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Talk:Brendan Smyth

POV?
(Transferred from my talk page) - User:Ali-oops

Hello. It is POV to say that his actions were "egregious" (Wordnet: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible). Wikipedia is not here to judge what is "outrageously bad"; we present information in an npov way and try to not abuse adjectives. You can leave it up to the reader to judge whether his actions were "egregious" (and especially whether they were the most egregious). I'm not defending his actions, but if we present the facts, then readers should be able to judge for themselves that he was egregious without us preaching it to them. 24.224.153.40 00:15, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

 * In that case, rather than delete the sentence I'll change the disputed word to 'notorious' (Ref: ill-famed, having an exceedingly bad reputation). He was certainly that - Ali-oops✍ 08:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * This is one of the least neutral articles I've ever read. You don't start an article by saying "So-and-so (19XX-19YY) was a child molester"... doesn't matter who it is... you just don't. — CharlotteWebb 17:03, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * You do if he's a convicted child molestor, and his crimes are the only reason anyone would have heard of him.

 * I believe the description NOTORIOUS is quite appropriate. Bad Reputation is putting it mildly. The actions of this individual and the Order he belonged to deserve the recognition of such. I have uploaded my OWN picture I photographed as a 9 year old. I do not know how to link this page to the photograph but I am sure someone will find it. I need not say anymore___.Illumina29 04:43, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * oK...I will try this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Father_Smyth1.jpg
 * my photo added, follow this link above Illumina29 05:17, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pic! I've cropped and balanced it and added it to the article. Can you possibly add licensing? Thanks again - Alison✍ 07:10, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I've made an attempt at tidy-up and de-POV. Comments? - Alison✍ 17:48, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

 * The jpeg looks good, thanks, I am using the GFDL license, I hope I got this right! Illumina29 01:32, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Durn it, do I need to upload this again? no. hmm, 'not sure! Illumina29 01:37, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I think I added the GFDL tag in the wrong place! I think I better wait a day to see if you can help me put it where it should be, sorry such a n00b! Illumina29 02:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't worry about it. You're doing great! I'll fix it - Alison✍ 03:08, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks so much for helping me with this, now this page has a proper association to the photo I took. I could not believe my diocese, after all these years and those who came forward, never knew what he looked like until I came forward (7th in my parish) and brought this image. Thanks so much again! Illumina29 16:36, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Falsehoods
The statement in the article that Smyth raped and sexually abused hundreds of boys between 1945 and 1989. seems clearly to be false. No reference at all is provided for this amazing statement, apart from vague reference to a book that has been accused of dishonesty. Alliance Support The only information I can find states that Smyth "abused and indecently assaulted" (not "raped") 20 children in that period. Irish News I have replaced this information in the article.  Xan  dar  23:13, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

This statement is inaccurate, only citing the Irish News, it does not account for the many victims of Brendan Smyth in the United States. When I came forward and reported to the Diocese of Providence in Rhode Island in 2006 I was informed by the Vicar General that I was the sixth victim to come forward. I later discover that another came forward one month later, making 7, and I located two more, making nine. Then there were a dozen or more in the Diocese of Fargo, North Dakota. So this writer is off on the numbers. 71.88.41.131 (talk) 14:43, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

I updated the number to "an estimated 90 children" from today's Irish Independent. Bokononist (talk) 19:24, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Move request

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

The result of the proposal was move per request. I have faith our Australian brothers and sisters would not disagree. WP:PRIME is an objective standard that is entirely neutral as to nationality.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:43, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Brendan Smyth (priest) → Brendan Smyth – This person has caused a good deal of controversy, his activities have rocked the head of the Roman Catholic church in Ireland, he is the primary meaning. The Australian politician looks like a rather minor figure, the Australian Capital Territory is a pretty small territory, he should be dealt with by a hatnote. PatGallacher (talk) 20:13, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

 * Support. The priest got 10,000 page views in the last 90 days, the politician got 700. Kauffner (talk) 09:47, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

 * Support. But Australian Wikipedians might disagree?  Springnuts (talk) 10:47, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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Big Science (Laurie Anderson album)

Big Science is the debut studio album by American performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. It was the first of a seven-album deal Anderson signed with Warner Bros. Records. The album consists of a selection of musical highlights from her eight-hour production United States Live, which was itself released as a 5-LP box set and book in 1984.

The album is best known for the single "O Superman", which unexpectedly reached No. 2 in the UK after being discovered and promoted by BBC DJ John Peel. After Big Science, music played a larger role in Anderson's work.

Background
Although considered her debut album, Anderson had previously recorded one side of a 2-LP set titled You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With, a collaboration released on Giorno Poetry Systems with William S. Burroughs and John Giorno. She had also contributed two pieces to a 1977 compilation of electronic music.

An alternate mix of "Let X=X" was released as a flexi disc in the February issue of Artforum earlier in 1982. A sleeve for the disc could be cut out from the magazine and assembled.

A newly remastered version of the album was released on 18 June 2007 by Nonesuch/Elektra Records with new liner notes, the bonus track "Walk the Dog" (the B-side of the original "O Superman" single), and the "O Superman" music video.

Slant Magazine listed the album at #44 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s." In 2018, Pitchfork listed the album at #22 on its list of the "200 Best Albums of the 1980s."

Laurie Anderson enjoyed a surprise popular hit in the United Kingdom with "O Superman" in 1981. Her subsequent albums Big Science and Mister Heartbreak each sold between 100,000 and 125,000 copies in the United States, and even the five-record United States - Live sold 40,000, according to Elliot Abbott, Anderson's manager and the executive producer of Home of the Brave. As of 1983, the album had sold 150,000 copies worldwide.

Track listing
All words and music by Laurie Anderson
 * 1) "From the Air" – 4:29
 * 2) "Big Science" – 6:25
 * 3) "Sweaters" – 2:18
 * 4) "Walking & Falling" – 2:10
 * 5) "Born, Never Asked" – 4:56
 * 6) "O Superman (For Massenet)" – 8:21
 * 7) "Example #22" – 2:59
 * 8) "Let X=X/It Tango" – 6:52

"O Superman" mixed at The Lobby; originally released on One Ten Records "Example #22" special thanks to Paranormals Medeline Vester, Gerhard Rozhek, Coretta Atteroc, Shelley Karson "Let X=X" original version appeared in ArtForum February 1982

Personnel

 * Laurie Anderson – vocals, Roland VP-330, Farfisa organ, percussion, Oberheim OB-Xa, sticks, violins, electronics, keyboards, handclaps, whistling, marimba, cover artwork
 * Roma Baran – Farfisa bass, glass harmonica, sticks, handclaps, Casiotone, accordion, whistling
 * Perry Hoberman – flute, saxophone, piccolo, backing vocals, bottles and sticks, handclaps, assistant producer, art direction
 * Bill Obrecht – alto saxophone
 * Peter Gordon – clarinet, tenor saxophone
 * David Van Tieghem – drums, rototoms, timpani, marimba, percussion
 * Additional personnel
 * Rufus Harley – bagpipes (3)
 * Chuck Fisher – alto and tenor saxophones (7)
 * Richard Cohen – clarinets, bassoon, baritone saxophone (7)
 * Leanne Ungar – engineer, backing vocals (7)
 * George E. Lewis – trombones

"Special thanks to Patty Anderson, Lester Bangs, Robert Coe, Anton Fier, Charles Holland, Geraldine Pontius, Greg Shifrin and Gail Turner".

Charts

 * Album

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Loftus, New South Wales

Loftus is a suburb, in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Loftus is 29 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire.

History
Loftus was named after Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, governor of New South Wales between 1878 and 1885. The Illawarra railway line to Sutherland was completed in 1885. The next station south was Loftus Junction, which opened on 9 March 1886. The name was changed to Loftus ten years later and in 1979 the station moved to the present site.

The Sydney Tramway Museum at Loftus (a non-profit community organisation run entirely by volunteers) was created in 1950, in a large tram yard shed beside the rail tracks that ran across the Princes Highway into the Royal National Park. During the latter years of World War II this had been an army camp site, with the national park used as a training ground. The public school opened in January 1953. The official post office opened in July 1953 but closed in 1980.

