idyllic description of the impressions of his own childhood. Among his other works are Ein Jugendleben (1852); Der Mensch und die Leute (1858); Zur Charakteristik und Naturgeschichte der Frauen (1859); Zur Geschichte und Charakteristik des deutschen Genius (1864), and Die Weltklugheit und die Lebensweisheit (1869). Goltz's works have not been collected, but a selection will be found in Reclam's Universalbibliothek (edited by P. Stein, 1901 and 1906).

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Max Lord

Max Lord may refer to:

 * Maxwell Lord, a supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics
 * Max Lord (baseball) (1925–2019), Australian baseball player

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Burdigalian

The Burdigalian is, in the geologic timescale, an age or stage in the early Miocene. It spans the time between 20.43 ± 0.05 Ma and 15.97 ± 0.05 Ma (million years ago). Preceded by the Aquitanian, the Burdigalian was the first and longest warming period of the Miocene and is succeeded by the Langhian.

Stratigraphic definition
The name Burdigalian comes from Burdigala, the Latin name for the city of Bordeaux, France. The Burdigalian Stage was introduced in scientific literature by Charles Depéret in 1892.

The base of the Burdigalian is at the first appearance of foram species Globigerinoides altiaperturus and the top of magnetic chronozone C6An. , an official GSSP for the Burdigalian had not yet been assigned.

The top of the Burdigalian (the base of the Langhian) is defined by the first appearance of foram species Praeorbulina glomerosa and is also coeval with the top of magnetic chronozone C5Cn.1n.

Paleontology
Famous Burdigalian palaeontologic localities include the Turritellenplatte of Ermingen in Germany and the Dominican amber deposits of Hispaniola.

Possible human evolutionary ancestors such as Victoriapithecus evolved during this time interval.

Literature

 * 🇦🇹; 1892: Note sur la classification et le parallélisme du Système miocène, Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 3(20), p. CXLV-CLVI.
 * 🇦🇹; 2004: A Geologic Time Scale 2004, Cambridge University Press.

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Talk:Preservation Hall

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Has it survived?

Yes, the grand re-opening, in commemoration of the band's 45th anniversary is going to be held April 27-28. While I did not specifically look for Preservation Hall, on a recent trip to New Orleans I was very closeby, and all the buildings in the immediate area are intact. --MMan710 03:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

The price is now $10. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.28.94.160 (talk) 23:02, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

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you'd think such a grand place, I mean, to someone a thousand miles away and who's never been anywhere near the city and still heard of the business.. you'd think they'd have at least one cite. I'd love to visit someday, sounds interesting.. they could totally boost their credibility by citing some stuff and making this a real article. Cs302b (talk) 06:49, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * William Carter's book "Preservation Hall" has the info and much more. Infrogmation (talk) 07:31, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Bill and Ted Face the Music
If that is not the real Preservation Hall in Bill and Ted Face the Music they did a remarkable job of duplicating it. I swear I spotted the bench where I sat in January. I'm sure the Hall has appeared in other media as well. That might deserve mention here. PurpleChez (talk) 15:48, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Hurricane IDA damage and final collapse August 24th 2022
Preservation Hall 1644 N. Villere St. in New Orleans' 7th Ward, has collapsed the hole in the roof and the side walls that were temporarily braced, fully gave way within the past 2 days according to the article below.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=347179280653295

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_9ee53158-23f3-11ed-80dc-7fd3a3cd7848.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:1590:9A30:4848:CA25:9420:ECFB (talk) 11:52, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

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Pontiac Star Chief

The Pontiac Star Chief is an automobile model that was manufactured by Pontiac between 1954 and 1966. It was Pontiac's top trim package on the Pontiac Chieftain, with later generations built on longer wheelbases, and serving as the foundation platform for the Pontiac Bonneville. The car was easily identified by its chrome star trim along its sides, a feature all Star Chiefs were equipped with.

First generation (1954)
Between 1954 and 1957, the Star Chief was Pontiac's prestige model and was based on the Pontiac Chieftain. In 1954, Pontiac also introduced air conditioning with all the components under the hood, a first for the price range. Seat belts were added as options in 1956. The Star Chief was available in Deluxe and pricier Custom trim, with the top trim level hardtop called the Catalina.

