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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of famous psychopaths

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 (talk) 01:19, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

List of famous psychopaths
Delete.Conflates a medical definition with criminal behaviour. The person who started it admits "I'm not sure if these are all psychopaths." The extremely comprehensive List of serial killers by country all ready exists.Marskell 13:24, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete speculative listcruft. Punkmorten 15:45, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The page looks slightly better now. Still, to say someone is a psychopat is a little point of view and if the list of serial killers by country exists, then it should be deleted. Besides, I could say that Larry King is a psychopat, for example, and that doesnt make him one! Antonio Psycomaniatic Martin 00:19, 21 August, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a psychiatric registrar. David | Talk 23:20, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. "Psychopath" is not an accepted medical term, is it? --Agamemnon2 11:22, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 *  Keep  (vote change, see below). Psychopath is a medical term. see Antisocial personality disorder:A Three-Factor Model of Psychopathy. Zanaq 00:49, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The fact that it's a medical term is the problem with the list--these are convicted criminals. Again, conflating criminal behaviour and medical diagnosis and thus confusing the term for the reader. Marskell 08:29, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I didn't actually check the contents of the list. I agree wholeheartedly that the conflation existing now is totally undesirable. After inspecting the list I vote either:
 * Keep - but fill the list with real & clinical psycho's.
 * Redirect to List_of_serial_killers or something along those lines.
 * --Zanaq 14:06, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * delete. Dingoes ate my babies. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:46, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - If this is entirely speculation, why then, does it say on the pages of some of the listed people that they are psychopaths? As for Larry King, are there any accounts of his behaviour indicating that he has displayed any of the traits or clinical symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder? At least for some of the listed people, they have displayed a disregard for the well-being of others, they have lacked remorse despite being convicted and sentenced and their lives have been marked by impulsivity and drifting (none of them got away with what they did). If anyone wishes to dispute such traits and symptoms in some of the individuals listed on the page, then they are most welcome to do so. Furthermore, it is a very important note on the page that these people's behaviour has been by far more the exception rather than the norm for those afflicted with APD. Of course Wikipedia is not a psychiatric registrar and this should be made clear to all users. However, if the fact that Wikipedia does not have any professional authority means that it cannot make observations in people's behaviour for example, then how do we know that Wikipedia

can have a list of famous people who have suffered from depression? Perhaps this page should make distinctions between those who have been diagnosed and those for whom it is entirely speculation.
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Bill Walker (Scottish Conservative politician)

William Connoll Walker OBE  (20 February 1929 – 6 June 2017), known as Bill Walker, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party from 2000 until 2008. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Perth and East Perthshire later Tayside North from 1979 to 1997. He never held any office in government and was one of the Maastricht Rebels against the embattled administration of John Major during the mid-1990s.

Air Cadets
Walker began his cadet career in 1942 with 1707 (Dundee) Squadron of the Air Training Corps (ATC). Joining the organisation just a year after its inception, he continued his affinity with the air cadets ever since. He went on to spend a total of nine years in full-time regular RAF service, doing National Service including tours in the Middle East and later started the new Central Gliding School as a flight lieutenant. He has since held several different roles, many of which featured within the Air Cadet gliding fraternity, the largest gliding organisation in the world, culminating in his appointment in the 1990s as President of Air Cadet Gliding and in 2011 becoming the first officer of the RAFVR(T) to be appointed to the rank of group captain.

Parliamentary career
Walker stood at Dundee East in the October 1974 general election, coming third.

He was first elected in the 1979 general election as the Member of Parliament for Perth and East Perthshire. In 1983, he became MP for the newly formed Tayside North.

Walker enjoyed wearing the kilt, and he was one of two MPs who deliberately wore it in Parliament one day in July 1982 to mark the 200th anniversary of the lifting of the ban on wearing tartan, imposed after the 1745 Jacobite rising. He was a staunch Eurosceptic who resigned as vice chair of the Scottish Conservatives in 1992 to vote against the Government's attempts to implement the Maastricht Treaty. He became one of the Maastricht Rebels who repeatedly voted against the Government's attempts to ratify the treaty. In July 1993, despite being seriously ill, he flew down to London for a key vote on Maastricht and was kept hidden from the Government whips until the vote took place; his vote helped to inflict a defeat upon the Government.

In 1994, Walker was implicated in the Cash for Questions scandal that involved other Conservative MPs such as Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith. However, in Walker's case the matter was not taken further when it emerged that he had given the cash to charity.

During his years in Parliament, Walker managed to get five Private Member's Bills passed, including the bill which became the Scotch Whisky Act 1988, which gave a boost to the Scottish whisky industry.

Walker lost Tayside North when he was defeated by the SNP's John Swinney in 1997. He was elected Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Conservatives in June 2000. He was reelected in 2006, serving until 2008.

He died on 6 June 2017 at the age of 88. He was survived by his widow Mavis (née Lambert), who he married in 1956, as well as their three daughters (Clova, Fiona and Justine) and six grandchildren.

Publications

 * Scotland and Unionism - The Way Forward, by Bill Walker, M.P., & Dr. Mark Mayall, [Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Livingston (UK Parliament constituency) in 1987], Conservative Monday Club Policy Paper, May 1988.
 * Scotland - Reversing the Tory Decline, by Dr. Mark Mayall (Monday Club Chairman), Foreword by Bill Walker, M.P. Monday Club Policy Paper, February 1991.

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St. Cyricus Island

St. Cyricus Island (остров св. Кирик, ostrov sv. Kirik), also known as St. Cyril Island or '''Sts. Quiricus and Julietta Island''' is a Bulgarian island in the Black Sea, 150 m from Sozopol's Stolets peninsula. It has an area of about 0.08 km2 and a height of 15 m. The island is connected to the continent by a road and a breakwater. Unlike most other Bulgarian Black Sea islands, its infrastructure is completely set up.

The island was named after the medieval Monastery of Sts. Quiricus and Julietta, the ruins of which still stand there. The monastery was subordinate to the major stauropegic monastery on the nearby St. Ivan Island.

In 1925-1926, a school for fishermen and sailors was built on the island, where only orphans were allowed to study. The school existed for 10 years. In 1936 its base was reorganized to accommodate the Bulgarian Naval Academy. Until recently, the island was a restricted area, where Bulgarian Navy ships were anchored.

St. Cyricus Island was demilitarized in the 2000s and is to become a centre of international maritime tourism. As it is a national cultural monument, its heritage will be preserved and the new buildings are required to match the characteristic style of Sozopol.

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Benger, Western Australia

Benger is a locality just north of Brunswick Junction in the South West of Western Australia.

The South Western Highway runs through the region. It is also a crossing loop on the south-west railway between Armadale and Bunbury.

History
Before European settlement, the region was inhabited by the Pindjarup people, in whose language "Benger" may have meant "swamp" according to some sources (the word Pijar was also used). The explorers Thomas Peel and Stephen Henty travelled through the district in 1835. The area was known as the "flats of Mornington", and some years later, Mornington Siding was established with a hall, school and shop/post office. Sandalwood from the area was used in the Swan River Colony. In 1887, John Partridge founded a dairy in the area, which is still open today as the White Rocks Museum and Dairy. The town was renamed from Mornington to Benger in 1902, although many geographic names in the area (including the creek near the school) bear the original name.

A bushfire broke out in the Benger swamp near the town in January 2013, burning out 300 ha of farmland.

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Skokiaan

"Skokiaan" is a popular tune originally written by Zimbabwean musician August Musarurwa in the "Tsaba-tsaba" big band-style that succeeded Marabi. "Skokiaan" ("Chikokiyana" in Shona) is an illegal self-made alcoholic beverage.

An early instrumental version was recorded in 1947. Within a year from its 1954 release in South Africa through Gallo Record Company, at least 19 cover versions of "Skokiaan" appeared. The version made in then-Southern Rhodesia reached No. 17 in the United States, while a cover version by Ralph Marterie climbed to No. 3. All versions combined propelled the tune to No. 2 on the Cash Box charts that year. Its popularity extended outside of music, with several urban areas in the United States taking its name.

Artists who produced their own interpretations include The Four Lads, Louis Armstrong, Bill Haley, Herb Alpert, Brave Combo, Hugh Masekela and Kermit Ruffins. The Wiggles also covered this song on their Furry Tales album. The music itself illustrates the mutual influences between Africa and the wider world.

Original recording in "(Southern) Rhodesia" (nowadays Zimbabwe)
"Skokiaan" was originally composed and first recorded as a sax and trumpet instrumental by the "African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia" (the police band of the country now called Zimbabwe) under the leadership of August Musarurwa possibly in 1947 (anthropologist David B. Coplan seems to be the sole source for this date). The band comprised two saxophones, two banjos, traps, and a bass. Several tunes played by the Cold Storage Band were recorded by ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey in June 1951. On Tracey's recording, Musarurwa also apparently played for "the Chaminuka Band". Musarurwa probably copyrighted Skokiaan in 1952.

Ethnomusicologist Thomas Turino describes Skokiaan as having "a four-bar I-IV-I-V progression in 4/4 meter... The main melodic strain (A) begins with a long held trill... played by the sax on the dominant pitch... followed by an undulating, descending melody. The A strain is contrasted with sections of riffing that follow the harmonic progression fairly closely... before the main melody returns". Towards the end of the original recording a short trumpet solo "is overlapped by Musarurwa's sax". The melody throughout "is carried by the sax".

Skokiaan's significance is that it shows how Africa influenced American jazz in particular and popular music in general. Musarurwa's 1947 and 1954 recordings illustrate how unique the indigenous forms of jazz that emerged in Africa in response to global music trends. While African jazz was influenced from abroad, it also contributed to global trends.

Skokiaan has been adapted to various musical genres, from jazz to mento/reggae (Sugar Belly & the Canefields), and rock and roll. The tune has also been arranged for strings (South Africa's Soweto String Quartet) and steel drums (Trinidad and Tobago's Southern All Stars). A merengue version was recorded in the Dominican Republic by "Antonio Morel y su Orquestra" in the 1950s, with an alto saxophone arrangement by "Felix del Rosario". A number of reggae versions of the song also exist, and marimba covers are particularly popular.

Skokiaan has been recorded many times, initially as part of a wave of world music that swept across the globe in the 1950s, spurred on in Africa by Hugh Tracey and in the United States by Alan Lomax, to name two. Skokiaan gained popularity outside Africa at the same time as another South African record did: "Mbube", a 1939 song by Solomon Linda also known as "Wimoweh", was later released in 1961 as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens. The sheet music was eventually released in 17 between European and African languages. In France in 1955 the orchestra of Alix Combelle recorded a cover of Skokiaan on the Phillips label. Jacques Hélian also recorded a version. Performers recorded Skokiaan in Finland (Kipparikvartetti), Germany (Bert Kaempfert), and Sweden (Lily Berglund), among others. In the United Kingdom, vocal versions were recorded by South African singers Eve Boswell and Alma Cogan.

Versions recorded in the United States
However, it was in the United States that Skokiaan peaked on the charts, where it was recorded by a variety of musicians, such as The Four Lads and Johnny Hodges. Hodges' version is notable not only because he recorded the tune with Erroll Garner but also for the reason that his band at the time included John Coltrane, in a minor role.

In 1954 Gallotone Records released a version of Skokiaan by "August Musarurwa and the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm Band". After 170,000 copies were sold in South Africa, the president of London Records E. R. Lewis, forwarded "a couple of copies" to London's offices in New York. Meanwhile, a pilot had brought the original version from South Africa to the U.S.A., and given it to Bill Randle of the radio station WERE 1300 AM in Cleveland. Although the copy was cracked, Randle was so impressed by what he heard that he asked Walt McQuire of London's New York office to send him a new copy. After Randle played the record four times, interest soared. London Records shipped 6,000 copies to New York from Great Britain, followed in September 1954 by a further 20,000.

Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm's original version took off and reached No. 17 on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart. Whether London Records' was a new recording, or a re-release of the Cold Storage Band's old recording under a new name, is uncertain. The band's original name was changed, no doubt for easier Western consumption, perhaps by the record company or by the band itself.

In 1954 covers of "Skokiaan" appeared on United States charts alongside Bulawayo Sweet Rhythm Band's original. The hitmakers included Ralph Marterie, who reached No. 3 on the Cash Box chart. Marterie's instrumental was featured on ABC Radio's The Martin Block Show as "the best new record of the week". It was the first time an instrumental had been selected for the show. A claim that charted versions by Ray Anthony, who supposedly reached No. 18, by Perez Prado, supposedly reached No. 26, and by Louis Armstrong, a Dixieland version said to have reached No. 29, can so far not be verified. On the Cash Box best-selling record charts, where all hit versions were combined, Skokiaan reached No. 2 on 16 October 1954.

English lyrics were added in 1954 by American Tom Glazer for the Canadian group The Four Lads. Glazer is perhaps better known for his 1963 single On Top of Spaghetti. On 4 August 1954 the Four Lads recorded through Columbia Records the only vocal version of Skokiaan that reached the United States charts, peaking at No. 7 in the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart. In line with the spirit of the period, Glazer's lyrics contain what Time arts columnist Richard Corliss describes as jovial "ethnographic condescension": "Oh-far away in Africa / Happy, happy Africa / ...You sing a bingo bango bingo / In hokey pokey skokiaan". Ethnomusicologist Thomas Turino points out that Glazer's depiction of the jungle setting is far removed from the topography of Southern Africa. But its one-size fits "tropical paradise" idea was typical of exotic treatments at the time for songs from Latin America, Asia, and Hawaii.

In music historian Colin Escott’s liner notes of Moments to Remember: The Very Best of the Four Lads (2000), group member/vocal arranger Bernie Toorish recalled the day the Four Lads’s version came to being.

"We had an apartment on East 55th Street in New York. The phone rang at seven o'clock one morning. Mitch Miller wants me at his office. I'm there at maybe 8:10. He gives me an acetate and a lead-sheet of "Skokiaan". He said: "Go home, write an arrangement, then go to Neal Hefti's office". I was at Hefti's around 11:00. There were no copying machines then so I wrote it out again by hand. I woke the guys [Connie Codarini, Frank Busseri, Jimmy Arnold] up around noon. We rehearsed, made the record at 7:00 p.m., and it was in the stores two days later. It sold 750,000 copies." — Bernie Toorish

In August 1954, Louis Armstrong recorded Skokiaan in two parts with Sy Oliver's Orchestra in New York (Decca 29256). Part 1 (the A side) is a purely instrumental version. In contrast, Part 2 (side B) has Armstrong singing the lyrics. (Despite authoritative claims that Armstrong recorded a version entitled "Happy Africa", this cannot so far be substantiated from his discography). On his tour of Africa, Armstrong met Musarurwa in November 1960. Whether both musicians jammed together, or Armstrong just gave Musarurwa a jacket, is unclear. In any case, the difference between the date Armstrong recorded Skokiaan and the date he met Musarurwa appears to invalidate claims that Armstrong did it after he came face to face with Musarurwa.