Heritage listings
Loftus has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * Illawarra railway: Loftus Junction railway signal box

Demographics
In the 2016 Census, there were 4,135 people in Loftus. 86.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was England at 3.3%. 92.3% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 29.5%, No Religion 26.3% and Anglican 23.0%.

Geography
Loftus is a residential suburb with a bushland atmosphere, adjacent to the Royal National Park that flanks Sydney's south-eastern boundary. The western border is formed by Loftus and Fahy Creeks. Prince Edward Park and Woronora Cemetery form the northern border.

Transport
The Princes Highway runs along the eastern border. Loftus railway station is on the Illawarra railway line and is part of the Sydney Trains network and serves as an interchange for U-Go Mobility bus services to the area.

Loftus is also home to the Sydney Tramway Museum (also known as the South Pacific Electric Railway), which operates the Royal National Park branch line that was constructed in 1886 and closed to suburban trains in June 1991. The service provided by the museum is a most popular means of access to the Royal National Park. The line runs from the museum to Royal National Park railway station.

Schools
Loftus Public School is located in National Avenue. The Southern Sydney Institute of TAFE, Loftus Campus and the University of Wollongong, Loftus Campus are located next to the railway station. Camp Wonawong is a youth camp located beside Loftus Creek.

Services
Loftus Rural Fire Service is situated opposite Loftus train station and protects the bush interface of Loftus, Yarrawarrah, Sutherland, Jannali, Como and the Royal National Park.

Sport and recreation
Loftus has various social and sporting clubs which include:
 * Loftus Yarrawarrah Rovers Football Club
 * Loftus Zircons Netball Club
 * 1st Loftus Scouts
 * West Shire Combined Venturer Unit
 * Loftus Underground Organisation (LUGOS)
 * Loftus Bandits
 * Pit Masters
 * Grommies
 * Sutherland Loftus United (Rugby League)

Notable residents

 * Adam Hills, comedian

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Llandilo, New South Wales

Llandilo is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 54 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Penrith. It is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Llandilo is a small semi-rural outcrop between two creeks.

A southern part of Llandilo was incorporated into an expansion of the suburb of Jordan Springs on 22 November 2019.

History
Llandilo is named after the Welsh town of Llandeilo.

Aboriginal culture
Prior to European settlement, what is now Llandilo was home to the Mulgoa people who spoke the Darug language. They lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle governed by traditional laws, which had their origins in the Dreamtime. Their homes were bark huts called 'gunyahs'. They hunted kangaroos and emus for meat, and gathered yams, berries and other native plants. Shortly after the arrival of the First Fleet in Australia in 1788, an outbreak of smallpox decimated the local indigenous communities and made it easier for settlers to dispossess them of their land.

European settlement
The first land grant in the area was made to Samuel Terry in 1818. He named the area Terry Brook. By the 1860s it was known as Llandilo after a Welsh town. While the landholdings have reduced in size down to around one or 2 acre, the area is still primarily rural as it has been for the past 200 years or so.

Llandilo Post Office opened on 1 July 1890.

Schools
Llandilo public is the local school, established 1866.

Xavier College, a Catholic school was completed in 2008.

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Montargis

Montargis is a commune in the Loiret department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.

Montargis is the seventh most populous commune in the Centre-Val de Loire Région, and the second in the Loiret Département after Orléans. It is near a large forest, and contains light industry and farming, including saffron. Due to its numerous canals and bridges, Montargis sometimes bills itself as the "Venice of the Gâtinais." Though quite modern, it retains a medieval charm in its downtown area.

Geography
Montargis lies on both banks of the river Loing and the Briare Canal, in the Gâtinais region. The town is about 110 km south of Paris and 70 km east of Orléans. Montargis station has rail connections to Nevers, Melun and Paris. The A77 autoroute (Montargis–Nevers) passes west of the town.

History
Though the town is known to date to ancient times, during the Renaissance, fanciful etymologies were invented to account for the place name Montargis, whether as mons argi, Mount of Argus, the place where the jealous goddess Juno charged Argus Panoptes with guarding her rival Io, or connected with the chieftain Moritas mentioned by Julius Caesar, in his Gallic Wars.

Origins and Middle Ages
Numerous Gallo-Roman artifacts have been found in the area and many are in the town's Gâtinais Museum.

Later the town was a stronghold of the Frankish king Clovis I.

Montargis was originally a seat of the house of Courtenay, which fortified a château on a hill overlooking the town. The town was ceded to the king of France in 1188. Eleanor Plantagenet, second daughter of King John of England and wife of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (killed at the Battle of Evesham), died here on 13 April 1275. In the 14th and 15th centuries it was a royal residence.

Hundred Years' War
In 1427, during the Hundred Years' War, the Earl of Warwick besieged the town with artillery, beginning bombardment on 15 July. During the siege the residents of Montargis sabotaged the dikes of numerous ponds in the district, causing flooding and drowning many of the besieging Plantagenets. On 5 September a French force of 1600 men led by Jean de Dunois and La Hire, commanders who would go on to lead the army of Joan of Arc, broke the siege. It was the first important victory by the army of King Charles VII in the war, gratefully remembered by Charles later.

After being wounded in an unsuccessful attempt to besiege Paris in September 1429, Joan of Arc passed through Montargis on her way to Gien.

After the war Charles VII rewarded the town for its valour by granting it various privileges. In 1490 Charles VIII officially declared the town Montargis Le Franc ("Montargis the tax-free"). This title is abbreviated to MLF in the official coat of arms (seen in the seal shown here). This privilege was renewed by his successors and Montargis remained free of taxes for three centuries until it was revoked during the French Revolution.

Legend of the Dog of Montargis
The best-known legend of Montargis is that of the "Dog of Montargis." In the story, Aubry de Montdidier, a courtier of King Charles V of France, was murdered around 1400 in a forest near Montargis by Robert Macaire, an envious knight. After his death, Mondidier's dog showed a remarkable hostility to Macaire. King Charles decreed a trial by combat in the town between the dog and Macaire, who was armed with only a cudgel. After the dog won the battle, Macaire confessed to the crime and was hanged. A dramatic bronze statue of this fight is in the courtyard of the Girodet Museum in central Montargis, and the contest is depicted in a stained glass window in a local church as well. The story was the subject of a 19th-century melodrama, The Dog of Montarges (Le Chien de Montargis, ou la Forêt de Bondy), that held the stage for years in Paris and was performed in English and German translations.

Sixteenth century
In 1528 King Francis I granted the town to his sister-in-law, Renée of France, Duchess of Ferrara and daughter of King Louis XII. After her husband, Ercole II, the Duke of Ferrara, died in 1559, Renée resided at Montargis. She sheltered there Protestant Huguenots fleeing from persecutions in Paris and elsewhere during the 16th century French Wars of Religion.

Industrial development
In the 1880s, Hutchinson SA built a rubber factory in Châlette-sur-Loing near Montargis. It today employs 2000 workers to produce tires and parts for vehicles and appliances.

Chinese connections
Montargis was a hub of Chinese expatriate political activity in the 1910s and early 1920s. A significant share of participants in the Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement (mouvement travail-études) stayed there. The most famous of them, Deng Xiaoping, was a worker producing rubber galoshes in the Hutchinson factory of Châlette-sur-Loing for eight months from mid-February to mid-October 1922.

This history became a matter for commemoration a century later. In 2014 the square in front of Montargis railway station was renamed in honour of Deng Xiaoping. In 2016 the Hunan provincial government opened the Historical Museum of French-Chinese Friendship in an old house in the town centre. On 4 May 2019, for the 100th anniversary of China's May Fourth Movement, a bronze memorial to the Work-Study Movement by Chinese sculptor Wu Weishan was inaugurated in front of the railway station.

In 2023, riots following the death of Nahel Merzouk caused extensive damage in the city centre, including burning buildings and looted shops. The damage is estimated to be worth millions of euros.

