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Now We Are Six (album)

Now We Are Six is the sixth studio album by British folk rock band Steeleye Span. Its title (borrowed from Winnie-the-Pooh author A. A. Milne's collection of poems for children) refers to both its sequence among their albums, and the band's size, in light of the addition of drummer Nigel Pegrum. The album was released in 1974 through Chrysalis Records. It reached number 13 in the UK albums chart.

Although two session drummers had been employed on the group's debut, subsequent albums had seen little use of percussion. However, after Parcel of Rogues there was a conscious decision to add a full-time drummer to bolster the band's rock-oriented sound. Pegrum also contributed flute and oboe parts.

Production
Now We Are Six was produced by Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, although he admitted that his part in the making of the album was minimal except for a little supervision and the invitation of David Bowie to play the saxophone.

Critical response
The album received mixed reviews from critics. It was hailed as a finely crafted set of traditional songs given clever arrangements, and the track "Thomas the Rhymer", which was released as a single, was seen by many as the quintessential Steeleye track. Another highlight is "The Mooncoin Jig", which is a showcase for Peter Knight's abilities on mandolin and banjo; the track is a mix of folk and rock, with neither overshadowing the other. Both tracks also show how well drums fit into the increasingly elaborate sound.

The main criticisms of the album seemed largely to concern the inclusion of three tracks. The title track is a set of riddles sung by the band with only a piano accompaniment, and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is the familiar children's song, given the same treatment. Credited as the "St. Eleye Primary School Junior Choir", the band sang these songs imitating children. The inclusion of the songs is valid in many respects, for the material is traditional, but they do stand out as rather unusual and jarring. Many people also did not understand the joke about the "St. Eleye" school choir, believing it was an actual school choir singing the songs (the joke being that St. Eleye is not a real saint, but is similar to "Steeleye"). Bassist Rick Kemp believes the songs were misplaced on the album, and should instead have come at the end.

The track that did end the album is the other one which created some consternation among critics – a version of Phil Spector's "To Know Him Is To Love Him" which features, as a guest, David Bowie on alto saxophone. The inclusion of a rock 'n' roll standard baffled many listeners who had come to expect Steeleye Span's interpretations of traditional fare; what is generally not known, however, is that the track does represent an aspect of Steeleye Span's live show at that time (1974). They were known for doing a rock and roll encore during this period, influenced by the band Sha Na Na with whom they toured. After ending their regular set, they would leave the stage and emerge a few minutes later, almost entirely unrecognizable, in '50s-styled rock and roll costumes, and play such numbers as "Long Tall Sally", "Da Doo Ron Ron", and the aforementioned "To Know Him Is To Love Him".

"Thomas the Rhymer"
Two versions of "Thomas the Rhymer" were recorded. The song, also known as "True Thomas", was released as a single running 3:14, and as a longer LP version running 6:44. This version, which alternates loud and soft sections, was released on the original version of the Chrysalis UK LP Now We Are Six. When the album was issued in the United States, however, it included the short version, apparently on the assumption that the shorter version would be more radio-friendly and more appealing to American audiences. Most reissues of this album contain the short version of "Thomas the Rhymer" with the exception of the BGO CD reissue. Present--The Very Best of Steeleye Span, which was composed of new versions of the band's older material, includes a longer version of the song, running 6:38.

2011: Now We Are Six – live
For Steeleye Span's spring 2011 tour, the first half set consisted of them playing the album in its entirety, some 37 years after it was first released.

Track listing
All songs traditional, except where noted. The track sequence varies a lot between different album editions.

 * 1) "Seven Hundred Elves" (English translation of a Danish ballad, "Eline af Villenskov")
 * 2) "Drink Down the Moon" (first half is Roud Folk Song Index #290, second half is #1506 and #5407)
 * 3) "Now We Are Six" (Roud Folk Song Index #20174)
 * 4) "Thomas the Rhymer" (Roud Folk Song Index #219, Child Ballads #37)
 * 5) "The Mooncoin Jig"
 * 6) "Edwin" (Roud Folk Song Index #182)
 * 7) "Long-a-Growing" (Roud Folk Song Index #31)
 * 8) "Two Magicians" (Roud Folk Song Index #1350, Child Ballad #44)
 * 9) "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
 * 10) "To Know Him Is to Love Him" (Phil Spector)

Shanachie CD release order

 * 1) "Thomas the Rhymer" (short version)
 * 2) "Drink Down the Moon"
 * 3) "Two Magicians"
 * 4) "Now We Are Six"
 * 5) "Seven Hundred Elves"
 * 6) "Long a Growing"
 * 7) "The Mooncoin Jig"
 * 8) "Edwin"
 * 9) "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
 * 10) "To Know Him Is to Love Him"

Australian 1974 order
A side:
 * 1) "Thomas the Rhymer" (short version)
 * 2) "Two Magicians"
 * 3) "Edwin"
 * 4) "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
 * 5) "700 Elves"

B side:
 * 1) "The Mooncoin Jig"
 * 2) "Drink Down The Moon"
 * 3) "Now We Are Six" (listed as 4th on album sleeve, but actually 3rd when the record is played)
 * 4) "Long-a-Growing" (listed as 3rd on album sleeve, but actually 4th when the record is played)
 * 5) "To Know Him Is to Love Him"

Personnel

 * Steeleye Span
 * Maddy Prior – vocals
 * Tim Hart – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric dulcimer, banjo
 * Peter Knight – vocals, violin, mandolin, tenor banjo, acoustic guitar, piano
 * Bob Johnson – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, synthesizer
 * Rick Kemp – vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar
 * Nigel Pegrum – drums, tambourine, oboe, recorder, flute, synthesizer

 * Guest musician
 * David Bowie – alto saxophone on "To Know Him Is to Love Him"

 * Production
 * Ian Anderson – producer

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Marloes Wittenberg

Marloes Wittenberg (born August 31, 1983 in Boxtel) is a Dutch judoka.

Wittenberg won the third place in the Dutch Championships two times in a row. She was downed by a knee injury in December 2004. After recovering from this injury, she won the third place in the Dutch Championships again in 2008. Currently she is an English teacher at the Huygens Lyceum in Eindhoven.

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Marge on the Lam

"Marge on the Lam" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 4, 1993. After Marge invites her neighbor Ruth Powers to attend a ballet recital, they become friends. Homer grows jealous of their friendship and pursues them, resulting in a police chase led by Chief Wiggum that ends in near-disaster.

The episode, which serves largely as a parody of Thelma & Louise and the Dragnet franchise, was written by Bill Canterbury and directed by Mark Kirkland. Phil Hartman, Pamela Reed and George Fenneman were the guest stars.

Plot
After donating money to a telethon, Marge receives complimentary ballet tickets. Marge guilts Homer into accompanying her by reminding him of how he once volunteered as a test subject in a United States Army experiment to avoid visiting Patty and Selma with her. However, Homer gets both of his arms stuck in a pair of vending machines at work. Disappointed and doubting Homer's story, Marge invites her neighbor, Ruth Powers, to go with her instead. Ruth and Marge enjoy themselves and agree to spend time with each other again. The next night, Ruth and Marge visit several bars and clubs in Springfield and Ruth teaches Marge how to use a pistol, using a forlorn farmer's "precious antique cans" for target practice.

To show he can have a good time without Marge, Homer visits the hilltop where he and Marge used to spend time before they got married, but finds it is no fun without her. While tending his moonshine still on the hill, Chief Wiggum spots Homer and offers him a ride home. At one point, Wiggum decides to perform a routine traffic stop on the car Ruth and Marge are in. Ruth speeds up and reveals to Marge that she is driving her ex-husband's stolen car in retaliation for his failure to pay child support. Still in Wiggum's backseat, Homer realizes Marge is in Ruth's car and believes she has turned to a life of crime because of his neglect. Ruth then successfully evades Wiggum by turning off her headlights.

After seeing Marge and Ruth again the next morning, Homer and Wiggum continue their pursuit as they are joined by all of the latter's fellow officers. The duo then start to unknowingly drive towards a cliffside leading into the Grand Chasm and Homer mistakes this for a suicide attempt. Using a megaphone, Homer apologizes to Marge for all of his shortcomings and urges them not to drive into the chasm. Now aware of the danger she and Marge are in, Ruth stops the car near the cliff's edge. Homer and Wiggum fail to stop in time, fly off it and land in a mountain of landfill debris. They emerge slightly soiled from its waste but otherwise unscathed.

Because of the incompetence of Ruth's ex-husband's lawyer, Lionel Hutz, whom Homer had paid to babysit his children the night before, the charges against Ruth are dropped and her ex-husband is forced to pay his missed child support. Marge is ordered to compensate the farmer for destroying his cans and Homer is remanded to the United States Army's Neurochemical Research Center for extensive testing, to his delight.

Production
Dan Castellaneta actually used a bullhorn to record his part when Homer used one to get Marge's attention and apologize to her. The sunset shown when Marge and Ruth are at the café was airbrushed in, although the episode was done before computer animation was put into practice.

Cultural references
Much of the plot, including the scene when Homer is in Moe's Tavern and the climax where the stolen car and Homer and Wiggum's fall over the chasm, is a parody of Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise. The music played during Homer's visualisation of the term ballet is Entrance of the Gladiators by Julius Fučík. Crystal Buzz Cola is a reference to the fad drink Crystal Pepsi, and when Homer reaches into the vending machine, a can of Fresca is seen in the grasp of a skeletal hand stuck in there. The comedian who performs at the telethon that the Simpsons watches at the beginning of the episode and does not find funny is a parody of Garrison Keillor. Ruth mistakenly inserts Lesley Gore's song "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows" into her car stereo before beginning her and Marge's wild night out; after extracting it, Ruth pops in "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses. Later, Wiggum plays the former on his police cruiser's stereo as car chase music. Quimby dancing in a night club is in reference to the Kennedys. When Marge gets hit on in the bar, the guy who does not talk is a caricature of show runner David Mirkin. The old man that comes out when Marge is shooting his cans is a parody of Walter Brennan. The episode's closing sequence is a reference to the Dragnet franchise. George Fenneman recorded the ending in the same style he did on that series.

Reception
In its original broadcast, "Marge on the Lam" finished 32nd in ratings for the week of November 1–7, 1993, with a Nielsen rating of 13.1, equivalent to approximately 12.2 million viewing households. It was the highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, beating Beverly Hills, 90210.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, said "Marge getting to let her hair down is always a treat, and in Ruth Powers she seems to have a real friend. A pity we don't see more of her".