Prior to the introduction of the Star Chief, all Pontiacs had shared the modest wheelbase of the Chevrolet since the beginning of Pontiac. The introduction of this new premier model in 1954 was the first application of the longer 123.5 inch (313.7 cm) wheelbase of the junior Oldsmobiles and Buicks to the Pontiac division. The car was still on the A platform, but with 11 in added towards the rear of the frame. Power the first year came from Pontiac's venerable straight eight engine, with the six-cylinder not available. The eight produced 127 hp in the Star Chief, five more than when fitted to other Pontiacs.

Second generation (1955-1957)
Along with an all-new body, the straight-eight was superseded by the new Strato Streak V-8 power in 1955. Typical for the 1955 Pontiacs is the design with two wide "Silver Streaks" running the length of the hood. The hood ornament “Indian” was amber plastic that lit up when the headlights were turned on. Also for 1955, the new Star Chief Safari two door hardtop wagon, which was similar to Chevrolet's Bel Air Nomad, was introduced, shared with the Pontiac Chieftain. This variant lasted through 1957; after that the Safari name was used for all of the division's standard four door wagons. The Safari was introduced on January 31, 1955, over three months behind the rest of the 1955s. Prices listed for the Star Chief averaged at US$2,594 ($0 in dollars ) and 203,404 were recorded to have been manufactured in 1955.

When the storyline of I Love Lucy pointed towards a Hollywood setting in the 1954-1955 season, the characters drove (in episode 110, "California Here We Come") to the West Coast in a red on white 1955 Star Chief convertible, that in the previous episode "Lucy Learns to Drive" was "bumped together" with a 1922 Cadillac Type V-63. Several subsequent episodes in the "Hollywood" arc also showed the vehicle. General Motors was a sponsor of the show and the Pontiac was used several times for product placement.

The Safari was not quite part of the Star Chief line, as it sat on the shorter Chieftain 122 in wheelbase. It was officially part of the "27 series", whereas the longer Star Chief received the "28 series" designation. In January 1957, some time after the rest of the new models, the four-door "Custom Safari Transcontinental" station wagon was introduced.

For 1956 the design was lightly revised, with heavier looking bumpers and a vertical slash on the front door above the swage line. In 1957, the high performance Star Chief Custom Bonneville was introduced as part of its divisional head's push to raise the marque out of the doldrums. The silver streaks running down the hood were dropped for the new "Star Flight" design. All gauges were placed in an oval on the dash and the side trim had a missile-shaped spear behind the front door.

Third generation (1958)

In 1957, the "Limited Addition" Pontiac Bonneville were sold to customers. They featured Bonneville Badging, Chevy's manual linkage fuel injection systems mounted on Pontiacs 347 cid V-8 engine. The transmission was a Jetaway 4 speed automatic. In 1958, the Bonneville was first given its own position in the Pontiac lineup as the ultimate Pontiac, and was only available as a two-door hardtop and two-door convertible. While no longer Pontiac's prestige model, the Star Chief remained a well-appointed car, and the division's finest four door hardtops and sedans. The 1958 Star Chief received all-new bodywork and an updated chassis with an appearance that was shared with all GM cars for that year. The body was considerably longer and lower, and featured a new honeycomb grille design and twin headlamps. The sedans and coupé models all shared the longer 124 inch wheelbase, while the Custom Safari model remained on a chassis two inches shorter, shared with the lesser Chieftain. In spite of the new bodywork, sales of the 1958 Star Chief dropped precipitously; down by around 60% while Pontiac's overall sales dropped by more than a third. 1958 was also the year the "Silver Streak" styling feature was no longer offered, which was first used in 1933.

The engine was updated from the 347 cuin unit used in 1957 to a slightly bored out 370 cuin version. Power only increased marginally, to 255 hp for the manual version, while the most powerful "PM" option was now up to 330 hp.

Fourth generation (1959-1960)
In 1959, when the Bonneville gained a full range of body styles, the Star Chief was limited to sedans and hardtops, while the Bonneville and the new Catalina models received the lion's share of Pontiac's attention in the marketplace. In 1959, the Star Chief made 17.97% of Pontiac sales. This was also the first year of the "wide-track" Pontiacs with a front tread width of 63.7 in and rear tread width of 64 in.

In 1960, the new Ventura was introduced, and the Star Chief was thereafter limited to four door sedans and hardtops. This was a novel, but unsuccessful approach. The Star Chief was equipped and powered in a manner similar to the lower-priced, slightly smaller Catalina series.

The Ventura was more lavishly equipped in the manner of the high-line Bonneville, but was available with only two doors and rode the Catalina's slightly shorter wheelbase. This gave sedan buyers of modest means a larger choice than Catalina for only slightly more money, and gave upscale coupe buyers a lighter, sprightlier alternative to the big Bonneville. The Ventura lasted only through 1961, and was replaced by the even sportier new Grand Prix. The Star Chief continued to be available only with four doors through the end of production. Compared to the Catalina, the Star Chief was equipped only very slightly more lavishly; the major additional interior feature was the electric clock.

Fifth generation (1961-1964)
For 1962, Pontiac offered a 421 cid Super Duty V8 with two four-barrel carburetors, rated at 405 hp, as a US$2,250 option as the base Star Chief listed at US$3,097 ($0 in dollars ). A rare option, it was probably never ordered on this somewhat heavy sedan. As in the other Pontiac series, the 4-door hardtop was designated the Star Chief Vista. Bonneville taillights and the three chrome stars on each side continued to distinguish the car from the Catalina. The stars were located either on the roof or rear fender, depending on year. No wagons were offered. All Safari wagons during this period (including the Bonneville Safari) rode the four and a half inch shorter wheelbase shared by Chevrolet and Catalina.

Sixth generation (1965-1966)

For 1966, the car was renamed the Star Chief Executive as the first step towards retiring the name, which by the mid-1960s had become dated. For 1967, Pontiac dropped the Star Chief name for United States sales and renamed the mid-priced model the Executive.

In Canada, Pontiac models used Chevrolet drivelines for greater economy. To ensure that used car buyers in the U.S. were not sold less expensive Canadian models, different series names were used. The Canadian equivalent to the Star Chief was called Laurentian. Nonetheless, Pontiac offered a similarly-named series called the Strato Chief, but this model was the lowest-priced big Canadian Pontiac.

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League of Saint George

The League of St George is a neo-Fascist organisation based in the United Kingdom. It has defined itself as a "non-party, non-sectarian political club" and, whilst forging alliances with different groups, has eschewed close links with other extremist political parties.

History
The League was formed around 1974 as a political club by Keith Thompson and Mike Griffin as a breakaway from the Action Party, founded by British fascist Oswald Mosley. The League sought to continue what it saw as a purer form of the ideas of Mosley than those offered by then leader Jeffrey Hamm. In the 1970s the League became a political home for the more intellectual adherents of "Neo-Nazi" ideology, particularly those who wanted a united Europe with a European-derived population, a continuation of Mosley's Europe a Nation policy. Alongside this the League also followed Mosley's lead in endorsing Irish republicanism, something of a change from their contemporaries in the British far right who reserved their support for Ulster loyalism. The League was never intended to be a political party, but more of a social, intellectual, and cultural organization, albeit with the ultimate political aim of promoting European people and their culture. Intended as an exclusive club for what were seen as the leading minds on the British far right, its membership tended to be restricted to around 50–100 members. Indeed, membership of the League was restricted to those invited to join only.

The group often had a torrid relationship with the far right parties, and indeed the National Front barred its members from joining the League in 1977. Around this time Spearhead even included articles claiming that the League was in fact a cult dominated by clandestine leaders, secret oaths and profane initiation ceremonies. Nonetheless, individual members maintained ties to both organisations, with some contributing to both Spearhead and The League Review. Similarly the British Movement, which had originally co-operated with the League, eventually severed its ties over the Northern Irish issue. The Enemy Within is an account of the League of St George written by a former member, the cartoonist Robert Edwards, who founded the pro-Mosley European Action UK pressure group in 2005.

International contacts
Adopting the emblem of the Arrow Cross, the League sought to forge links with like-minded groups in Europe, and took part in international neo-Nazi rallies at Diksmuide in Belgium, where it forged links with the Vlaamse Militanten Orde and the National States' Rights Party. Eschewing the route of electoral politics, the League instead sought to set itself up as an umbrella group for National Socialists of any affiliation, although the League did work closely with first the British Movement and then the British National Party when it was founded (with Thompson and John Graeme Wood attending the party's inaugural meeting while claiming to speak for the League).