Sport
Stage 2 of The 2024 Paris–Nice Cycle Race finished at Montargis, March 3rd 2024.

Culture
Pralines, the crunchy confection made from almonds and caramelised sugar, were first made in Montargis during the reign of Louis XIII. The original shop is still in business on Place Mirabeau.

Baron Palamède de Charlus relates among his many other blandishments that he is the “Damoiseau de Montargis” in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.

On 4 July 2006 residents of Montargis competed in and won the Intervilles game show against opponent town Moulins.

The Musée Girodet and Château de Montargis are among the town's main sights.

Notable people

 * Eleanor of Leicester lived in exile as a nun at the abbey in Montargis and died there in 1275.
 * Denis Jamet died there in 1625.
 * Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon was born there in 1648.
 * Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson was born there in 1767 and the town's art gallery is named after him.
 * Charles-Etienne Gudin (1768–1812), French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
 * Madeleine de Roybon d'Allonne (1646–1718), early settler of New France
 * Louis-Jacques Bresnier (1814–1869), 19th-century orientalist, was born in Montargis.
 * Deng Xiaoping and Zhou Enlai lived in the town's Chinese community in the 1920s.
 * Patricia Petibon was born here in 1970.
 * Louis Pierre Manuel (1751 – 17 November 1793), a French writer and political figure of the Revolution
 * Françoise Delord (1940–2021), zookeeper

Twin towns
Montargis is twinned with:
 * 🇩🇪 Greven, Germany
 * Crowborough, United Kingdom

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Photo near Eastwick?
The photograph and inscription of the obelisk near Eastwick should be included here. Anyone living in Philly got a camera? Pilatus 08:38, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Will do, but just where is this obelisk? --DThomsen8 (talk) 13:39, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Glenside
A current SEPTA schedule appears to show plenty of trains going to Glenside. What's the deal? john k (talk) 16:59, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

R1 to Newtown?
Where did you hear about this "Airport Proposals on Google Maps"? WadeSimMiser (talk) 00:21, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

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Abdon, Shropshire

Abdon is an upland village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Abdon and Heath, in Shropshire, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 199. It is in the Clee Hills.

History
The name Abdon derives from 'Ab(b)a's estate' (Old English personal name Ab(b)a + tūn). It was called Abetune in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it comprised nine households, and was recorded as Ab(b)eton from about 1200 to 1504, Abbedon in 1301 and Abdon from 1503.

The village had at least 11 households in 1642, 20 that paid hearth tax in 1662 and in 1793, there were 30 houses in the parish. The population of the parish grew from 137 to 170 between 1811 and 1831 but declined to 70 in 1971 and rose slightly to 85 in 1981.

Clee Hills
Abdon is a remote rural hamlet on the slopes of the Brown Clee Hill. The population currently stands at approx. 28 dwellings. The hamlet includes a parish church (St Margaret's), a village hall and the remains of a deserted medieval village. The hamlet is very close to the remains of an Iron Age hill fort now known as Nordy Bank, situated on the southern end of the Brown Clee. Abdon has a lively community, with regular events at the village hall.

The Abdon parish registers begin in the 1560s but are only complete from 1614 on, with a gap from 1641 to 1649.

Civil parish
The civil parish was large and included other settlements, including Tugford and Holdgate which were transferred into the parish in the late 20th century. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2017 and merged with Heath to form "Abdon and Heath".

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Pugot

The Pugot ("decapitated one") is a mythical fiend that is found in the folklore of the Ilocos region of the Philippines. It can assume various shapes such as hogs, dogs or even as humans. However, it usually appears as a black, big headless being. The creature usually resides in dark places or deserted houses. However, they especially like living in trees such as the duhat (Eugenia cumini), santol (Sandoricum koetjape), and tamarind.

Aside from its shapeshifting abilities, the pugot can also move at great speeds, feeding on snakes and insects that it finds among the trees. It feeds by thrusting food through its neck stump.

Although terrifying, the pugot is otherwise relatively harmless. However, the creature is fond of women's underwear and steals them while they are being dried on a clothesline.

The pugot is also found in the Ifugao myth "Tulud Nimputul: The Self-Beheaded" where he appears to the human hero. He was fed by the hero with chopped chicken meat that was mixed with blood.

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Londonderry, New South Wales

Londonderry is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 60 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Penrith.

History
Londonderry takes its name from the 1831 grant of 30 acre to Thomas Kendall.

Its post office opened on 1 February 1935, run by Robert Ernest Nutt, who also ran the attached store, and later became mayor of Castlereagh.

Heritage listings
Londonderry has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * 947-953 Londonderry Road: Fossil and Petrology collections, New South Wales

Population
At the 2021 census, there were 4,024 people in Londonderry.
 * Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 4.4% of the population.
 * 79.7% of people were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was England (2.5%).
 * 81.9% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Maltese (3.9%).
 * The most common responses for religion were Catholic 37.5%, No Religion 27.4% and Anglican 15.9%.

Geography
Londonderry is located in the northernmost part of the City of Penrith with the Driftway forming the boundary with the Hawkesbury City Council area. The Northern Road divides Londonderry from Berkshire Park while Cranebrook and Agnes Banks are its boundaries on its southern and western sides. Londonderry is a rural area and much of it still crown land. Because of its closeness to Richmond and distance from Penrith, the suburb has always had stronger links with Richmond than with Penrith.

Commercial area
Londonderry village in the centre of the suburb is a vital community connection point for local residents in the area. Amenities include shops, cafes, service stations, a post office, a community hall and neighbourhood centre, Londonderry Public School and the Londonderry Rural Fire Brigade station.

Sports and Recreation
Londonderry Park in the town centre is the home of the Londonderry Greys Rugby League Football Club which participates in the Penrith Junior Rugby League competition and the Londonderry Netball Club. The Richmond Race Club on Londonderry Road, Londonderry is a major greyhound racing facility and a number of greyhound trainers and owners reside locally. The Londonderry Pony Club has its grounds also on Londonderry Road in Londonderry.

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Talk:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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For the record, I never raced bugs in class, tried to impress girls by fighting, or got lost in caves. Maybe the "every boy can relate to" part is POV? --Dante Alighieri 22:02 Dec 4, 2002 (UTC)

Ahem, anyways I came here to ask why no one added the sattire in here; one of the main things Samuel Langhorne Clemens(a.k.a. Mark Twain) did was sattire and ridicule the society of the day. One example and a rather minor one (I'm adding it because it is prehaps the most obvious) includes when Mark Twain talks about the scripture ticket system, when a German boy memorizes three thousand lines of scripture, but is rendered little more than an idiot after that. It is an obvious sattire on the memonic education system, because the kid memorized but probably did not understand; or simply had devoted so much of his brain to learning these that he lacked the capacity for anything else. A less obvious one is at the end of chapter two, when the author is reflecting about a great law of human action. (He had discovered a...then they would resign.) Here he is sattiring the worth of relatively equivilant things when you add money, which, incidentally, can be used for more things, which are also relatively equal until you factor money into the equation. The point being, I think someone with better composition skills than I should factor in examples of Mark Twain's sattires into the page, and here were some starters.

-anon

That is something rather notable; if you look around the only (and distant) connection with satire is under the satire article, where it (briefly) notes that Mark Twain was the most notable 19th century satirist. In fact, this article needs cleaning, so tomorrow I'll see to a spot of revision.

-anon

People must also note, that Mark Twain wrote an introduction at the beginning of the book to explain why he used the N-word and other satires, because of the controversy over letting children and high school students be exposed to that kind of stereo-typing and language. His argument was a fairly good one. He said that the reason for adding in the language, instead of using a more "appropriate" choice of words, was to give an example of how people use to completely discriminate toward other races, genders, and nationalities. It is a reminder of our past and how we used to, and still sometimes do, act. As the philosopher George Santayana said "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it."

