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Stephen Tompkinson

Stephen Phillip Tompkinson (born 15 October 1965) is an English actor, known for his television roles as Marcus in Chancer  (1990), Damien Day in Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998), Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel (1996–98), Trevor Purvis in Grafters (1998–1999), Danny Trevanion in Wild at Heart (2006–2013) and Alan Banks in DCI Banks (2010–2016). He won the 1994 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor. He also starred in the films Brassed Off (1996) and Hotel Splendide (2000).

Early life
Tompkinson was born in Stockton-on-Tees. When he was about age 4, his family moved to Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire and then to Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, where he grew up and attended St Bede's Roman Catholic High School in Lytham and St Mary's Sixth Form in Blackpool. Tompkinson's first lead was as a red admiral butterfly in The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner.

He went on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, alongside James Nesbitt and Rufus Sewell, and graduated in 1988. Tompkinson's acting career began straight out of drama school. During his last year at the London School of Speech and Drama he won the 1987 Carleton Hobbs Bursary, gaining a contract as a member of the BBC's Radio Drama Company, and had roles in radio dramas.

Along with Ewan Bailey, he performed a two-part radio drama titled Say What You Want to Hear (Swywth), written by Tim Wright and broadcast in 2010 on BBC Radio 4. His narrated radio documentaries include Brass Britain, which aired in 2008 and was reprised in 2010 on BBC Radio 2.

1980s
In 1988, Tompkinson appeared with Ken Goodwin and Freddie Davies in a Channel 4 short titled Treacle, directed by Peter Chelsom. It received a 1988 BAFTA nomination in the category of Best Short Film.

During the next few years he was cast in several single-episode parts on All at No 20, Shelley, After Henry, Casualty, Made in Heaven, and Boon. He also played in three episodes of The Manageress (1989).

Also in 1989 he appeared in his first full-length made-for-TV movie. Based on a 1977 play by C.P. Taylor, And a Nightingale Sang was a romantic comedy-drama adapted for television by Jack Rosenthal.

1990s
He was cast in three episodes of Tales of Sherwood Forest (1989), nine episodes of Chancer (1990), and nine episodes of Minder (1991) It received the 1990 Prix Europa Special award for the film in the category "TV Fiction". Between 1990 and 1998, Tompkinson starred in 66 episodes of the satirical comedy Drop The Dead Donkey. He played the ambitious but unethical reporter Damien Day, and won the 1994 British Comedy Awards "Best TV Comedy Actor" award.

In 1994, he was Private Simon 'Spock' Matlock, a history teacher and intellectual in BBC comedy drama All Quiet on the Preston Front, written by Tim Firth and set in Lancashire. Alistair McGowan replaced him after the first series because Tompkinson had other commitments. That same year he was in Downwardly Mobile – a Yorkshire Television sitcom about a group of Yuppies – aired for one season but failed to make an impression and was not recommissioned.

From 1996 to 1998 he portrayed, in the popular Ballykissangel, the struggles of a young English Roman Catholic priest assigned as curate to a church in Ireland's 'back of beyond'. In 1998 he starred as Jim Harper in the three-part ITV psychological thriller Oktober, about a naive English teacher at a posh school in Switzerland. His character becomes a guinea pig in the trials of a new mind-altering drug. Tompkinson performed his own stunts. He says that "I grabbed this project because I'd never been asked to do anything like this before. And the chance to do stunts was one reason it was so appealing."

Also in 1998, and again in 1999, he co-starred with Robson Green in two series of Grafters, about two Geordie labourers who attempt to go into business together renovating an old London house owned by a pair of Yuppies. Tompkinson's performance was praised by James Rampton of The Independent: "It is Tompkinson who – despite having the less showy part – really catches the eye. In the shadow of a more successful brother and a domineering wife, he precisely captures an air of despondent, hen-pecked resignation. Like Eeyore, he seems to be pursued by his own personal raincloud. Nobody does defeated better. Tompkinson is an actor who's become a winner by playing the loser....Trevor can be added to the actor's growing gallery of characters whom viewers watch and think, 'I know that bloke.'"

Tompkinson and Ballykissangel's Dervla Kirwan worked together again in 1999 on the TV version of Tim Firth's The Flint Street Nativity. They also co-starred in the 2001 mini-series Hereafter, which never aired in the UK but was released on DVD under the title Shades in the United States and Canada in 2012.

2000s
In 2001, he co-starred with Heartbeat star Nick Berry in the mini-series In Deep, as part of BBC1's Crime Doubles season. The promotional material described his performance as "Tompkinson as you have never seen him before" and a career "gamble". He agreed with that assessment: "In Deep is a very gritty drama and not the kind of thing that I'm normally associated with".

Tompkinson and Claire Skinner appeared as a couple in Series 1 of the comedy Bedtime, which aired August and September 2001. In 2002, he appeared as the character 'Ted' with co-star Dawn French in the comedy drama mini-series Ted and Alice. The sitcom Mr. Charity (2001), which aired on BBC2, was panned by the critics, drew poor viewer ratings, and was axed after six episodes.

In 2003, after a long delay, ITV aired the mini-series Lucky Jim. Tompkinson had bought the rights to the Kingsley Amis novel, which had not been adapted for some time, with the intention of playing the central character. Jack Rosenthal did the screenplay. The cast included Keeley Hawes as his co-star and love interest Christine, Robert Hardy, Helen McCrory, Denis Lawson, Hermione Norris and Penelope Wilton. The Guardian praised it as "deftly adapted by Jack Rosenthal ... immaculately done, not least because of Stephen Tompkinson's performance as Jim, with stellar support from [the rest of the cast, especially] Helen McCrory." In December 2004, he appeared as Detective Inspector Slack in a new adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage.

In 2004, Tompkinson played his first fact-based role in BBC1's two-part drama In Denial of Murder, playing the character of the journalist Don Hale. There was controversy surrounding how the case was depicted, and in preparing to portray Don Hale he struggled to make sense of it. When asked his opinion, he explained that although he had done research to prepare for the role, he was merely an actor working from a script in which he had total faith and that he believed to be fair.

In 2005, Marian, Again was a psychological drama about the horrors that could lie within any community and just beyond anyone's front door. Owen Teale co-starred, along with Kelly Harrison in the title role and Samantha Beckinsale.

Of his role in Prime Suspect, Tompkinson says "I had a call from my agent who told me they were to film the last-ever Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren. And I said, 'Yes!' before she could finish. She said, 'There is a part you might be interested in...' and I said, 'I meant Yes, I'll do it, not Yes, please continue! I mean, here is a chance to work with one of the greatest actresses there is. Taking a part in the final Prime Suspect was the quickest decision I've ever made!"

ITV drama series Wild at Heart, created by Ashley Pharoah, began airing in the UK in January 2006 and ran for seven series. Tompkinson played Bristol veterinarian Danny Trevanion, who relocated with his family to South Africa where they attempted to build up a successful wildlife preserve and veterinary surgery. Tompkinson was also co-executive producer for 33 episodes and executive producer for one.

2010s
In 2010 he was cast as Inspector Alan Banks in  DCI Banks: Aftermath, a two-part television pilot adaptation of one of Peter Robinson's crime novels. DCI Banks: Aftermath drew seven million viewers, beating BBC1's Spooks in the ratings battle for the same timeslot. On 14 June 2013, ITV announced that DCI Banks has been commissioned for a third six-part series. He played a role in the BBC series Truckers during the same year.