The A.V. Club named Homer's line "Stupid TV! Be more funny!" as one of the quotes from The Simpsons that can be used in everyday situations.

Legacy
On their album And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000), Yo La Tengo has a song entitled "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House"; the song is named after a telethon in Troy McClure's fictional CV in this episode.

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Talk:Simonside Dwarfs

I did not write the article, but the person who did used the source A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, and Other Subversive Spirits by Carol K. Mack and Dinah Mack, who had their own citations at the end of the book. I'm disturbed by the fact that the story in the book is told pretty much verbatim with no citation, i.e. plagiarism.

What is the source for this? Duergar or dvergar is Old Norse for dwarfs/dwarves. --Salleman 23:43, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I have added a tag. Please source. --Salleman 06:49, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It's been a year, so I just removed the disputed text. It was added by an anon, and did read like it was copied from a book.
 * I've also added various tags to the article indicating that it needs sources, is a stub, etc. — Saxifrage ✎ 18:16, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Duergar: Comes from Norse or influenced by Norse?
I think we should say that the word 'duergar' comes from the Norse 'Dvergar' or may be influenced by it. Reason is that the first part of the word 'due' sounds more like the English 'dwar' (as in Dwarrow and Dwarf) and may as well be spelt 'Dwargar' or 'Dwerger' (infact, I have seen it spelt like this in Northumberland). The end part is the same 'gar' as the Norse version.

I am not saying that it doesn't come from 'dvergar', all I am saying is that it may actually be influenced as the common Old English (Middle English and Modern English) was similar anyway. Most words that were similar to Norse words ended up being influenced rather than replaced.

I also find it odd that the Yorkish don't have this form of 'Dwarf' in their dialect also... King Óðinn The Aesir 16:39, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Salleman is right: duergar is simply the Old Norse cognate (normalised spelling: dvergar) of Modern English dwarves/dwarfs. In manuscripts and early printed books, u and v were used interchangeably. I've just added some comments on the "talk" page to the article Dwarf which are relevant to this article and to Simonside Hills. In a nutshell, the form and spelling of duergar betray it as a modern day (19th or early 20th century) antiquarian application of the Old Norse word to beings in English folklore; if the word had been inherited from a Viking Age loan, it would have undergone the same sound changes as Old English dweorg, the ancestor of our dwarf and the obsolete dwarrrow, etc. Dependent Variable 23:19, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Ah, but would it go through the same sound changes? Many Northumbrian Dialect words have not undergone the same changes as has in Standard English, it's one of the reasons some consider Northumbrian to be it's own language. Many dialect words are in fact similar to their Old English ancestors, and slightly removed from their Standard English counterpart. Take the Old English 'micel' which became the Middle English 'muchel' and the Standard English 'much', however survives in Northumbrian as 'muckle' and even, at times, 'mickle'. The fact that 'Duergar' is an anglicised form of an Old Norse plural for 'dwarves' (the singular 'dwarf' was 'dvergr') could just mean that the author wrote it in the same style as the Norse words. Actually as the wikipedian above states, it has been written not only as 'duergar' but also as 'dwergar' and though that could infact be used as an anglicisation of the Norse words, it is also closer to the the Middle English 'dweorh' (pronounced like 'dwairk' or 'dwairg', with the eo sounding like 'air' without the 'r') and the Middle English 'dwerg'. The '-ar' could easily be added to make the name sound more archaic or "Norse". Sigurd Dragon Slayer (talk) 11:25, 1 April 2008 (UTC) Sigurd Dragon Slayer (talk) 12:49, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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Herbert Hoover Dike

The Herbert Hoover Dike is a dike around the waters of Lake Okeechobee in Florida.

History
In the 1910s, a small earthen dike was constructed. This containment was breached by the storm surge from the Great Miami Hurricane in 1926 and the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, killing thousands. After these disasters the Florida State Legislature created the Okeechobee Flood Control District, which was authorized to cooperate with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in flood control undertakings.

After a personal inspection of the area by President Herbert Hoover, the Corps drafted a new plan which provided for the construction of floodway channels, control gates, and major levees along Lake Okeechobee's shores. A long term system was designed for the purpose of flood control, water conservation, prevention of saltwater intrusion, and preservation of fish and wildlife populations.

In the 1930s, a larger system of levees was built around the lake. Following heavy precipitation and flooding from two hurricanes in 1947, the dike was again expanded in the 1960s to create the current Herbert Hoover Dike.

The dike almost completely encloses the lake. The only gap in the dike is at Fisheating Creek, where the dike turns inland and parallels the stream on both sides for several miles, leaving Fisheating Creek as the only remaining free-flowing tributary of Lake Okeechobee. The cost of construction was about US$165 million. The dike is now about 30 ft high on average. This should be sufficient to protect against future storm surges or flooding; however, there are some concerns that the dike is falling into disrepair.

The Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, a bicycle path running atop the dike, was dedicated in 1993. The trail began as the 'Okeechobee Segment of the Florida National Scenic Trail (FNST), and is part of a 1,000 mile trail between Miami and Pensacola.

Video history
A short video history of the Herbert Hoover Dike produced by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, titled USACE: Lake Okeechobee and the Herbert Hoover Dike.

Environment
Over the years, issues with flood control around the lake have caused damage to the environment. This has also led to the recent algae bloom (2016) by preventing the natural flow of rivers from the lake to flush the algae out to sea. Decades of runoff from agricultural and other land uses have exacerbated the water quality issues in Lake Okeechobee.

Authorization
The Herbert Hoover Dike (HHD) is a component of the Central and Southern Florida (C&SF) Project for Flood Control and other Purposes. The C&SF project was authorized in the Flood Control Act of 1948, 1954, 1960, 1965, and 1968; authorization in 1970 under Section 201 of the Flood Control Act of 1965; the Water Resources Development Act(WRDA) of 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1996 and 2007; and the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1930.

Background
The HHD system consists of approximately 143 miles of levee surrounding Lake Okeechobee, with 32 culverts, hurricane gates and other water control structures. The first embankments around Lake Okeechobee were constructed by local interests from sand and muck, circa 1915. Hurricane tides overtopped the original embankments in 1926 and 1928 causing over 3,000 deaths. The River and Harbor Act of 1930 authorized the construction of 67.8 miles of levee along the south shore of Lake Okeechobee and 15.7 miles of levee along the north shore. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed the levees between 1932 and 1938 with crest heights ranging from +32 to +35 feet, National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD). A major hurricane in 1947 prompted the need for additional flood protection work.

As a result, the United States Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1948 authorizing the first phase of the C&SF project, a comprehensive plan to provide flood protection and other water control benefits in central and south Florida. By the late 1960s the new dike system was completed, raising the elevation of the levees to a maximum +41 feet, NGVD. This provides protection to the Standard Project Flood (SPF) level, approximately an event occurring once in 935 years. However, investigations conducted in the 1980s and early 1990s of the dike system's potential seepage and stability problems resulted in the identification of two major areas of concern: the seepage and embankment stability at the culvert locations, and the problematic foundation conditions of the dike. During high water events piping is experienced thru the levee. In 1999, the Corps developed a plan to rehabilitate the HHD. The plan was approved in 2000 and divided the 143 mile embankment into eight reaches with the initial focus on Reach 1. This Reach by Reach rehabilitation approach has been replaced with a system wide risk reduction approach as required for safety modifications to dams.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suckage

 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. But, the word exists, and meets the criteria for inclusion to wiktionary, so an entry for it will be written from scratch for Wiktionary. :) -- Phroziac (talk) 03:37, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

Suckage
dictionary term. I am not sure if this word really exists. See also Votes_for_deletion/Suckage (March 2005) Austrian 23:44, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or transwiki and merge with sucks DV8 2XL 23:55, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * This article is suckage. Delete. Colin M. 23:59, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not a slang dictionary. It's notable that the only usage offered was third-hand -- he heard a reporter reading out someone'e letter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BillC (talk • contribs) 00:02, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOT a dictionary, and this is barely even a word. Certainly there's no encyclopedic expansion to be had from it yet a-while. -Splash 00:25, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm, can't this be speedy deleted under WP:CSD-G4 ?? Martg76 03:57, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Only an admin can confirm this, I believe. For now though, DELETE as suckage Ryan Norton T 07:12, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete as recreation of material previously deleted via the deletion process. And it sucks. Proto t c 09:15, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No no, that's not correct now you see - the correct phrase now is "it's suckage" [[image:tongue.png|:P (smiley)]] Ryan Norton T 10:25, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete under G4 if applicable; if not, my AfD vote is to delete. Tagged.— encephalon | ζ   10:22:18, 2005-09-02 (UTC)
 * Delete, dicdef, not speedy. Thue | talk 18:45, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It was proposed for speedy deletion because it appears to be a recreation of an article that was previously deleted, via VfD, and therefore is actionable under G4 of the WP:CSD criteria.— encephalon  | ζ   04:49:35, 2005-09-03 (UTC)
 * That speedy clause only holds for "substantially identical copies", which I can tell by looking at the deleted version that this was not. Thue | talk 06:49, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh yes, I was aware of that, which is why I placed a qualification in my vote above; the only reason I placed the tag at all was that it seemed unlikely that what appears to be a dicdef could be very much different. I placed a note on the Talk Page of the sysop who deleted the original page in March, asking if she wouldn't mind checking if they were indeed different. When you placed your vote above and removed the tag, there was no indication that you had actually seen the original; thus the above. But thanks for clarifying and removing the tag, Thue.— encephalon | ζ   07:13:32, 2005-09-03 (UTC)

 * Transwiki to sucks. Dread Lord C y b e r S k u l l ✎☠
 * Delete per Splash. Alf melmac 11:59, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Diane St-Jacques

Diane St-Jacques (born May 16, 1953) is a Canadian business person and former politician. St-Jacques served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2004.

History
St-Jacques was born in Granby, Quebec. She was a promotional coordinator for Agropur in Granby and an advertising consultant for a radio station in Sherbrooke. St-Jacques was involved in the community in a variety of volunteer roles. Involved in politics since 1979, St-Jacques first stood for office in the 1997 federal election as the Progressive Conservative candidate for Shefford. With Sherbrooke's Jean Charest as a national leader, the party experienced a resurgence in Quebec's Eastern Townships, and St-Jacques was elected to the House of Commons, taking her seat from the Bloc Québécois.