-Pandalover292 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pandalover292 (talk • contribs) 17:17, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

anybody know how to do the stub thingy? Evil Deep Blue 00:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC) == == ==''

 * Stubbed, although I'm shocked it hadn't been done yet. I'm also convinced that the list of different online editions (which takes up more page space than the main article at the moment!) is in need of significant pruning, although all I felt up to was deleting a duplicate Project Gutenberg listing. Also, I changed the info box as best as I could to reflect the first edition;  I'm assuming with all the variant versions a public domain version can go through, we want to go with the original printing.  --Enwilson 14:04, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Agreed with the original printing, I added a link to a facsimile of 1st edition which should cover all citations. Since we go with the original printing: - I have taken out the ISBN to another print in the infobox. - Perhaps use the bookcover as a caption instead of the current frontispiece? The frontispiece is nicer, but the choice seems rather subjective to me. Magafuzula (talk) 13:05, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

plot?
where the heck is the plot? samphex 01:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Agree, this article desperately needs a plot summary. Surely every US schoolchild writes one?  C'mon folks, dig out your old essay book and put that B+ to some use. 112.118.142.168 (talk) 09:34, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
 * You two are hilarious. "Someone who isn't me: do this thing that I think is important but not important enough for me to do." I hope you both find the will and energy to be proactive in your judgments. It's the secret to a happy life.

 * I've added a plot summary from SparkNotes. Enjoy. --98.225.137.20 (talk) 14:30, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Significance
This section of the article is sloppy and confusing. In the middle of the second paragraph there's something about a photograph, and then something about being "cool." I don't get it.Ramseyman (talk) 20:42, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

 * I agree. I also think that the second paragraph needs to be restructured. Adding examples from the text that actually reflect and engage with the theme of boyhood would be helpful if that's the argument scholars are making. Additionally, there needs to be a source cited for this thematic interpretation.
 * Immenseseagull (talk) 19:01, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Merge
Into this article if anywhere not into Tom Sawyer. This is the book which is the literary item. The article could do with plenty of work.! :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page) / (Desk)  11:09, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Merge is a very poor idea. Tom Sawyer appears in multiple books -- not just this one -- and is a major character in American Literature.  This book, however, is also incredibly important in American Literature, and suggesting to merge it into an article on the character is a joke. --JayHenry 22:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Themes
The only major theme is... Friendship and Loyalty?

Is that all? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dan Tien Dao (talk • contribs) 18:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I deleted it temporarily. It was far too simplistic and I hope that somebody will come along and post a somewhat decent "theme" paragraph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.240.190.20 (talk) 03:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Link to Wikisource
Could someone change the link to Wikisource in the external links section to this template: by typing. Thank you.--99.244.66.12 (talk) 23:43, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Never mind, I'll do it.--99.244.66.12 (talk) 23:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Plot Summary Source
The entire plot summary is taken verbatim from the Sparknotes summary page. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tomsawyer/summary.html This is not a good thing. But at the very least, we have to source it. --RabidMonkeysEatGrass 15:35, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Correct, the Wikipedia plot summary was introduced somewhere in 2008, however the Sparknotes' version originates in 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20011202095023/http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tomsawyer/summary.html Just sourcing is not an option, since Sparknotes has a copyright notice, and it has been copied literally Magafuzula (talk) 16:24, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Other adaptations
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sawyer_(song)"

...EXPOSITION.....
 * Settings

 * Situation/Climate:

Tom Sawyer,Aunt Polly, Sid sawyer,Cousin Mary, Huckleberry Fin,Becky thatcher,Mr.dobbins,Jeff thatcher,Jim ,Ben rogers,Joe harper,Injun joe, Muff potter,Muff potter,Docter robiihisin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.232.66.65 (talk) 02:37, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
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Connections with Southern Gothic Genre?
I read the book as an adult after reading Harper Lee's to Kill a Mocking Bird, which is classed as a southern gothic. I was wondering if The Adventures of Tom Sawyer should be seen as belonging to this group as well? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.134.204 (talk) 20:14, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Sequel
Shouldn't the sequel be Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? The summary on this page says "the book leaves off where Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins" and the Huckleberry Finn article page says "it is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". I've never read the book, so I can't really determine if the infobox should at least LIST Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a sequel. I mean, is A Tramp Abroad (nonfiction) really the sequel to a fiction book? I'm assuming here that the "followed by" field in the infobox means sequels and not books in publishing order or anything else. 5Celcious (talk) 03:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

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First effective concrete
Should have a source for this. There is proof of pozzolanic concrete in Greece c. 500 BC, where the volcanic ash may have come from Greek Islands.Tvbanfield (talk) 19:05, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Sophia Loren
If you look up Sophia Loren, the article says she was born in Rome and grew up in Pozzuoli. This article says that she was born in Pozzuoli. I have always heard (from Italians in Naples) that she grew up in Pozzuoli.

Yes, Sophia Loren was born in Rome, not in Naples.. Ida82 14:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Photos of Pozzuoli Harbors Sunken Roman Ruins
I would like some images of the sunken ruins that are in Pozzuoli Harbor.

Would you believe I've been searching for and have not found any images.

I would like to add them to this article.

Supercool Dude 04:27, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
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Sunken Temples
In 1969 or 1970 there were Bradysiesmic events at the harbor. The harbor floor rose to the surface. Two or three Roman Temples slowly rose out of the harbor. They had sunk about 79AD. I know that the city had the harbor dredged and made deep again using explosives. Does anyone know what happened to those Temples? There are two articles on this event with photos in Time and Newsweek in 1969-1970. This article fails to mention this amazing event. Some vulcanologists believe the magma chamber under Mt Vesuvius moved west causing the harbor floor to rise. This same phenomena happened in nearby Capri turning Capri from a peninsula into an island. Why is there no mention of this Earth moving event?

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Origin of name
All the histories I have read of Pozzuoli in several languages attribute the name to the presence of small wells, Puteoli in Latin, in the vicinity. The Italian, Latin, Napulitano, German and Spanish language Wikipedias (the only ones I have checked) confirm this. A quick search in Google seems to show that this predominates, so it should be mentioned - there is no shortage of sources. Hohenloh + 14:09, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

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Abenhall

Abenhall is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mitcheldean, in the Forest of Dean district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the road between Mitcheldean and Flaxley in the Forest of Dean. The parish included the settlement of Plump Hill, which is actually more populous than Abenhall itself, and was once part of the Hundred of St Briavels (known as Dene at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086). Originally a mining and iron-making centre like much of the surrounding area, the village is notable for its 14th century Church of St Michael, which is built of local red sandstone and has ornate contemporary carvings relating to the Forest of Dean's principal industries. These include a shield bearing the arms of the Freeminers on the west wall and a mid-15th century octagonal font, that has tools of miners and metalworkers incised on its sides. Abenhall is a tiny, ancient village in a secluded quiet valley near Mitcheldean. The parish includes the settlement of Plump Hill, on the Mitcheldean to Cinderford Road as it climbs into the high Forest. Abenhall is on the Flaxley to Mitcheldean Road. Originally a mining and iron making centre, it is notable for its 14th century Church of St Michael, which is built of local red sandstone and has excellent contemporary carvings relating to the Forest of Dean's industries. These include a shield bearing the arms of the Freeminers on the west wall and the fabulous mid-15th century octagonal font, that has tools of miners and metalworkers incised on its sides. In the west tower is a spectacular new window installed 14 April 2011 by stained glass artist Thomas Denny; presented by the current free miners of the Forest of Dean to represent their gratitude and present day continuation of the ancient local customs of coal, iron ore and stone mining. In 1931 the parish had a population of 230.

More History
It was once part of the Westbury Hundred (which was known as Dene at the time of the 1086 Domesday book) Abenhall is on the Flaxley to Mitcheldean Road. Originally a mining and iron making centre, it is notable for its 14th century Church of St Michael, which is built of local red sandstone and has excellent contemporary carvings relating to the Forest of Dean's industries. These include a shield bearing the arms of the Freeminers on the west wall and the fabulous mid-15th century octagonal font, that has tools of miners and metalworkers incised on its sides, recently enhanced by a spectacular miners window above it.

On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Mitcheldean.

Churches
St. Michael's Church - originally built as a chapel of ease, the church was expanded in the 14th century to include nave, south aisle and tower. The arms of the Freeminers and spectacular modern freeminer window can be seen on the west side of the tower and emblems on the 15th century font. Abenhall church is 1.5 km south of Mitcheldean and is set in beautiful surroundings on the edge of the Forest. Old Parish baptism, marriage and burial registers, from 1596, are stored at the Gloucestershire Record Office.

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Luddenham, New South Wales

Luddenham is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 42 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the City of Penrith and City of Liverpool. It is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

History
Luddenham takes its name from a property which was situated between South Creek and the Nepean River that was owned by John Blaxland, who received a grant of 6710 acre on 30 November 1813. His elder brother was the more famous Gregory Blaxland and Luddenham was the name of their family property in Kent, England.

The first Luddenham Post Office opened on 1 January 1857 and was renamed Bringelly in 1863. The current office opened on 1 March 1872.

Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 1,828 people in Luddenham. 79.4% of people were born in Australia and 76.7% of people only spoke English at home. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 48.7%, Anglican 15.9% and No Religion 11.9%.

Transport
Luddenham has 1 bus service, route 789 between Luddenham & Penrith, operating only twice per weekday, once around 7:30am and once around 4:14pm.

In June 2020, a station at Luddenham on the Western Sydney Airport line due to be completed in 2026, was confirmed.

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Svinninge Municipality

Until 1 January 2007 Svinninge municipality was a municipality (Danish, kommune) in the former West Zealand County on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 86 km2, and had a population of 6,588 (2005). Its last mayor was Søren Christensen, representing Venstre, Denmark's Liberal Party. The site of the municipal council was the town of Svinninge.

The municipality was formed in 1966, combining the parishes of Gislinge, Hjembæk, Svinninge, and Kundby. The first record of Svinninge and Gislinge dates from the 14th century, but some hold the opinion that the area has been settled since the Viking Age.

Svinninge municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007), merged with existing Holbæk, Jernløse, Tornved, and Tølløse municipalities to form a new Holbæk municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 583 km2 and a total population of 66,611 (2005). The new municipality belongs to Region Sjælland ("Region Zealand").

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Lurnea, New South Wales

Lurnea is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 35 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.

History
Lurnea was originally home to the Cabrogal people who spoke the Darug language. Following British settlement of the area in the 1800s, it was given the colloquial name Hillview as the suburb had nice views of the surrounding Liverpool area, and this name persisted until after World War I when the land was converted into a soldier settlement which provided the soldiers with enough room for a house and a small farm. It was renamed Lurnea which means "a resting place". Lurnea Post Office opened on 15 February 1921. A street was also named after the old name of the suburb – Hillview Parade. In the 1970s the area was redeveloped again into a residential suburb for a small number of veterans from the Vietnam War. It also became home to several Vietnamese refugee families of the aforementioned war.

Transport
Hoxton Park Road runs along the northern edge of Lurnea providing access to Liverpool as well as suburbs to the west of Lurnea such as Hoxton Park. It also has relatively easy access to the M5 South Western Motorway to the city and the Westlink M7 to the northwest of Sydney. Lurnea is well serviced by Transit Systems bus routes with five services passing through the suburb and another three along Hoxton Park Road on the northern edge.

Education
There are three schools situated in the suburb:
 * Lurnea High School is a co-educational secondary school. It is a public high school that caters for around 650 students from year 7 through to year 12. An Intensive English Centre and Hearing Impaired Unit are also established at Lurnea High. The school was first opened in 1965.
 * Lurnea Public School is a primary public school. It caters for about 475 students from kindergarten through to year 6. The school was first opened in 1960
 * St Francis Xavier Primary School is a co-educational primary catholic school.

Population
Lurnea's population at the 2016 Australian census was 9,311, with 49.8% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were Iraq 8.0%, Lebanon 6.0%, Vietnam 2.8%, Fiji 2.4% and New Zealand 1.9%. 36.0% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 28.0%, Vietnamese 3.7%, Hindi 2.7%, Spanish 2.2% and Serbian 2.0%. The most common responses for religion in Lurnea (State Suburbs) were Islam 25.0%, Catholic 20.9%, Not stated 10.7%, No Religion, so described 9.5% and Anglican 7.5%. In Lurnea (State Suburbs), Christianity was the largest religious group reported overall (47.8%) (this figure excludes not stated responses). The median household income of $1068 per week is slightly higher than the national average ($1027) while the rent and mortgage repayments are also slightly higher than average.

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Saw your edits on VSU. I mostly agree with them. We have some resident student Politicians who are _very_ biased. They revert anything they disagree with. 203.206.18.154 08:42, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

British spelling of medieval
Hi, I saw your comments, this has been a general source of confusion, so I hope dont mind I created this page: WikiProject Middle Ages/British spelling of Medieval as a forum to discuss and reference. It effects many articles and theres been no definitive answer and your the first to provide some knowleged guidence on this. Stbalbach 19:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

ACT politicians
Thanks for the stuff you've been doing on ACT politicians; it's been a while since I gave this area some attention, and no one much else seems to. Paul Osborne and Kerrie Tucker were particularly good, and the copyedit of Roslyn Dundas is appeciated. :) Ambi 23:28, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Lake Burley Griffin
Could you please be careful with your edits to articles that are already at featured article level. You might have noticed that the references on Lake Burley Griffin are in a bullet pointed alphabetical order list. Sure numerical list in order would be better (though both are acceptable wikipedia styles), but please don't add numbers without going to the effort of making sure the references are in the correct order. --Martyman- (talk) 06:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Apologies for the mistake. However, although my edit was clumsy, it's fundamentally bad style to use numbered references if you then do not have a numbered references list. If that's a mistake on Wikipedia's side, then that's quite unfortunate. El T 13:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree, and the more recent articles I have been writing I have been using numbered reference lists, unfortunatly this causes a lot of problems when editing. Moving text around the article becomes a pain in the arse if you have to re-check the references everytime you move something. The Lake Burley Griffin article almost definatly should be upgraded to a numbered reference list but unfortunatly this is not a purely trivial execise. --Martyman- (talk) 13:34, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Australian Aboriginal flag is the current ACOTF
Hi. You voted for Australian Aboriginal flag to be selected as Australian Collaboration of the fortnight. It has now been selected. Please improve it in any way you see fit. Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 13:57, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Erronous entry in Template:UKHBS
Hi, the template you created states "History of Britain" so Ireland really does not belong there. Your thoughts? Superdude99 18:19, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I just fixed the colours and spelling of medieval, and I'm not an expert on British, or Irish, history. I'm not sure what you would do about Ireland. I suppose it probably does need to be included since Ireland was a state, not a colony, and hence part of Britain proper. But I wouldn't try to stop anyone wanting to remove it, so long as it wasn't just an attempt to impose Irish nationalism on the article. El T 08:45, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

VSU
Good on you for your edits in regards to that article. michael talk 02:35, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for image change
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population map
hi, I have changed Image:World population.PNG to more of a gradation between green and blue. is that better? --Astrokey 44 03:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Rôle
is a perfectly valid spelling in modern English. Check the Oxford English Dictionary. :) - FrancisTyers · 12:57, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

DS Browser Criticism
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How did you upload a SVG format? It said: '".svg" is not a recommended image file format.' Can you heklp me by telling me why by posting it here?

 * I couldn't edit the web page that you directed me to, so sorry about that. I've never had any problems uploading SVG images. I didn't want to try to upload a meaningless image to test it out, so I tried to upload a file with an invalid licence. It seems to be working fine. Perhaps post a screenshot so we can see what it's saying. El T 14:35, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

MPL tables on election pages
Hi there! I must admit, your tables look far easier on the eye, however I must insist on changing it because it's not the standard used for all federal and state elections that have an MPL table. However, if you want to invest the time changing all the federal and state election pages, I wouldn't be against that :-) Timeshift 12:22, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree. I'll see about putting together a template to standardise the appearance from a central point. El T 15:15, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Population Curve Graph
I am trying to find a reasonable estimate of population growth since the accepted date of the advent of Homo sapiens 200,000 years ago.