The Four Lads' version of Skokiaan became the theme song at "Africa U.S.A. Park", a 300 acre theme park founded in 1953 at Boca Raton, Florida by John P. Pedersen. The song was played all day long in the parking lot as guests arrived and was sold in the gift shop. The park boasted the largest collection of camels in the United States. After it closed, the site was converted to the "Camino Gardens" subdivision. Other urban areas in the United States apparently influenced by the name of the song are Franklin, Ohio, which boasts a Skokiaan Drive, and Skokie, Illinois, which has a Skokiaan Terrace. Bill Haley & His Comets recorded an instrumental version in 1959 that reached No 70 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1960. With the exception of reissues of "Rock Around the Clock", this would be the band's final chart hit in America.

Skokiaan's popularity tracked the transition to electronic music when an instrumental version was recorded by moog pioneers Hot Butter in 1973 on the album More Hot Butter (preserved as a novelty item replete with "jungle" sounds on the compilation album Incredibly Strange Music Vol. 2). It was not the first such treatment of Skokiaan: Spike Jones and the City Slickers recorded a "Japanese Skokiaan" in 1954, sung with a Japanese accent with lyrics about going to Tokyo, written by band member Freddie Morgan, a banjo player and vocalist (RCA Victor 47-5920). Ringo Starr's 1974 hit "No No Song" was influenced by, and is sometimes listed as a medley with, Skokiaan.

But true to its origins, Skokiaan remained a favourite standard among brass instrumentalists. In 1978, Herb Alpert and Hugh Masekela recorded the song as a brass duet with a Disco flavor for their collaborative album Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela. The tune put "Alpert on the R&B chart for the first time in his career". One of the most recent brass recordings was by Kermit Ruffins on his 2002 album Big Easy. The song is included as a full-length performance by Kermit Ruffins, Irvin Mayfield and Troy Andrews in the 2005 documentary film Make It Funky!, which presents a history of New Orleans music and its influence on jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul and funk.

Misconceptions
Despite its Southern Rhodesian origins, record companies frequently added "South African Song" in brackets to the song's title, as was the case with recordings by Louis Armstrong, the Four Lads, Bill Haley, and Bert Kaempfert. This may have been due to misunderstandings about the difference between what was then Southern Rhodesia and South Africa, two countries in the Southern Africa region. As described in the introduction, "Skokiaan" was composed by a Southern Rhodesian, who was recorded by a South African record company. The lyrics were later added by an American, Tom Glazer. Misled by Glazer's lyrics, some take "Skokiaan" to mean "Happy happy", leading to "Happy Africa" as an alternative title for the music. Again, as stated earlier, the term actually refers to a type of illicitly brewed alcoholic beverage (i.e. "moonshine").

The composer, August Musarurwa, was an ex-policeman, who said that the tune was one played in an illegal shebeen when a police raid was imminent. At the time it was illegal for Africans in Zimbabwe to drink anything but the traditional, low-alcohol beer, and certainly not skokiaan, which was usually laced with methylated spirits - illicit distillation was almost unknown in central Africa at the time.

Why the tune was associated with "a Zulu drinking song", as it was in a 1954 Down Beat article, is unclear. The Zulu is an ethnic grouping found in South Africa; composer August Musarurwa was a Shona from Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The term skokiaan does occur in both Zulu and Shona and in the Zulu-based lingua franca, Chilolo. These are part of the Bantu language grouping, so they share similar roots. An early identification of skokiaan as a Zulu word which circulated in Johannesburg's slums is found in a scholarly article by Ellen Hellman, dated 1934. Musarurwa himself did not call his tune "a Zulu drinking song". The scanty fragments of his life history do not reveal that he spent time in South Africa, either. In South Africa there is no popular association of "Skokiaan" with a Zulu song. However Southern Rhodesian migrant labourers moved back and forth between their home country and the mines of South Africa, located mostly around Johannesburg, making it unlikely, but not impossible, that Musarurwa's tune got influenced by a putative Zulu song. Such journeys, often by train, led to the emergence of the song Shosholoza. While Shosholoza has become very popular among South Africans, who often sing it to encourage their sports teams, its origins, like that of "Skokiaan", are Southern Rhodesian.

Other usages of the name

 * A six-member band called Skokiaan formed in Liverpool in 1995 to play South African township jazz; they also recorded a version of the song. The Liverpudlians are not the only band with a "Skokiaan"-related name.
 * A South African township jazz band, led by Sazi Dlamini, lays claim to Skokiana.

Outside the music world, the name "Skokiaan" has been applied to various artifacts other than songs; the relation between these appellations and Musarurwa's music is unclear:
 * a bronze sculpture by German artist Detlef Kraft is called Skokiaan
 * a modified version of the Centurion tank was named Skokiaan
 * the middle name of Zambian-born Australian rugby player George Gregan is Musarurwa.

Chronological list of all versions
"Skokiaan" has been recorded by these artists, and others:

Versions whose release dates are not known

Audio

 * 2007. 78s fRom HeLL: The Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band – In The Mood (1954). I'm learning to share. Tuesday, 10 April. Blog with extensive visual material on "Skokiaan", including newspaper clippings, record label, and full mp3 download.
 * Full audio recording of 1954 version of "Skokiaan" by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band at Beat the Devil blog by Brian Nation, 2 May 2005. (requires Flash).
 * Recordings of Musarurwa (Msarurgwa) and other Zimbwabwean jazz artists between 1950 and 1952 by ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey on CD.
 * Audio versions of the song by the Four Lads, Perez Prado, Bill Haley, and Louis Armstrong and Hugh Masekela (requires RealMedia, registration).
 * MP3 sample of Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center's 2002 Zimbabwean marimba arrangement of "Skokiaan" (Sikokiyana). Opens sound file directly.
 * Full versions of "Skokiaan" by Kermit Ruffins as well as St. Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review and Joe Goldmark.

Visual

 * Sheet music of the song Skokiaan.
 * Images and history of Africa U.S.A..
 * Photograph of the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band. (Archived by WebCite)

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Pop shield
I have merged the information from Pop shield and made that article redirect here. "Pop filter" seems to be the more common term (71000 Google results versus 6590) Andy Smith (talk) 13:30, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Update 2015-07-30: I get 506K with "pop filter" vs. 96K with "pop shield" -be sure to use the quotes, otherwise Google finds pages with just "filter" and adds them to the total.

Scientific/Tech info
I was hoping there'd be a scientific article on the precise cause of popping. Does it have to do with microphone mechanical saturation, electrical saturation, or other inherent pressure effects. There should be an article "microphone popping" which would link here -or perhaps pop filter would be a subsection. 108.213.76.24 (talk) 14:49, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

 * Would be great indeed! Syced (talk) 12:05, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

 * According to, high-frequency components are from air moving past the grille and the low-frequency part is from air impacting the diaphragm. Of course, mechanical and electrical saturation can also happen depending on the amount of headroom designed into these systems. ~Kvng (talk) 17:04, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

 * Added a new Background section with this info. ~Kvng (talk) 17:16, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Photo caption
The caption described it as "in a bedroom", however the set of photos on flickr is described: "Recording in the LDS Lakeshore building seminary room. Believe it or not, it made for a decent make-shift studio." It seems the photo was taken during a recording session for a charity. Anyway, it felt a bit unkind to imply it was just someone singing in their bedroom. 203.217.150.69 (talk) 06:24, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Sound samples for comparison
Could someone please upload the same sentence recorded with and without a pop filter? Thanks! Syced (talk) 12:05, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

spoffle
no mention of spoffle, the device's other common hugh laurie coined name? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.31.158.254 (talk) 15:13, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Maitland Brown

Maitland Brown (17 July 1843 – 8 July 1905) was an explorer, politician and pastoralist in colonial Western Australia. He is known as the leader of the La Grange expedition and massacre, which searched for and recovered the bodies of three colonists killed by Aboriginal Australians, and killed between six and twenty Aboriginal Australians that remains controversial to this day.