Until she left the PC caucus, she was its designated parliamentary critic for International Cooperation, La Francophonie, and children and youth. She was also identified as the PC "family critic."

In 1999, St-Jacques joined MPs Svend Robinson (NDP) and Réal Ménard (Bloc), both openly gay, and Toronto Liberal MP Bill Graham, in a "pink caucus" across party lines. The group advocated that the legal definition of spouse include same-sex couples. The social conservative Campaign Life Coalition decried St.-Jacques as "a married mother of one, who says she isn't a lesbian but who supports the gay agenda."

St-Jacques spoke in Parliament in favour of medical marijuana rights.

In April 1998, Charest left federal politics to seek the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party, and Tory support in Quebec declined under Joe Clark's leadership. On September 12, 2000, with an election increasingly close, St-Jacques, with fellow Tory MP David Price and independent, formerly Tory MP André Harvey, joined the Liberal Party of Canada and the Liberal caucus. St-Jacques and Price reportedly told Clark they would leave the party months earlier.

In the 2000 election, St-Jacques retained her Shefford seat as a Liberal.

She served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources Development in the government of prime minister Jean Chrétien from January 13 until December 11, 2003, and as Deputy Government Whip under Chrétien's successor Paul Martin from February 2, 2004, until she left office.

In the 2004 federal election, she lost her seat to Robert Vincent of the Bloc Québécois. She ran again in the 2006 federal election, placing third place behind Vincent and the Conservative candidate Jean Lambert. She received 23.4% of all votes cast.

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James Renwick

James Renwick may refer to:
 * Jim Renwick (born 1952), Scottish rugby player
 * Jim Renwick (politician) (1917–1984), politician in Ontario, Canada
 * James Renwick (climate scientist), weather and climate researcher
 * James Renwick (Covenanter) (1662–1688), Scottish Covenanter
 * James Renwick (physicist) (1790–1863), English-American scientist and engineer
 * James Renwick Jr. (1818–1895), American architect, son of the physicist
 * James Renwick (Iowa politician), mayor of Davenport, 1869

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Fate of Nations

Fate of Nations is the sixth studio album by English singer Robert Plant, released 25 May 1993 on Es Paranza Records in North America and Fontana Records internationally. It features former Cutting Crew guitarist Kevin MacMichael on all songs and as well as being a backing vocalist. In addition, the album also features violinist Nigel Kennedy on one song. The song "I Believe" is a tribute to Plant's late son, Karac.

Background
Plant explained his album in the following terms:

From the very beginning of this project, around January 1991, right after the Manic Nirvana tour, I knew what I was going to do: go back into my past, listening to [Moby] Grape, the [Jefferson] Airplane, Tim Hardin, Quicksilver, Traffic, and other turning-point artists in rock. These people were trying to tell the listener something, joining various traditions, with the sense of a quest being insinuated and bandied in their acoustic and electronic themes. I'm also proud of what I've attempted to do lyrically [on the album], trying to tell vivid tales that come from a hearty tradition of prose.

Reissues
Fate of Nations was remastered and reissued by Rhino Records on 20 March 2007, with five additional bonus tracks. In April 2019, the album was reissued on vinyl for Record Store Day 2019.

Personnel

 * Robert Plant – vocals, guitars (9), backing vocals (11)
 * Phil Johnstone – harmonium (3), acoustic piano (4), organ (9), electric piano (10, 11), backing vocals (11), electric orchestra (12)
 * Phillip Andrews – keyboards (6)
 * Kevin MacMichael – guitars (1-7, 9-12), backing vocals (4)
 * Oliver J. Woods – guitars (2, 6)
 * Francis Dunnery – guitars (3, 9)
 * Richard Thompson – guitars (3)
 * Doug Boyle – guitars (4, 12)
 * Maartin Allcock – mandolin (7, 8), guitars (8), bass (8), Aeoleon pipes (8)
 * Gurdev Singh – dilruba (12), sarod (12)
 * Surge Singh – sarangi (12)
 * Rainer Ptacek – resonator guitar (14)
 * Charlie Jones – bass (1-7, 9-12), all instruments [except guitar and drums] (2)
 * Pete Thompson – drums (1, 3, 9, 10, 11)
 * Chris Hughes – drums (2-5, 7-10, 12)
 * Michael Lee – drums (6, 12)
 * Chris Blackwell – drums (9)
 * Nigel Kennedy – violin (1)
 * Navazish Ali Khan – violin (12)
 * Nigel Eaton – hurdy-gurdy (3, 4)
 * Lynton Naiff – string arrangements (7, 10)
 * Máire Brennan – backing vocals (3)
 * Steve French – backing vocals (4)
 * Julian Taylor – backing vocals (4)
 * John Flynn – backing vocals (10)

Production

 * David Bates – A&R
 * Chris Hughes – producer
 * Robert Plant – producer
 * Michael Gregovich – engineer, mixing (9, 10, 12)
 * Tim Palmer – mixing (1-8, 11)
 * Henry Binns – second engineer
 * John Cornfield – second engineer
 * Ross Cullum – second engineer
 * Pete Lewis – second engineer
 * Mark O'Donoughue – second engineer
 * Danton Supple – second engineer
 * Jacquie Turner – second engineer
 * Martin "Cally" Callomon – sleeve design
 * Julian Broad – photography
 * Andy Earl – photography
 * Bill Curbishley – management

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Monism is the philosophical view that a variety of existing things can be explained in terms of a single reality or substance. The wide definition states that all existing things go back to a source which is distinct from them (e.g. in Neoplatonism everything is derived from The One). A commonly-used, restricted definition of monism asserts the presence of a unifying substance or essence. Monism is contrasted with Dualism (philosophy) and Pluralism (philosophy).

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Eddy Howard

Edward Evan Duncan Howard (September 12, 1914 – May 23, 1963) was an American vocalist and bandleader who was popular during the 1940s and 1950s.

Early years
Eddy Howard was born in Woodland, California, and after attending San Jose State College from 1931 to 1933, studied medicine at Stanford University before dropping out to become a singer of romantic ballads on Los Angeles radio. Later he sang with bands led by Ben Bernie and Dick Jurgens. His hits with Jurgens included "My Last Goodbye" and "Careless", which became his theme.

Career
Howard was a singer on a radio programme on NBC in 1938.

In 1939, Howard started his own band, and he was the regular vocalist on It Can Be Done, Edgar A. Guest's 1941 radio programme on the Blue Network, from Wednesday to Friday.

The first No. 1 single for Howard and his Orchestra, "To Each His Own", spent five non-consecutive weeks at the top of the U.S. pop chart in 1946. The song was a tie-in with the 1946 Paramount film, To Each His Own, which brought Academy Awards for Olivia de Havilland and screenwriter Charles Brackett. The recording by Howard was released by Majestic Records as catalog number 7188 and 1070. It first reached the Billboard chart on July 11, 1946 and spent a total of 19 weeks on the chart. The recording sold over two million copies by 1957, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.

Howard's orchestra was heard on The Gay Mrs. Featherstone on NBC (April 18 - October 10, 1945) and on NBC's The Sheaffer Parade, sponsored by Sheaffer Pens (September 14, 1947 - September 5, 1948).

In 1949, Howard signed to Mercury Records. His popularity continued into the 1950s with tracks such as "Maybe It's Because", and "(It's No) Sin", which became Howard's second No. 1 tune, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. It was also a million selling hit for The Four Aces. Howard's last hit was "The Teen-Ager's Waltz", which peaked at No. 90 on the Billboard Top 100 chart in 1955. In 1952–1953 he was heard on CBS on Thursday nights at 10:45pm, with further broadcasts on Tuesdays at 10pm in 1955–1956. The rise of rock music led to a decline in Howard's popularity.

In a change of roles, Howard was the host on Just for You, an hour-long variety program on NBC in 1954. The staff orchestra of WMAQ provided the music.

Howard's star rose again during the 1960s, as part of the revival of interest in Big Band music and old-time radio that was collectively called "Nostalgia" in popular culture. Howard went into semi-retirement and his some-time saxophonist, vocalist-bandleader Norman Lee, procured the rights to use the Eddy Howard Orchestra name and the band's arrangements. Lee and the Orchestra became a dance-band staple throughout the U.S. Midwest. Based out of Wichita, Kansas, they toured extensively and recorded on their own label, Marian Records. By the late 1960s, Lee dropped the Eddy Howard name and led the orchestra under his own moniker, though several Howard standards remained featured in their repertoire. The organization dissolved in the wake of the murder of Lee and his wife by one of the band's former trumpet players on December 6, 1978.

Recognition
Howard has a star in the Recording section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6724 Hollywood Boulevard. It was dedicated. February 8, 1960.

Death
Howard died in his sleep of a cerebral hemorrhage in May 1963, in Palm Desert, California, aged 48. He was buried at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.

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Plot
I am not a very good writer, so if anyone who has read this book could please help me with the plot. Yuwen 23:47, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Where's the fourth chapter? 199.67.138.42 19:24, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism
There is a piece of vandalism at the end of the description for chapter 1.

Was chapter 4 ever there??

Where is the second chapter?
"jody" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.170.150.103 (talk) 20:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Angst
Angst is definitely a big theme in this story. As well as animal cruelty. But it was more of a young boy and his dreams and aspirations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AtYourService100 (talk • contribs) 00:45, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Short story vs. novel
Though the chapters were published separately in magazines, it wasn't until all four came together in one book that they became collectively known as "The Red Pony". So does it make more sense to classify these as short stories and inform the reader they came together to make the book, or classify it as a novel or novella and inform the reader they started as separate short stories? — Bility (talk) 23:03, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Spurious and Frivolous Contents
I have deleted the section called "Reception." It was shallow and unscholarly. Commentary here should be limited to the novel, not what some politicians or rock star thinks of it. To put this kind of comment here is a gross violation of NPOV.

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Shaun Nua

Shaun C. Nua (born May 22, 1981) is a former American football defensive end and current football coach. He played college football at Brigham Young University and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL Draft. Nua is currently the Interim co-Defensive coordinator and defensive line coach for the USC Trojans football team.

Early life
Nua was born in Pago Pago, the capital city of American Samoa – an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean. He was the second oldest of six children born to Sao and Usu Nua, a farmer and nurse, respectively.

