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Death and the Maiden song
The article needs to be wikified. It also starts off assuming that the reader knows what it is...might I suggest the following start to the leader paragraph:

 * Death and the Maiden is a song composed in 1817 by Franz Schubert. The lyrics to the song are derived from a poem written by Claudius.

The bulk of the article seems to be about it's musical composition and timings, etc. This should all go in a section headed Composition to make this clearer. The bit about it's uses in other media (the film, etc.) could go in another section, at the bottom; Other Media or something similar. Consider adding a See Also section with links to Franz Schubert, and any similar works of his or others. A link to a MIDI file could go in an External Links section.

These are some ideas to get you going. Rob Church Talk 20:13, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh, I didn't make it clear; if you want any help, just shout. Rob Church Talk 20:14, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

DATMS
Thanks Rob, I'll get to work on it straight away!

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Paul Kane (writer)

Paul Kane (born 1973 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England) is an English writer.

Beginnings
Kane began his professional writing career in 1996, providing articles and reviews for news-stand publications, and started producing dark fantasy and science fiction stories in 1998.

Career
Kane has a B.A. and M.A. from Sheffield Hallam University and in the past has worked as a photographer, an artist, an illustrator/cartoonist and a professional proofreader. He has also worked as a lecturer in Art and Creative Writing at Chesterfield College in the UK and  served as Special Publications Editor for the British Fantasy Society, where he has edited publications featuring authors such as Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Brian Aldiss and Muriel Gray.

His latest writing projects include film work, a graphic adaptation of his Torturer story with artist Ian Simmons, an entry in the Cinema Macabre book introduced by Jonathan Ross and featuring Simon Pegg, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson, and a book examining the Hellraiser movies, introduced by Doug "Pinhead" Bradley: The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy.

His Shadow Writer site was launched on Halloween 2001.

He is married to author and editor Marie O'Regan.

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Optina Monastery

The Optina Pustyn (Óптина пýстынь, literally Opta's hermitage) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery for men near Kozelsk in Russia. In the 19th century, the Optina was the most important spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church and served as the model for several other monasteries, including the nearby Shamordino Convent. It was particularly renowned as the centre of Russian Orthodox eldership (staretsdom).

History
It is not clear when the monastery was established. Its name is probably derived from the Russian word for "living together", possibly because nuns were allowed into the cloister prior to 1504.

Most of the monastery buildings were erected at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, when the monastery was being renovated as a centre of Russian staretsdom. In 1821, a hermitage for startsy was established 400 m away from the monastery. The startsy attracted crowds of devout Christians to Kozelsk. Among others, Optina Pustyn was visited by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vasily Zhukovsky, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, and Vasily Rozanov. Leo Tolstoy also visited the monastery, although he did not approve of the staretsdom.

The cloister boasted a rich library, collected with help from the Slavophile Kireyevsky brothers, both buried within the monastery walls. The philosopher Konstantin Leontyev lived at the monastery for four years and took the tonsure here. The local starets Saint Amvrosy is said to have been a prototype of Father Zosima in Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov.

After the Russian Revolution, the last of the startsy were forcibly deported from the monastery, which was declared a gulag. The last hegumen was executed in Tula in 1938. Later, some of the structures were demolished, while the cathedral was designated a literary museum. In 1939-1940 there was a camp for Polish Army officers - prisoners of war. Most of them were murdered by NKVD in Katyń massacre.

In 1987 with the beginning of Perestroika, Optina Pustyn was one of the first abbeys to be returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. In the 1990s its most notable startsy were glorified as saints. They are commemorated together on October 10 (October 23 on the Gregorian Calendar).

In 1993 three inhabitants of the monastery were murdered on Easter night. They were hieromonk Basil (Roslyakov), monk Ferapont (Pushkaryov) and monk Trophim (Tatarinov), known collectively as the Optina martyrs.

Startsy
The holy Fathers made the Optina Hermitage (or Poustinia) a focus for the powerful renewal movement that spread through the Church in Russia beginning early in the nineteenth century, and continuing up to (and even into) the atheist persecutions of the twentieth century. Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (November 15) was powerfully influential in bringing the almost-lost hesychastic tradition of Orthodox spirituality to Russia in the eighteenth century, and his labors found in Optina Monastery a 'headquarters' from which they spread throughout the Russian land. The Optina Elders were spiritual masters who became renowned throughout the Orthodox world for their holiness and spiritual gifts. Among them the most known are: Schema-Archimandrite Moses, Schema-Hegumen Anthony, Hieroschemamonk Leonid, Hieroschemamonk Macarius, Hieroschemamonk Hilarion, Hieroschemamonk Ambrose, Hieroschemamonk Anatole (Zertsalov) and Hieroschemamonk Barsanuphius.

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Subarnapur, Odisha

Subarnapur, also known as Sonepur, is a town and district headquarters of Subarnapur district of Odisha. The district spreads over an area of 2284.89 km2. It is also known as Second Varanasi of India for its cluster of temples having architectural importance and also of tantricism and second Allahabad for the Meeting Point (Sangam) of two rivers Mahanadi and Tel in place just like in Allahabad. Subarnapur is also famous for silk, handloom, prawns, terracotta etc.

History
Sonepur was formerly the capital of Sonepur State, a princely state of British India.

Demographics
India census, Sonepur town had a population of 17,535. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Sonepur has an average literacy rate of 74%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 82%, and female literacy is 65%. In Sonepur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Education

 * Sonepur College, Sonepur

Temples of Sonepur

 * SHREE KAPILESHWAR TAMPLE CHARDA
 * MAA CHARDEI TAMPLE CHARDA
 * Bhagavati Temple
 * Budhima Temple
 * Budhi Somalai Temple
 * Dadhibaban Temple
 * Dasamati Temple
 * Gokarneswar Temple
 * Gundicha / Nrusimhanath Temple
 * Jagannath Temple
 * Khambeswari Temple
 * Kosaleswara Temple
 * Lankeswari Temple
 * Narayani Temple
 * Paschima Somanath Temple
 * Ramachandi Temple
 * Rameswar Temple
 * Somaleswari Temple
 * Sureswari Temple
 * Subarnameru Temple
 * Balaji (Hanuman) Temple
 * ShreeRam (Ramsita)Temple
 * Pancharatha Temple

Notable people

 * Kailash Chandra Meher, painter, awarded Padma Shri by Govt. of India.

Sari

 * Sonepuri Sari

Politics
Current MLA from Sonepur (SC) Assembly Constituency is Niranjan Pujari of BJD, who won the seat in State elections in 2014. Previous MLAs from this seat were Binod Patra of INC, who won the seat in 2004, Kunduru Kushal who won this seat representing BJD in 2000, representing JD in 1995 and in 1990, Achyuta Biswal of INC in 1985, Dhaneswar Kumbhar of INC(I) in 1980, and Debraj Seth of JNP in 1977. The place witnessed one and only sitting Prime Minister, i.e. Shri Narendra Modi here on 6th of April 2019.

Sonepur is part of Balangir (Lok Sabha constituency).

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Subarnapur district

Subarnapur District, also called Sonepur District or Sonapur District, is an administrative district in Odisha state in eastern India. The town of Sonpur is the district headquarters. Sonepur is known as the Mandiramalini town (city of temples) of Odisha with more than hundred temples. The people of the Sonepur region are referred to as Sonepuria. From ancient times, Sonepur is considered as a holy city.