Early life
Maitland Brown was born on 17 July 1843 at Grassdale near York, Western Australia. The son of Thomas Brown and Eliza Brown, he was educated by his mother and tutors, and in 1858 was apprenticed to his brother Kenneth at Glengarry. He was supposed to learn sheep farming, but was more interested in horse breeding.

Exploration
Brown was a volunteer member of the Francis Thomas Gregory's exploring expedition of 1861, which sailed to Nickol Bay, then explored first southward across the Hamersley Ranges to the Tropic of Capricorn, and later northward as far as the Oakover River. During the latter exploration the party suffered extreme danger from lack of water, and at one point Brown saved Gregory's life by riding back to the party's base camp and returning with a supply of water. The five-month expedition opened up large tracts of good pastoral land, but little with the potential to support agriculture.

In 1865, Maitland Brown was again part of an expedition to the north. The year before, three explorers, Frederick Panter, James Harding and William Goldwyer, had set out from Roebuck Bay to explore the area around La Grange Bay. The Panter-Harding-Goldwyer expedition had failed to return, and it was rumoured that they had been attacked. When the Government learned of the missing men, it organised a search expedition. Maitland Brown offered his services and was appointed leader of the expedition. The La Grange expedition left Fremantle in February 1865, and on 3 April it found the missing men dead. They had been speared and clubbed to death, at least two of them in their sleep. Shortly after the discovery of the dead men, the expedition party engaged in a protracted fight with a group of Karrijarri men. Between six and twenty people were killed, with no injuries or deaths to the expedition party. Brown's journal states that the party had walked into an ambush, but most historians have interpreted the event as a punitive attack by Brown's party and one of the plaques on the Maitland Brown Memorial that in part has commemorated the expedition for the past 111 years plainly calls Brown's party the "punitive party".

Magisterial career
Brown was appointed a Justice of the Peace later that year, and in 1866 was made Resident Magistrate at Greenough. During his time in the position, he became involved in a protracted dispute with the Governor, John Hampton, and the Colonial Secretary Frederick Barlee. Brown declined to obey an instruction to reverse a minor legal decision he had made, essentially on the grounds that it was inappropriate for a magistrate to reverse a decision on the instruction of the Government: "I have yet to learn that a magistrate has any right to pursue a course which in his view is in opposition to Law upon the mere instructions of the Governor". Hampton was angered by Brown's repeated refusal to obey him, and by the "tone and tenor" of his letters, which he thought insolent. Brown eventually resigned over the issue, but in the meantime, Hampton's appointment had ended. Acting governor John Bruce, who agreed with Brown's legal position, smoothed the matter over, and Brown withdrew his resignation.

Brown was Resident Magistrate at Greenough until 1869, when he was appointed Government Resident and Resident Magistrate at Geraldton following the death of Alfred Durlacher. The following year a number of magisterial positions were reshuffled, and Brown was appointed Resident Magistrate at Bunbury. He was reluctant to take up the position, however, and took a long leave of absence. He still had not taken up the position in October 1870 when he was appointed to a nominee position on the Western Australian Legislative Council.

In politics
The role of nominee members of the council was somewhat ambiguous at the time, there being some dispute over whether nominee members were obliged to vote with the government. Brown vigorously defended his right to vote according to his conscience, and did indeed vote against the government on a number of occasions. After Governor Weld dissolved the council in 1871, new elections were held in 1872, and Brown was not nominated to the new council. Although Weld denied that he expected his nominee members to support the government, the decision not to re-nominate Brown was widely seen as a sign that the government expected its nominee members to "toe the line".

In September 1874, Brown was elected unopposed to the Legislative Council's Geraldton seat, on a policy platform of opposition to responsible government. He had also nominated for the North District seat, but on his election in October 1874 chose to sit for Geraldton.

On 16 February 1875, Brown married Amy Frances Howard, with whom he had three sons and four daughters. In January 1876, Brown's brother Kenneth murdered his wife in a drunken argument. Maitland Brown was prominent in the family's unsuccessful attempt to mount a defence of diminished responsibility, sparing neither his personal privacy nor his standing in the community in the failed attempt to save his brother from execution. Perceiving that his standing in the community had been damaged by the trial, Brown resigned his seat in the council in March. He was persuaded to renominate, however, and was re-elected unopposed on 22 July.

Brown's views changed markedly during his later years in the Legislative Council. Whereas he had earlier argued against the necessity of an "opposition", he later became himself firmly opposed to the government. He became an outspoken critic of nearly every government measure, and was especially critical of Governor Robinson. For a time he was widely recognised as the Leader of the Opposition, although on at least one occasion he repudiated the title. Brown's views on responsible government also changed. He had been one of the colony's staunchest opponents of responsible government, but by 1883 he had declared himself a supporter of the proposed change. Having been elected on a policy platform of opposition to responsible government, Brown considered it inappropriate to retain his seat after changing his opinion, so in April 1883 he resigned the seat of Geraldton for the second time. A few weeks later he was elected to the new seat of Gascoyne, which he held until his resignation in April 1886.

Later life
On 7 April 1886, Brown resigned his seat in the Legislative Council for the last time. He then accepted a re-appointment to the position of Resident Magistrate at Geraldton. He remained in the position until his retirement from public life in 1904, nominally on grounds of ill health, but possibly due to his wife's alcoholism. Brown's wife died in early 1905, and shortly afterwards, on 8 May, Brown himself died in Perth. He was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery, but in 1911 his remains were re-interred with the remains of Panter, Harding and Goldwyer in East Perth Cemeteries. In 1912, a monument to Brown was erected on the Fremantle Esplanade.

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Charles Marriott

Charles Stowell "Father" Marriott (14 September 1895 – 13 October 1966) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and Kent. Marriott played between 1919 and 1938 and was considered one of the best leg-break and googly bowlers of the time. He went on to teach, having served during World War I in the British Army.

Marriott played in one Test match for the England cricket team in 1933 at the age of 37, taking 11 wickets.

Early life
Marriott was born at Heaton Moor near Stockport in Lancashire; his birth was registered as "Charlie Stowell Marriott". His father, Joshua Marriott, was a solicitor. He was educated in Ireland, first at Monkston Park School in Dublin from 1904 to 1909 and then at The Royal School, Armagh between 1909 and 1912 before attending St Columba's College, Dublin from 1912 to 1913. He played cricket in the school XI at both Royal School and St Columba's and was a member of the St Columba's Officer Training Corps (OTC).

After leaving school Marriott enrolled at Trinity College Dublin where he was also a member of the OTC. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I.

Military service
Marriott enrolled in the Lancashire Fusiliers in September 1915 and was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant in the 21st Reserve Battalion the following month. In March 1916 he was posted to France with the 16th Battalion and he was on the front line at Thiepval when the Battle of the Somme began and saw action during the first two days of the battle. He spent time on the front line at Ovillers and, later in the year, to the north of Arras and was promoted, first to Lieutenant and then to acting Captain, commanding a company.

He was injured falling on frozen duckboards during early 1917 and spent some time convalescing in England before returning to the war, seeing action at Savy Wood, Saint-Quentin, Nieuwpoort and around Ypres during the summer. He was gassed near Nieuwpoort in July 1917 and evacuated home, spending time recovering in Dublin. Doctors determined that he was suffering from photophobia and had many of the classic signs of shell shock and that he was unfit for front line service. He spent early 1918 with the 3rd Battalion at Withernsea in Yorkshire and transferred to the Royal Air Force in July, joining the Cadet Wing at Hastings with the rank of Lieutenant for the remainder of the war. He was demobilised in April 1919.