Nua attended Tafuna High School in Tafuna, American Samoa. As a senior, he earned All-League honors as a defensive end, however he suffered a torn ACL. Nua moved to the Hawaiian island of Oahu to live with an aunt for six months while recovering from his knee injury. From there, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona to live with his sister, who was an undergraduate student at Arizona State University.

College career
Nua first attended Eastern Arizona College, a junior college in Graham County, Arizona. Eastern Arizona assistant football coach and BYU alum (and current BYU head football coach) Kalani Sitake was instrumental in steering Nua towards a Division 1 scholarship at BYU.

Nua redshirted in 2003 before returning in the 2004 season and earning second-team All-Mountain West Conference honors as a senior. He ultimately appeared in 22 games, posting 54 tackles (30 solo, 24 assist) and 10 sacks in his career at BYU. Nua graduated from BYU in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in youth and family recreation, and later earned his master's degree from BYU in recreation management in 2013.

Professional career
Nua was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He would spend the next three seasons on the Steelers offseason roster and practice squad, earning a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers championship in 2006. In 2008, Nua was signed to a future/reserve contract with the Buffalo Bills, however he was released before the season.

Coaching career
Following his stint in the NFL, Nua returned to his alma mater as a defensive graduate assistant on the staff of BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall from 2009 to 2011. Nua helped the Cougars achieve the nation's 24th-best total defense in 2010 and the 13th-ranked defense in 2011. BYU won its bowl games both years while finishing the 2011 season ranked No. 25 in the final USA Today Coaches Poll with a 10-3 record.

On January 26, 2012 Nua joined the coaching staff of Ken Niumatalolo at Navy as defensive line coach.

On January 7, 2018 Nua joined the coaching staff of Herm Edwards at Arizona State as defensive line coach.

On January 17, 2019, Nua joined the coaching staff of Jim Harbaugh at Michigan as defensive line coach. Nua signed a two-year employment agreement that pays him an annual salary of $400,000.

Personal
Nua and his wife Hilary have three children: Losi, Kelina, and Malia.

Nua is cousin to BYU Softball All-American and Hall of Famer Ianeta Le'i, and BYU Volleyball All-American and National Team member Futi Tavana.

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Samantha

Samantha is a feminine given name.

Origins
The name was recorded in the 18th century in New England, but its etymology is uncertain. Speculation (without evidence) has suggested an origin from the masculine given name Samuel and anthos, the Greek word for "flower". One theory is that it was a feminine form of Samuel to which the already existing feminine name Anthea was added.

Popularity
"Samantha" remained a rare name until the 1873 publication of the first novel in a series by Marietta Holley, featuring the adventures of a woman named "Samantha," wife of Josiah Allen. The series led to the rise in the name's popularity, ranking among the top 1,000 names for girls in the United States from 1880, the earliest year for which records are available, to 1902.

The name was out of fashion in the United States for the majority of the first half of the 20th century but reappeared among the top 1,000 names for girls in 1958, when it ranked in 998th position, and in 1959, when it ranked in 993rd place. Those rankings followed the release of the 1956 film High Society, in which Grace Kelly played a character with the middle name Samantha. The movie introduced a song titled "I Love You, Samantha" by the famed composer Cole Porter.

After 1959 the name fell off the top 1,000 list again until 1964, when it reappeared in 472nd place and leapt another 293 places to 179th place in 1965, coinciding with the 1964 debut of the popular television show Bewitched, featuring as a lead character a young witch named "Samantha Stephens."

The name has remained consistently popular in the United States since the 1960s. It has ranked among the top 200 names for girls since 1965 and among the top 100 names for girls since 1976. It was among the ten most popular names for American girls born between 1988 and 2006 and was among the top 100 names for American girls until 2020. It was the 106th most popular name for American girls born in both 2021 and 2022. It has also been well-used in other English-speaking countries and in Mexico.

In Sri Lanka, Samantha is used as a masculine given name, being one of the forms of the name of the god Saman. This usage has no known connection with the feminine version.

Transliterations

 * Arabic: سمانثا (Samantha)
 * Albanian: Samanthë, Samantë
 * Armenian: Սամանթա (Samant'a), Սամանտա (Samanta)
 * Belarusian: Саманта (Samanta)
 * Bulgarian: Саманта (Samanta)
 * Chinese Simplified: 萨曼莎 (Sàmànshā)
 * Chinese Traditional: 薩曼莎 (Sàmànshā)
 * Dutch: Samantha
 * English: Samantha (Samantha)
 * Esperanto: Samanta
 * French: Samantha
 * German: Samantha
 * Greek: Σαμάνθα
 * Gujarati: સમન્તા (Samantā)
 * Hebrew: סמנתה
 * Hindi: सामन्था (Sāmanthā)
 * Hungarian: Szamanta
 * Italian: Samanta
 * Indonesian: Samantha
 * Japanese: サマンサ (Samansa)
 * Kannada: ಸಮಂತಾ (Samantā)
 * Khmer: សុមន្ថា (Somontha)
 * Korean: 사만다 (Samanda)
 * Latvian: Samanta
 * Mongolian: Саманта (Samanta)
 * Marathi: समंथा/𑘭𑘦𑘽𑘞𑘰 (Samanthā)
 * Polish: Samanta
 * Persian: سامانتا (Samanta)
 * Portuguese: Samanta
 * Russian: Саманта (Samanta)
 * Serbian: Саманта (Samanta)
 * Spanish: Samanta
 * Swahili: Samandha
 * Tamil: சமாந்தா (Samantha)
 * Telugu: సమంతా (Samantā)
 * Thai: ซาแมนต้า (Sāmænt̂ā)
 * Ukrainian: Саманта (Samanta)
 * Urdu: سامنتھا (Samantha)
 * Yiddish: סאַמאַנטהאַ (Sʼamʼanthʼa)\

Female

 * Samantha Agazuma (born 1994), Nigerian cricketer
 * Samantha Akinyi (born 1995), Kenyan soccer player
 * Samantha Albert (born 1971), Canadian–born Jamaican equestrian
 * Samantha Leigh Allen, American journalist and author
 * Samantha Andreas, environmental chemist and occupational health and safety expert in the mining industry of Papua New Guinea
 * Samantha Arellano (born 1995), Mexican soccer player
 * Samantha Arévalo (born 1994), Ecuadorian swimmer
 * Samantha Armytage (born 1976), Australian journalist and television news reporter
 * Samantha Arsenault (born 1981), American swimmer
 * Samantha Azzopardi (born 1988), Australian con artist
 * Samantha Baines (born 1987), English actress, author, and comedian
 * Samantha Barks (born 1990), actress and stage singer who participated as Eponine in LesMis and Elsa in the Frozen musical
 * Samantha Barning (born 1989), Dutch badminton player
 * Samantha Beckinsale (born 1966), English actress
 * Samantha Bee (born 1969), Canadian actress and comedian
 * Samantha Bentley (born 1987), English pornographic actress
 * Samantha Bernardo (born 1992), Filipino beauty queen and television personality
 * Samantha Bond (born 1961), English actress
 * Samantha Boscarino (born 1994), American actress
 * Samantha Bricio (born 1994), Mexican volleyball player
 * Samantha Brown (born 1970), American television presenter
 * Samantha Browne-Walters (born 1991), American actress
 * Samantha A. Brugmann, American developmental biologist
 * Samantha Bumgarner (1878–1960), American musician
 * Samantha Cameron (born 1971), English business executive
 * Samantha Casella (born 1981), Italian actress, director, and screenwriter
 * Samantha Cesario (born 1993), American figure skater
 * Samantha Chapman (born 1977), English makeup artist
 * Samantha Cogan (born 1997), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Samantha Cole (born 1978), American singer and songwriter
 * Samantha Colley (born 1989), English actress
 * Samantha Knox Condit (1837-1912), American teacher and Presbyterian missionary
 * Samantha Cools (born 1986), Canadian BMX racer
 * Samantha Cornish (born 1980), Australian surfer
 * Samantha Crain (born 1986), Choctaw Nation singer and songwriter
 * Samantha Crawford (born 1995), American tennis player
 * Samantha Cristoforetti (born 1977), Italian astronaut
 * Samantha Daniels, American professional matchmaker, television personality, television producer, author, and entrepreneur
 * Samantha Davies (born 1974), English yachtswoman
 * Samantha Davies (born 1979), British sprinter
 * Samantha De Reviziis (born 1985), Italian web influencer
 * Samantha Dixon, English politician
 * Samantha Dodd (born 1979), South African retired track and field athlete
 * Samantha Dirks (born 1992), Belizean sprinter
 * Samantha Dorman (born 1968), American model and actress
 * Samantha Dorrance (born 1992), English actress, dancer, and singer
 * Samantha Downie (born 1987), Australian model
 * Samantha Dubois (1955–1992), Dutch radio presenter
 * Samantha Economos (born 1994), Australian rugby league footballer
 * Samantha Edwards (born 1990), Antigua and Barbuda sprinter
 * Samantha Edwards, Indian singer and vocal coach
 * Samantha Eggar (born 1939), English actress
 * Samantha D. Elliott (born 1975), American federal judge
 * Samantha Ellis, British playwright and writer
 * Samantha Epasinghe (1967-2021), Sri Lankan actress
 * Samantha Ettus (born 1972), American entrepreneur, author, speaker, TV contributor and podcast host
 * Samantha Evans, Australian Pentecostal Christian worship leader and singer-songwriter
 * Samantha Everton, Australian photographic artist
 * Samantha Farquharson (born 1969), English athlete
 * Samantha Ferrari (born 1973), Italian rhythmic gymnast
 * Samantha Ferris (born 1968), Canadian actress and television reporter
 * Samantha Findlay (born 1986), American softball coach and player
 * Samantha Fish (born 1989), American singer and songwriter
 * Samantha Fisher (born 1995), Canadian curler
 * Samantha Fonti (born 1973), Australian film composer and classically trained violinist
 * Samantha Fox (born 1966), English model and singer
 * Samantha Fox, stage name of American pornographic film and B movie actress Stasia Micula (1959-2020)
 * Samantha Futerman (born 1987), South Korean–born American activist, actress, director, and writer
 * Samantha Gash (born 1984), Australian professional endurance athlete, social entrepreneur, and motivational speaker
 * Samantha Geimer (born 1963), American former model and victim in the Roman Polanski case
 * Samantha George, British academic
 * Samantha Giles (born 1971), English actress and author
 * Samantha Giles (born 1994), English golfer
 * Samantha Gillison (born 1967), Australian–born American writer
 * Samantha Gordon (born 2003), American football and soccer player
 * Samantha Gorman, American game developer
 * Samantha Graham (born 1969), South African politician
 * Samantha Greenberg, American founder, managing partner and chief investment officer (CIO) of Margate Capital Management
 * Samantha Grey (born 1995), Ecuadorian actress, television presenter, singer and dancer
 * Samantha Harris (born 1973), American television presenter, model, and entertainment reporter and actress
 * Samantha Harris (born 1990), Australian model
 * Samantha Harrison (born 1991), New Zealand field hockey player
 * Samantha Harvey (born 1993), English pop singer
 * Samantha Hayes (born 1984), South African–born New Zealand journalist
 * Samantha Heath (1960–2019), British politician
 * Samantha Hess (born 1983), American former professional cuddler and author
 * Samantha Hill, Canadian actress
 * Samantha Hill (born 1992), American water polo goalkeeper
 * Samantha Holland (born 1969), English actress
 * Samantha Holmes-Domagala (born 1977), Canadian former national women's ice hockey player
 * Samantha Hoopes (born 1991), American model
 * Samantha Hunt (born 1971), American novelist
 * Samantha Littlefield Huntley (1865-1949), American portrait artist
 * Samantha Inoue-Harte (born 1979), American voice artist
 * Samantha Irby (born 1980), American blogger, comedian, and author
 * Samantha Isler (born 1998), American actress
 * Samantha Jade (born 1987), Australian singer and songwriter
 * Samantha James (born 1979), American singer and songwriter
 * Samantha Katie James (born 1994), Brazilian-born Malaysian actress, model, and beauty pageant titleholder
 * Samantha John (born circa 1985-1986), American entrepreneur
 * Samantha Johnson (born 1991), American soccer defender
 * Samantha Jones, stage name of English former singer Jean Owen (born 1943)
 * Samantha Josephson (died 2019), American murder victim
 * Samantha Joye (born 1965), American oceanographer
 * Samantha Judge (born 1978), Scottish field hockey player
 * Samantha Juste (1944–2014), English model and television presenter
 * Samantha Katz (born 1985), American curator
 * Samantha Kelly (born 1997), Northern Irish soccer player
 * Samantha Kerkman (born 1974), American politician
 * Samantha Kerr (born 1993), Australian footballer
 * Samantha Kerr (born 1999), Scottish footballer
 * Samantha Kinghorn (born 1996), Scottish wheelchair racer
 * Samantha Ko (born 1987), Chinese born actress and model based in Hong Kong and 2008 Miss Hong Kong contestant
 * Samantha Kolowratová (born 1996), Czech ice hockey player
 * Samantha Lam (born 1963), Hong Kong singer and songwriter
 * Samantha Lane (born 1979), Australian television personality and sports reporter
 * Samantha Lang, English–born Australian director and screenwriter
 * Samantha Larson (born 1988), American mountain climber
 * Samantha Leigh Martin (born 1985), English child actress
 * Samantha Leriche-Gionet (born 1985), Canadian animator, illustrator, and comic strip author
 * Samantha Lewes (1952–2002), American actress
 * Samantha Lewthwaite (born 1983), Northern Irish terrorist
 * Samantha Libreri (born 1982), Irish journalist
 * Samantha Lobatto (born 1988), Indian cricketer
 * Samantha Logan (born 1996), American actress
 * Samantha Lowe (born 1982), English judoka
 * Samantha Maloney (born 1975), American musician
 * Samantha Markle (born 1964), American mental health counselor and memoirist and paternal half-sister of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
 * Samantha Marshall, Antiguan politician
 * Samantha Martin (born 1983), Canadian singer and songwriter
 * Samantha Massell (born 1990), American actress and singer
 * Samantha Mathis (born 1970), American actress
 * Samantha May (born 1987), Australian former netball player
 * Samantha McCarthy, English actress
 * Samantha McClymont (born 1986), Australian singer and songwriter
 * Samantha McGlone (born 1979), Canadian triathlete
 * Samantha McIntosh, New Zealand equestrian
 * Samantha Mills (born 1992), Australian diver
 * Samantha Monahan (born 1988), American soccer player
 * Samantha Moore (born 1988), Canadian singer and songwriter
 * Samantha Morton (born 1977), English actress
 * Samantha Mugatsia (born 1992), Kenyan actress
 * Samantha Mumba (born 1983), Irish singer and actress
 * Samantha Munro (born 1990), Canadian actress
 * Samantha Murphy (born 1997), American soccer player
 * Samantha Murray (born 1989), English modern pentathlete
 * Samantha Murray Sharan (born 1987), British tennis player
 * Samantha Navarro (born 1971), Uruguayan composer, guitarist, and singer
 * Samantha Nesbit (born 1982), English swimmer
 * Samantha Newark (born 1967), English–born American actress, musician, and singer
 * Samantha Nierras (born 1989), American–born Filipino soccer player
 * Samantha Noble (born 1984), Australian actress
 * Samantha Norwood (born 1989), Australian basketball player
 * Samantha Nugent (born 1977), American politician
 * Samantha Nutt (born 1969), Canadian philanthropist and physician
 * Samantha Page (born 1983), English newscaster
 * Samantha Pankey (born 1983), American rugby player
 * Samantha Paxinos (born 1988), Botswanan swimmer
 * Samantha Peszek (born 1991), American gymnast
 * Samantha Poling, Scottish investigative journalist
 * Samantha Ponder (born 1985), American sportscaster
 * Samantha Poolman (born 1991), Australian netball player
 * Samantha Power (born 1970), American diplomat and academic
 * Samantha Ruth Prabhu (born 1987), Indian actress
 * Samantha Prahalis (born 1990), American basketball player
 * Samantha Preston (born 1984), Canadian curler
 * Samantha Punch, English–Scottish professor
 * Samantha Purvis (born 1967), English swimmer
 * Samantha Quayle (born 1995), Welsh footballer
 * Samantha "Sam" Quek (born 1988), English television personality and former field hockey player
 * Samantha Ramautar (born 1987), Guyanese–American cricketer
 * Samantha Randle (born 1998), South African swimmer
 * Samantha Rapoport, American football player
 * Samantha Ratnam (born 1977), English–born Sri Lankan–Australian politician and social worker
 * Samantha Rebillet (1972–2017), French–born Australian actress, director, producer, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter
 * Samantha Redgrave (born 1994), British rower
 * Samantha Retrosi (born 1985), American luger
 * Samantha Reeves (born 1979), American tennis player
 * Samantha Richards (born 1983), Australian basketball player
 * Samantha Ricketts (born 1986), American softball coach and player
 * Samantha Ridgewell (born 1996), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Samantha Riley (born 1972), Aboriginal Australian swimmer
 * Samantha Roberts (born 2000), American–born Antiguan swimmer
 * Samantha Ronson (born 1977), English disk jockey, singer, and songwriter
 * Samantha Roscoe (born 1995), Australian basketball player
 * Samantha Rose (born 1954), Jamaican singer
 * Samantha Rowley (born 1988), English actress and model
 * Samantha Runnion (1996–2002), American murder victim
 * Samantha Rushton (born 1965), British Anglican priest
 * Samantha Sang (born 1951), Australian singer
 * Samantha Scaffidi, American actress
 * Samantha Shapiro (born 1993), American gymnast
 * Samantha Smith (1972-1985), American peace activist and child actress
 * Samantha Smith, American actress
 * Samantha Smith (gymnast) (born 1992), Canadian gymnast
 * Samantha Smith (born 1971), English former professional tennis player
 * Samantha Spiro, (born 1968), English actress and singer
 * Samantha Stosur (born 1984), Australian tennis player
 * Samantha Tajik (born 1983), Canadian model, actress and television personality
 * Samantha Taylor, stage name of Canadian radio and television personality Myroslava Luciw (born 1958)
 * Samantha Terán (born 1981), Mexican professional female squash player
 * Samantha Thornhill, poet, author, educator and producer from Trinidad and Tobago
 * Samantha Thornton (born 1966), Australian former women's basketball player
 * Samantha Tolj (born 1982), Australian actress
 * Samantha Tross (born 1968), British consultant surgeon
 * Samantha Urbani (born 1987), American singer and songwriter
 * Samantha van Diemen (born 2002), Dutch footballer
 * Samantha van Wissen (born 1970), Dutch dancer
 * Samantha Vice (born 1973), South African philosopher and academic
 * Samantha Vinograd (born 1983), American government official and foreign policy commentator
 * Samantha Virgo (born 1987), Australian former rules footballer
 * Samantha Wallace (born 1994), Trinidad and Tobago netball player
 * Samantha Wan (born circa 1990-91), Canadian actress, screenwriter, producer, and web series creator
 * Samantha Marie Ware (born 1991), American actress and singer
 * Samantha Warriner (born 1971), New Zealand retired triathlete
 * Samantha Watson (born 1999), American middle-distance runner
 * Samantha Weinberg, British novelist, journalist, and travel writer
 * Samantha Weinstein (born 1995), Canadian actress
 * Samantha Win (born 1991), Canadian actress and former wushu taolu athlete
 * Samantha Winders (born 1995), New Zealand netball player
 * Samantha Womack (born 1972), English actress and singer
 * Samantha Yeo (born 1997), Singaporean swimmer

Male

 * Samantha de Mel (born 1965), Sri Lankan-born Italian cricketer
 * Samantha Dodanwela (born 1970), Sri Lankan cricketer and tea company CEO
 * Samantha Fernando (born 1985), Sri Lankan cricketer
 * Samantha Sooriyabandara (died 2012), Sri Lankan army officer
 * K. V. Samantha Vidyaratna, Sri Lankan politician
 * Samantha Vithanage (born c. 1980), student murdered in Sri Lankan university

Fictional characters

 * Samantha, in the 2009 American fantasy comedy movie 17 Again
 * Samantha, a dog in the animated series Adventure Time episode "The Pit"
 * Samantha, a sentient AI from the movie Her
 * Samantha, the silent scorer in the BBC radio comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
 * Samantha, the protagonist from Need for Speed: Underground
 * Samantha, a character the panicked Olaf searches for in Disney's Frozen II (before he realizes he doesn't know a Samantha)
 * Samantha, James' seductive new boss in the 1993 film Look Who's Talking Now
 * Samantha Sammy, a fictional seal from Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo
 * Samantha Albertson, a character in the movie Now and Then, played by both Gaby Hoffmann and Demi Moore
 * Samantha Anderson, on the American TV soap opera As the World Turns
 * Samantha Baker, in the film Sixteen Candles
 * Samantha "Sam" Barnes, in the audio drama The Bright Sessions
 * Sami Brady, on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
 * Sammy Jo Carrington, character in the American TV series Dynasty
 * Samantha Carter, from the television show Stargate SG-1 and related spinoffs, one of the six original main characters
 * Samantha Cole, a character in the film Liar Liar
 * Samantha Evelyn Cook/Art3mis, Wade Watts' girlfriend in Ready Player One (2011), Ready Player One (2018 movie) and eventual wife in the end of Ready Player Two (2020)
 * Samantha Darko, in the film Donnie Darko and its sequel, S. Darko
 * Samantha Fitzgerald, recurring character on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
 * Samantha "Sam" Giddings, one of eight protagonists from the survival horror game Until Dawn
 * Samantha Groves, in the television show Person of Interest, played by Amy Acker
 * Sam Jones, in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels
 * Samantha Jones, in the television show Sex and the City, played by Kim Cattrall
 * Samantha "Sam" Kanisky, a character on the American television sitcom Gimme a Break
 * Samantha Kingston, in the film Before I Fall, played by Zoey Deutch
 * Samantha Tracy Lord, in the film High Society, played by Grace Kelly
 * Samantha Madison, from the novel All American Girl by Meg Cabot
 * Samantha "Sam" Manson, from ''Danny Phantom
 * Sam McCall, on the American soap opera General Hospital
 * Samantha "Sam" Micelli, a character in the TV show Who's the Boss?
 * Samantha "Sam" Milano, a character in the TV sitcom Step by Step
 * Sam Mitchell, in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders
 * Samantha "Sam" Montgomery, in the film A Cinderella Story
 * Samantha "Sam" Moore, in the 1989 action movie No Holds Barred
 * Samantha Mulder, Fox Mulder's sister on the TV show The X-Files
 * Sheriff Samantha Parker, a character in the 2002 monster comedy action film Eight Legged Freaks
 * Samantha Parkington, in the American Girl series
 * Sam Puckett, from iCarly, played by Jennette McCurdy
 * Samantha Simpson, one of the main protagonists from animated TV show Totally Spies
 * Samantha Spade, in the TV series Without a Trace, played by Poppy Montgomery
 * Samantha Stephens, in the TV show Bewitched
 * Samantha Taggart, in the TV show ER
 * Samantha Woodard, a character played by Nicole Eggert in the 2010 Television movie Turbulent Skies

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Pontrilas

Pontrilas (Bridge over Three Rivers) is a village in south Herefordshire, England, half a mile from the border with Wales. It is in the parish of Kentchurch and lies midway between Hereford and Abergavenny. In 2011 the main village contained 66 residential dwellings, as well as Pontrilas Business Park.

The village name comes from the Welsh language, and means 'bridge over three rivers' due to the River Dore, Dulas brook and another smaller stream (which descends via Dineterwood but appears to have no specific name) meeting there. The main A465 road skirts the west of the village.

The neighbouring villages include; Ewyas Harold, Llangua, Dulas, Wormbridge, Kilpeck, Bagwyllydiart, Abbey Dore and Howton.

History
There has been a settlement in the area since at least 1086 when the hamlet was called Elwistone, possibly originating from the Welsh names Elwin or Helys. Over the centuries there have been several variations of name e.g. Ailstone and Heliston. The latter being the name of a terrace of houses in the modern day village.

The name Pontrilas originally only belonged to the manor house Pontrilas Court, once one of the homes of the Baskerville family, which sits beside the bridge over the River Dore, near where it meets the Dulas brook and another smaller stream. From 1750 the hamlet was also marked as Pontrilas on maps.

The Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway line came to Pontrilas in 1854. The line was sponsored by the London North Western Railway and merger with other lines took place in 1860 with the West Midland Railway which itself was taken over to eventually result in the Great Western Railway (GWR) running the line from 1863. A local company constructed the Golden Valley Railway line in 1881 and the hamlet grew in importance. However the line was not a financial success and it closed in 1898. It was subsequently purchased and reopened in 1901 by the GWR.

The village had a cattle market and a pub, The Pontrilas Inn built by the Scudamore family, who still own much land in the area. The pub was burned down in the 1970s. There was also a chemical factory owned by Wrekin Chemical Company beside the main railway line to the north of the village.

Since the closing of the station in 1958 the village has declined in importance, though it does still boast an auction room and a number of businesses including Pontrilas Timber which has been there since 1947, an estate agency and a number of other smaller businesses. The former World War II Elm Bridge munitions depot is now the site of the Qinetiq managed Pontrilas Army Training Area.

Transport
Pontrilas is served by Stagecoach South Wales service X4 which runs between Hereford and Cardiff and National Express Coaches service 321 which links Aberdare and Bradford

Pontrilas railway station is currently closed but has the potential to be re-opened with services calling for passengers on the Welsh Marches Line.

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Talk:Discrimination based on skin tone

History of Law
Perpetuating the social constructs of race and skin color means putting an emphasis on “morphological differences like the broadness of the nose, the curl of the hair and the fullness of the lips” as important characteristics in determining a person’s race. The lighter a person’s skin the likelier they are to be considered white. These skin tone variations are strongly linked with the “psychological and economic privileges attributed to whiteness”. Blackness is associated with being on the lower end of the socioeconomic hierarchy. In the US Colonial period, Miscegenation laws described the interbreeding of what were presumed to be distinct human races. Miscegenation gave white planters an economic advantage by increasing their slave holdings because the status of children followed that of their mother. Miscegenation between black slaves and poor white indentured servants caused colonists of the 1660s to decide whether children were black and slaves or white and free. The answer can be found in colonial legislature who used skin tone as a main indicator for mulattoes. In the Upper South (the area reaching south from Pennsylvania into parts of North Carolina) the initial interracial unions primarily involved White male indentured servants and Black slave women." As a result, colonial legislators in this region took the harshest stance against miscegenation and mixed-race individuals. To deter miscegenation, these legislators proclaimed that the children of Black slave women would be slaves notwithstanding the race of their fathers In 1691, the Virginia Assembly declared any “English woman who gave birth to "a bastard child by any Negro or mulatto" would be heavily fined or subject to five years of servitude and that the child would be bound into servitude until it reach”. 1705 Virginia Statute prohibited Blacks, Indians and mulattoes from holding office and from serving as witness in legal proceedings. In 1773, Virginia prohibited “free mulattoes from voting and could only possess firearms under highly restrictive circumstances” In 1785, Virginia defined a Negro as a person with a Black parent or grandparent. Over time, this definition was broadened to include persons with less than one-fourth black blood

As one scholar notes, "no matter how White looking or White acting someone of mixed ancestry [was] or how little Black- ness [was] in a person's genetic makeup, that person [was] considered Black." In effect, the one-drop rule maintained the status quo of White privilege by casting mulattoes in the same role of social outcast as unmixed blacks. Ariela J. Gross, Litigating Whiteness: Trials of Racial Determination in the Nineteenth-Century South, 108 YALE L.J. 109, 137-41 (1998) N F. HANEY LOPEZ, WHITE BY LAW: THE LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE 197-202 (1996)

Leonard M. Baynes, Who is Black Enough for You? An Analysis of Northwestern University Law School's Struggle over Minority Faculty Hiring, 2 MICH. J. RACE & L. 205, 226 (1997)

John H. Russell, The Free Negro in Virginia, 31 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. STUDY. 1913

Kenneth E. Payson, Check One Box: Reconsidering Directive No. 15 and the Classification of Mixed-Race People, 84 CAL. L. REV. 1233, 1247-48 (1996).

Skin-tone preference in Asia has nothing to do with colorism
Colorism assigns privileges based on skin tone: "Your skin is white! You should get the job!" In Asia, this is definitely not the case. What we have is skin-tone preference. People prefer non-tanned skin, as tanning has historically been associated with manual labor. If your skin is inborn darker, as with Indians, we completely ignore it. For example, you would expect Indians in Malaysia to occupy the lowest structure of society if Malaysians practice "colorism" since their skin color is darker than Malays and Chinese. However, Indians are amongst the highest earners. They earn far more than Malays and boast many billionaires (Ananda Krishnan, Syed Mokhtar Albukhary, etc. see List of Malaysians of Indian descent). Singapore would also never have figures like Vivian Balakrishnan, S.R. Nathan, and Kishore Mahbubani if we judge competence based on skin color. SMH2023s (talk) 05:39, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree with your observations and I think the article steers way too far off topic with the obsessive focus on skin creams, especially from an Indian or African American POV. I would also like to add that many people in East Asia embrace tanned skin (as is mentioned in the China section). It's not as lopsided as some foreigners seem to think it is and I'm glad the article talks about the tan obsession in the West. 2600:100C:B00A:4F4C:F5B3:FAA9:6D08:FC47 (talk) 04:59, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

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Madame de Ventadour

Charlotte de La Motte Houdancourt, Duchess of Ventadour (Charlotte Eléonore Madeleine; 1654–1744) was a French office holder of the French Royal Court. She was the governess of King Louis XV of France, great-grandson of King Louis XIV. She is credited with saving Louis XV from the ministrations of the royal doctors when he was ill as a child. She was the Gouvernante des enfants royaux, Governess of the Children of France like her mother, granddaughter, granddaughter in law and great grand daughter.

Early life and marriage
Charlotte was the youngest of the three daughters of Philippe de La Mothe Houdancourt, Duke of Cardona and maréchal de France (d. 1657), and Louise de Prie, Marquise of Toucy, Duchess of La Motte Houdancourt, maréchale, governess to the children of France. Charlotte's sisters were:

 * Françoise Angélique de La Mothe Houdancourt, Dame of Fayel (b. 1650), who married on 28 November 1669 Louis Marie Victor, duc d'Aumont (9 December 1632–5 April 1711).
 * Marie Isabelle Angélique de la Mothe Houdancourt, Duchess of La Ferté Senneterre (d. 1726).

Charlotte married Louis Charles de Lévis, Duke of Ventadour and governor of the Limousin (1647–1717), on 14 March 1671 in Paris.

The duke was generally considered "horrific"—very ugly, physically deformed, and sexually debauched —yet the privileges of being a duchess compensated for the unfortunate match, e.g. le tabouret: In a letter to her daughter, Madame de Sévigné described an incident that took place at St. Germain during an audience with the Queen. "'… a lot of duchesses came in, including the beautiful and charming Duchess of Ventadour. There was a bit of a delay before they brought her the sacred stool. I turned to the Grand Master and I said, 'Oh, just give it to her. It certainly cost her enough,' and he agreed.'"