Film
Barely out of drama school, he appeared in 1988 (as Stephen Duffell) with Ken Goodwin and Freddie Davies in Peter Chelsom's 11-minute short film titled Treacle. It was the tale of comedian Alfie Duffell's melodic legacy, set amid the Blackpool variety scene. The work received a 1988 BAFTA nomination in the category of Best Short Film.

In 1996 he starred in a British-made international feature film, Brassed Off, about a brass band in Grimley, a fictional Yorkshire colliery town where the mines are being shut down by the Tory government in the name of progress.

In 2000, he played the role of Dezmond Blanche in the bleakly satirical film Hotel Splendide.

In February 2012, he filmed his first lead role in a feature film titled Harrigan, described on its 2013 release in Britain as having "a thin budget and cartoonish script".

Stage
Tompkinson has said repeatedly that he enjoys the challenge of mixing television and film roles with live stage productions. He has appeared on stage in London's West End and in theatres across the UK. Of the 1992 production of Michael Wall's Women Laughing at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Alan Hulme of the Manchester Evening News described the cast as "superb....and the acting has the shocking eloquence of picture postcards in acid." And The Independent described The End of the Food Chain (1994) at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough as "excellent" and "vividly acted."

2003 saw him starring as Mortimer Brewster, along with Michael Richards of Seinfeld fame, in Arsenic and Old Lace at The Strand Theatre in London. The part required him to deliver his lines in a New York drawl. One reviewer commented, "The fact that many American audience members...assumed that Stephen was a bone fide American confirms the authenticity of his twang."

In 2007, he toured in Charley's Aunt, playing the role of Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez. In a review in the British Theatre Guide Sheila Connor said: "This is Stephen Tompkinson as you have never seen him before – hilarious even before he dons the frock. His manner, voice, expression and actions are spot-on....totally uproariously funny....It is at Babb's entrance that the play really takes off, Tompkinson revealing himself to be an inspired comic genius to add to his multitude of diverse credits....A truly entertainingly hilarious performance, and it is to be hoped that Tompkinson will treat us to more of the same."

In 2008, he played the deeply sinister and complex lead character of Vindice in the Jacobean bloodbath The Revenger's Tragedy at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. He felt sympathy for the character and explained why the play appealed to him: "He's not a villain, he's an anti-hero, really. You can see he has been wronged. The audience get to be voyeurs and enjoy watching him get his retribution. It's the black-and-white morality of the play, its bloodthirsty nature, that appealed to me. The way that things are dealt with, there was no red tape: it was out with the poison or the sword if you were wronged."

In 2009, he toured in Sign of the Times, playing the character of Frank Tollit, who has spent the past 25 years putting up letters on buildings but dreams of becoming a novelist. His colleague Alan (Tom Shaw), 30 years his junior, wants to be a rock star. Tompkinson said, "The play is a comedy but much more. It is about having dreams and ambition; it's about happiness and failure. Frank's good at his job; he does enjoy it, but he has bigger dreams. I think everyone will be able to relate to it."

When Shaun Prendergast, who is a friend, wrote Faith and Cold Reading he created the part of a villain called Freddie the Suit for Tompkinson. The staging of that play at the Live Theatre in Newcastle in February–March 2011 is his most recent stage run.

Tompkinson made his musical theatre debut in London's West End in the lead role of King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot at the Playhouse Theatre 20 November 2012.

In 2018, he played Yvan in the UK tour of Art, having previously played the role at the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End in 2000.

During the Christmas 2018 season he played Ebenezer Scrooge in Jack Thorne's new adaptation of A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic, London.

In 2019 he is touring a production of Willy Russell's Educating Rita, co-starring with Jessica Johnson. This has been very well received by both critics and audiences.

Presenter
Tompkinson has hosted or narrated a number of other UK television programs, including a FIFA 100 Years of Football documentary. In 1999, he presented the BBC2 documentary Great Railway Journeys: Singapore to Bangkok, part of Series 4 of the popular Great Railway Journeys travel documentaries that aired over many years in the UK and on PBS in the U.S.

In 2009, he took part in the documentary, Stephen Tompkinson's Great African Balloon Adventure, a three-part series inspired by Jules Verne's first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. It followed Tompkinson and his guide, hot air ballooning expert Robin Batchelor, as they travelled 6,108 miles in six weeks from coast to coast, above and on the ground in Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia. The series aired on ITV in the UK in June 2009 and was later distributed by American Public Television in the U.S. The African balloon series was well received, and ITV commissioned a three-part follow-up series that aired on ITV1 in 2010, titled Stephen Tompkinson's Australian Balloon Adventure.

Narrator/voice-over
He has done a variety of voice-over work, including adverts, audio books, and narration. His many adverts include BT Childline, British Midland, Motorola, Alton Towers, Comet, Eurostar, Laphroaig Whisky, Mercury & Kwiksave, Bulmers Cider, Tetley Tea and the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals.

His narrated TV programmes and shows include Little Red Tractor, Trail of Guilt: Harold Shipman: Addicted to Murder (2000), When Snooker Ruled the World (2002), A Band for Britain (2010) and Choccywoccydoodah (2014). In addition, he has narrated numerous audiobooks.

Director
In 2006, Tompkinson made his directing debut in the Midlands, at the helm of the BBC1 afternoon drama The Lightning Kid. He was shadowed by a film crew making the documentary Director's Debut: Stephen Tompkinson's Story that aired immediately prior to the drama, with the intent of revealing the challenges faced by a new director.

Other involvements
Tompkinson has supported various causes by providing promotional videos or voiceovers. These include a fundraising effort toward research to find a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and a financial appeal by Chester Zoo He has also supported causes such as the Westminster Carers Time Bank and, in 2008, he became an Ambassador for Project African Wilderness (PAW), a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to protect and restore the Mwabvi Wildlife Reserve in Malawi.

In February 2012, Tompkinson supported the launch of a foundation established by Robbie Elliot, the former Newcastle United footballer who had helped Tompkinson improve his fitness for filming Harrigan. Elliott was proposing to complete a charity bicycle ride to raise funds for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Stories captured along the ride – from Lisbon to Newcastle – will be made into a documentary narrated by Tompkinson and premiered in London in late 2012.

In late 2011, he recorded an advert for Text Santa, a charity initiative set up by ITV to support nine UK charities at Christmas. Stars of other ITV shows made similar adverts. In January 2012, it was announced that £4,120,000 was raised for the various charities.

Over the years he has participated in Comic Relief's Red Nose Day. In 2001, he was one of the team describing the work the charity does in Britain, helping victims of early Alzheimer's or teenagers who are HIV positive. In 1997, Tompkinson and Kirwan did a Comic Relief sketch titled Ballykissdibley – with Dawn French and the cast of The Vicar of Dibley – in which they played their Ballykissangel characters, Fr. Peter Clifford and Assumpta Fitzgerald.

Personal life
He was married to Celia Anastasia and subsequent to the couple's divorce he became engaged to Ballykissangel co-star Dervla Kirwan. He then married Nicci Taylor, with whom he has a daughter, Daisy Ellen. It was announced in December 2006 that they had separated and would divorce.

He is an avid cricket fan. He once said that if he wasn't an actor he "wouldn't mind travelling the world as a cricket commentator, enjoying endless summers." In 2008 he wrote an article for The Wisden Cricketer about Darren Gough.