Cricket career
Having played some cricket during the war, including for a side organised by FS Jackson at Lord's in 1918, Marriott made his first-class cricket debut for the Gentlemen of England against Oxford University in May 1919. He went on to make his Lancashire debut later the same month. The match, against Essex at Leyton, is reported to be the first county cricket match Marriott had ever seen. He played 12 matches for Lancashire from 1919 to 1921.

Marriott enrolled at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1919. He played for Cambridge University Cricket Club, making 17 first-class appearances for the side in his two years at Cambridge. He won blues in 1920 and 1921, meeting with "remarkable success", taking seven wickets in both of his University Matches. It was at Cambridge that Marriott was nicknamed "Father" on account of his relatively advanced age of 25.

After Cambridge, Marriott went on to take up a post as a teacher of modern languages at Dulwich College in 1921. He took responsibility for cricket at the school between 1921 and 1926. The post allowed him to play for Kent County Cricket Club in the school holidays, although he initially declined Lord Harris' invitation to do so. He eventually accepted the opportunity and played for the Kent side between 1924 and 1937, making 101 first-class appearances for the county, taking 429 wickets.

In his first season for Kent Marriott topped the county's bowling averages and was awarded his county cap. He took 10 wickets against Hampshire and 11 against Lancashire and had a "remarkable impact" on the side. He toured South Africa over the English winter of 1924/25 with SB Joel's XI, playing in eight of the 14 first-class matches during the tour and played regularly for Kent during August in each season until 1935, other than in 1930 when he played no first-class cricket. His last match for Kent came in 1937 against Sussex at Maidstone, and his final first-class match was the following year for Free Foresters against Oxford University.

International cricket
Marriott was selected in the squad for the 4th Ashes Test at Old Trafford in 1921, but didn't make the final eleven. Marriott's only Test match was in the third Test against the touring West Indies at The Oval in 1933. He was aged 37 when he was called in to the England side as a replacement for the injured Hedley Verity. He took 11 wickets during the match, 5/37 in the West Indies first innings, and 6/59 in the second, making him the fourth cricketer to take two five wicket hauls on Test debut. Wisden reported that with "clever fighting of the ball, perfect length and spin" he produced "one of the best performances accomplished by a bowler when playing for England for the first time" and Marriott remains the bowler with the lowest bowling average to have taken more than 10 wickets in Test matches. He "bewildered" the West Indian batsmen as he "disguised his spin very well and never made the ball break too much".

The following winter Marriott toured India with an official England side led by Douglas Jardine. He did not play in any of the three Test matches on the tour and Wisden reported that he "was seldom as good as in England", although he took a hat-trick against Madras, the only time he completed the hat-trick during his career. He played nine times for MCC during the tour, taking 32 wickets, and made a further appearance for the club against the touring Australians in May 1934.

Playing style and legacy
Marriott was one of the best leg break bowlers of the 1920s and 1930s. He bowled with a high bowling action, swinging his arm behind his back before he delivered the ball in a style which Wisden compared to Kent's great spin bowler Colin Blythe. He bowled an "immaculate length" at slow or medium pace and was "highly disciplined" in his approach to bowling, having developed his skills through what The Times called "endless practice". He used "cunning flighting" and "the ability to turn the ball sharply" to be an effective bowler "even on good pitches" and could be "unplayable" on helpful pitches. He bowled a "fierce" top-spinner and although he was able to bowl an effective googly, he used it relatively rarely, having injured himself at school whilst bowling the delivery. If he did bowl the delivery it was generally during the first few overs of a spell to act as a deterrent to batsmen.

He had begun to write a book, The Complete Leg-Break Bowler, when he died which was published after being completed by Ian Peebles and Richie Benaud.

The 11 wickets Marriott took in his only Test match remain the best bowling figures for any player who has only played a single Test. He is the only player to have taken two five wicket hauls in their only Test and his Test bowling average of 8.72 runs per wicket is the lowest of any Test cricketer to have taken 10 or more wickets.

Marriott took a total of 711 wickets during his first-class career, 429 of them taken for Kent. He took 10 wickets in a match 10 times, eight for Kent, and five wickets in an innings 48 times. He was a less than capable fielder and batsman and scored fewer runs, 574, than he took wickets. As a coach at Dulwich College he coached a number of future first-class players, including future Wisden Cricketers of the Year Trevor Bailey and Hugh Bartlett.

Personal and later life
Marriott married Phyllis Taylor at Kensington in 1924 and taught at Dulwich College throughout his career. He retired from teaching in 1953, three years early due to ill health. As a teacher he was "well known" for a passion for literature, playing roles in school plays and he played the trombone in the school orchestra. After his retirement he gave readings from literature at schools and literary societies.

During World War II Marriott was an anti-aircraft gunner in the Home Guard and played cricket in war-time matches, including at Lord's in 1944 when he was 47. He died in a nursing home at Dollis Hill in Middlesex in 1966 aged 71.

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Konohanasakuya-hime

Konohanasakuya-hime is the goddess of Mount Fuji and all volcanoes in Japanese mythology; she is also the blossom-princess and symbol of delicate earthly life. She is often considered an avatar of Japanese life, especially since her symbol is the sakura (cherry blossom).

Shinto shrines have been built on Mount Fuji for Sakuya-hime, collectively known as the Asama or Sengen Shrines. It is believed that she will keep Mount Fuji from erupting, but shrines to her at Kirishima have been repeatedly destroyed by volcanic eruptions. She is also known for having torn up the Yatsugatake Mountains, because it was higher than Fujiyama.

Name and etymology
Konohanasakuya-hime or Konohananosakuya-hime (木花咲耶姫 or 木花開耶姫; lit. "[cherry] tree blossom blooming princess" (princess, or lady of high birth explains hime; her name also appears in a shorter form as "Sakuya-hime", and she is also called Sengen ))

Ninigi and Sakuya-hime
Sakuya-hime met Ninigi on the seashore and they fell in love; Ninigi asked Ohoyamatsumi, the father of Sakuya-hime for her hand in marriage. Oho-Yama proposed his older daughter, Iwa-Naga-hime, instead, but Ninigi had his heart set on Sakuya-hime. Oho-Yama reluctantly agreed and Ninigi and Ko-no-hana married. Because Ninigi refused Iwa-Naga, the rock-princess, human lives are said to be short and fleeting, like the sakura blossoms, instead of enduring and long lasting, like stones.

Sakuya-hime became pregnant in just one night, causing suspicion in Ninigi. He wondered if this was the child of another kami. Sakuya-hime was enraged at Ninigi's accusation and entered a doorless hut, which she then set fire to, declaring that the child would not be hurt if it were truly the offspring of Ninigi. Inside the hut, Ko-no-hana had three sons, Hoderi, Hosuseri and Hoori.

Yosoji's camellia tree

According to an 11th-century legend, a small village in the Suruga Province named Kamiide was struck by smallpox epidemic. In the village, there lived a young boy named Yosoji and his mother, who was infected by the disease. To cure his mother, Yosoji went to a fortune teller who told him to give his mother water from a small stream near Mount Fuji.

The next day, Yosoji decided to go to the river, but then stumbled upon three different paths, not knowing which one to take. A young girl in white came towards Yosoji from the forest and guided him to the stream. Yosoji scooped up water from the stream and gave it to his mother to drink.

Days later, Yosoji went back to the area where the three paths met, and met the girl in white once again. She told him to come back in three days, and that she would meet him there. She also told him that it would take five trips to the stream to treat all the villagers.

Five trips later, Yosoji's mother was healed, and so were many other villagers. The villagers thanked him, but he knew that he owed it all to the girl in white. So he went back to the stream to give thanks to the girl in white. However, he found that the stream was completely dried up and the girl was nowhere to be seen. Thus, Yosoji prayed that the girl would reveal herself, so that he might thank her for her actions.

The girl appeared before him and Yosoji said that he wished to tell her how deeply grateful he was to her and that he wished to know who she was, so he could tell the villagers whom to thank. The girl in white said that her identity was not important and said farewell to Yosoji. She then swung a branch of camellia over her head and a cloud from Mount Fuji came down and picked her up. Yosoji realized the woman was none other than the Goddess of Mount Fuji.

In popular culture
In Persona 4 Konohana Sakuya is a persona owned by Yukiko Amagi.

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Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière

Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière is a commune in the Rhône department of France.

Details
It is located about 42 km from Lyon.

The name means "Holy Faith, the silver-producer"; Sainte-Foy is equivalent to the common Spanish place-name Santa Fé, and the reference is to the silver mines around which the village grew.

The village is clustered around a kilometre-long main street ("la grande rue"), rising from the busy crossroads at the bottom to the high school (collège). In the main square, linked to the church, there is a central castle belonging to Family de Fenoyl, a riverside football club and stadium sometimes visited by Olympique Lyonnais in the pre-season, and a sports and entertainment centre (salle polyvalente). A popular antiques fair, which draws in crowds of thousands, is held every September, and there are other annual cultural activities.

The village's traditional and renowned main industry is roof tile manufacturing ("tuilerie").

Popular mentions
The writer Bernard Clavel once lived near the village; it is also mentioned in a San-Antonio novel (author Frédéric Dard), and its tiny train station has been featured in various films.

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C31

C31 or C-31 may refer to:

Vehicles

 * Fokker C-31A Troopship, a Dutch military transport
 * HMS C31, a C-class submarine of the Royal Navy
 * Nissan Laurel C31, a Japanese sedan
 * Sauber C31, a Swiss Formula One car

Other uses

 * Blackstripe corydoras, a tropical freshwater fish
 * C-31 highway (Spain), in Catalonia
 * C31 road (Namibia)
 * Bill C-31, various legislation of the Parliament of Canada
 * Caldwell 31, an emission/reflection nebula
 * Channel 31 (disambiguation)
 * King's Gambit, Falkbeer Countergambit, a chess opening
 * C31, a London Cycleway

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Category:Dungeon Family

This is a category for the members and extended members of the Dungeon Family hip-hop/R&B collective based out of Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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Even If and Especially When

Even If and Especially When is the second studio album by the Seattle band Screaming Trees, released in 1987. It was their first album released on SST.

Critical reception
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called Even If and Especially When "the best of three strong albums for SST." Trouser Press wrote: "Dropping the baby fat (well, some of it) without compromising the trademark garagey roar, the band hit on a sound it would gradually refine on each successive release."

Personnel

 * Screaming Trees
 * Mark Lanegan – vocals
 * Gary Lee Conner – guitar, backing vocals, electric organ
 * Van Conner – bass, backing vocals
 * Mark Pickerel – percussion, drums

 * Additional personnel
 * Rod Doak – backing vocals on "Cold Rain"
 * Steve Fisk – producer
 * Diane Szukovathy – cover design

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Brunswick Junction, Western Australia

Brunswick Junction is a town in the South West of Western Australia, situated along the South Western Highway between Harvey and Bunbury. It had a population of 772 people at the 2016 census, down from 797 at the 2006 census.

History
The Aboriginal name for the Brunswick area is Mue-De-La.

The Brunswick River which runs just north of the town was surveyed by John Septimus Roe in 1830, and likely named by Governor Stirling after the Duke of Brunswick. Stirling was in command of HMS Brazen in 1813 when the ship was commissioned to take the Duke of Brunswick to Holland. The Duke was on the ship for five days.

The first farm in the area, "Alverstoke", started in 1842 by Marshall Waller Clifton, was producing wheat, barley and potatoes within a few years. A bridge was built over the Brunswick River at Australind to give settlers in the area easier access to what was then the main community in the Harvey District.

In 1893, when the Perth-Bunbury railway was completed, no-one lived in the present-day townsite, but the Brunswick Farmers' Association was formed, with a post office and school operating nearby. In 1898, a junction was opened south of the river when the line to Collie opened, and a railway station was built.

The population of the town was 68 (38 males and 30 females) in 1898.

The Brunswick Junction Prison was located in the former railway barracks. By 1979, it was a minimum security prison with capacity for 26 inmates. It was closed in 1984.

The town's centre underwent a significant upgrade in 2011 as part of the Royalties for Regions program, a dairy themed playground, landscaping and an underground power hub were all part of the A$380,000 project that was opened by Brendon Grylls.

Present day
Brunswick Junction is mainly known today for dairying, to which a large Friesian cow (nicknamed Daisy) stands testament in a park in the centre of town. Peters Creameries produces milk products and cheese from nearby dairy farmers.

The town also hosts several historic buildings, including the shire hall, Catholic and Anglican churches and railway cottages, and the nearby Beela Valley has a scenic drive which takes in farming country east of the town as well as the Mornington forests.

The Brunswick Agricultural Show is one of the largest in regional Australia with over 15,000 visitors in October of each year. A fashion parade, trade exhibits, arts and crafts and flowers are among the things on offer.

Transport
Brunswick Junction is on the South Western Highway, 26 km north-east of Bunbury. In town, the South Western Highway carries the name Ommaney Road. Brunswick Junction is linked by road to Australind to the west via Clifton Road.

Railway junction
The town serves as a stop on the Australind passenger train from Perth to Bunbury on the South Western Railway.

It is a railway junction for the railway line from Collie, and the former railway branch lines that extended further east of Collie.

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Sicovam

Sicovam, an acronym for Société Interprofessionnelle pour la Compensation des Valeurs Mobilières, is both a security identifier system used to identify French securities listed on French stock exchanges, as well as the company set up to assign them. Sicovam was merged into the European-wide Euroclear and as of July 1, 2003 SICOVAMs are no longer issued, ISINs being used instead.

Description
Sicovams consist of a six-digit identifier, assigned by the Sicovam group "by hand" in order of issue. For instance, Alcatel was assigned 013000.

Sicovams could be directly converted to ISINs as with other older systems, including CUSIP and SEDOL. To do so the number was padded out with three zeros on the front, then the country code "FR" was added to the front and the ISIN check digit to the end.

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Talk:Mush from the Wimp

But what does it mean? —RadRafe 13:37, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I assume when sorting through a pile of editorials, the newspaper editors were using shorthand nicknames for each letter when deciding which ones to include. This one was referred to as "Mush from the wimp" because, well, they thought the opinions were wimpy, mushy, lacking in passion, what-have-you '''atomicRED''' (talk) 02:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

 * http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6D8153DF93AA15752C1A961948260
 * http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D61139F935A3575AC0A966958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FH%2FHussein%2C%20Saddam
 * http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E7DC143FF932A25755C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
 * http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4D61F3BF937A25756C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
 * http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06EFDA1E3FF937A25756C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3
 * http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7D81E39F935A15750C0A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
 * http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3DD173DF93AA15754C0A964958260

 * The phrase "wimp" is unamiguous in this case, but the phrase "mush" might mean a few things. They might've been comparing the statement to a shapeless, tasteless gruel; or they might have been referring to driving a team of dogs across the ice, yelling "Mush! Mush!".  Most likely it's the first, but it would be nice to hear some further explication about the kind of in-joke it was intended to be. -- Doom (talk) 18:23, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
 * as a native speaker, i'd say there's NO QUESTION it's the former. not necessarily a comment on Carter's specific speech the night before but, but rather meaning "more babble" or "more useless drivel" as a general commentary. 66.105.218.1 (talk) 02:16, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Lippman defeats History!
is some qualifier missing in that lippman quote? surely NONE of these headlines even comes close to the "Dewey Defeats Truman" one! 66.105.218.1 (talk) 02:19, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

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User:NatureBoy~enwiki

Hello.