Would it be possible for you to extend the numbers used in your Population Curve graph to 200,000 years ago?

 * I didn't gather the data, so unfortunately no. You may need to do some hunting online to find a source. El T 06:22, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi! Great job with this graph. Looks very nice. Could you, however, provide one with a logarithmic scale? This would make easier seeing the significant relative changes in population. With the linear graph one can mostly make the observation that first there was very little growth, then suddenly there was nothing but growtgh. --128.214.205.5 13:41, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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The Native Village of Kluti-Kaah is an Alaska federally recognized Alaska Native tribal entity located in Copper Center, Alaska. The village is primarily made up of the Ahtna Athabaskan people, who have been in the Copper River basin from time immemorial.

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As of 2005, the tribe had 302 enrolled citizens.

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Talk:Xavante language

Xavante /w/ and velars
[copied from my talk page—kwami (talk)]

Not that I speak Portuguese, but I took não-arredondado to mean "non-rounded", not "wholly un-labial" - i.e. a similar compress'd /w/ as in Japanese. Note how she still groups it with the labials. Maybe we could settle at lack of phonemic velars. (I wonder if the language has maybe had a similar k > shift as in Hawai'ian.)

Good work BTW! -- Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 22:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

 * I suspect that the shift was k to tch, but that should be easy enough to check with other Ge languages.

 * Regardless of the form of rounding, the /w/ is presumably still phonetically velar. I'm not sure what a lack of "phonemic" velars would mean--we dictate that they are not velar because there are no other velars? That seems a bit like declaring that a language with [s] has no fricatives because it lacks [f], [x], and [h], or that Samoan has no alveolars despite having an [l]. kwami (talk) 22:29, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * We still appear to be comfortable telling that X. lacks nasals on a phonemic level. I can see no explicit note about velarity, on the contrary she notes "there are sonorants at the bilabial, alveolar and glottal places of articulation".

 * Hm, and it's anyway "não-arredondado posterior fechado alto sonoro" - after "closed high" (?) sonorants. McLeod & Valerie's '03 paper tells it's pronounced "as in English after /i/, without rounding and with a little friction" - as well as "without friction and more rounded in outros ambientes", whatever that means. We can probably agree that English /w/ is not, so this remains still unclear.

 * I would presume /w/ not to be purely velar in a language that lacks velars otherwise, any more than it to be purely labial in a language that otherwise lacks labials. -- Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 15:32, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I hadn't checked (2003). That does support your edits.

 * Phoneme tables are frequently arranged more for convenience than for precision. If there's no other need for a velar column, then one's unlikely to add on just for /w/. Likewise, if there's no labio-velar column (as in English), then one's unlikely to add one just for /w/, but that doesn't mean English /w/ is not labio-velar. From the (2003) comment you pointed out, Xavante /w/ would appear to be labio-velar:

 * antes da letra ‘i’ é pronunciado como o ‘w’ inglês, sem arredondamento dos lábios e com um pouco de fricção. Em outros ambientes não há fricção e os lábios se arredondam mais

 * "before the letter 'i' it's pronounced as the English 'w', without rounding of the lips and with a bit of friction. In other environments it doesn't have friction and the lips are more rounded"

 * Since in general we define phonemes by their 'elsewhere' values, we should probably consider this a more-or-less typical /w/ with a non-rounded semi-fricative allophone (≈ ) before /i/.

 * As far as the 1974 não-arredondado posterior fechado alto sonoro description, as far as I can tell that's a "non-rounded high/closed back semivowel"—the authors characterize all semivowels with the terms for the equivalent vowels. Taking that comment literally, she means it's the semivowel equivalent of the high back unrounded vowel, or in other words, . But the (2003) description would appear to trump that characterization.

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Cypriot cuisine

Cypriot cuisine is the cuisine of the island of Cyprus, shared by both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots.

Food preparation
Frequently used ingredients are fresh vegetables such as courgettes (zucchini), olives, okra, green beans, artichokes, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and grape leaves, and pulses such as beans (for fasolada), broad beans, peas, black-eyed beans, chickpeas and lentils. Pears, apples, grapes, oranges, Mandarin oranges, nectarines, mespila, blackberries, cherries, strawberries, figs, watermelon, melon, avocado, citrus, lemon, pistachio, almond, chestnut, walnut, hazelnut are some of the commonest of the fruits and nuts.

The best-known spices and herbs include pepper, parsley, rocket (arugula), celery, fresh coriander (cilantro), thyme, and oregano. Traditionally, cumin and coriander seeds make up the main cooking aromas of the island. Mint is a very important herb in Cyprus. It grows abundantly, and locals use it for everything, particularly in dishes containing ground meat. For example, the Cypriot version of pastitsio (locally known as macaronia tou fournou or makarna fırında) contains very little tomato and generous amounts of mint. The same is true of keftedes or köfte (meatballs), which are sometimes laced with mint to provide a contrast with the meat. Potato is also often used in making keftedes. Fresh coriander or cilantro is another commonly used herb. It is often used in salads, olive breads, spinach pies (spanakopita or ispanak böreği) and other pastries. In some regions of the island it is also used to flavour hot dishes, particularly tomato-based ones, such as yiachnista.

Meats grilled over charcoal are known as souvla, souvlaki or şiş, named after the skewers on which they are prepared. Most commonly these are pork, kid, beef, lamb or chicken and sheftalia, but grilled halloumi cheese, mushrooms, and, uniquely to the Greek Cypriots, loukaniko (pork sausages) are also served. They are typically stuffed into a pita or wrapped in a thin flatbread, along with a salad of cabbage, parsley, thinly sliced onions, tomatoes and sliced cucumber. Although less popular than souvlaki and sheftalia, gyros are also commonly eaten. Gyros (also known as döner) have grilled meat slices instead of chunks, and the taste differs from that of souvlaki due to the salad and dressings added. Gyros are made from various cuts of lamb, pork, or chicken, and sometimes but rarely beef.

Bulgur is the traditional carbohydrate other than bread. It is often steamed with tomato and onion; a few strands of vermicelli pasta are often added to provide a texture, fragrance, colour and flavour contrast. Along with bulgur, natural yogurt is a staple. Wheat and yogurt come together in the traditional peasant meal of tarhana/trahanas, a way of preserving milk in which the cracked wheat is steamed, mixed with sour milk, dried, and stored. Small amounts reheated in water or broth provide a nourishing and tasty meal, especially with added cubes of aged halloumi. Bulgur is also used to make koupes or içli/bulgur köfte, the Cypriot form of kibbeh, where the bulgur is mixed with flour and water to form a dough, which is formed into a cigar shape. A hollow is made through the cigar and a mixture of minced meat, onions, parsley and cinnamon is packed. After sealing the meat mixture inside the cigar they are deep-fried before serving with lemon juice.

For Greek Cypriots, there are many fasting days defined by the Orthodox Church, and though not everyone adheres, many do. On these days, effectively all animal products must not be consumed. Pulses are eaten instead, sometimes cooked in tomato sauce, but more usually simply prepared and dressed with olive oil and lemon. On some days, even olive oil is not allowed. These meals often consist of raw onion, raw garlic, and dried red chili which is eaten along with these austere dishes to add a variety of taste, though this practice is dying out.

Seafood
Popular seafood dishes include calamari, octopus, cuttlefish, red mullet, sea bass, and gilt-head bream. Octopus, due to its peculiar taste and texture, is made into a stiffado, a stew with red wine, carrots, tomatoes, and onions. Calamari is either cut into rings and fried in batter or is stuffed whole with rice, cumin, cloves, sometimes adding mint to the stuffing, and then baked or grilled. Cuttlefish may be cooked like calamari or like octopus in red wine with onions. It is sometimes prepared with spinach, but without adding garden peas, which are a popular accompaniment for cuttlefish in Turkey (specially in west and south coast), some parts of Greece, and Italy. Calamari, octopus, and cuttlefish commonly feature in meze, a spread of small dishes served as an extensive set of entrées.