On 10 August 2022, Tompkinson pleaded not guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm for allegedly punching a drunken man causing trouble outside his home in Whitley Bay in the early hours of the morning and causing him to fall and suffer a fractured skull. At the subsequent trial, Tompkinson was found not guilty and acquitted on 11 May 2023.

Film
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Stage
(chronologically descending) (see above for additional detail)

Radio
(chronologically descending) *90-minute radio play presented on the centenary of Agatha Christie's birth

Awards
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Ikot Ekpene

Ikot Ekpene, also known as The Raffia City, is a historic town in south-southern state of Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. It is the political and cultural capital of the Annang ethnic group in Nigeria (Nair, 1972). The town is located on the A342 highway that parallels the coast, between Calabar to the southeast and Aba to the west, with the state capital, Uyo, on this road just to the east. Umuahia is the next major town to the north. The population of the Ikot Ekpene Local government area was estimated to be 180,500 in 2022.

Kannan Nair, the noted historian described the town as a cultural and political capital of the Annangs and the Ibibios. The Ibibios live to the east and most of the Annangs live to the south of the town. Villages in the local government area include:

Ikot Ekpene is known as a regional centre of commerce, with notable exports of palm products, especially palm oil, kernels, raffia products including raffia fibers and its wine, and ground crops of yams, cassava, taro, and corn. The population is made up primarily of the Annang people with a small number of Igbo traders and Hausa Suya vendors. Significant exports also include basket weaving, sculpture, and, most notably, raffia cane furniture (hence the colloquial name of the town).

Ikot Ekpene is also known for its technological innovations due to the emergence of Raffia City Hub. Raffia City Hub is an inclusive technological community that supports collaboration, resource sharing, talent hunting, and entrepreneurs. The new Ikot Ekpene Local Government Boss (Caretaker Chairman Ikot Ekpene) Hon. John Cleton Etim inaugurated the Raffia City Entrepreneurs scheme committee. Also the headquarters of some notable seminaries and The Catholic Diocese in the south south region. The Akwaibom state polytechnic ikot Osurua, Ritman University is situated in the city. The city houses the notable mini stadium at GRA road, Nteps Super markerts, Four point by Sheraton hotels, plaza etc.

History
Oral history indicated The Annangs first settled the area in the 16th century.

British era
Though most inhabitants of the area did not have direct contact with European traders who they called Mbakara until early in the twentieth century, it is believed that European articles of trade reached the people beginning in the 17th century.

In November 1903, British troops arrived in the area from Calabar and the following year established a garrison there in January 1904, putting Umoren Eyenobong (known as swordwearer by the Europeans) from Ukana in charge of the immediate Annang people. From Ikot Ekpene the troops marched to Uyo and from there to Abak and Opobo (now Ikot Abasi). Between 1904 and 1910, Ikot Ekpene became part of the Enyong District. In 1914 Enyong District was broken up into two: Enyong and Ikot Ekpene Districts. The new Ikot Ekpene District included Uyo and Abak with the headquarters in Ikot Ekpene town (Akpan, 1967).

By 1919, trade with Europeans opened up as the town became an administrative center. The following companies had posts and stores in the town: John Holt's, Cooperative Wholesale Society, Paterson Zochonis (PZ), G. B. Ollivant and the Compagnie Francaise de L'Afrique Occidentale. The establishment of these companies resulted in an exodus from the surrounding areas and made Ikot Ekpene a vibrant metropolis. In 1937, the colonial administration built the main market and separated those who sold imported European goods from indigenous articles. A slaughterhouse was added to allow for the inspection of meat (Ette, 2020).

In 1903, the British sent in troops and a garrison was stationed there at the main entrance to the town known as Control Post. The town was so important to the British that when a proposed road linking Owerri and Calabar in the late 1920s was to bypass the town, the British administrators abandoned the idea in favor of one linking Eket and Owerri in order to bring the town into the loop (Nair, 1972). It became the site of the experiment in local self-governance by the British in 1951. It was also the birthplace of the famous Ibibio Welfare Union when James Udo Eka teamed up with Udosen Obot at Methodist school in Ikot Obong Edong (Noah, 1988).

Under the British the town became the seat of both the (Annang) Division and (Ikot Ekpene) County Council. Today it is a municipal center in the state of Akwa Ibom.

Independence era
Ikot Ekpene, probably more than any other town, was seriously impacted in the Biafrian civil war. It had strategic military and political importance to both the Biafrians and Nigerians. The town and the area changed hands at least 3 times in this bitter conflict. Following the war, the new reorganization and state structure led to policies that did not recognize the historic importance of the town as most of the Annang leaders were massacred during the war. Like most Annang communities, Ikot Ekpene has a tradition of self-improvement from its sons and daughters, both near and far. Several groups are working together to recapture and rebuild what they fondly call "The Raffia City". Ikot Ekpene has a long history of transforming the raffia fibre into cloth used in shoes, hats, handbags, mats and with distinctive cultural carvings made out of wood. These unique arts and crafts trades have continued alongside traditional agriculture.

Many foreign organizations and churches are present in the area. Four institutions of higher learning have added a richness to the town: the Akwa Ibom state polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, the School of Nursing, the St. Joseph Major Theological Seminary and Ritman University.

Villages
Villages in the local government area includes:

 * 1) Abak Ifia
 * 2) Abak Oko
 * 3) Abiakpo Edem Idim
 * 4) Abiakpo Ikot Essien
 * 5) Abiakpo Ikot Irem
 * 6) Abiakpo Ikot Obionting
 * 7) Abiakpo Ntak-Iyang
 * 8) Adaratak
 * 9) Akanaan
 * 10) Ata Essien Mbiaso
 * 11) Ibiakpan
 * 12) Ibiakpan Ikot
 * 13) Ibiakpan Nto Akan
 * 14) Ibiakpo Edem Idim
 * 15) Ibong Nto Akan
 * 16) Ifuho
 * 17) Ikot Abia Idem
 * 18) Ikot Idem
 * 19) Ikot Inyang
 * 20) Ikot Obong Edong
 * 21) Ikot Otu
 * 22) Ikot-Ekpene-Village
 * 23) Ikot Enwang
 * 24) Ikotobio Okpon
 * 25) Itak Ikot Udo-Okop
 * 26) Mbiaso
 * 27) Ndem Ekpot
 * 28) Nkap Ikot Obio Ebok
 * 29) Nsiak
 * 30) Obioekere
 * 31) Uruk Uso
 * 32) Utu Edem Usung
 * 33) Utu Ikot Ekrenyong
 * 34) Utu Ikot Essien
 * 35) Utu Ikpe

Sports
The Ikot Ekpene Township Stadium is located in Ikot Ekpene. It is the home of football club Vandrezzer FC, the 37th most popular African football club on social media in 2020.

The Ikot Ekpene stadium is now the host to The Nigerian National League team Ibom Youth FC. It was also a former ground for Akwa Starlet, now Dakkadda FC. It has several football teams such as Mashal Rock FC, Raffia City FC, Ituen FC, Police Academy, Ibom Stars etc.

Great players have come from this city, such as Etok Aniekan (Esperanza of Tunisia), Isaac George (Akwa United), Imoh Obot (Nassarawa United), and Vincent Eyeama (Marshall rock to Lille of France, Super Eagles of Nigeria).

Notable people

 * Solomon Udo, professional footballer playing for the Armenia national football team.

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Valladares

Valladares (or Valadares in Portuguese and Galician) is a notable family name originating in the ancient land of Valadares, situated next to Melgaço. It is the northernmost municipality in Portugal, on the south bank of the Minho River, which separates Portugal and Galicia. Because of the proximity of northern Portugal and Galicia, the early Valadares can be found on both sides of the border. The first titled member of the Valladares nobility in Galicia was Luis Sarmiento de Valladares, the first viscount of Meira in 1669 and first marquis de Valladares 1673, the latter title granted by King Charles II of Spain in the second half of the 17th-century. The Valladares family are also very popular in Central America specifically in Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and in Brazil as well (although the surname is Valadares in Portuguese).

Valladares nobility of Galicia
The Valladares family originated in the ancient kingdom of Spain in the northwestern province of Galicia, and the northernmost municipality of Portugal, and so we can find members of the Valladares family on both sides of the Minho river that divides Spain & Portugal. The family was able to establish themselves in other regions of Spain and become influential members of their communities.

One of the earliest Valadares recorded was the nobleman Soeiro Aires de Valadares, son of Arias Núñez de Valadares and Ximena Núñez, both from Galicia. Soeiro was a member of the curia regis of King Alfonso Henriques and appears in royal charters from 1169 to 1179. Soeiro's first wife was Elvira Nunes Velho. He later married Maria Alfonso, an illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso IX of León and his mistress Teresa Gil de Soverosa, who had first married Álvaro Fernández de Lara, and later the concubine of her nephew King Alfonso X of Castile, and then married her second husband Suero Arias de Valladares. Also a member of this family was Aldonça Lourenço de Valadares, the mother of Ines de Castro.

The Valladares noble families aided the Catholic Monarchs of Spain in 1492, in the Reconquista in which Christian troops under orders of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella reconquered Spain and expelled the invading Muslims in the year 1492. They were granted nobility by the Order of Santiago in 1624, and by the Order of Alcantara in 1659. The first titled member of the Valladares nobility in Galicia was Luis Sarmiento de Valladares, the first viscount of Meira in 1669 and first marquis de Valladares 1673, the latter title granted by King Charles II of Spain in the second half of the 17th-century.

Notable people

 * Acisclo Valladares Urruela, Guatemalan attorney, notary and criminal
 * Alfredo Valladares (born 1958), Cuban rower
 * Alvaro Fernández de Valladares (died 1212), Spanish military commander
 * Antônio Carlos Valadares (born 1943), Brazilian politician
 * Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor (1737–1820), Spanish journalist, poet, playwright and writer
 * Armando Valladares (born 1937), Cuban-American poet, diplomat and political prisoner
 * Carmen Gloria Valladares (born 1954), Chilean judge
 * Cinthya Valladares Couoh (born 1981), Mexican politician
 * Crescencio Gómez Valladares (1833–1921), President of Honduras
 * Daniel Valladares (born 1995), Mexican boxer
 * Diego Sarmiento Valladares (1615–1695), Spanish bishop
 * Guido Valadares (1934–1976), Timorese politician and activist
 * Ivan Valladares (born 1965), Peruvian wrestler
 * Jadier Valladares (born 1982), Cuban weightlifter
 * John Valladares (born 1980), Chilean football manager and player
 * José Sarmiento de Valladares, 1st Duke of Atrisco (1643–1708), Spanish viceroy
 * Juan Valladares (born 1947), Honduran long-distance runner
 * Leda Valladares (1919–2012), Argentine singer, songwriter, musicologist, folklorist and poet
 * Luis Valadares Tavares (born 1946), Portuguese professor
 * Manuel Portela Valladares (1867–1952), Spanish politician
 * Manuel Valadares (1904–1982), Portuguese atomic and nuclear physicist
 * Marcos Valadares (born 1977), Brazilian football coach
 * María Zavala Valladares (born 1956), Peruvian politician, lawyer and judge
 * Melvin Valladares (born 1984), Honduran footballer
 * Noel Valladares (born 1977), Honduran footballer
 * Patricio Valladares (born 1982), Chilean film director, screenwriter and comic book writer
 * Rafael Valladares (born 1962), Honduran racewalker
 * Ralph Valladares (1936–1998), Guatemalan roller derby skater and coach
 * Suzette Martinez Valladares (born 1980), American politician
 * Tomás Valladares (1780–1850s), Nicaraguan politician and brigadier
 * Yolanda Valladares (born 1959), Mexican politician

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Nepidae

Nepidae is a family of exclusively aquatic Heteropteran insects in the order Hemiptera. They are commonly called water scorpions for their superficial resemblance to scorpions, due to their raptorial forelegs and the presence of a long slender process at the posterior end of the abdomen, resembling a tail. There are 14 genera in the family, in two subfamilies, Nepinae and Ranatrinae. Members of the genus Ranatra, the most widespread and species-rich genus, are sometimes called needle bugs or water stick insects as they are slenderer than Nepa.

While water scorpions do not sting with their tail (it is used for breathing), they do have a painful bite (strictly speaking a sting by their pointed proboscis), but this is much less harmful to humans than a true scorpion's sting.

Range and habitat
Nepidae are found on all continents except Antarctica. They mostly inhabit stagnant or slow-moving freshwater habitats like ponds, marshes, canals and streams. Exceptionally they have also been recorded from hypersaline lakes and brackish lagoons, the Australian genus Goondnomdanepa is restricted to flowing waters, and Nepa anophthalma is adapted to life in caves in Romania.

Appearance and ecology

Nepidae are brown insects, but some species have a bright red abdomen that can be seen when the wings are open. Their body is broad and flat (subfamily Nepinae) or long and thin (subfamily Ranatrinae). They are rather poor swimmers and typically crawl about on aquatic vegetation. They can fly, but this is infrequently seen. In most species the body is between 1.5 and(-) long, although the largest such as the East Asian Ranatra chinensis and South American R. magna can approach 6 cm.

Respiration in the adult is achieved by means of the caudal process, which consists of a pair of half-tubes capable of being locked together to form a siphon. Air is conducted through it to the tracheae at the apex of the abdomen when the tip of the tube is thrust above the surface of the water (similar to a snorkel). In some species the siphon is longer than the body, but in others it is shorter, in a few even less than one-tenth of the body length. In immature forms the siphon is often underdeveloped and respiration takes place through six pairs of abdominal spiracles.

To keep their orientation in the water they have three pairs of “static sense organs”, small oval structures closely associated with the fourth, fifth, and sixth abdominal spiracles.

Their frontal legs are modified into raptorial appendages that are used to grab their prey. They feed primarily on aquatic invertebrates such as other insects, but occasionally take small fish or tadpoles. The eggs, which are laid above the waterline in mud, decomposing vegetation, the stems of plants or rotting wood, are supplied with air by filamentous processes which vary in number among the genera.

Subfamilies and genera

Nepidae has around 250 species in 14 genera divided into two subfamilies, Nepinae and Ranatrinae.

Among these the most diverse are the widespread Ranatra (about 100 species) and Laccotrephes (about 60), but the family also includes species-poor genera, like the Ethiopian Borborophilus, Nepella, Nepitella and Paranepa (each with one species), Indian Montonepa (one species), Philippine Borborophyes (one species), and Australian Austronepa (one species) and Goondnomdanepa (three species).