Steve Brady, a former activist in the short-lived National Party (and who retained close links to the Ulster Defence Association despite the League's avowed support for Irish republicanism), was appointed International Liaison Officer in 1978 and helped to oversee the development of links with groups internationally such as the Faisceaux Nationalistes Européens of France, founded by Mark Fredriksen, and Italy's Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR). Brady also wrote a column in League Review, under the nom-de-plume Heimdall. The group also gained support in South Africa amongst some leading supporters of the Herstigte Nasionale Party who were responsible for funding the League during the early 1980s.

'Safehousing'
The League went into hiatus in the early 1980s after an episode of ITV current affairs show World in Action exposed its attempts to set up safe houses for suspected Italian terrorists, based on information given by Ray Hill, who had been active in the League.

Subsequent activities
Following these revelations the group became less active, but did not close down altogether. Its magazine, The National Review, received some attention in far-right circles in 1986 when Colin Jordan published an article calling for the development of an underground struggle. This article was credited with attempts to revive the British Movement and to set up other groups to carry out Jordan's ideas.

In 1996 it was alleged in Searchlight that members of the League had recruited mercenaries for a mission in South Africa organised by Constand Viljoen with the aim of assassinating the country's leaders and damaging its infrastructure. Ultimately the plan was foiled by the South African secret service and by a change in strategy by Viljoen, who abandoned his Afrikaner Volksfront in order to lead the Freedom Front.

It continues to exist under other leadership to this day. Previously publishing a regular monthly magazine, The League Review, which had a comparatively wide European readership, it now publishes a quarterly journal, The League Sentinel.

The group was featured in Bill Buford's Among the Thugs where the author commented to a member that his ideas of leaving urban life and returning to the soil recalled those of the Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

Members
Leading members of the League have included Dagenham-based John Harrison, millionaire Robin Rushton, former Mosley's Union Movement member, speaker and election candidate Keith Thompson, Mike Griffin, and Roger Clare, who has also been active in South Africa and New Zealand. Ian Souter Clarence, the former head of Column 88, was a member, while both publisher Anthony Hancock and National Front and National Party veteran Denis Pirie were also closely associated with the group.

Media coverage
An article by Ian Cobain in The Guardian dated 24 November 2016 reported that the League of St George of today is mainly active in publishing and distributing fascist books. The League's publishing arm is Steven Books.

In popular culture
In 2013, a theatrical production and musical called League of St George based on "the fascist brotherhood of the League of St George" toured the UK including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Corbett Theatre in Loughton, Essex and the Hope Theatre in London.

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Kooringal, New South Wales

Kooringal is a suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. Kooringal is thought to mean "Side of a Hill" in the Wiradjuri aboriginal language. Kooringal is located approximately 4 km from the CBD along Lake Albert Road. Kooringal is the basis for growth in the eastern section of Wagga Wagga. Kooringal High School, on Ziegler Avenue is the largest secondary school in Wagga Wagga. The Kooringal area is also home to other schools including Kooringal Public School, Sturt Public School and the Sacred Heart School. Kooringal has a large suburban shopping centre known as Kooringal Mall and it consists of a Woolworths supermarket, McDonald's, Subway, Domino's Pizza, Australia Post retail store and various specialty stores.

History
The suburb of Kooringal was a dairy and grazing property and homestead in the 1960s which was also named Kooringal. Kooringal was at one point called Henwood Park Settlement due to the extensive area subdivided by pastoralist, Stan Henwood. "Darrung" Post Office established in Henwood Park Settlement at the request of locals however the name disappeared when the Wagga Wagga City Council named the suburb Kooringal after the property. Stage one of The Kooringal Mall with ten shops was established in October 1968 and stage two was completed in August 1971 with another nine shops added.

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Caldas de Monchique

Caldas de Monchique is a spa town in the Monchique Mountains in the Algarve region of Portugal. It has been famous since Roman times for its waters, which supposedly have healing properties. It was also used as a seasonal retreat for Portuguese royalty. It has recently gained more international recognition, particularly for health tourism, but also for its landscape and architecture.

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