History
In the 8th century CE, the region was known as Swarnapur and was rules by vassal lords of the Bhaumkaras of Tosali. The region was then ruled by the Somavamsis and eventually became one of two capitals of the Somavamsis. Around the 10th and 11th centuries, the region was called Pashima Lanka or Western Lanka. The evidence for these names comes from a Somavamsi prince of the region called Kumara Someswaradeva who issued a copper plate charter in the late 10th century which identified him as the ruler of Paschima Lanka. Historically, the presiding deity of the region was the goddess Lankeswari. At some point during Somavamsi rule, the region was given its current name, Subarnapur. It was formally established as a district in 1993.

Economy
In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Subarnapur one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the 19 districts in Odisha currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).

Divisions

 * Sub-divisions: Sonepur and Birmaharajpur
 * Tehsils: Sonepur, Binika, Rampur, Birmaharajpur, Tarbha, and Ullunda
 * Blocks: Sonepur, Binika, Tarbha, Dunguripali, Birmaharajpur and Ullunda
 * Municipality: Sonepur
 * N.A.C.: Tarbha,Binika,Dunguripali,Birmaharajpur

Demographics
According to the 2011 census, Subarnapur district has a population of 610,183, roughly equal to the nation of Montenegro or the US state of Vermont. The district is the 512th most populous in India out of a total of 640. The district has a population density of 260 PD/sqkm. Its population growth rate over the decade of 2001–2011 was 20.35%. Subarnapur has a sex ratio of 959 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 74.42%. 8.18% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 25.60% and 9.37% of the population respectively. Hinduism is the predominant religion, practiced by 99.19% of the population.

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 59.67% of the population in the district spoke Sambalpuri and 39.30% Odia as their first language.

Culture
Subarnapur is home to a wide variety of cultural heritage, arts, and crafts. The Sonepur area specializes in textiles and terracotta, Tarbha and Binka produce brass metal works, Ullunda is home to a tradition of stone carving, and Dunguripali produces Paddy crafts.

Subarnapur is home to the poet and prophet Mahima Dharma. The district is also known for "Danda-nata", a religious folk tradition which is native to the area.

Temple town, Sonepur

 * Paschima Lanka
 * Lanka Podi
 * Sasisena Kavya
 * Sasisena Temple
 * Sureswari Temple
 * Subarnameru Temple
 * Lankeswari Temple

Tourist attractions

 * Mahima pitha, Khaliapali
 * Gyaneswar Baba Shiv temple and museum at Kenjhiriapali village
 * Metakani Temple, Ullunda
 * Patali Srikhetra, Kotsamlai
 * Rushyashrunga hill at Goudgad jungle
 * Papakshya Ghat, Binka
 * Kapileswar temple, Charda
 * Nabagrahakunda
 * Rameswar Shiva Temple
 * Lord Sri Sri Swapneshwar Temple, Goudgad of BirmaharajPur Block.
 * Thengo Irrigation Project of Birmaharajpur Block
 * Maa Umadevi Temple and Siddheswar Temple
 * Maa Ramachandi & Baba Raneswar Temple, Telanda
 * Gupteswar Baba Temple, Gailmura
 * Bhimtangar, Gailmura
 * Baunsa Bana, Dunguripali
 * Maa pudapat temple Tulunda,Tarbha
 * Chudakhai Dangar Tulunda panchayat,Tarbha

Saree

 * Sonepuri Pata Saree
 * Sonepuri Saree
 * Sambalpuri Saree

Notable people

 * Kailash Chandra Meher, painter awarded the Padma Shri.
 * Nila Madhab Panda, film maker and director of I Am Kalam.
 * Sabyasachi Mohapatra, Odia film director and producer.
 * Bhagirathi Nepak, Odia Eminent Writer

Schools

 * Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Tarbha
 * Sri Aurobindo Shikshyakendra, Goudgad
 * Ganapati Adarsha Shikshya Niketan, Biramaharaj Pur
 * Swami Vivekananda Adarsha Vidyalaya, Khandahata
 * Anchalik Uchha Vidya Pitha, Kenjhiriapali
 * Centurion Public School, Dunguripali
 * Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Dunguripali
 * Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Rampur
 * