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Tenser

In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons  roleplaying game, Tenser is an archmage who strives to rid the Flanaess of evil. Tenser is a former member of both the Citadel of Eight and the Circle of Eight.

In Dungeon's Age of Worms adventure path, Tenser is referred to as "Manzorian".

Creative origins
Tenser, an anagram of "Ernest", was initially a wizard player character created and played by Gary Gygax's son Ernie, one of the first two characters that played the game now known as Dungeons & Dragons. In the fall of 1972, Gary Gygax was working to create rules for a new type of game based on a demonstration he had been given by Dave Arneson. To provide a playtest environment in which to develop these rules, Gygax designed his own castle, "Castle Greyhawk", and prepared the first level of a dungeon that lay beneath it. Two of his children, Ernie and Elise, were the first players, and Ernie rolled up a wizard, Tenser. During the evening, the children fought and destroyed the first monsters of the Greyhawk dungeon; Gygax recalled this as either being some giant centipedes or a nest of scorpions. During the same session, Ernie and Elise also found the first treasure, a chest of 3,000 copper coins (which was too heavy to carry, much to the children's disappointment). After his children had gone to bed, Gygax immediately began to work on the second level of the dungeon.

The next night, Don Kaye and Rob and Terry Kuntz joined in, rolling up the characters Murlynd, Robilar and Terik respectively. In the following weeks and months, Tenser often adventured with Robilar and Terik. At one point, using their combined forces of loyal henchmen, the three controlled access to the first level of the Greyhawk dungeons while they ransacked the lower levels. Eventually Tenser became the second character to reach the 13th (and at the time, the bottom level) of the Greyhawk dungeons, when he noticed that Robilar was missing and went in search of him. Gary Gygax "borrowed" Tenser's name for two spells, Tenser's floating disc and Tenser's transformation.

When Gygax was forced out of TSR in 1985, he lost the rights to most of his characters, except those that were anagrams of his own name. Tenser is one of the famous mages whose spells were included in the 1988 Greyhawk Adventures hardbound. Tenser was reintroduced as a member of a repurposed Circle of Eight in 1989 in The City of Greyhawk boxed set, where he appeared as part of a cabal of nine wizards, including himself, who sought to balance the forces of Good and Evil in the world. When TSR decided to reboot the World of Greyhawk campaign setting in 1991, the storyline of the setting moved forward a decade to 585 CY, the year after the end of a continental war called the Greyhawk Wars. In events described in the new storyline, Rary and Tenser's old adventuring partner Robilar has attempted to destroy the Circle of Eight and succeeded in murdering Tenser and Otiluke. This was the end of Tenser until TSR was bought by Wizards of the Coast and the Greyhawk storyline was once again revised. This time, in Roger E. Moore's D&D adventure Return of the Eight (1998) the players meet the surviving members of the Circle of Eight (now called the "Circle of Five" because it was missing Tenser, Otiluke and Rary). If the players successfully finish the adventure, Tenser is rescued from death (although he refuses to rejoin the Circle).

Description
Tenser is medium-sized, with brown hair and an aquiline nose. He is always dressed in blue. He is polite and outgoing but is willing to enforce his will on others for the sake of Law and Good.

Relationships
Tenser is a close friend of Jallarzi Sallavarian and Cymria. Agath of Thrunch often meets him at his fortress.

Home
Tenser makes his home in the Fortress of Unknown Depths on the southern shore of the Nyr Dyv, near the village of Magepoint, only a few days' ride from the Free City of Greyhawk.

History
Tenser was born 525 CY, purportedly in the Wild Coast town of Fax. At some point after 551 CY, he was recruited by Mordenkainen and Bigby to join the Citadel of Eight. After the death of his good friend and fellow Citadel member Serten in 569 CY, the Citadel dissolved. Tenser joined forces with Bigby and Mordenkainen once more in 574 CY when he joined the Circle of Eight, replacing Leomund.

In 570 CY, Tenser accompanied Bigby and Neb Retnar beneath Greyhawk Castle in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Robilar, Riggby, and Quij from freeing the demigod Iuz.

In 579 CY, Robilar sacked the Temple of Elemental Evil, freeing the demoness Zuggtmoy in the process. In retribution, Tenser, Otis, Rufus, and Burne led an army of good-aligned forces in pursuit of his former companion, following him back to his castle and laying siege to it, defeating his armies and driving them from the Domain of Greyhawk to the Pomarj.

In 581 CY, Tenser accompanied Bigby, Drawmij, Jallarzi Sallavarian, Nystul, Otiluke, Otto, and Rary to the tomb of Halmadar the Cruel. Every member of the party died that day, though they were brought back to life later through the agency of clone spells.

The Circle was betrayed in 584 CY, when Tenser, Bigby, and Otiluke discovered a plan by the Circle's own Rary to slay a number of diplomats assembled in Greyhawk to sign the treaty ending the Greyhawk Wars. Unfortunately, Rary witnessed their discovery, and a great magical battle ensued, resulting in the deaths of Otiluke and Tenser, and severely wounding Bigby, who was unable to pursue Rary as he escaped. Word later came that Rary's allies, among them former Citadel member Lord Robilar, had ensured Tenser's and Otiluke's deaths by destroying every clone they had prepared for such an incident. Rary and Robilar fled to the Bright Desert, southeast of Greyhawk, where they established the Empire of the Bright Lands.

However, Rary and Robilar had failed to discover a clone Tenser had hidden away on Celene, one of Oerth's moons, and in Goodmonth of 585 CY Tenser was restored to life. Though he was welcomed back into the Circle, Tenser refused.

Spells
Two of Tenser's eponymous spells, Tenser's Floating Disc and Tenser's Transformation, appear in the 3.5 Edition Player's Handbook. Other spells that he developed, described in such second-edition supplements as Greyhawk Adventures, include:
 * Tenser's Brawl
 * Tenser's Deadly Strike
 * Tenser's Destructive Resonance
 * Tenser's Eye of the Eagle
 * Tenser's Eye of the Tiger
 * Tenser's Flaming Blade
 * Tenser's Floating Disc, Greater
 * Tenser's Fortunes of War
 * Tenser's Giant Strength
 * Tenser's Hunting Hawk
 * Tenser's Master of Arms
 * Tenser's Primal Fury
 * Tenser's Running Warrior
 * Tenser's Staff of Smiting
 * Tenser's Steady Aim

Writings
Tenser is known to have authored the following works:

 * Evolution of the Arcane Will Power
 * Magical Properties of Gemstones
 * Magical Properties of Herbs and Flowers
 * Occult Properties of Gemstones
 * Theory of the Invisible Forces

Reception
David M. Ewalt called the character of Tenser "something of a D&D celebrity", due to the spells Gary Gygax named after him, and due to the character's appearances "in a number of Greyhawk campaign sourcebooks".

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Note: A series of sockpuppets have been editing the same set of pages (usually Victoria of the United Kingdom, Pope Pius XII, Jim Duffy (author) and Dublin statues and their nicknames) identical ways to include almost identical information, all of it POV. All were pages I had edited. Skyring had a history of Wikistalking me, for which the ArbComm imposed a one year ban. Within hours of contributing to a debate on Wikistalking this latest campaign started, with some aspects of the campaign (abusive edit summaries on occasion, undoing changes I had made, etc, exactly what Skyring did. He had threatened to use sockpuppets to continue to wage campaigns against me if banned. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 00:18, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

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Russian desman

The Russian desman (Desmana moschata) (выхухоль vykhukhol') is a small semiaquatic mammal that inhabits the Volga, Don and Ural River basins in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. It constructs burrows into the banks of ponds and slow-moving streams, but prefers small, overgrown ponds with abundance of insects, crayfish and amphibians. The Russian desman often lives in small groups of two to five animals, that are usually not related, and appears to have a complex (but largely unstudied) communication and social system.

Taxonomy
The Russian desman is one of two surviving species of the tribe Desmanini, the other being the Pyrenean desman. Despite its outward similarity to muskrats (a rodent), the Russian desman is actually part of the mole family Talpidae in the order Eulipotyphla. Like other moles, it is functionally blind and obtains much of its sensory input from the touch-sensitive Eimer's organs at the end of its long, bilobed snout. However, the hind feet are webbed and the tail is laterally flattened —specializations for its aquatic habitat. The body is 18 to 21 cm long while the tail is 17 to 20 cm in length. Easily the largest species of mole, it weighs 400 to 520 g. Decidedly rich and thick in nature, desman fur used to be highly sought after by the fur trade. Consequently, the Russian desman is now a protected species under Russian law. However, due to loss of habitat (farming), water pollution, illegal fishing nets, and the introduction of non-native species like muskrat, population levels continue to decline. In the mid-1970s, an estimated 70,000 desmans were left in the wild; by 2004, the figure was only 35,000. However, in some Russian regions, the number of desmans appears to be increasing.

Distribution and habitat
From 2009 to 2011, the Don Basin rivers were searched for Russian desman to evaluate if this environment was sustainable for the species. No evidence was found that the species lives in this area but if so, the population was very small. The limiting factors consist of global factors, interspecific processes, and new immigrating species in the river ecosystem.

Characteristics
Russian desman provide comfort to themselves by grooming. More specifically, scratching with hind feet, washing, biting out of nails, and biting out of fur. The main reasons for these actions are supporting the air layer and heat-insulating properties of fur.

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More requests for bureaucratship were made this week, and both the title and the process came under debate. Meanwhile, 9 users became administrators. 12 articles, 4 lists and 7 pictures were promoted to featured status.

Bureaucrats
Previously Andrevan pointed out that bureaucrats now had responsibility for changing usernames, and nominated himself (see archived story). He emerged unsuccessful, having garnered 50 support votes, 10 opposes and 1 neutral. Rdsmith4 (nom) also put himself forward and was promoted with 48 supports and 1 oppose. Currently Linuxbeak (nom) and Nichalp (nom) are being voted on.

As requests for bureaucratship are fairly uncommon, they have promoted a flurry of discussion. UninvitedCompany (a bureaucrat himself) proposed a change in title for "bureaucrats". Various suggestions were made (not all of them entirely serious) including "Super-Admins", "Daimons", "Lambies", "user rights administrator" and "Admins on Wheels". So far there is no consensus for changing to any of these names. Andrevan also created a poll to gauge the standard required for promotion of bureaucrats, which has attracted controversy.

Admins
Nine users were granted admin status this week - Jtkiefer (nom), Marianocecowski (nom), Nufy8 (nom), JesseW (nom), DanielCD (nom), Sam Hocevar (nom), Scimitar (nom), Asbestos (nom) and Beland (nom).

Featured content
Twelve articles were featured this week - Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport, Krag-Petersson, Hubble Deep Field, Cerebellum, Asthma, Sociocultural evolution, Witold Lutosławski, Wolf, Phishing, Shrimp farm, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Jean Schmidt. It was decided not to promote the controversial Terri Schiavo article but another particularly controversial article replaced it on featured article candidates, the second nomination of Gay Nigger Association of America.

Over at Featured list candidates four lists gained featured status - List of recognised political parties in India, List of Hong Kong ODI cricketers, List of spacewalks and moonwalks and The Oz books.

Seven featured picture candidates were promoted. Also notable was the nomination of the infamous Image:Autofellatio 2.jpg which ended without being promoted.


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Marigold
Marigold actually has very little in common with the marigold flower. A native of Ottawa, Ontario, she's entering the tenth grade.

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Curley Byrd

Harry Clifton "Curley" Byrd (February 12, 1889 – October 2, 1970) was an American university administrator, educator, athlete, coach, and politician. Byrd began a long association with the University of Maryland as an undergraduate in 1905, and eventually rose to the position of university president from 1936 to 1954.

In the interim, he had also served as the university's athletic director and head coach for the football and baseball teams. Byrd amassed a 119–82–15 record in football from 1911 to 1934 and 88–73–4 record in baseball from 1913 to 1923. In graduate school at Georgetown University, he became one of football's early users of the newly legalized forward pass, and he had a brief baseball career including one season as pitcher for the San Francisco Seals.

Byrd resigned as university president in order to enter politics in 1954. He ran an unsuccessful campaign as the Democratic candidate for Maryland governor against Theodore McKeldin. Byrd later received appointments to state offices with responsibilities in the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. In the 1960s, he made unsuccessful bids for seats in each chamber of the United States Congress. Byrd was a proponent of a "separate but equal" status of racial segregation in his roles as both university administrator and political candidate.

In 2015, the Student Government Association agreed to a resolution in support of changing the name of Byrd Stadium because they noted that Byrd was "a racist and a segregationist" who "barred blacks from participating in sports and enrolling into the University until 1951". On September 28, 2015, University of Maryland President Wallace Loh appointed a task force to develop viewpoints and options. The University President then made a recommendation to the University System of Maryland Board of Regents — the governing body of Maryland state universities — to change the name to "Maryland Stadium". The ultimate decision on any name change rests with the Board of Regents. On December 11, 2015, the Board of Regents voted 12–5 to remove the "Byrd" from the stadium's name, renaming it Maryland Stadium for the time being.

Early life
Harry Clifton Byrd was born on February 12, 1889, in Crisfield, Maryland. He was one of six children of oysterman and county commissioner William Franklin Byrd and his wife Sallie May Byrd. In his youth, Byrd worked in the Chesapeake Bay fishing industry, where he saved most of his money to finance his college education. He attended Crisfield High School, where he excelled on the baseball diamond, and was also known as his hometown's first recreational jogger.

A later source described how he appeared in 1905

"He was tall, and as the saying goes, built like a whip. He had a startlingly handsome face, with big, flashing eyes, a splotch of florid red on each cheek, and a mane of black curly hair ... He looked like Rupert of Hentzau, and had all of that worthy's cold, sinister resolution about everything that he did."

College career
In 1905, Byrd graduated from Crisfield High School and enrolled at the Maryland Agricultural College, which is now known as the University of Maryland. Byrd was a star college athlete and participated in varsity football, baseball, and track. He served as the football team captain in 1907, as the pitcher on the baseball team, and set a school record 10.0-second 100-yard dash in track. Before leaving Crisfield, Byrd's father warned him not to "try to play that thing called football." He ignored the advice and reported for football practice where head coach Fred K. Nielsen told the undersized Byrd to "play with the kids" and that "football's a man's game." He was allowed, however, to fill in as an end on the scout team due to a shortage of players. After sitting out the first three games, Nielsen sent Byrd in as a substitute against Navy, and his play was impressive enough to earn a position on the first team. After the elder Byrd read of his son's newfound stardom in the newspaper, he wrote, "Since you're going to play football, I'm glad to see you're doing it well." During the summers and on weekends, Byrd supplemented his income by continuing work as a fisherman. He graduated second in his class with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering in 1908.

After graduation from Maryland, Byrd spent the next three years doing graduate work in law and journalism at George Washington University, Georgetown University, and Western Maryland College (now known as McDaniel College). In a time before eligibility limitations, he played football at George Washington and Georgetown and ran track at Western Maryland. At Georgetown in 1909, he was called the first quarterback in the East to master the forward pass, several years before Gus Dorais of Notre Dame did so in 1913. According to The Georgetown Hoyas: A Story of A Rambunctious Football Team, Dorais's "end-over-end 'discus' throw was an exact copy" of Byrd's passing technique, and the Irish "got the headlines because they had a press agent and Georgetown didn't."

Byrd also played for Maryland-based semi-professional baseball teams while pursuing his graduate studies. In 1910, the Chicago White Sox signed Byrd, but he was soon traded to the San Francisco Seals, a semi-professional Pacific Coast League baseball team for whom he pitched in 1912. He returned to Maryland later that year, and in 1913, married Katherine Dunlop Turnbull. Before they divorced twenty years later, the couple had three sons and a daughter: Harry, Sterling, William, and Evelyn.

Coaching career
In 1911, injuries claimed enough Maryland Agricultural football players that the team could no longer field a practice squad to scrimmage against. The college turned to Byrd, who was serving as coach at Western High School in Georgetown, and he was willing to help his alma mater with scrimmages. Byrd later replaced head coach Charley Donnelly, who resigned mid-season after accumulating a 2–4–2 record. Byrd led the Aggies to wins in both of their final games of the season, against Western Maryland, 6–0, and Gallaudet, 6–2.

In 1913, the Maryland Agricultural College hired Byrd as an instructor in English and history, and he was named the head coach of the track and baseball teams, the latter of which he coached through 1923. According to author David Ungrady in Tales from the Maryland Terrapins, the university initially offered Byrd $300 to coach football, but he demanded $1,200. The two parties came to agree upon that salary for all of his coaching and teaching duties which spanned nine months of the year. Byrd also worked as a sportswriter for The Washington Star, a job he held until 1932.

As football coach, he developed a unique offensive scheme called the "Byrd system", which combined elements of the single-wing and double-wing formations. One of Byrd's track and football players, Geary Eppley, said, "He never yelled in practice or at a game ... He pointed out mistakes and explained what you did wrong. He took a calm approach. The strongest thing he'd say was 'for cripes sake.'"

In 1915, his duties were expanded to include those of athletic director. That same year, he requested funds for the construction of the campus's first dedicated football stadium, which was named in his honor. During his tenure as head football coach from 1911 to 1934, he compiled a 119–82–15 record.

Administrative career
Byrd was appointed to the post of assistant university president in 1918. He became a proponent of unification of the Maryland Agricultural College and the Baltimore professional schools into a single public University of Maryland, and he was instrumental in what became the Consolidation Act of 1920. Byrd named the student newspaper The Diamondback in 1921, and in 1933, he was the lead advocate for the adoption of the diamondback terrapin as the university's official nickname and mascot.

In 1932, Byrd was promoted to vice president of the university. In July 1935, he was named the acting president of the university, and was officially appointed to the presidency in February 1936. During his tenure, the budget, facilities, faculty, and enrollment increased significantly. The school budget was increased and the campus expanded largely due to Byrd's deft political maneuvering in Annapolis and Washington. The school also saw a large growth in enrollment, due in part to returning veterans making use of the G.I. Bill after World War II. From 1945 to 1948, the university budget increased from $4.8 million to $9.8 million. Between 1935 and 1954, student enrollment grew from 3,400 to 16,000. Over that same time period, the value of the campus rose from $5 million to $65 million. Byrd, however stood fast on faculty salaries. He reportedly said, "Ph.D.s are a dime a dozen." For years, Byrd refused to release the university's financial records to state legislators, and how exactly he secured funding for many of his projects was largely a mystery. According to booster Jack Heise, Byrd financed a new basketball arena through the out-of-state tuition, paid by the federal government, for Maryland high school graduates who attended the university on the G.I. Bill. The General Accounting Office calculated that the extra fees totaled more than $2 million, but determined that they were within the bounds of legality.

Byrd was a staunch supporter of a "separate but equal" state university system. The Princess Anne campus provided agricultural education and Morgan State College provided liberal arts education for the state's black students, while the University of Maryland remained open only to white students. In 1951, Governor Theodore McKeldin criticized the University of Maryland as an example of wasteful state spending, and was especially critical of expansions to the Princess Anne campus, which was geographically disconnected from the state's black population and not attracting many students to study agriculture. Contractors had begun projects at the college before approval from the public works board, which was described as a usual practice under Byrd. Byrd acceded to McKeldin and secured approval from the board for both the Princess Anne expansions as well as a sizable increase to the university budget.

In 1945, Byrd hired 32-year-old Paul "Bear" Bryant to his first head coaching post. Bryant led the Terrapins to a 6–2–1 record, but the two personalities clashed. The tensions came to a head when Byrd reinstated a player Bryant had suspended for violating team rules. Bryant resigned as head coach an hour later, which caused an uproar among students until he interceded to restore order.

Two years later, Byrd hired Jim Tatum as football coach. The year prior at Oklahoma, Tatum fielded a winning team, but the athletic department ran up a huge deficit and some players were paid in violation of conference rules, which resulted in university president George Cross firing athletic director Jap Haskell. The media blamed Tatum for his termination. Tatum told Cross to refute Tatum's role in the matter, and threatened to reveal the Oklahoma team had been paid $6,000 after the 1947 Gator Bowl. Cross asked Byrd to persuade Tatum not to go public, and according to author Gary King in An Autumn Remembered, Byrd replied, "Persuade, hell! I'll tell him to keep his damn mouth shut!" Tatum remained as coach at Maryland from 1947 to 1955, and amassed a 73–15–4 record.

In 1948, the National Collegiate Athletic Association passed a set of regulations called the Purity Code, later renamed the Sanity Code, which permitted student-athletes free tuition and meals, but required that part-time jobs be legitimate and their pay commensurate with the work. Schools found to be in violation could be expelled from the NCAA. In 1950, seven schools, called the "Sinful Seven"—Virginia, Maryland, VMI, Virginia Tech, The Citadel, Boston College, and Villanova—admitted they were in violation of the code. Time magazine asserted violators were far more widespread than those seven that had confessed. Maryland was the only Sinful Seven school that was also a major football power with eighty scholarship players, and Byrd led them in their stand against the Sanity Code. University of Virginia president Colgate Darden called the code hypocritical, and The Citadel's leadership refused to "lie to stay in the association" and requested termination of its NCAA membership. At the convention to decide Virginia's fate, Byrd said, "Does Ohio State want to vote for expulsion of Virginia, when Ohio State has facilities to take care of four or five as many athletes as Virginia?" The ensuing vote fell 25 short of the needed two-thirds majority to expel the Sinful Seven.