Araripenepa from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Crato Formation of Brazil is the oldest known member of the family, and is the sister group to remaining genera.

Ranatrinae
Authority: Douglas & Scott, 1865 (sometimes called "water stick insects")

Genera in this subfamily include: Austronepa and Goondnomdanepa are restricted to Australia. Cercotmetus is from Asia to northern Australia and resembles Ranatra (Worldwide distribution), although the former has a distinctly shorter siphon.
 * 1) Austronepa Menke & Stange, 1964
 * 2) Cercotmetus Amyot & Serville, 1843
 * 3) Goondnomdanepa Lansbury, 1974
 * 4) Ranatra Fabricius, 1790

Nepinae
Authority: Latreille, 1802 (sometimes called "water scorpions")
 * Borborophilus
 * Borborophyes
 * Curicta
 * Laccotrephes
 * Montonepa
 * Nepa
 * Nepella
 * Nepitella (syn. Nepita)
 * Paranepa
 * Telmatotrephes

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August 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 11 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 13

All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 25 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For August 12, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 30.

Feasts

 * Afterfeast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.

Saints

 * Hieromartyr Alexander of Comana, Bishop of Comana (3rd century)
 * Martyrs Pamphilus and Capito, by the sword (3rd century)
 * Martyrs Anicetus and Photius, and others, of Nicomedia (288)
 * Holy 12 soldier-martyrs of Crete, by the sword.
 * Venerable Pallamon of Egypt (c. 323), instructor of St. Pachomius the Great.
 * Venerable Saints Sergius and Stephen, peacefully.
 * Venerable Castor, peacefully.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyrs Hilaria, Digna, Euprepia, Eunomia, Quiriacus, Largio, Crescentian, Nimmia, Juliana and Companions (c. 304)
 * Saint Euplus of Catania (304))  (see also: August 11)
 * Saint Gracilian and Felicissima (c. 304)
 * Saint Cassian of Benevento, Bishop of Benevento (c. 340)
 * Saint Eusebius of Milan, a Greek by birth, was Bishop of Milan in Italy for sixteen years, he opposed Eutychianism (465)
 * Saint Herculanus of Brescia, Bishop of Brescia in Italy (c. 550)
 * Saint Molaise of Devenish (Laisrén mac Nad Froích) (563)
 * Saint Muredach (Murtagh, Muiredach), first Bishop of Killala and founder of Innismurray (6th century)
 * Saint Seigine (Ségéne mac Fiachnaí), Abbot of Iona (652)
 * Saint Porcarius, Abbot of Lérins, and 500 Companions, massacred by the Saracens (c. 732)
 * Saint Jambert (Jænberht, Janbert), fourteenth Archbishop of Canterbury (792)
 * Saint Merewenna (Marwenne, Morwenna), the local saint of Marhamchurch near Bude in Cornwall.
 * Saint Ust (Justus). The town of St Just, a few miles from Penzance in Cornwall, is named after this hermit.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * New Hieromartyrs of David Gareja Monastery, slain by the Dagestanis (Lekians) (1851):
 * Gerontius and Serapion (hieromonks); Otar (deacon); Monk-martyrs Germanus, Bessarion, and Michael, and New Martyr Symeon.

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyrs of the Belogorsk St. Nicholas Monastery (Perm) (1918-1919):
 * Barlaam (Konoplev), Archimandrite,
 * Anthony (Arapov), Abbot,
 * Sergius (Vershinin), Elijah (Popov), Vyacheslav (Kosozhilin), Ioasaph (Sabintsev), and John (Novoselov), Hieromonks;
 * Micah (Podkorytov), Bessarion (Okulov), Euthymius (Korotkov), and Matthew (Bannikov), Hierodeacons;
 * New Monk-martyrs: Euthymius, Barnabas, Demetrius, Sabbas, Hermogenes, Arcadius, and Marcellus;
 * Martyred novices: John, Jacob, Peter, Jacob, Alexander, Theodore, Peter, Sergius, and Alexis.

 * New Hieromartyr Basil Infantiev, Priest (1918)
 * New Hieromartyrs Leonidas Biryukovich, John Nikolsky, and Nicholas Dobroumov, Priests (1937)
 * New Martyr Eudocia Safronova (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of relics of St. Eadwold of Cerne (Edwold) (c. 900), hermit of Cerne.

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The result of the debate was no votes apart from the nomination. Will resubmit. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:58, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

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Unusual number

In number theory, an unusual number is a natural number n whose largest prime factor is strictly greater than $\sqrt{n}$.

A k-smooth number has all its prime factors less than or equal to k, therefore, an unusual number is non-$$\sqrt{n}$$-smooth.

Relation to prime numbers
All prime numbers are unusual. For any prime p, its multiples less than p2 are unusual, that is p, ... (p-1)p, which have a density 1/p in the interval (p, p2).

Examples
The first few unusual numbers are
 * 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 51, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, ...

The first few non-prime (composite) unusual numbers are
 * 6, 10, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 26, 28, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 42, 44, 46, 51, 52, 55, 57, 58, 62, 65, 66, 68, 69, 74, 76, 77, 78, 82, 85, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 99, 102, ...

Distribution
If we denote the number of unusual numbers less than or equal to n by u(n) then u(n) behaves as follows:

Richard Schroeppel stated in the HAKMEM (1972), Item #29 that the asymptotic probability that a randomly chosen number is unusual is ln(2). In other words:

 * $$\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{u(n)}{n} = \ln(2) = 0.693147 \dots\, .$$

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Nepa cinerea

Nepa cinerea is a species of water scorpion (Nepidae), found in most of Europe, including the British Isles, as well as North Africa and southern and northern Asia.

Habitat and Biology
It lives in ponds, small rivers, and stagnant water, and feeds upon aquatic animals, especially insects.

Respiration in the adult is effected by means of the caudal process, which consists of a pair of half-tubes capable of being locked together to form a siphon by means of which air is conducted to the tracheae at the apex of the abdomen when the tip of the tube is thrust above the surface of the water. In immature forms, the siphon is undeveloped and breathing takes place through six pairs of abdominal spiracles. The eggs, laid in the stems of plants, are supplied with seven filamentous processes which float freely in the water.

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Nikolay Turgenev

Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev (Николай Иванович Тургенев), (23 October, 1789, Simbirsk–10 November 1871, Bougival near Paris) was an early Russian Imperial economist and political theoretician who gained renown for his Essay on the Theory of Taxation (1818) and Russia and the Russians (1847). A relative of the novelist Ivan Turgenev, Nikolay co-founded several reformist societies, notably the Northern Society of the Decembrists. Being abroad during the fateful Rebellion of 1825, he chose never to return to his homeland, where he was tried in absentia and sentenced to Siberian katorga for life.

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Bantan Line

The Bantan Line (播但線) is a railway line that connects Himeji and Wadayama station in Asago City, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The line is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and serves as a connector between the Sanyo Main Line and the Sanin Main Line. The name refers to the ancient provinces of Harima (播磨) and Tajima (但馬), which the line connects.

The line is 65.7 km long, with 18 stations.

Service
Local train operation is divided into the electrified section between Himeji and Teramae, and the non-electrified section between Teramae and Wadayama. All local trains makes every stop on the line, and no local train runs the entire length of the line.

The Hamakaze limited express, which connects the Kinki region to the San'in region, uses the Bantan Line to access the Sanin Main Line.

Rolling stock

 * 103 series EMUs (since 1998)
 * 221 series EMUs (since 2003, sometimes substituted by 223-6000 series)
 * KiHa 40 series DMUs
 * KiHa 189 series DMUs (Hamakaze limited express, since 2010)

Former

 * 113 series EMUs (from 2006 until 2007)
 * KiHa 10 series DMUs
 * KiHa 58 series DMUs (Tajima express)
 * KiHa 80 series DMUs (Hamakaze limited express, until 1982)
 * KiHa 181 series DMUs (Hamakaze limited express, from 1982 until 2010)
 * JNR 50 series coaches hauled by JNR Class DD51 or JNR Class DE10 locomotive (until 1992)

History
The 29.6km section from Himeji north to Teramae was constructed by the private Bantan Railway (播但鉄道) company and opened in 1894, with the 6.3km section to Hase opening in January the following year, and the 7.7km section to Ikuno three months later. The 8.3km section to Nii opened in 1901. The Bantan Railway was purchased by the Sanyō Railway (山陽鉄道) in 1903, which extended the line 13.8km to Wadayama, opening in April 1906, 8 months before the company was nationalised. Individual section opening dates are given below.

The line was named the Bantan Line in anticipation of the Sanyo Railway company being purchased by the Japanese government under the Railway Nationalisation Act of 1906.

The Bantan Railway Co. also built a ~15.7km line from Himeji east to Shikama-Kou (near Kakogawa), opened in 1895 and closed in 1986.

CTC signalling was commissioned between Himeji and Wadayama in 1978, and freight services ceased between 1984 and 1986. The Himeji - Teramae section was electrified in 1998.

Bantan Railway (north of Himeji)

 * July 26, 1894: Himeji - Teramae opens.
 * January 15, 1895: Teramae - Hase opens.
 * April 17, 1895: Hase - Ikuno opens.
 * August 19, 1896: Nibuno Station opens.
 * February 20, 1898: Kyoguchi Station opens.
 * March 28, 1898: Mizoguchi Station opens.
 * August 29, 1901: Ikuno - Nii opens.

Sanyō Railway

 * June 1, 1903: Sanyō Railway purchased Bantan Railway.
 * April 1, 1906: Nii - Wadayama opens.
 * October 12, 1906: Line renamed Bantan Line.

JNR/JR West

 * December 1, 1906: Sanyō Railway company nationalised.
 * October 15, 1925: Tofu-Machi Station closed.
 * August 10, 1934: Aokura Station opens.
 * November 20, 1935: Tohori Station opens.
 * October 15, 1951: Niino Station opens.
 * April 1, 1987: Japanese National Railways (JNR) was privatised and regionalised, with the line transferring to the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
 * March 14, 1998: Himeji - Teramae electrified.

Bantan Railway (east of Himeji)

 * April 17, 1895: Himeji - Shikama Station (later Shikama-Kou Station) opened.
 * November 20, 1897: Tenjin Station (later Shikama Station) opened.
 * September 21, 1915: Shikama Station was renamed Shikama-Kou Station, and Tenjin Station was renamed Shikama Station.
 * November 1, 1986: Himeji - Shikama-Kou closed.

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Brent Woods.

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Talk:Fort Miami (Indiana)

Merge with Fort Wayne (Indiana)
I'd like to merge this with the Fort Wayne article and rename that article "Forts of Fort Wayne." Everyone seemed to like to rename forts in the 16th-18th centuries. Since there isn't much to be said about most of these posts in the same place, why not put them together? --CTS Wyneken (talk) 01:35, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Fort Wayne was not built in the same location, and therefore is not part of Fort Miami which is totally a different fort.--Varing (talk) 14:47, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * ALL of them were totally different forts in that sense - they were different buildings, but we don't have 6 articles, one for each rendition. They were all built in or around Kekionga, the Miami Indian village.  The only thing that distinguishes Fort Wayne is that the Americans owned it instead of foreigners. The city of Fort Wayne encompasses all of the old Indian village, as well as the sites of all the forts. Sbalfour (talk) 19:46, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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Fort Miami (Indiana) sources
There is a source listed on the article Fort Miami (Indiana) called: “Poinsatte”. To my knowledge “Poinsatte” is a surname. I could not find any documents or sources elsewhere named “Poinsatte”. What does “Poinsatte” mean or refer to? It is a source listed several times as a citation for parts of the article, yet there is no further information on what it is. Thank you, any help is appreciated. 2705noahgilbert (talk) 06:19, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

 * @2705noahgilbert: The bottom of the "Notes" section shows the following book:
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Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 11:27, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Merge?
I notice that Ouiatanon redirects here, but Ouiatenon is a separate article. It's not a bad article, but I wonder if these two should be merged, since the subject matter is so closely related. Thought? Mingusboodle (talk) 22:58, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It's a good question. They're certainly closely related, but personally I favor keeping them separate.  Fort Ouiatenon refers solely to the European trading post (a rebuilt form of which is still in existence) on the north side of the river, while Ouiatenon was the collection of Indian villages in the plains to the south, the history of which began before European settlement and ended in the 1790s.  Though similar in name, I think they're sufficiently separate in nature to merit discrete articles.  Huwmanbeing  ☀  ★  02:04, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It might not hurt to make a DAB for them though. Charles Edward (Talk) 02:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * At the very least, each article should link to the other in the intro. Mingusboodle (talk) 22:47, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Huwmanbeing  ☀  ★  02:23, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

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TV Globinho

TV Globinho (formerly Globinho) was a children's television program produced by Rede Globo. It was dedicated to cartoons and anime and was broadcast from July 3, 2000 until August 1, 2015. The strand was responsible for introducing several shows that became the most successful in recent years, being the most watched children's show on Brazilian TV in the 2000s. TV Globinho became popular for broadcasting shows like Dragon Ball Z and SpongeBob SquarePants.

In June 2012, the program went off the air on weekdays being broadcast only on Saturdays, losing its weekday morning timeslot for the talkshow Encontro com Fátima Bernardes which caused a great uproar among the Brazilian public. In August 1, 2015, TV Globinho was discontinued losing its timeslot for the program É De Casa.

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Clinical pastoral education

Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is education to teach spiritual care to clergy and others. CPE is the primary method of training hospital and hospice chaplains and spiritual care providers in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. CPE is both a multicultural and interfaith experience that uses real-life ministry encounters of students to improve the care provided by caregivers.

Theory
An underpinning theory of education that structures clinical pastoral education is the "Action-Reflection" mode of learning. CPE students typically compose "verbatims" of their pastoral care encounters in which they are invited to reflect upon what occurred and draw insight from these reflections that can be implemented in future pastoral care events.

History
Although the practice of spiritual care has a long tradition in Christianity and to some extent in other faith traditions, the systematic analysis of practice associated with clinical pastoral education had its beginnings in the early 20th century. In 1925, Richard Cabot, a physician and adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School, published an article in Survey Graphic suggesting that every candidate for ministry receive clinical training for pastoral work similar to the clinical training offered to medical students. In the 1930s, the Reverend Anton Boisen placed theological students at the Chicago Theological Seminary in supervised contact with patients in mental hospitals, a flagship program that later resulted in the forming of the ACPE. In 1952, combining the work of Professor Paul E. Johnson and the philanthropy of Albert V. Danielsen, Boston University established within its School of Theology the Danielsen Pastoral Counseling Center, which was accredited by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. Now the Danielsen Institute, it trains in its mental-health clinic doctoral candidates and fellows in pastoral counseling.

Accrediting bodies
CPE in Australia and New Zealand is conducted by six CPE accrediting associations that consult together for common curricula and standards of practice under an umbrella association, the Australia New Zealand Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ANZACPE). The six constituent associations are: New South Wales College of Clinical Pastoral Education (New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory); Queensland Institute of Clinical Pastoral Education; Association for Supervised Pastoral Education in Australia (Victoria and Tasmania); Association for Clinical Pastoral Education in Western Australia; South Australia and Northern Territory Association for Clinical Pastoral Education; and New Zealand Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.

In the United States there are currently two organizations who are recognized by the United States Department of Education. The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education is recognized as an accrediting agency for CPE programs by the U.S. Department of Education. The Institute for Clinical Pastoral Training is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training (ACCET). ACCET is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency. Likewise, there are over two hundred and seventy accredited seminary graduate programs with the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) in which some provide specializations in clinical pastoral education.

In Canada, all CPE training and accreditation is done through CASC/ACSS, the Canadian Association of Spiritual Care / Association Canadienne de Soins Spirituels.

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User:Inselaffe

Inselaffen [plural] is a German word meaning "Island Monkeys". It is used, perhaps pejoratively but mostly light heartedly, to describe the people of England, UK. The word is generally used fondly and as part of the friendly and often humorous, competitive banter between the two countries.

The actual meaning behind it refers to the German (and other European countries) stereotypical image of the English as heavy drinking, violent, criminalistic and yobbish. These characteristics of the English are regularly witnessed by Europeans when visiting the UK, while on holiday elsewhere or at football matches, where many Europeans have been victim to the internationally infamous English hooliganism.

German people offer this behaviour as evidence to a tongue in cheek theory that evolution stalled on the island of Great Britain.

Although the phrase is used in reference to the people of the British Isles, the same stereotype mainly refers to the people of the nations Scotland, Ireland and Wales, who, it is considered, have a much more violent and aggressive nature, though still suffering the same commitment to inebriation and constant fight to avoid sobriety.

Perhaps this article should be included in uncyclopedia. It could work, no?

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Talk:Fort Wayne (fort)

Merge Request (see Talk:Fort Miami (Indiana)
See talk on other page. --CTS Wyneken (talk) 01:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

History contradiction
I found this source, which has a contradictory history regarding the rebuilding of the French fort. I'm tempted to believe this version, because it specifically covers Fort Wayne history. However, if the information in the article is incorrect, I wonder if it refers to one of the other Fort Miami? I could use your opinions on this. "Early in the year 1750, Captain Charles DeRaymond completed the new fort on the left bank of the St. Joseph. It stood on rather high ground (at the present St. Joe Boulevard and Delaware Avenue), less than a mile from the junction of the St. Joseph and St. Mary's. Chief Cold Foot, a staunch friend of the French, occupied the discarded buildings of the old fort, which became the center of an Indian settlement known as Cold Foot Village.  Half a mile to the south of the new fort, where the maumee turns in its course toward the east, lay the village of Kiskakon.  Most of its inhabitants had joined the English at Pickawillany."* Mingusboodle (talk) 02:53, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

For what it's worth, the article "Kekionga" says the fort was rebuilt in 1752 by Lieutenant Louis Coulon de Villiers, and it has a cited source. So we now have three sources that seem to agree that the fort was rebuilt around 1750, but who did it? Was it Captain Pierre Blainville, Captain Charles DeRaymond, or Lieutenant Louis Coulon de Villiers? I'd lay money that at least one of these guys was working on the fort in modern-day Ohio, but I don't have enough information to determine which is which.Mingusboodle (talk) 04:02, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Source for portage location being unmarked industrial site
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/31/culture-wars-fort-wayne-373011 SwissAmish (talk) 19:01, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

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Susan Anspach

Susan Florence Anspach (November 23, 1942 – April 2, 2018) was an American stage, film and television actress who had roles in films during the 1970s and 1980s such as Five Easy Pieces (1970), Play It Again, Sam (1972), Blume in Love (1973), Montenegro (1981), Blue Monkey (1987), and Blood Red (1989).

Early life
Anspach was born and raised in Queens, New York City. Her mother was Gertrude (Kehoe), a secretary and former singer of Scottish and Irish ancestry. Her father was Renald Anspach, a World War II Army veteran and later factory worker, who was of German-Jewish and English descent. The couple met at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Anspach's grandfather had disapproved of the marriage and disowned his son. Anspach was raised by her great aunt until Anspach was six, when her aunt died. She went back to live with her parents in what grew to be an abusive home; she ran away at age 15. With the help of a Roman Catholic organization, she moved in with a family in Harlem.

Anspach graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School in Long Island City in 1960. She received a full scholarship to the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She studied music and drama. Anspach made her professional debut in Thornton Wilder's one-act play Pullman Car Hiawatha at a summer theater in Maryland. After college, she moved back to New York City.

Career
Anspach starred in several Broadway and off-Broadway shows, including as Sheila, the female lead in the musical Hair. The production ran for 45 performances at the Cheetah Theatre. She was in a play with Al Pacino while at the Actors Studio. She starred off-Broadway in 1965 in A View from the Bridge with Robert Duvall, Jon Voight, and Dustin Hoffman.

Anspach first came to prominence in the 1970 film Five Easy Pieces, directed by Bob Rafelson and starring Jack Nicholson. Vincent Canby of The New York Times called her "one of America's most charming and talented actresses". She followed this with a supporting role in Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam (1972) and a more prominent role in Paul Mazursky's romantic comedy Blume in Love (1973), alongside George Segal and Kris Kristofferson.

Anspach originally was cast in the role of country singer Barbara Jean in the 1975 film Nashville, but her salary request exceeded the ensemble film's budget; she was replaced by Ronee Blakley.

In her film career, Anspach starred in 19 features and eight television movies and also was featured in two series, The Yellow Rose and The Slap Maxwell Story (with Dabney Coleman). She guest-starred in the NBC romantic anthology series Love Story in 1973, in the episode "All My Tomorrows".

Personal life
Anspach was raised in the Catholic faith of her mother. She said that the church and her psychoanalyst were her "parents" for close to 10 years of her youth.

Anspach had a daughter, Catherine Curry (born October 15, 1968) with fellow Hair cast member Steve Curry. She had a son, Caleb Goddard (born September 26, 1970), whom she claimed was fathered by actor Jack Nicholson. She married actor Mark Goddard in June 1970 and divorced him in October 1978. Goddard adopted both children.

Anspach married musician Sherwood Ball (son of musician-entrepreneur Ernie Ball) in 1982 and divorced him in 1988.

Activism
Anspach marched with United Farm Workers head Cesar Chavez. She protested against the racist apartheid system of South Africa. Anspach also advocated for human rights in Central America.

Death
Anspach died from heart failure on April 2, 2018, aged 75, in her Los Angeles home.

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Nikolay Akimov

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov (Никола́й Па́влович Аки́мов; 16 April 1901 – 6 September 1968) was an experimental theatre director and scenic designer noted for his work with the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. His most notorious production was the cynical version of Hamlet (1932), with Ophelia as a drunken prostitute and the king's ghost as a clever mystification arranged by Hamlet. Akimov, who was the Comedy Theater director in 1935-1949 and 1956-1968, wrote several books, among them About Theater (О театре, 1962) and Not Just About Theater (Не только о театре, 1966), and was designated a People's Artist of the USSR in 1960.

Akimov was director of the New Theatre in Leningrad in the early 1950s.

The Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre is named in his honour.

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Vídeo Show

Vídeo Show was a long-running Brazilian television program on Rede Globo that aired from 20 March 1983 to 11 January 2019. From its debut in 1983 to 1994, the show aired weekly. From 1994 to 2019, it aired from Monday to Friday at 2p.m. Brasilia Time following Jornal Hoje and was one of the network's most-watched afternoon shows.

On 8 January 2019, Rede Globo announced the program's cancellation due to declining viewership; the show's final episode aired three days later.

Format
This format was that of a daily "electronic magazine", where the network's backstages are shown, with on-set and behind-the-scenes footage on Globo's series and telenovelas, including bloopers, interviews with the actors, actresses, directors and authors, funny segments with scenes from the telenovelas, and old videos from the network's archives through Memoria Globo. Vídeo Show relaunched as a hybrid game show/variety show on 18 November 2013 with the debut of Zeca Camargo (former host of Fantástico) and Ricardo Waddington. However, in conjunction of Globo's 50th anniversary, Vídeo Show reverted to its original format and the studio audience was removed. This relaunch marked the return of Miguel Falabella (the longest-serving presenter; 1987–2002), as one of the hosts and Cissa Guimarães, the show's reporter. Otaviano Costa became a permanent host and Monica Iozzi became Costa's co-host, replacing Zeca Camargo.

The show's final presenters were Joaquim Lopes and Sophia Abrahão. Initially, it was presented by Tássia Camargo in its inception, years later by Marcelo Tas (current member of CQC Brazil), the actors Miguel Falabella, André Marques, the host Angélica, Fernanda Lima and Ana Furtado. Otaviano Costa, Marcela Monteiro and Dani Monteiro later served as presenters. This version presented a summary of current views and ancient views on TV.

From 2001 to 2011, there was a "Vídeo Game" segment, consisting of a week-long game show hosted by Angélica, where actors, divided into two teams, must answer questions and complete funny tasks related to the network's current and/or past shows. The winner was announced on Friday, and donated the prize to a charity of their choice.

The opening theme was based on "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" by Michael Jackson; an instrumental version of the song composed by Maynard Ferguson was used for most of the show's run.

Vídeo Show Walk of Fame
"Vídeo Show Walk of Fame" was a segment where artists were invited to make their mark in a block of cement, following the same modes of ceremonies of TCL Chinese Theatre.

Each concrete block was to be part of a future Hall of Fame at the studios of Globo (Estúdios Globo) in Rio de Janeiro.

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Talk:Wabash and Erie Canal

Loveland
Loveland is on the Little Miami River, which is as far as I know unsuitable for canal boats. Originally, this article ambiguously said "Miami River" instead. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 05:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

 * If a moment presents itself, I'll check the a source. --CTS Wyneken (talk) 10:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Canal uses other than Transportation
Why is no mention of the canal's use as a water source for power to mills and factories? In many cases this continued long after transportation on the canal had ended. This was critical in many towns like Rochester and also provided power to pump water in city water systems. It seems odd that this is ignored.Corumplex (talk) 23:52, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

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Pigsty (film)

Pigsty (Porcile) is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marco Ferreri, Ugo Tognazzi, Pierre Clémenti, Alberto Lionello, Franco Citti and Anne Wiazemsky.

The Criterion Collection's website states "Provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini is at his most incendiary in this double-edged allegory on fascism, consumerism, and resistance. .... these stories of transgression form a scathing commentary on postwar European moral rot and the meaning of rebellion in the face of a corrupt world."

Plot
The film features two parallel stories.

The first story is set around 1500 on the slopes of Etna in Sicily, and is completely devoid of dialogue until the protagonist's final line. A young man wanders around a volcanic landscape killing and eating insects and small animals. He flees from garrisons of soldiers, fearing that he might be seen and only approaches corpses. Soon, he is no longer satisfied with animal flesh and wants to experience the taste of human flesh; a short time later, seeing the same garrison that he had seen at the beginning of the film, he manages to attract a soldier and kill him. After this first act of cannibalism, other people start joining him on his journey, including some women.

After more carnage, news of the cannibals' raids reach a village. Soon, they are surrounded and captured by the locals. During the capture, Clémenti recites the famous tagline of the film: "I killed my father, I ate human flesh and I quiver with joy." Poles are erected and the cannibals are tied to them, left to be devoured by stray dogs.

The story is about the human capacity of destruction and a rebellion against the social prerequisites implied against it. The second story is set during 1967, in a villa in Godesberg, Germany, where a young man named Julian leads a flat and confined existence, which causes him to neglect his radically politicised fiancée Ida. His father, industrialist Herr Klotz, tries to convince his son to hurry up with his marriage, but Julian is adamant. Julian also harbours a secret, which is that he secretly sneaks into a pigsty and lies with the pigs whenever he has the chance.

The family situation worsens even more when Julian falls into a state of trance, stretching out on an armchair, remaining indifferent to everything that happens around him. In the meantime, two men arrive at the villa, one of whom, Hans Guenther, introduces Mr. Herdhitze, his rival and old comrade in arms, to Klotz. Klotz is initially tempted to blackmail Herdhitze after hearing about his macabre background from Guenther about some Jewish bodies that Herdhitze allegedly kept to conduct questionable experiments. Herdhitze arrives at Klotz's villa proposing him to join the company. The man refuses, but is then forced to reconsider due to Herdhitze's revelation, informed of Julian's scandalous dealings with pigs.

While all this is happening, Julian recovers and decides once and for all to have a clear and precise discussion with Ida, revealing his ideas about love, even though he doesn't talk to her about his relationships. Afterwards, while Ida leaves the villa to marry someone else and while Klotz and Herdhitze are forming a company, Julian heads to the pigsty, allowing himself to be devoured by pigs. Julian's end is not shown but is instead told in a dialogue between Herdhitze and the gardener of the villa, Maracchione. Since there is nothing left of Julian, as the pigs had eaten his entire body, Herdhitze tells Maracchione to be silent about matter.

The story attempts to provide a link between the Third Reich and Wirtschaftswunder Germany.

Cast

 * Pierre Clémenti as Young cannibal
 * Franco Citti as Second cannibal
 * Ninetto Davoli as Maracchione
 * Jean-Pierre Léaud as Julian Klotz
 * Anne Wiazemsky as Ida
 * Alberto Lionello as Signore Klotz
 * Margarita Lozano as Madame Klotz
 * Ugo Tognazzi as Herdhitze
 * Marco Ferreri as Hans Günther

Credits

 * Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
 * Written by: Pier Paolo Pasolini
 * Produced by: Gian Vittorio Baldi
 * Associate producer: Gianni Barcelloni
 * Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli, Armando Nannuzzi, Giuseppe Ruzzolini
 * Edited by: Nino Baragli
 * Costume design: Danilo Donati
 * Music: Benedetto Ghiglia
 * Sound: Alberto Salvatori

Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 60% based on 10 critics, with an average rating of 5.7/10.

Home video
The film was released by the Criterion Collection in a 9-BD box of Pasolini 101, in celebration of Pasolini's 101st birthday.

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