Charlotte and Louis Charles had one daughter, Anne Geneviève de Lévis, born in February 1673. After the birth of her daughter, Madame de Ventadour preferred to reside in Paris separated from her husband, and there were no more children. She eventually secured a new position at court.

Career at the Royal Court

Madame de Ventadour lived the major part of her life at the Royal Court where she had a long career, serving in different positions at the Royal Court for over seventy years. Between 1660 and her marriage in 1671, she served as Fille d'honneur to the Queen.

A few years after her marriage she secured a new office at court and served as Dame d'honneur to the King's sister-in-law Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine, between 1684 and 1703. She was well-liked by Madame, who blamed Madame de Maintenon when Vendator left her position in 1703.

Madame de Ventadour was appointed governess to the royal children in 1704. She served as deputy governess together with her sister Marie Isabelle Angélique de La Mothe-Houdancourt while her mother remain head governess in name. They were assisted by Anne Julie de Melun, Madame de La Lande and Marie-Suzanne de Valicourt. When her mother died in 1709, she was succeeded first by her eldest daughter and in 1710 by Madame de Ventadour.

In 1712, an outbreak of measles struck the French royal family, causing a number of significant deaths. First to die was the Dauphine, Marie Adélaïde of Savoy. Within a week of her death, her heartbroken husband, Louis the Dauphin, also died, leaving his sons Louis, Duke of Brittany, and Louis, Duke of Anjou, orphaned, and the elder son as heir to the throne.

The sickness, however, had not yet run its course: both the Duke of Brittany (now Dauphin) and the Duke of Anjou became ill with measles. The Dauphin was ministered to by the royal doctors, who bled him in the belief that it would help him to recover; instead, it merely weakened the young boy, who swiftly died, leaving the Duke of Anjou as Dauphin. Deciding that she would not allow the same treatment to be applied to the Duke of Anjou, Madame de Ventadour locked herself up with three nursery maids and refused to allow the doctors near the boy. Louis survived his disease, becoming King of France upon the death of his great-grandfather three years later.

Madame de Ventadour continued in her position as royal governess until 1717, when the boy king was deemed old enough to be raised by men. The king was turned over to a male governor, the François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, who was the friend and reputed lover of Madame de Ventadour. Her husband died in the same year. She then resumed her place as Dame d'honneur of Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Dowager Duchess of Orléans, widow of Philippe de France, Duke of Orléans, only sibling of Louis XIV.

In 1721, she was appointed to be the Royal Governess of the King's bride Mariana Victoria of Spain, who arrived in France at the age of three to be brought up as the future queen of France. As the Governess of the l'infante Reine ("Queen-Infanta") she served under Marie Anne de Bourbon. Her office was dissolved in 1725 when Mariana Victoria was sent back to Spain.

Between 1727 and 1735, she again served as Royal Governess, now for the children of her former charge Louis XV, whose twin daughters were born in 1727. She retired in favor of her granddaughter in 1735.

She died at the Château de Glatigny, her residence in Versailles. Through her daughter she is an ancestress of the Princes of Guéméné of the House of Rohan, who presently live in Austria.

Issue
Anne Geneviève de Lévis Mademoiselle de Lévis, Princess of Turenne, Duchess of Rohan-Rohan, Princess of Maubuisson, Princess of Soubise (February 1673 – 20 March 1727)

 * 1) Married Louis Charles de La Tour d'Auvergne, Prince of Turenne in 1692 (son of Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne and Marie Anne Mancini) had no issue;
 * 2) Married Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Duke of Rohan-Rohan in 1694 (son of François de Rohan and Anne de Rohan-Chabot, had issue.

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Sandahl Bergman

Sandahl Bergman is an American actress and dancer. She is best known for her role as Valeria in the film Conan the Barbarian (1982), for which she won a Golden Globe and a Saturn Award.

Early life
Bergman was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas. She grew up 6ft tall, athletic, and statuesque.

Career
In her 20s, she moved to New York City and appeared in several Broadway shows, noticed by choreographer Bob Fosse, who cast her as a replacement dancer in Pippin. She had a secondary lead in the stage version of the film Gigi in 1973, and later appeared in Mack & Mabel, and as Judy in the renowned "new New York cast" of A Chorus Line (when many of the original actors left the show in 1977). She was cast again by Fosse in his critically acclaimed 1978 dance concert/musical Dancin', with many of the top dancers on Broadway at the time.

Bergman's movie career began in 1978 with a small role in the TV film How to Pick Up Girls. She followed that in 1979 with the Bob Fosse film All That Jazz, in which she was a featured performer in the "Take Off With Us" sequence. In the 1980 movie Xanadu, she appears as one of the nine immortal Muses during the opening song "I'm Alive" by ELO, as well as the final title number of "Xanadu".

Bergman's participation in Xanadu also led indirectly to her eviction from her apartment in New York and subsequent relocation to California. She had been subletting her apartment in New York in defiance of a clause in her rental contract, and during her four months in California for filming, he became aware of the situation. Bergman has said she did not return to New York, instead having friends pack and ship her belongings to her.

Her best-known role was playing Valeria opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian. She won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. Because no stunt women could be found to match her size, she learned to do all her own stunt work. She commented on the experience, "It was tough. I nearly lost a finger. Arnold smashed his head against a rock. But that was nothing compared to what the stunt men went through."

In 1984, she played the title role in the post-apocalytic comedy-adventure She, and she played queen Gedren the next year in Red Sonja. She was offered the title role, but asked to play the villainess instead. After that, she appeared in a series of low-budget films, such as 1987's Hell Comes to Frogtown. Her most recent work was in 2003, when at the age of 52 she appeared as a dancer in the film version of The Singing Detective. Other appearances include a lunar base officer in the movie Airplane II: The Sequel, the music video "Heavy Metal Love" by the band Helix and the Fred Olen Ray film Possessed by the Night, and guest appearances on television, such as Hart to Hart and a dance sequence choreographed by Stanley Donen in an episode of Moonlighting.

Bergman worked as an instructor for the FIRM series of exercise videos in the 1980s.

Bergman has since retired from acting, but still makes the occasional appearance at sci-fi conventions.

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Talk:Île Saint-Paul

Name change?
I suggest that this article be changed to Saint-Paul IslandOska 02:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello Oska, I'd actually have to say I'm contrary to this name-change, there is an island 200 kms off Alaska called "Saint Paul Island", so keeping the french Ile instead of Island probably keeps confusion at bay - no pun intended :) Thank you for your contributions anyway, if more people agree with you we'd obviously change the name. Sorry, I deleted his contribution but mistake but I've put it back in thanks to Wiki page history. Neoncitylights 02:08, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Treasure?
taken off from the article :
 * Further it's expected a huge treasure of jewish gold and diamonds hidden by German Naval officers during WWII in the near of entry to the bassin (SOURCE NEEDED). This treasure is not found until today also because French authoroties do not grant a licence of excavation.Further it's expected a huge treasure of jewish gold and diamonds hidden by German Naval officers during WWII in the near of entry to the bassin. This treasure is not found until today also because French authoroties do not grant a licence of excavation.

Never heard of it ! Give your sources please ! Channer 02:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Here are my sources:

 * The German Naval cadet Gerhard Abbels wrote his diploma work 2004 about the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis. As you know, the 'Atlantis' has crossed the area of the Kerguelen.

 * During his research Abbels found orignal papers and documents in the archives of the "Heeresgeschichtliche Museum Hamburg" (Museum of German Military History). There are without doubt handwritten notices (with official chops) and radio communication logs from the captain of the 'Atlantis' Bernhard_Rogge with the content that the box with gold, diamonds and bonds were hidden on St. Paul Island 'as ordered'. It was highly believed that the Atlanis may be destroyed by the British Royal Navy very soon. So thus they've hidden the box to collect it later.

 * It's not clear if the French authorities know or believe the story. Anyway they don't allow treasure seeking on St. Paul Island.

 * Fähnrich Gerhard Abbels - Die 'Atlantis' (Marineakademie Bremerhaven, Deutschland, 2004)
 * Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Hamburg, Archiv No. 245/1940 - Logbuch und Dokumente Kapitän Rogge.
 * Dokumentations- Staatsarchiv Hamburg, ID AB/8856/1940 - Dokumente.

 * So my information is true and should be reversed to the article. Hope that helped, Gruss--Feldmarschall von Hansen 22:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks again to Channer for restoring my information.

 * I just want to add that this news isn't as sensational as at first glance. I looked again in the papers, the amount or value of the hidden gold is not stated and it could be well possible that a seeking expedition would cost more than the found treasure. Secondly, as I presume, the Nazis have often hidden stolen objects where a part isn't still found till today. --Feldmarschall von Hansen 12:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Clive Cussler's novel Atlantis Found has the remains of a prehistoric civilization discovered on St. Paul Island. 99.9.112.31 (talk) 01:40, 12 October 2010 (UTC)NotWillDecker

Antipodes
I mistakenly edited the Antipodes statement, since the geographic coordinates of Kerguelen Island seem to show that its antipode is in Canada. However, the northenmost peninsulas of Kerguelen are antipodes to an area just over the US border in Montana, so I reverted the edit. Stereoroid 23:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Coordinate error
The following coordinate fixes are need for showing: 38° 43′ 48″ S, 77° 31′ 20″ E

should be: 38° 43′ 48″ S, 77° 31′ 20″ W

—70.27.21.233 (talk) 15:16, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Declined — Coordinates are correct. Suggested correction would put the location in the South Pacific, not in the Indian Ocean. Just FYI: E longitudes are east of 0 degrees longitude, the Prime Meridian, and west of the 180 degrees longitude, (very) roughly the International Date Line, W latitudes are opposite that: west of 0, east of 180. —  T RANSPORTER M AN  ( TALK ) 15:30, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

The first good map
Article states: "The first good map of the island was not drawn up until 1857, when the Austrian frigate Novara...". I have located and uploaded the 1857 map, which was not to be found in the cited English translation of Scherzer's account of the Novara expedition, but is included in the German version (on BHL). However it does not appear to be any better than two earlier maps, that of Péron, 1792-1795 published in 1824 or Blackwood's survey of 1842, published in 1850. So I propose editing this to give priority to Péron. Kognos (talk) 16:28, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Possession (or renunciation?) by France
"All fishery operations were, however, abandoned in 1853, when the French government renounced its possession of the two islands.[4]"

This isn't mentioned again. Given it is still listed as a French possession, did that really happen, and was it reversed later? ElectronicsForDogs (talk) 14:09, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

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WRJW

WRJW (1320 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Picayune, Mississippi, United States, the station serves the New Orleans area. The station is owned by Pearl River Communications, Inc. and features programming from ABC News Radio and Westwood One.