The most traditional fish is salt cod, which up until very recently was baked in the outdoor beehive ovens with potatoes and tomatoes in season. Gilt-head bream is popular because it is relatively inexpensive and like sea bass extensively farmed. Until recently, salted herrings bought whole out of wooden barrels were a staple food. They are still enjoyed, but not as much now, as fresh fish and meat are regular alternatives.

Many fish restaurants also include in the fish meze a variety of different food which include fish, for example fish souffle and fish croquettes.

Vegetables
Cyprus potatoes are long and waxy with a unique taste, exported internationally. Locals bake them in the oven, preferably the outdoor beehive fourni. Many Cypriots add salt, cumin, oregano, and some finely sliced onion. When they barbecue, some Cypriots put potatoes into foil and set them in the charcoal to make them like jacket potatoes, served with butter or as a side dish to salad and meat.

Salad vegetables are eaten at every meal, sometimes whole. More often, they are prepared chopped, sliced, and dressed with lemon and olive oil. In the summer, the usual salad is of celery leaves and stalks, parsley, coriander leaves, tomatoes, and cucumber. Summer purslane is very popular as are wild dandelion leaves.

In the early spring, artichokes are in season. Cypriots eat the leaves by detaching and biting off the fleshy base. A common preparation for the stalks and the heart is braised with garden peas, with a little onion and perhaps a chopped tomato. Meat is sometimes added.

Okra is baked in the oven with tomato and oil, and cauliflower is also given this treatment. Cauliflower is also made into moungra, a sour pickle covered with a marinade of vinegar, yeast, and mustard seeds. It is also cooked in tomato sauce, onions and minced meat.

Aubergines can be prepared in a variety of ways, including stuffed and in moussaka. They are commonly fried and stewed slowly in oil, where the cooking time brings out the flavour and also allows them to shed the oil they have absorbed. Turkish Cypriots hollow them, fry them, stuff them with tomatoes and garlic or mince meat and tomato paste, cook them in the oven and garnish with parsley.

Pasta
Makarónia tou foúrnou (Greek: μακαρόνια του φούρνου, Turkish: magarina fırında, English: oven macaroni) recipes vary, but usually the meat sauce in the middle is made of pork, beef or lamb, tomatoes are only sometimes used, and it is flavoured with mint, parsley or cinnamon. The top is sprinkled with grated halloumi or anari cheese, though cheese is sometimes added only to the white sauce. The traditional pasta shape for this dish is bucatini. This dish is also referred to as pastitsio.

Magarına bulli is a traditional Cypriot meal made of bucatini pasta and chicken. This dish is widely known as being one of the national dishes of Cyprus. Chicken is often boiled in water which is then used as the stock to cook the pasta. When the pasta and chicken are cooked the pasta is often topped with lemon juice, grated halloumi cheese and dried mint.

Meat

Prior to Cyprus' urbanisation, Cypriots traditionally ate fresh meat on weekends. This was usually a boiled chicken, served with a starch (usually pasta or bulgur) cooked in its juices. This would stretch the meat to enable the whole family to eat. Other fresh meat dishes were only enjoyed occasionally, sometimes en masse as a feast such as a wedding. Now, as people are better off and meat is widely available, traditional meat dishes are enjoyed frequently.

Afelia, when well prepared, is a saute of pork, red wine, and coriander seeds. Psito is large chunks of meat and potatoes cooked in the oven. Plenty of fat is used in its preparation; traditionally, this would have been rendered pig fat, but now sunflower oil is used. Olive oil is used as a dressing for salads, vegetables, and pulses but is not used to cook meat dishes. Preserved pork is very popular, and before refrigeration, it was the main source of red meat available to Cypriots. Before refrigeration became widespread in the 19th century it was tradition to throw away the preserved pork in summertime. Cypriots also add red wine; therefore, there is a characteristic flavour to most of the charcuterie from the island.

Lountza is made from the pork tenderloin. After the initial brining and marinading in wine, it is smoked. Although it can be aged, many prefer younger, milder lountza. It is often cooked over coals or fried with eggs to act as a sandwich filler or as part of a meze. Stronger than lountza and made from the leg, is chiromeri, which is similar to any smoked, air-dried ham from Southern Europe, although the wine flavour makes it characteristically Cypriot. In non-mountain areas, the same meat used for chiromeri is cut into strips along the muscle compartments and dried in the sun as basta. The shoulder of a freshly slaughtered animal is cut into chunks about the size of an almond along with a smaller quantity of chopped back fat, which are marinated in wine and brined, stuffed into intestines, and smoked as sausages (loukaniko).

A traditional practice that is dying out fast is to render pig fat for use as a cooking medium and a preservative. Loukaniko and also chunks of fried salted pork meat and fat can be stored in earthenware jars submerged in the lard for a long time, even in the heat of the island.

Lamb and goat meat is also preserved as tsamarella, made very salty to prevent the fatty lamb meat from going rancid. Very popular amongst both communities is preserved beef. The whole silversides and briskets are salted and spiced quite powerfully to make pastourma/bastirma. The same meat and some fat is chopped finely and made into pastourma-loukaniko sausages.

Many Cypriots consider snails a delicacy. Snails are in season in late autumn, when the first good rains arrive after the hot summer. The most popular way to prepare snails is to barbecue them. Another popular variation is to cook them with onions, garlic and tomatoes.

Meze
Mezedes is a large selection of dishes with small helpings of varied foods, brought to the table as a progression of tastes and textures. The meal begins with black and green olives, tahini, skordalia (potato and garlic dip), humus, taramosalata (fish roe dip), and tzatziki/çaçık (ttalattouri in Cypriot), all served with chunks of fresh bread and a bowl of mixed salad. Some of the more unusual meze dishes include octopus in red wine, snails in tomato sauce, brains with pickled capers, samarella (salted dried meat), quails, pickled quail eggs, tongue, kappari pickles (capers), and moungra (pickled cauliflower). Bunches of greens, some raw, some dressed with lemon juice and salt, are a basic feature of the meze table. The meal continues with fish, grilled halloumi cheese, lountza (smoked pork tenderloin), keftedes (minced meatballs), sheftalia (pork rissoles), and loukaniko (pork sausages). Hot grilled meats – kebabs, lamb chops, chicken – may be served toward the end. The dessert is usually fresh fruit or glyka – traditional sugar-preserved fruits and nuts.

Desserts
Loukoumades (fried doughballs in syrup), loukoum, ravani, tulumba and baklava are well-known local desserts. There are also pastiș, cookies made of ground almonds, that are offered to guests at weddings.

Flaounes are savoury Easter pastries that contain goats cheese (or a variety of cheeses), eggs, spices and herbs all wrapped in a yeast pastry, then brushed with egg yolk and dipped into sesame seeds.

Cypriots also make many traditional spoon sweets that are usually made of turunch/bergamot, figs, tiny aubergines, fresh fleshy walnuts, watermelon or pumpkins processed akin to jam but without the over-cooking. The fruit is soaked for two weeks (depending upon the fruit) then boiled with sugar until the correct texture is obtained.

Sweet syrups and spreads include soumada made from almonds. Soumada has a very ancient history in Cyprus, stretching back into the Roman period, and it was given as an exotic eastern delicacy by King Peter I of Cyprus to King Casimir the Great of Poland at the Congress of Kraków, held in Poland in 1364. Also popular is mahalepi, a kind of blancmange made from corn flour usually flavoured with rose water or mahlep.

Cyprus delights, or loukoumia, are one of Cyprus's protected geographical indication (PGI) by the European Union. It is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar, flavored with lemon, rose water, mastic or other fruits with or without chopped dates, pistachios and hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel. The main centres for its production are Yeroskipou near Paphos and Pano Lefkara near Larnaca. A similar looking sweet is soujouk or shoushouko, although it is made very differently from loukoumia, being produced from boiled grape juice.