In 1951, the football team's 10–0 season culminated in a 28–13 victory over first-ranked Tennessee in the 1952 Sugar Bowl. Maryland's participation, however, was in violation of a Southern Conference resolution passed mid-season that banned participation in postseason bowl games. Byrd had Maryland accept the bowl invitation, despite Tatum's objections. The coach thought the threatened sanctions, which prevented Maryland from playing any Southern Conference games the following season, would severely disadvantage his team. In 1952, Maryland and Clemson, which had also violated the bowl game ban, were sanctioned, and the incident hastened the break-up of the Southern Conference and formation of the Atlantic Coast Conference, of which both schools were founding members.

Opponents in The Baltimore Sun alleged that Byrd emphasized athletics over academics and belittled him as the only college football coach to rise to the position of university president. Among the campus expansions, Byrd was responsible for the construction of Byrd Stadium in 1950 and Cole Field House in 1955, which at the time was the largest basketball arena in the Southern Conference. Critics alleged that both facilities were constructed at the expense of campus libraries. Byrd also built the University of Maryland Golf Course in 1959. Byrd resigned from the post in 1953 and his tenure ended effectively on December 31.

Political career
Byrd resigned from the presidency in January 1954 to embark upon an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Maryland. He narrowly beat perennial candidate George P. Mahoney in the Democratic primary by 50.64% to 49.37% and faced Republican incumbent McKeldin in the general election. Byrd campaigned on his stance of separate but equal. McKeldin won comfortable majorities in Baltimore's black, Jewish, and upper-middle class white districts, while Byrd took all of the blue-collar white South and East Baltimore neighborhoods, including McKeldin's boyhood home along Eutaw Street. Elsewhere in the state, however, middle-class white voters did not support Byrd. Byrd lost by 54.46% to 45.54%. He went on to make unsuccessful bids for the Democratic nominations to the U.S. Senate in 1964 and the U.S. Congress in 1966.

Despite his lack of success in campaigning, Byrd did receive several gubernatorial appointments: Chairman of the Maryland Tidewater Fisheries Commission, Maryland Commissioner to the Potomac River Fisheries Commission, and Chairman of the Commission on Chesapeake Bay Affairs. In 1959, Governor J. Millard Tawes appointed Byrd as commissioner of tidewater fisheries. When a fisheries officer killed a Virginian waterman illegally dredging, Byrd disarmed the force. The action was credited with helping to end the long-standing Potomac River Oyster Wars. Following the example of other oyster-producing states, Byrd authorized fossil shell mining to produce culch, crushed shells used to form oyster beds. Byrd ignored Tawes' warning to "stay away from private planting" by promoting the formation of leasing cooperatives, but his plan failed due to opposition in the Maryland General Assembly.

Business career
Byrd was also active in business and civic organizations. In 1951, he was involved in the merger that formed the Suburban Trust Company, which in 1960 was the largest bank in Maryland outside of Baltimore City. He later served as the company's vice president. Byrd also did business in real estate and construction. Byrd was active with service organizations. In 1962, he became a member of the Loyal Order of the Moose. Byrd organized the College Park Rotary Club and served as its first president. Byrd was a member of the Defense Orientation Conference Association (DOCA), an organization which educates civilians on the Defense Department's programs and policies.

Death
Byrd died of a heart condition on October 2, 1970, at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He is interred at Asbury United Methodist Church Cemetery in Crisfield, Maryland, and his epitaph reads: "Harry Clifton 'Curley' Byrd, Educator–Statesman–Conservationist, President Emeritus, Father and Builder of the Greater Consolidated University of Maryland, Founded 1920." Byrd was inducted into the University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982.

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The family "De Geer" has played an important role in Swedish history since the 16th century, mainly centered around the iron foundry company town Finspång, but often extending to science, art and national politics. Older Swedish encyclopedias have had the bad habit to "standardize" the spelling of their forenames to "Karl", "Vilhelm" and "Gerhard". However, it seems that the persons themselves have most often used the spelling Carl (or Charles), Wilhelm and Gerard. Newer Swedish encyclopedias respect this, and this is also the trend in the Swedish Wikipedia. However, some biographies have been copied from an older out-of-copyright encyclopedia, and might use the wrong spelling. On the talk page sv:Diskussion:De Geer, I have compiled a list of what I believe to be the most correct and suitable spelling of each person's name for the Swedish Wikipedia. All Swedish encyclopedias (old and new) use the French spelling Louis, not the German/Swedish Ludwig/Ludvig or the Dutch Lodewijk. For surnames with a preposition, the general Swedish rule is to write the preposition in lower case and put it at the end of the forenames in alphabetic sorting, e.g. "Rosen, Eric von" and "Laval, Gustaf de". However, "De Geer" is one of very few exceptions where "De" is spelled with a capital D and this letter is used for sorting, e.g.: "De Geer, Louis". One branch (af Leufsta) of the Swedish family use a lower case "d", but are still sorted under "D", e.g. "de Geer, Jan". --LA2 22:36, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

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WCIU

WCIU may refer to:

 * WCIU-TV, a television station in Chicago, Illinois
 * William Carey International University, Pasadena, California

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Whole sour cabbage

Whole sour cabbage (Kiselo zelje u glavicama, Kiseli kupus u glavicama, literally: "cabbage soured in heads") is a fermented vegetable food preserve, popular in Eastern European and Balkan cuisines. It is similar to sauerkraut, with the difference that it is prepared through the lacto-fermentation for several weeks of whole heads of cabbage, not separate leaves or grated mass. No vinegar or boiling is required. It is a homemade food preserve, commonly prepared in large barrels filled with whole cabbage heads and water salted with sea salt.

Preparation
After the external leaves and core have been removed, the cabbage heads are salted, packed into the barrel as densely as possible (another reason why a round form is required) and covered with salted water (4–6% of salt). A heavy load (a rock, for example) is placed above, to keep them under the water, in anaerobic conditions. From time to time the water has to be reversed (flushed from the bottom of the barrel and then again sluiced onto the top), adding more (always with salt) if necessary. A higher salinity makes the fermentation slower, while an insufficient salinity makes it unsafe. Higher temperatures require a higher salinity. The fermentation should be done at 16-22 °C. The best temperature is 18-20 °C. A cabbage fermented at a lower temperature has a better fragrance. The best known microorganisms involved in the process include Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Lactobacillus brevis, Enterococcus faecalis, Pediococcus acidilactici and Lactobacillus plantarum.

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Sour cabbage is a popular Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian, and Serbian food, consumed mainly during the winter half of the year, both raw or cooked. Raw, it is a very popular winter salad, usually served dusted with pepper powder (aleva paprika) and/or black pepper, but also as-is. In cooking, it is used for sarma, and in other dishes, such as podvarak.

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Hello Nikke. Welcome to the English Wikipedia. I am replying to your message about my use of the word homokaasu. I did not intend to hurt any feelings, and thought that it was a humorous joke that had become global. In most cases I try to use words associated with the typeface, or its desinger, and especially in its language of origin. I do not remember how or why I settled upon homokaasu. I think when I first heard the word I thought it might be Japanses, not Finnish. Please accept my apology for what might have been a poor choice of word on my part. I have changed the specimen. best regards, Jim CApitol3 21:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
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 * Hello Hyacinth, Thanks for welcoming me on the Engish Wikipedia. --BarbD 13:06, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

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Hi... there's one difference between German Wikipedia and English Wikipedia regarding Articles for Deletion. Here, we don't leave our comments on why the article should be deleted on the article itself, as you did here. All comments are made on the AFD page itself (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance), which you are supposed to be the first to edit. Just follow the steps at the bottom of WP:AFD. --Angr/undefined 17:39, 30 October 2005 (UTC) (auch bei de: tätig)

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I am asking for the fourth time that you at least address my concern about referring to mainstream feminism in articles that refer to Christina Hoff Sommers, who defines mainstream feminism differently from you. I am wondering if you read the talk pages at all, because I have gone into detail and you have given no responses. I also object to your referring to others' edits as POV, then call CHS "conservative." I think that the other editor handled this better, taking a paragraph to address that others consider her conservative and what she says about it. I don't see the need of using the adjective in the opening sentence if CHS disputes it and the idea is covered later in the article. NickelShoe 22:39, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry I don't work much in the English Wikipedia. And then I really don't understand the problem of labelling someone 'conservetive' as negative. I'm not sure if you are familiar with Hoff Sommers concepts and the concepts of what she herself calls "academic feminism". I tried to make the differences clear, without judging. I will try and find some articles where this is explained to prove that this is not POV. --84.131.23.170 22:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)--BarbD 22:50, 20 November 2005 (UTC) sorry, I was already logged out...

 * I tried to talk about this on the talk pages, because I'm not so set in my ways that I can't imagine that you have good reasons. But you kept editing without addressing my concerns on the talk pages.  I explained my position, but you never explained yours.  "Conservative" isn't negative, it's POV.  People frequently call her conservative to attack her credibility--to make her sound POV.  I don't have a problem with explaining how she's conservative, just with making that part of the intro.  If she is conservative, reading about her ideas should be enough for the readers to understand that.  I welcome conversation on the relevant talk pages. NickelShoe 17:01, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

asking for comments regarding the exclusion of women in List_of_major_opera_composers
I would like to request comments and suggestions for the following situation in Talk:List_of_major_opera_composers. This is a very long, complicated situation involving whether women should be included on this list of Opera composers. As a male musician who has done quite alot of research on women in music, I firmly believe that a representative sample should be on the list (I'm not suggesting 50/50 or even 30/70, just two or three representative women). When I first noticed this article, it was completely unsourced, and the "important composers" were chosen by a collegial system ("I like that." "I don't like that") without any mention of sources. I marked the article NPOV and Unsourced. The article quickly became sourced, but I continued to bring up the issue of gender bias and brought three sources to the discussion after consulting the International Alliance of Women in Music [], all of which were dismissed because they only contained works by women. However, when the list was finally completed (I was asked not to participate, as I was considered to be have a POV agenda towards women and living composers), six of the ten lists used only contained the names of men. The other four only contained one woman (Judith Weir). If lists of only women composers are unacceptable, why are lists of only men composers acceptable? And was are sources which could prove the importance of women in music dismissed as having a POV agenda.

A colleague who is a teacher of Women's studies at an American University has suggested that this is a textbook case of "canon forming" or the creation of hierarchies using preconceived notions. The process involves making a hypothesis using the notions that one already has, such as "Important operas are only composed by dead, White, European males", using the sources already utilised for making the hypothesis for proving the statement and then dismissing contradictary sources or discrediting individuals who make statements which oppose the primary hypothesis.

I am certainly not asking anyone to get directly involved here, as this is already become quite violent and an RfA is currently underway. I would however appreciate any ideas concerning how to confront this sort of gender bias, any useful sources and other ideas, as well as general comments. Thank you Jean-Thierry Boisseau 20:53, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Chronic Argonauts

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The result of the debate was Speedy delete --Allen3 talk 21:16, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

The Chronic Argonauts
Fictional work masquerading as the entry for H.G. Wells short story The Chronic Argonaut (singular). I have added the correct entry and adjusted the links accordingly. ae7flux 22:39, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: this meets the patent nonsense speedy deletion criterion. I will speedy delete this as per policy, unless someone objects here in the next few minutes. -- The Anome 23:20, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
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Enid Lake

Enid Lake is a lake that is located mostly in Yalobusha County in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Parts of it extend into Panola and Lafayette counties. Common fish species include crappie, largemouth bass, catfish and bream. Enid Lake holds the world record for white crappie at 5 lbs 3 oz (2.35 kg), and holds the Mississippi state record for shortnose gar at 5.83 lbs, as well as the state record for spotted gar at 8.1 lbs.

Enid Dam is an earthen dam across the Yocona River. The dam is 110 ft high and 8400 ft long at its crest. The structure was completed in 1952, for flood control and recreation, as a project of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The lake (conservation pool) has a surface area of 6100 acre and a storage of 57600 acre.foot.

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This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State Michigan, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Michigan in a fair and accurate manner.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vampyric black metal

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The result of the debate was delete. Eugene van der Pijll 11:19, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Vampyric Black Metal
Delete. Not only does this genre not exist, but this page only lists one example (Emperor and Satyricon are most definitely not "vampyric black metal") whose style barely has any basis in black metal in the first place. Not notable. Dysfunktion 22:41, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm finding a few cases of bands (or their labels) identifying themselves as Vampyric black metal, or it appearing in somebody's fansite or a record-selling site. For instance,, , or .  Note that the third one almost explicitly ID's the phrase as a neologism.  Also, of the 396 google hits for {"vampyric black metal" -wikipedia}, I noticed a number of them on the first three pages presenting it as "'vampyric' black metal," further suggesting that this is a neologism for a particular flavor of black metal.  The Literate Engineer 07:03, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, that first link lists a number of other genres that don't exist either, although I'm guessing they're supposed to be describing the music and aren't actual genre names. - Dysfunktion 03:29, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete metalcruft.  Grue   18:50, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as a neologism. The Literate Engineer 23:37, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete neologism, as above.--Firsfron 00:05, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Talking about genres that don't exist... new genres arise every day. Look at how many exist already. It's because everyone wants to be different. I don't think this topic should be deleted because you say the genre doesn't exist... it may exist, it's just not a wide-known genre.
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William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie

William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, 4th Lord of Ruthven (c. 1541 – May 1584) was a Scottish peer known for devising the Raid of Ruthven.