I am many things.

For money and to keep myself intellectually challenged, I am an Oracle database consultant. Otherwise I live on my small farm in downstate New York keeping a few goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits, bees, and of course cats and a dog.

I hunt around Wikipedia looking for missing info that I can contribute and the needed edits when I get bored at work.

My moniker comes from the fact that I am also an amateur naturalist having collected and cataloged insects, skulls and other natural objects since I was younger than 10 (over 30 years).

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Protection
I've protected this again because the reverting continues. Mr Conductor's Thomas Tales debuted in the U.S. in October 1996, according to this source. If each item could be sourced in this way, it might resolve the dispute. SlimVirgin talk  contribs 20:26, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, at least this page won't be vandalized for a week. 97.103.116.151 (talk) 13:25, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Schemer
The Article Lists Schemers Name as Horace Schemer, but IMDB the episode "How the Station Got Its Name" Lists is as Jebediah Schemer. Which is correct? IMDB LINK --Tech-Chef (talk) 06:34, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, technically both. Brian O'Connor played Horace Schemer, but in that ep. which was the last aired (Not including the family specials), there was a flashback where they showed the main characters anscestors working at the station. Jebediah Schemer (Being played by O'Connor) is Horace's relative. --User:Lawrence142002 —Preceding undated comment added 09:49, 10 February 2011 (UTC).

Wabash Cannonball
The jukebox song on the faith hope and anxiety episode is called Wabash Cannonball. It's on youtube.--E2e3v6 (talk) 14:43, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Spin-Off
I've been hearing rumors that STS is a spin-off of Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends but there needs to be a source. Is that true?E2e3v6 (talk) 16:42, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

False Thomas Eps
Would someone block whoever keeps adding Thomas episodes that weren't shown on Season 3 on this Page? He needs no warnings, he's made it perfectly clear in his persistence that he'll continue doing so. --Bladez636 (talk) 20:00, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Why don't you report the user to Administrator intervention against vandalism? CourtneyBonnick (talk) 20:18, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Edit clearance request
I have joined as a temporary member, filling in for another. I have created an account. I should be allowed clearance to edit this particular page, I just want to fix some links.

ShortTermer (talk) 04:33, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Your account needs to become autoconfirmed, which normally happens after the account is at least four days old with 10 edits. After that, you can edit this and other semi-protected pages.  RudolfRed (talk) 05:26, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Asterisks in episode list
What are the asterisks for next to the episode titles? I've searched the page up and down and cannot find a footnote that applies to these. Could someone who knows what they're for please put in a footnote corresponding to it? Or if it is determined they have no reason please remove them? Thanks! →ClarkCTTalk @ 04:23, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but I think it denotes that the episode had a VHS release, at least that's what I happened to notice that the asterisks were on most of those episodes. --Bladez636 (talk) 01:30, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Titles with "&" vs. "and"
Many "Thomas Story" and "Jukebox Band" titles are commonly found on the web with both "&" and "and" forms. recently, an editor has been changing titles from one form to another. Many times he's gone from the more popular form of the title to a less popular form of the title, and I've been reverting him. As a result, I'm offering some general Wikipedia guidance:

 * TL;DR version: Please use titles which are either official, popular, or preferably both if there are multiple accepted titles for the same work.

Long version:

If the "official" title and the form of the title that it is most well-known by are the same, use that title.

If the "official" title is non-existent, obscure to the point of being practically unknown (e.g. it may appear in a copyright-registration document or in a one-off publicity notice, but it is not in print on the DVD jacket or in widely-available publicity material), or if there is more than one "official" form of the title and the most well-known form of the title is one of the official forms, the most well-known form should be used.

If there is a published official title but the most well-known form of the title is different, then things can get complicated and a discussion should be started.

I did some cleanup:

I didn't have time to look up official titles, but I did do a "quick audit" of all of the titles with "&" in them and changed those in which the most common form was not being used. However, my methodology varied and I would welcome other editors to come back and find evidence that I made the wrong call.

My basic methodology varied. Is started off by just Googling for the title, in quotation marks, in both the original form and the form I wanted to change it to.

Later, as I worked my way down the list, I changed to adding "Shining Time Station" -wiki -pedia -wikipedia to the Google search.

Still later, I added the episode title to the search, inside quotation marks. At one point I added -"Deleted Video" to the search because there were a lot of deleted videos with the "&" form polluting the results. Adding this changed the outcome.

In some cases, I used multiple methodologies and got conflicting results. In these cases, I made a judgment call.

Again, I welcome editors to come back after me and demonstrate that my results were incorrect. I also encourage editors to find the official name or names of these titles, especially when the names were widely used, such as on DVD dust jackets or in on-screen title credits.

Notice to editors who wish to change titles that have already been reviewed:

Finally, editors summarily changing titles that have already been reviewed from the current form to another without providing a credible claim in the edit summary, in the edit itself, or on this talk page that the new title is at least as preferred (in terms of "officialness" and/or "common-use-ness/popularity") as the existing one may find that their edit is reverted. This claim should be backed by at evidence. If the explanation will be on the talk page, I highly recommend putting "see talk page" or something similar in the edit summary to draw attention to the explanation. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  15:35, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

What's the two actors' name?
I don't know who both portrayed Bull and Biff, do you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.197.16.8 (talk) 02:24, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

 * No, and it is immaterial, given the fact that they only appeared on ONE episode. 68.174.38.77 (talk) 14:51, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 November 2014
Music Director - Steve (Stephen) Horelick created all the music for the Puppet Band and contributed several original songs for the series.

Shorelick (talk) 22:10, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

You also appear to have a conflict of interest in suggesting these changes. - Arjayay (talk) 09:29, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article.

 * Sources seem to be a bit scarce. I found a few mentions of Stephen Horelick here and here --220  of  Borg 12:33, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 November 2014
This page needs a DVDs bit in the merchandise article.

Please do not leave it out of the page.
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. do you have any sources that comment on the dvd merchandising? Cannolis (talk) 22:52, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 March 2017
Saved Farm Scrap The Runaway Terence the Tracter Edward's Helps Out Daisy Parcey's Predicament A Pound Day for James 2601:187:8081:96CD:A5CD:8B1C:31EC:5CC (talk) 23:07, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. —MRD2014 📞 What I've done 00:37, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 March 2017
The title for the Season 1 episode "Words Out" had an apostrophe and was titled as "Word's Out". 137.103.91.149 (talk) 19:22, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Stickee (talk) 00:55, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Put an article for DVD Releases for Shining Time Station on this page
72.28.52.179 (talk) 18:32, 7 January 2018 (UTC) Please request your change in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ". Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 19:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: as you have not requested a specific change.

end date
it actually ended on november 20, 1995. also "series's" should be "series'". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.53.239.90 (talk) 22:16, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Episodes
It was actually 70 episodes while tales was 6. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.112.140.2 (talk) 20:46, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

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Cover of Book 1 of Frank Miller's Ronin.

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Avrohom Chaim Oppenheim

Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Oppenheim (אַבְרָהָם חַיִּים אָפּענהײַם, אַבְרָהָם חַיִּים אופנהיים; 1796? – 1824?) was a rabbi at Pécs, Hungary, where he died at the age of 28, before 1825.

He was the author of Har Ebel (Lemberg, 1824), ritual regulations on visiting the sick, mourning customs, etc., and of a treatise entitled Nishmas Chayim (Dyhernfurth, 1829), on the immortality of the soul, both of which were published by his relative Simon Oppenheim, dayan in Budapest.

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List of Canada ODI cricketers

This is a list of Canadian One-day International cricketers. A One Day International, or an ODI, is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). An ODI differs from Test matches in that the number of overs per team is limited, and that each team has only one innings. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his first ODI cap. Where more than one player won his first ODI cap in the same match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname.

Players

 * Statistics are correct as of 7 March 2024.

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The X Factor (British TV series) series 1

The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent; the winner of which receives a £1 million recording contract with the Syco Music record label. The first series was broadcast from 4 September to 11 December 2004. The competition was split into several stages: auditions, bootcamp, judges' homes and live shows, with Louis Walsh, Sharon Osbourne and Simon Cowell as judges. Kate Thornton presented the show on ITV, whilst Ben Shephard presented the spin-off show The Xtra Factor on ITV2.

Auditions were held in Dublin, Newcastle, London, Leeds, Birmingham and Glasgow.

Steve Brookstein won the series, with Cowell as the winning mentor. Brookstein went on to have some chart success, with runner-up group G4 achieving two platinum albums before splitting up in 2007, but reuniting in 2014.

Applications and auditions
Before the auditions, advertisements appeared on ITV, newspapers, and trade magazines, promising that the new show would encourage groups to join, and while the emphasis was on singing, would welcome those who played musical instruments and wrote their own songs. The show would differentiate itself from its predecessor, Pop Idol.

For the first episode of auditions, which aired on 4 September 2004, the judges visited Leeds and London. The second episode aired on 11 September 2004 in which the judges visited Newcastle. The third aired on 18 September 2004, the fourth on 25 September 2004 and the fifth on 2 October 2004.

Bootcamp and judges' houses
After the auditions, each judge was allocated a category at random:

 * Simon Cowell: Over 25s
 * Sharon Osbourne: 16-24s
 * Louis Walsh: Groups

Each judge chose 12 acts from their category to go through to round two. After bootcamp, each judge selected five acts to progress to the judges' homes round. The bootcamp episodes aired on 9 and 16 October 2004.

In judges' homes, the 15 acts went to the homes of their respective judges, where they were interviewed and performed again. Each judge then chose three acts to go through to the live shows, making a total of nine contestants.

 * Bootcamp Tasks per Category:

16-24s:

Location: Hackney Empire

Task 1: Perform "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder in lines of 10.

Task 2: Giving a solo performance of one of these two chosen songs below:
 * "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"
 * "Midnight Train to Georgia"

Task 3: Interviews in front of the press and talking about their personal lives.

Task 4: Choose one song from The Beatles back-catalogue and perform it in front of their competitors and Sharon.

Groups:

Location: Angel Recording Studios

Task 1: Perform a song of their own choosing in front of Louis and his team.

Task 2: Write an original song entitled "Right Now" that must contain all these five words:
 * Dreams
 * Hope
 * Anticipation
 * Chance
 * All the Way

Task 3: Learn a new song overnight

Task 4: Sing a song that they think that showcases all of their members voices to the best of their ability.

Over 25s:

Location: The Landmark London

Task 1: Both the females and males perform one song of their choice separately one at a time with the opposite gender watching their performance.

Task 2: Learn a new song overnight with another member of the category to perform as an duo.

Task 3: Perform a song that will convince Simon and his panel that they are capable of moving on to the next round.

 * Judges Houses Performances (Groups and 16-24s)

16-24s:
 * Cassie: "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
 * Megan: "Fly Me to the Moon"
 * Andy: "Try a Little Tenderness"
 * Roberta: "Cry Me a River"
 * Tabby: "Maggie May"

Groups:
 * Voices With Soul: "I Will Always Love You"
 * 2 to Go: "From This Moment On"
 * 4Tune: Original Song
 * Advance: "To Love Somebody"
 * G4: "Creep"

Acts
Key:
 * – Winner
 * – Runner-Up

Format
Two live shows were broadcast each Saturday evening during the competition. Until week 5, each act performed once in the first show, then the public voted for the act that they wanted to remain in the show. In the other results show, the two acts with the fewest votes were revealed. These two acts then had to sing again before the three judges decided whom to eliminate.

The format changed in the sixth week: each act performed twice in the first show and performed one of their songs in the results show. The act with the fewest votes was eliminated at the end of the second show.

The live shows started on 23 October 2004 and ended on 11 December 2004.

Results summary
Act in 16-24s
 * Colour key

Act in Over 25s

Act in Groups

Cowell was not required to vote as there was already a majority.

Week 1 (23 October)

 * Best Bits song: "Beautiful"

 * Judges' votes to eliminate
 * Walsh: Roberta Howett – backed his own act, Voices with Soul.
 * Osbourne: Voices with Soul – backed her own act, Roberta Howett.
 * Cowell: Roberta Howett – based on the final showdown performance, but felt that neither act deserved to be in the bottom two.

Week 2 (30 October)

 * Best bits song: "Over The Rainbow"

 * Judges' votes to eliminate:
 * Walsh: Verity Keays – backed his own act, 2 to Go.
 * Cowell: 2 to Go – backed his own act, Verity Keays.
 * Osbourne: Verity Keays – gave no reason.

Week 3 (6 November)

 * Best bits song: "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"

 * Judges' votes to eliminate:
 * Osbourne: 2 to Go – gave no reason.
 * Walsh: 2 to Go – said he did not want to send either of his acts home. He asked to vote last but Thornton pressed him for his decision.
 * Cowell was not required to vote as there was already a majority.

Week 4 (13 November)

 * Best bits song: "That's What Friends Are For"

 * Judges' votes to eliminate:
 * Osbourne: Voices with Soul – based on the final showdown performance, and believed that G4 had a future in a recording career.
 * Cowell: G4 – gave no reason.
 * Walsh: Voices with Soul – said he did not want to send either of his acts home, saying the result was worse than last week; he tried to back out but Thornton forced him for his decision.

Week 5 (20 November)

 * Best bits song: "Goodbye"

 * Judges' votes to eliminate:
 * Walsh: Cassie Compton – originally gave no reason, but when asked said he believed Callaghan could win the competition.
 * Osbourne abstained from voting as both acts were in her category. Thornton tried to remind her of her duty to vote between her acts as Walsh did in the previous two results shows, but Osbourne still refused to send home either of her acts, citing her loyalty to both of them. Following this, Thornton told Cowell that if he voted to send Compton through to the quarter-final, the result would revert to the public vote to decide who would be eliminated.
 * Cowell: Cassie Compton – wanted to win the competition and believed Callaghan was his biggest threat but after deliberating on whether to send home either Callaghan or Compton, who he felt was the weakest, opted to send Compton home.

Week 6: Quarter-Final (27 November)

 * Best bits song: "She"

The quarter-final did not feature a final showdown and instead the act with the fewest public votes, Rowetta Satchell, was automatically eliminated

Week 7: Semi-Final (4 December)

 * Best bits song: "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"

The semi-final did not feature a final showdown and instead the act with the fewest public votes, Tabby Callaghan, was automatically eliminated.

Cheating
It was reported in tabloid newspapers that the show's audition process was unfair after Walsh was accused of cheating. He was thought to have advised the group Co-Ed on things such as song choices, which caused controversy after it was revealed that he had actually previously managed Co-Ed after they appeared on the Irish version of Popstars in 2001. Also, footage of Cowell and Osbourne coaching contestants to argue back to the judges was being auctioned over the Internet.

Claims of Rigging
Before the first live show, Osbourne accused Cowell of "rigging" the show by editing footage to make the contestants in his category more appealing to viewers. Osbourne attracted criticism again following the final in December 2004 when she was forced to make an apology after attracting what Cowell referred to as "record complaints" over an outburst by Osbourne in which she criticised eventual winner Steve Brookstein. This left her place on the show uncertain, although she returned for the second series in 2005.