This station was at one time the sister station to WKSY before being spun off in the 1990s.

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Betsy Drake

Betsy Drake (September 11, 1923 – October 27, 2015) was an American actress, writer and psychotherapist. She was the third wife of actor Cary Grant.

Early life and education
Betsy Drake, the eldest child of two American expatriates, was born in Paris. Her grandfather, Tracy Drake, and his brother had opened the Drake Hotel in Chicago on New Year's Eve in 1920. The Drakes lost their money in the 1929 stock-market crash. As a result, she returned to the U.S. on the SS Île de France with her parents, brothers, and a nanny. She grew up in Chicago; Westport, Connecticut; Washington, DC; Virginia; North Carolina; and New York City. She went to 12 different schools, both private and public, before concentrating on theater and acting at National Park Seminary.

Career
Drake began looking for work as an actress in New York City, supporting herself by working as a Conover model. She met the playwright Horton Foote, who offered her a job as an understudy in his play Only the Heart, which enabled her to join the Actors' Equity Association and thus become a professional actress.

After coming to the attention of the producer Hal Wallis, Drake was pressured by her agent to sign a Hollywood contract. She hated Hollywood and managed to be released from the contract by declaring herself insane. She returned to New York City and, in 1947, read for the director Elia Kazan for the lead role in the London company of the play Deep Are the Roots. Later that year, Drake was selected by Kazan as one of the founding members of the Actors Studio.

Cary Grant spotted her in 1947 while she was performing in London. The two, who both happened to be returning to the U.S. on the RMS Queen Mary, struck up an instant rapport. At the insistence of Grant, Drake was subsequently signed to a film contract by RKO Pictures and David Selznick, where she appeared, opposite Grant, in her first film, the romantic comedy Every Girl Should Be Married (1948). New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther called her performance “foxily amusing”.

On Christmas Day 1949, Drake and Grant married in a private ceremony organized by Grant's best man, Howard Hughes, and chose a low-key, introspective private life. They delved into transcendentalism, mysticism, and yoga. She took up causes including the plight of homeless children in Los Angeles. In 1954, they bought the "Las Palomas" estate in the Movie Colony neighborhood of Palm Springs, California.

The couple co-starred in the radio series Mr. and Mrs. Blandings (1951). They appeared together in the comedy drama Room for One More (1952), and Drake appeared in leading roles in England and the U.S., and a supporting role in the satiric comedy film Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957).

Drake wrote the original script for the film Houseboat (1958) under a pseudonym, basing it on an unpublished story she had written. Starring Grant, Drake anticipated co-starring in the film. Grant, however, who began an affair with Sophia Loren while filming The Pride and the Passion (1957), arranged for Loren to take Drake's place in Houseboat with a rewritten script for which Drake did not receive credit. The affair ended in bitterness before The Pride and the Passion's filming ended, causing problems on the Houseboat set.

Drake subsequently gave up acting and pursued other career interests. She earned a Master of Education degree from Harvard University and became a children's therapist. Drake was a director of psychodrama at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, worked at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, and maintained a private therapy practice. She taught at UCLA, Pepperdine University, and presented research at the 52nd Annual Meeting American Orthopsychiatric Association in 1975. Under the name Betsy Drake Grant, her novel Children, You Are Very Little (1971) was published by Atheneum Books.

Drake's last screen appearance was in the documentary film Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2005), in which she reflected on Grant and their time together, and denied rumors alleging he was bisexual.

Personal life
In July 1956, Drake survived the sinking of the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria. At the time, she had been visiting Grant in Spain and was returning to the United States. She boarded it along with dozens of other wealthy travelers and tourists, at Gibraltar, which was one of many stops the ship made between her home port of Genoa and her final destination of New York City. Drake sailed as a first-class passenger, occupying a single cabin on the ship's boat deck. When the SS Andrea Doria collided with the Stockholm, Drake waited with the other passengers for rescue, as the ship's severe list rendered half of its lifeboats useless. She was among more than 700 people rescued from the ship by the famed French passenger liner SS Île de France.

Grant and Drake separated in 1958, remaining friends, and divorced in 1962. Their marriage constituted his longest union. Grant credited her with broadening his interests beyond his career and with introducing him to the then-legal LSD therapy and to hypnosis. Later, Drake took LSD as a way of recovering from the trauma of divorce. Drake did not have children with Grant and did not remarry.

Drake spent the latter part of her life in London, where she died, aged 92 on October 27, 2015.

Filmography

 * Every Girl Should Be Married (1948) as Anabel Sims
 * Dancing in the Dark (1949) as Julie Clarke
 * The Second Woman (1950) as Ellen Foster
 * Pretty Baby (1950) as Patsy Douglas
 * Room for One More (1952) as Anna Rose
 * Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) as Jenny Wells
 * General Electric Theater as Ellie (one episode, 1958)
 * Intent to Kill (1958) as Dr. Nancy Ferguson
 * Next to No Time (1958) as Georgie Brant
 * Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965) as Julie Harper

Television credits

 * General Electric Theater as Ellie in "A Question of Romance" (1958)
 * Wanted: Dead or Alive as Lucy Fremont in "The Spurs" (1959)
 * Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2005) as herself

Suggested reading

 * Grant, Betsy Drake (1971). Children You Are Very Little. Atheneum Books: New York City;.

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Northshore School District

The Northshore School District is a public school district covering portions of King County and Snohomish County, Washington. The district's service area covers the cities of Bothell, Brier, Woodinville, and Kenmore as well as portions of unincorporated King and Snohomish Counties.

The district is administered by a school board consisting of five members, each serving a district. Michael Tolley was appointed superintendent in July 2023.

The Northshore School District was formed on March 2, 1959, by the consolidation of the Bothell and Woodinville school districts; the consolidation was approved by voters in both districts in a special election on February 24.

In addition, the district was the first in the nation to close due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Bothell High School closed for disinfecting on February 27, 2020, before any other school in the United States had done so.

Elementary schools

 * Arrowhead Elementary School
 * Canyon Creek Elementary School
 * Cottage Lake Elementary School
 * Crystal Springs Elementary School
 * East Ridge Elementary School
 * Fernwood Elementary School
 * Frank Love Elementary school
 * Hollywood Hill Elementary School
 * Kenmore Elementary school
 * Kokanee Elementary School
 * Lockwood Elementary school
 * Maywood Hills Elementary School
 * Moorlands Elementary School
 * Northshore Family Partnership
 * Northshore Online Academy
 * Ruby Bridges Elementary School
 * Shelton View Elementary School
 * Sorenson Early Childhood Center
 * Sunrise Elementary School
 * Wellington Elementary School
 * Westhill Elementary School
 * Woodin Elementary School
 * Woodmoor Elementary School

Middle schools

 * Canyon Park Middle School
 * Kenmore Middle School
 * Leota Middle School
 * Northshore Family Partnership
 * Northshore Middle School
 * Northshore Networks
 * Northshore Online Academy
 * Skyview Middle School
 * Timbercrest Middle School

High schools

 * Bothell High School
 * Inglemoor High School
 * Innovation Lab High School
 * North Creek High School
 * Northshore Networks
 * Northshore Online Academy
 * Secondary Academy For Success
 * Woodinville High School

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Lake Hart, Indiana

Lake Hart is an unincorporated town, formerly incorporated, in Monroe Township, Morgan County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. In the 1990 census, the town had a total population of 213.

History
Incorporated in the 1970s with a population of 231, the town was disincorporated on September 23, 1998. On September 13, 1985, the former town was declared a legal Conservancy District per the Indiana Conservancy District Act in Morgan County Circuit Court under Cause # C84 C 443. The name of the community and of the Conservancy District has since been Hart Lake. Lake Hart is the name of the former town. The purpose for the Hart Lake Conservancy District was amended in Morgan County Circuit Court on January 16, 1987, to include the legal purposes of procuring water and sewage service for the community. While not an incorporated town, a Conservancy District is a legal governmental entity with a duly elected board of directors, has a tax base, is subject to the Indiana Governmental Agencies laws regarding budgeting, and is subject to audit by the State Board of Accounts.

Geography
Hart Lake is located southwest of Mooresville.

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Chevalley scheme

A Chevalley scheme in algebraic geometry was a precursor notion of scheme theory.

Let X be a separated integral noetherian scheme, R its function field. If we denote by $$X'$$ the set of subrings $$\mathcal O_x$$ of R, where x runs through X (when $$X=\mathrm{Spec}(A)$$, we denote $$X'$$ by $$L(A)$$), $$X'$$ verifies the following three properties
 * For each $$M\in X' $$, R is the field of fractions of M.
 * There is a finite set of noetherian subrings $$A_i$$ of R so that $$X'=\cup_i L(A_i) $$ and that, for each pair of indices i,j, the subring $$A_{ij} $$ of R generated by $$ A_i \cup A_j $$ is an $$A_i$$-algebra of finite type.
 * If $$M\subseteq N$$ in $$X'$$ are such that the maximal ideal of M is contained in that of N, then M=N.

Originally, Chevalley also supposed that R was an extension of finite type of a field K and that the $$ A_i $$'s were algebras of finite type over a field too (this simplifies the second condition above).

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Euchloe simplonia

Euchloe simplonia, the mountain dappled white, is a butterfly found in the mountainous regions of Western Europe. Its main foods are Sinapis, Isatis, Aethionema, Iberis and Biscutella species. Though data are lacking, it is believed that the species is restricted to a small area of the western Alps and is endangered in Europe. The species is closely related to Euchloe naina, and cross-breeding experiments suggest that E. nania may be a subspecies, though this is contested on morphological grounds.

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Talk:Guts

What has to do Steve Prefontaine with "guts"?

Gastrointenstinal Tract?
I have always heard "guts" used as a general term to refer to a body's internal organs; not necessarily specifically the gastrointestinal tract. Why is the gastrointestinal tract singled out here? Can someone explain this? -AlexFolland 20:20, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

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