Cheeses
Halloumi is a semi-hard white-brined cheese with elastic texture, made in a rectangular shape from a mixture of goat and sheep milk; it may be sliced and eaten fresh, grilled, or fried. Aged halloumi may be grated over pasta dishes. It is the national cheese of Cyprus.

Anari is a crumbly fresh whey cheese, similar to ricotta, made from goat or sheep milk. Two varieties exist, dry and fresh anari. Dry anari is salted and is much harder than the fresh variety, and is served grated with pasta dishes and giouvetsi, while fresh anari is eaten in slices with honey or carob syrup.

Halitzia is a feta-like cheese made from goat or sheep milk. It is a slightly sour-flavored cheese, which is produced in the villages of the area of Tylliria. It can be enjoyed in salads.

Non-alcoholic
Ayran is a traditional drink made of yoghurt. Its recipe varies from region to region. Triantafyllo, a thick concentrated dark pink syrup (rose cordial) made from the extract of the Cyprus (Damascus) rose, has water or milk added to make a refreshing sweet cordial, especially in summer. It is distinct from rodostagma (literally "rose drops") (rose water) and anthonero (blossom water), which are used to sweeten mahallepi and other sweetmeats.

Alcoholic
Among Cypriots traditional brandy and zivania are of the most popular drinks on the island. The next most popular drink is beer. The local breweries of KEO and Carlsberg command the lion's share of the market. In Northern Cyprus, Efes is the most widely sold. Evidence of wine production on Cyprus goes back for millennia. Commandaria, the oldest wine in continuous production, is a popular dessert wine.

Cyprus brandy production is by various Limassol-based distilleries since 1871. Cypriot brandy is commonly drunk with meze dishes, and forms the base for the distinctive brandy sour cocktail, developed on the island in the late 1930s. Zivania, a grape distillate similar to Cretan raki, is another popular spirit.

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Luddenham, Kent

Luddenham is a widespread hamlet or small village north-west of Faversham in Kent, England, with many long-distance views across the Swale and the Isle of Sheppey. It is on the edge of Luddenham Marshes and is also home of Luddenham School. Oare Gunpowder Works are on the edge of the village. It had, according to Edward Hasted in 1798, 396 acres of low flat arable land and 200 acres of meadow and pasture, although half of those are marsh. It is in the civil parish of Norton, Buckland and Stone.

It was once called Cildresham, at the time of the Domesday survey. The Manor of Cildresham belonged to Odo, Earl of Kent, (as the Bishop of Bayeux) and was noted so in the Domesday Book. After Odo's trial for fraud, the manor then passed to the Fulbert de Dover (of Chilham) who helped the King defend Dover Castle. Then William de Luddenham became owner the Manor of Luddenham in 1212 and during the reign of Henry III, it passed to Sir Roger de Northwood.

It has the Grade I listed Church of St Mary, beside the Grade II listed Luddenham Court (built in the 15th century).

Also within the scattered hamlet, is the Nash estate which includes the grade II listed Nash's Farmhouse.

It used to have one of the most remote public houses in the area, The Mounted Rifleman, which closed in the early 1990s.

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Jochem Schindler

Jochem "Joki" Schindler (8 November 1944 – 24 December 1994) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist. In spite of his comparatively thin bibliography, he made important contributions, in particular to the theory of Proto-Indo-European nominal inflection and ablaut. Taught at University of Vienna from 1972 to 1978, as a professor at Harvard University from 1978 to 1987, then at Vienna. A meticulous scholar, he also recognized that mistakes were inevitable, and his phrase "courage to err" (Mut zum Irrtum) became popular with his colleagues, including Calvert Watkins. With Watkins and others, he was a founding member of the East Coast Indo-European Conference in 1982.

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Charlie Kelleway

Charles Kelleway (25 April 1886 – 16 November 1944) was an Australian cricketer who played in 26 Test matches between 1910 and 1928.

In 1911/12, he played against the MCC touring-team captained by Plum Warner. In the Test-series, he took a total of only 6 wickets at 41.50. However, in the Triangular tournament of 1912 in England, he was more successful and made 360 runs in Australia's six Tests, with 114 at Manchester and 102 at Lord's, both against South Africa. He also had the best bowling of 5/33 in an innings.

He served as a captain in the Australian Army during World War I and was the first captain of the Australian Imperial Force Touring XI that toured Great Britain in 1919, until he was removed following a dispute.

He died after a long illness in Lindfield, New South Wales.

title: Charlie Kelleway


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Aber-arad

Aber-arad is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Aber-Arad lies less than one mile to the east of Newcastle Emlyn.

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Aber Arad as:

ABERARAD, a village in the parish of Kenarth, Carmarthen; a mile east of Newcastle-Emlyn.

title: Aber-arad


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Aber-giar

Aber-giar (Abergiâr) is a village in the community of Llanllwni in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

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User:Fir0002/1yr on Wiki

Intro
It has now been 1 year since I started uploading to Wikipedia! I think during that time I’ve achieved a name for myself as a photographer, as I’ve uploaded around 800 photos or 400mb of files. I’m a GFDL uploader and I think that the concept of Wikipedia – free knowledge – is awesome to say the least. My very first photo was one of a dandelion. This was also the first photo I put onto the Featured Picture Candidates page. It was strongly rejected, and quite rightly so. Messy, and full of suffering chromatic aberration, it was the best photo in the world to me at the time. Fortunately I didn’t take the rejection to heart, but rather took it as a challenge, and soon after got my first Featured Picture.

Key Dates

 * First Picture: dandelion, 09:59, August 31, 2004
 * First Featured Picture Candidate: dandelion
 * First Featured Picture: Image:Emperor Gum Moth.jpg – at the time I featured this picture, I had it misnamed as a “polyphemus moth”. It was later correctly identified and reuploaded. Nominated at 09:22, 4 Sep 2004, promoted at 09:54, 18 Sep 2004
 * First Picture of the Day: Image:Emperor Gum Moth.jpg, Saturday 18 September, 2004
 * First pictures in the quartro: Image:Emperor Gum Moth.jpg, and Image:Red sunset02.jpg both appeared in the inaugural edition.
 * First article: Pasture Day Moth, created at 10:44, September 4, 2004
 * First Argument: Template:Support and Template:Object and Template:Oppose, started at 21:47, 20 Jun 2005, sort of finished at 08:35, 26 Jun 2005.

Equipment
Originally most of my photos were taken with my little Kodak Easyshare LS633, but now I’m using a much more professional camera, the Canon 20D. The Kodak served me well over the years, and some of the photo’s I took with it I still consider to be among the best I have taken. It had no manual focus, fumbling macro auto focus, poor handling of noise, three optical zoom and three megapixels. Nevertheless it was definitely a usable tool. However, after I took it up to the snow and it got a bit wet (I think this was the reason) the camera developed some pretty bad idiosyncrasies. For instance, taking a photo in daylight conditions using any zoom would result in a horribly blue tinged photo. Take the same photo at night using a fill flash and it would work fine. Clearly it was time for a change, and that change came in the form of the 20D. This of course enhanced the quality of my photos IMO, but also created a little problem for me, as I wanted to make money out of my photos but I still wanted to give my photos free to wiki. I figured that I could safely upload them for a while yet, as I haven’t told many people in my area about Wikipedia (sorry for not spreading the word!)

Over the year I have obviously gained quite a bit of wiki knowledge, but I still consider myself somewhat a new comer, as I’m not too familiar with a lot of aspects of Wikipedia not directly involved with uploading a photo and putting it in an article and am still caught out because of this. One of the best things I’ve learnt is the existence of the Reference desk, as prior to that, I just didn’t bother uploading some photos as I couldn’t identify them.

Anyway it’s been a great year, and I look forward to a new year, with more Featured Pictures – my constant motivation!

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Abermeurig

Abermeurig (also spelt Aber-meurig) is a small village in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.

The village is home to a former Methodist chapel, first built in 1698. It was rebuilt 1772, 1816, 1826 and 1890.

title: Abermeurig