Life and career
William Ruthven was born in 1541 in Ruthven Castle, in Perthshire, Scotland, the son of Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven and Janet Douglas. On 23 August 1581, he was named Earl of Gowrie by James VI of Scotland.

He and his father had both been involved in the murder of David Rizzio in 1566; and both took an active part on the side of the Kirk in the constant intrigues and factions among the Scottish nobility of the period. William had been the custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots, during her imprisonment in Lochleven Castle, where, according to the queen, he had pestered her with amorous attentions.

Ruthven wrote a friendly letter to his "great aunt" Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox in June 1571 during the Marian Civil War. He asked about the health of her son Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox and hoped for peaceful times in which she could visit Scotland. He said the young James VI was growing tall.

On 22 or 23 August 1582, Ruthven devised and undertook the Raid of Ruthven, a successful plot to seize the 15-year-old King James during a visit to his castle near Perth, now known as Huntingtower Castle. James was held captive until his escape at St Andrews on 27 June 1583. Ruthven remained at the head of the government for several months during the king's detention.

Ruthven was the last-known custodian of the silver casket that contained the Casket Letters; letters said to have been written by Mary, Queen of Scots, implicating her in the murder of her husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.

Arrest and execution
Ruthven was arrested at his house in Dundee by Colonel William Stewart. Stewart surrounded the house with 100 soldiers from 3 o'clock in the morning to 3' o'clock in the afternoon before Ruthven surrendered, when the town of Dundee received an order from James VI to take arms against him. Ruthven was shipped to Leith and brought to Holyrood Palace. He was taken to Kinneil House and then to Stirling Castle. His trial was held in Mar's Wark or "Lady Mar's house" at Stirling. The judges included John Graham, Lord Hallyards The charges, recorded by Roger Aston, included "witchcraft in conferring with sorcerers".

He was beheaded at Stirling on 3 May 1584 because of his leading involvement in the Raid of Ruthven and all of his honours were forfeited.

Following his execution, his lands were divided among the king's favourites, but the honours were restored to his son James in 1586.

His widow, Dorothea Stewart came to the opening of Parliament on 22 August 1584 and kneeled on the Royal Mile crying to the king for grace for her children. James Stewart, Earl of Arran pushed her away, and she fainted and was left on the street.

A letter produced in the posthumous trial of Robert Logan of Restalrig in 1609 referred to William Ruthven as Greysteil, a character in a popular poem of his time noted for his strength and sinister powers, enthralled to a powerful woman.

Marriage and children
William Ruthven was married to Dorothea Stewart, the oldest daughter of Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven and Janet Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl.

Scots Peerage lists 14 children of William and Dorothea, ten daughters and four sons:
 * James Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie (died 1588)
 * John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie (c. 1577 – 5 August 1600)
 * Alexander Ruthven (12 January 1580 – 5 August 1600)
 * William Ruthven, died in France prior to 1622
 * Patrick Ruthven, imprisoned for 19 years in the Tower of London. Father of Mary Ruthven, who married the painter Anthony van Dyck.
 * Mary Ruthven, married to John Stewart, 5th Earl of Atholl, and then after his death married John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl (1566–1603)
 * Margaret Ruthven, married to John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose, mother of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
 * Sophia Ruthven (died May 1592 ), first wife of Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox
 * Jean Ruthven, mother of James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie
 * Elizabeth "Isabel" Ruthven, who married Robert Gordon of Lochinvar, and was mother of John Gordon, 1st Viscount of Kenmure
 * Beatrix Ruthven, lady in waiting to Anne of Denmark, wife of John Home of Cowdenknowes
 * Lilias, about whom little is known, the English ambassador wrote she was "dead also with sorrow" after her father's execution in May 1584.
 * Dorothea, who married John Wemyss of Pittencrieff
 * Barbara Ruthven, lady in waiting to Anne of Denmark

Another source, Paterson's History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton lists another daughter named Elizabeth, explicitly called "Elizabeth (Not Isabel)":

 * Elizabeth Ruthven (died 1617), second wife of Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudon (died 1622).

There were plans in 1591 for Dorothea Stewart, Countess of Gowrie to marry William Keith of Delny but James VI forbade it.

John and Alexander Ruthven were killed on 5 August 1600 as the main characters in The Gowrie Conspiracy, a failed attempt to kidnap or murder James VI.

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Self-publicity
Please stop creating pages about yourself: Wikipedia is not a vehicle for self-publicity. -- The Anome 22:53, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

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Would you like me to move Jeremy Duncan to User:Fast films? -- The Anome 23:11, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

User page move
Yes, that would be great. Sorry, I am new to wikipedia so im still learning. I edited the article on FAST films, also, to be in accordance with the guidelines. i hope it will make it an appropriate addition to the site. Fast films 23:33, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem: done. Welcome to Wikipedia! -- The Anome 00:24, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

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Sunshine (American band)

Sunshine was a disco group and the backing vocalist for singer Donna Summer. The members included Carlena Williams and Summer's sisters Linda Gaines (now Lotman), Dara Bernard, and Mary Ellen Bernard. Their 1978 number one Billboard Disco hit "Take It to the Zoo" charted as "Last Dance / After Dark / Thank God It's Friday / Take It to the Zoo" by Donna Summer. The song was featured on the "Thank God It's Friday" film and soundtrack, was co-written by Summer (with Bruce Sudano and Joe "Bean" Esposito), who also sings background on the track.

The planned album, "Sunshine Watching Daddy Dance", was pulled at the last minute. Mary Ellen Bernard continued to perform with Summer until her sister's death on May 17, 2012. Linda Gaines Lotman, Mary Ellen Bernard, Dara Bernard and Jenette Yancey, sang "We've Come This Far By Faith" at Summer's funeral at Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville.

Dara Bernard, who also toured with Summer, is now living in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Question: That last paragraph is extremely valuative, and therefore proposes a very strong point of view. "Has recently been determined" by whom? The style is fairly good "by the medieval standard" means what? There is some sneaky (and dusty) prejudice in that latter, and there are assumptions in the former. I don't like Gower much at all, but we don't get to sneer at him because he's dead and anti-democratic! Please cite sources for all those judgments on Gower's unworthiness and inferiority, and please also establish that citation or originality were priorities for him or other authors of his own time. That last seems quite Romantic to me, since poets generally didn't cite sources, or they cited non-existent sources, if the sources were contemporaries, unless they wanted to pay a compliment to a friend. (Cf Chaucer's lack of citation for his sources and his attribution to imaginary sources, or, earlier, Geoffrey of Monmouth's claim of having a book by Waltherius.)

If we can't get a tone down or some citations, let's do a rewrite and cut that paragraph, eh? Geogre 22:43, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Dartmouth and the significance of the title
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 * The motto of Dartmouth College, "Vox Clamantis in Deserto," alludes to this poem.

I find that doubtful. It is more likely that Dartmouth's motto alludes to the same source to which this poem is alluding: the Bible. In Isaiah 40:3, the KJV has "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God," which in Latin is vox clamantis in deserto parate viam Domini rectas facite in solitudine semitas Dei nostri. The expression became famous early on, as it is alluded to a couple times in the New Testament. There are some serious disagreements on how this phrase should actually be translated, but they aren't really in the scope of this article.

So do we have any evidence that the Dartmouth motto is actually intended to allude to this poem, or can we remove that sentence? Whether or not we remove that, we'll have to add in information about the biblical reference (but I'm holding off on that until I get an answer about Dartmouth.) --Iustinus 18:36, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd certainly see it changed. Additionally, I'm not happy with an uncited denigration of Gower's Latin.  I fully believe that it's bad, but I wouldn't say so without citations, as that's not NPOV.  Additionally, the cribbing from other poets is presented as if it were a shocking crime, when, in the 14th century, it would have been the use of "authority" in a classical oration.  The Dartmouth thing is even more suspect, as there are multiple Bible verses that could be the source, and Isaiah is the most logical.  Geogre 11:08, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I've tried to de-fang some of the worst of it. (Claiming Dartmouth got the motto from here is pretty much of a stretch.  If we want an American university borrowing from an English poet, we have to go to Auburn University, which borrowed its name and mascot from Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village.)  Geogre 11:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

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A Song for You (Temptations album)

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Ionian Academy

The Ionian Academy (Ιόνιος Ακαδημία) was the first Greek academic institution established in modern times. It was located in Corfu. It was established by the French during their administration of the island as the département of Corcyre, and became a university during the British administration, through the actions of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford in 1824. It is also considered the precursor of the Ionian University. It had Philological, Law, and Medical Schools.

The first period of existence of its Medical School was from 1824 to 1828. The second from 1844 to 1865 (when the Ionian islands united with Greece). Many of the physicians at the academy had followed the traditional path of studying in Italy, and in particular at the medical School of Bologna. Their scientific and educational activities in establishing the high level of the Medical School influenced the Greek medical science as a whole. In particular, George Therianos (Prof of General and Comparative Anatomy and Experimental Physics) from the island of Zante (Zakynthos) met the Earl of Guilford in 1825 in England and was given the position of professor of the academy's Medical School.

Giovanni Carandino (Ioannis Karantinos), who had already learnt mathematics with Charles Dupin at the original Ionian Academy established by the French during their occupation of the Septinsular Republic (1807–1824), was sent by Lord Guilford to study at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France, in Italy and in England between 1820 and 1823, and became the director of the school of Mathematics at the academy.

The academy gave Public courses in Sciences, Ethics and humanities, it offered subjects like, Physiology, Botany, political economy and Penal and Civil law.

George Bowen was president of the Academy 1847-1851 and later first governor of Queensland.

After the union of the Ionian Islands to the Kingdom of Greece in 1864, the Ionian Academy was closed to support the newly established University of Athens. Parts of the staff moved to Athens and also the library was brought there.

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List of places in Pennsylvania: F–G

This list of current cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania also includes information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper zip code bounds, if applicable.

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Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union

The Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, usually known as OICCU, is the world's second oldest university Christian Union and is the University of Oxford's most prominent student Christian organisation. It was formed in 1879.

Due to the strength of the Oxford Movement and later the Oxford Groups (alternative Christian movements), evangelical Christians in Oxford have generally faced a more pluriform environment than in Cambridge, and OICCU has tended to follow the general lead of its Cambridge counterpart, the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU).

OICCU admits postgraduate students as well as undergraduates, although postgraduates are eligible only for associate membership, and their needs may be better served by the Oxford Graduate Christian Forum.

Aims and purpose
The OICCU vision is: Giving every student in Oxford University the chance to hear and respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ

The three aims of OICCU are:
 * Presenting the claims of Jesus Christ to the University
 * Uniting in fellowship those who desire to witness for Christ, and to deepen their spiritual life
 * Promoting involvement in God's work worldwide

Relationship to the local church

 * The local church is a biblical principle which OICCU does not try to replace in the Christian's life: OICCU encourages all its members to also be part of a local church and to contribute to that family of believers.
 * OICCU has the opportunity as a student run organisation to put on events uniquely geared to what its members think its fellow-students want.
 * OICCU also has the opportunity to be prominent in the college communities in a way that churches cannot do.
 * OICCU is inter-denominational, so its declaration of belief reflects what its members believe to be central to the gospel, and not secondary issues which Christians differ on.

Activities and organisation

 * Personal Evangelism is key to what OICCU does - its members want to get alongside non-Christians and tell them about Christ.
 * College Groups enable OICCU to put on events geared towards evangelising the individual college communities. There is a college Christian Union group in almost every undergraduate college in the University. Text-a-toastie is a popular college outreach event. The collegiate structure also enables students to have fellowship with a small group of believers, which helps in reaching out to the rest of the college. OICCU believes that when non-Christians see the Christian Union's members acting like a family and supporting one another it helps with evangelism.
 * Central meetings mean that members of OICCU can be encouraged by seeing that there are many people who also want to witness for Christ in Oxford. OICCU has speakers, music and opportunities to hear about God's work in Oxford and further abroad.
 * Monday Morning Prayer: The members of OICCU pray together regularly, recognising their belief that everything they do is useless if God is not at work. Central events are a resource to back up personal evangelism; OICCU has weekly events like 'Friday Lunchtime Talks' and bigger events like the Carol Services.
 * Events Week: Since 1940, OICCU has held weeks of evangelistic events including apologetics talks and a summary of the gospel. This now happens annually, with a larger series of evangelistic events organised every three years.
 * Residentials: OICCU hosts several annual residentials for its members, in particular the "Freshaway" event, which was first held in September 2016, and aims to help new students ("freshers") make Christian friends in the university, alongside seminars and talks to train and equip Christians for evangelism.
 * The Search is an event which aims to provide opportunities for open discussion between Christians and non-Christians on a variety of topics, and to allow Christians to share their beliefs with their friends. This event usually takes place in a local Oxford café.

Beliefs and affiliation
OICCU adopts the doctrinal basis of UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship), an evangelical Christian organisation with which OICCU is affiliated. The doctrinal basis contains what evangelicals perceive as the biblical foundations of Christianity. UCCF is in turn affiliated with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES).

Foundation
OICCU was modelled after the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU), founded two years earlier, but later incorporated a Daily Prayer Meeting established in Brasenose College in 1867. Like Wycliffe Hall (also 1877), it could be seen as a response to the University's abandonment of its previous officially Protestant position. The initial members included Francis Chavasse, subsequently Bishop of Liverpool and founder of St Peter's College.

Relations with the SCM
OICCU was a founder member of the Student Christian Movement and followed its lead in liberalizing its doctrine. In 1914 OICCU, along with the rest of the University, suspended its activities.

After World War I, the Oxford SCM was reestablished under that name, but those who held OICCU's original doctrinal position established a separate Oxford University Bible Union. In 1925 the two agreed to merge, and the OUBU became the Devotional Union of the Student Christian Movement in Oxford. However, the merger was not successful and in Michaelmas 1927, the Devotional Union committee voted to secede. The SCM gave them permission to use the old (1879) name and so OICCU was born anew, adopting the Doctrinal Basis of the new Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions (now UCCF) in 1928.

During much of this period, OICCU used some of the buildings later incorporated into St Peter's College. However, after 1933 it had the use of the Northgate Hall (just opposite the Oxford Union on St Michael's Street).

The Oxford Groups
During the 1920s and 1930s, an American preacher named Frank N. D. Buchman drew a considerable following at Oxford. He emphasized the use of small groups (with Buchman-appointed leaders) where sins were publicly confessed and repented of. The movement taught that the Holy Spirit was to directly guide Christians. These small groups became known as Oxford Groups and later Moral Re-Armament. The emphasis on small groups and personal belief was inherited by Alcoholics Anonymous.

Buchman was appealing directly to the OICCU constituency, and Julian Thornton-Duesbury (one of OICCU's supervising university teachers) became a noted Buchmanite. However, OICCU's student leadership distanced themselves from Buchman.

1940s: Problems and Packer
The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, the worldwide body to which OICCU belongs, was planned at a conference in Oxford in the late 1930s.

World War II forced those plans to be delayed. The greatly reduced number of students in Oxford obviously interfered with OICCU itself; one medical student had to serve as President for much more than the customary one year of office. However, the Union maintained daily prayer meetings (in termtime) throughout the War. Afterwards, a Standing Committee of prominent past members was established to ensure the Union's long-term continuity in such circumstances and in 1948 they became trustees of the Northgate Hall. The Standing Committee also has some reserve powers regarding the Doctrinal Basis, although they have never been used.

More positively, the prominent evangelical theologian J. I. Packer was converted to evangelical Christianity at an OICCU meeting in the 1940s, during his first week at the university. While a student member he was not regarded as doctrinally sound enough to join the Executive Committee. However, he was appointed Librarian, taking a particular interest in OICCU's selection of out-of-print Puritan books. In the following decade Packer, along with Martyn Lloyd-Jones, led a revival of Puritan studies amongst British pastors. He returned to Oxford in 2004 as the guest of honour at the 125th Anniversary celebrations.

Post-war era
The 1950s saw OICCU at perhaps its greatest numerical strength, while the SCM was seen to have moved towards Marxism. One leading figure at this time was Michael Green (President in 1952), who has been a leading evangelical in the Church of England and then the Anglican Communion since the 1960s. Green has taken a particular interest in promoting the Charismatic Movement, including within OICCU.

In a slightly later generation, Tom Wright was the OICCU President (1970–71) and published his first book together with other members of his year's Executive Committee. The book was a plea for a conservative Calvinist doctrinal position, a position he has since modified.

A feature of the post-war years has been the custom of triennial missions which attempt to explain the gospel to every undergraduate. These missions can trace their history back to the visit of Dwight Moody and Ira D. Sankey in 1882, but the current model began with a 1940 mission led by Lloyd-Jones. Subsequent main speakers have included Michael Green, Dick Lucas (long-time rector of St Helen's Bishopsgate), John Stott; one of Stott's series of talks was subsequently published as Basic Christianity, and Tim Keller.

OICCU membership has diminished since the middle part of the century, and now usually stands in the low hundreds — however formal membership is not needed to participate, and as of March 2006 OICCU's group membership on Facebook exceeded its official membership. The lease on the Northgate Hall was given up in the 1980s, and the Union has returned to the peripatetic existence of its earliest years, meeting in various church and public buildings around the city. Its archives are now held in the Bodleian Library and it has the use of a small store room at St Ebbe's church and New Road Baptist Church.

OICCU President
• 1879: George King

• 1881: Frank Webster

• 1882: William Talbot Rice

• 1885: Vernon Bartlet

• 1891: Thomas Ketchlee

• 1892: Tom Alvarez

• 1893: Edmund Elwin

• 1894: Temple Gairdner

• 1895: Willie Holland

• 1897: Fergus McNeile

• 1898: Robert Drury

• 1905: Jack Woodhouse

• 1907: Geoffrey Lunt

• 1909: Nathaniel Micklem

• 1919: Willoughby Habershon

• 1920: Noel Palmer

• 1921: Willoughby Habershon

• 1922: Talbot Mohan

• 1925: Verrier Elwin

• 1926: Gordon Aldis

• 1935: David Bentley-Taylor

• 1938: Herbert Pope

• 1943: David Mullins

• 1947: Donald Wiseman

• 1951: Michael Farrer

• 1952: Michael Green

• 1953 Martin Peppiatt

• 1955: Kenneth Habershon

• 1956: J. D. Morris

• 1957: Patrick Harris

• 1958: H. W. J. Harland

• 1959: David R. Catchpole

• 1960: B. T. Lloyd

• 1961: John G. Wesson

• 1962: G. Graham Dow

• 1963: A. M. G. Dalzell

• 1964: Ray A. E. Shilling

• 1965: R. D. Toley

• 1966: John Clarke

• 1967: Denis Alexander

• 1968: Chris M. N. Sugden

• 1969: Richard Kennedy

• 1970: N. T. Wright

• 1971: Duncan Munro

• 1972: Christopher Foster

• 1973: Morey Thomas

• 1974: Keith Sinclair

• 1975: Lindsay Brown

• 1977: Shaun Atkins

• 1978: Iain Broomfield

• 1979: Stephen Wright

• 1980: Tim Saunders

• 1981: Richard Dain

• 1982: David Field

• 1983: Hugh Skiel

• 1984: David Gray

• 1985: Mark May

• 1986: Rick Simpson

• 1987: Andy Buckler

• 1988: Simon Cansdale

• 1989: Steve Divall

• 1990: Richard Frank

• 1991: Nat Schluter

• 1994: Stuart Cashman

• 1995: James Ewins

• 1996: Stephen Jones

• 1997: Ed Reid

• 1998: David Scoffield

• 1999: Paul Murray

• 1999: Martin Thornley

• 2000: Tom Patrick

• 2001: Joshua Hordern

• 2002: Ed Boddam-Whetham

• 2003: David 'Benny' Goodman

• 2004: John Aldis

• 2005: Edward Clark

• 2006: Gregory Tarr

• 2007: Daniel Tredget

• 2008: David Meryon

• 2009: Graham Thornton

• 2010: Joel Harland

• 2011: Robbie Strachan

• 2012: Tim Bateman

• 2013: Josh Peppiatt

• 2014: Luke Cornelius

• 2015: Pete Downing

• 2016: Clem Faux

• 2017: Sam Hodson

• 2018: Abigail Marthinet-Payne

• 2019: Emily Lobb

• 2020: Stephen Lidbetter

• 2021: Thomas Farlow

• 2022: N. J. Ford

• 2023: M. Chen

• 2024: Charis Patterson

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Burn up

Burn up or Burn Up may refer to:

 * Burnup, a measure of the neutron irradiation of the fuel in nuclear power technology
 * Burn-Up!, a 1991 original video animation with several spinoffs:
 * Burn-Up W, a 4-part OVA series from 1996
 * Burn-Up Excess, a 13-part TV series from 1997 to 1998
 * Burn-Up Scramble, a 12-part TV series from 2004
 * Burn Up (TV series), a 2008 British/Canadian two-part drama serial

Burnup may also refer to:
 * Cuthbert Burnup, English amateur cricketer and footballer, born 1975

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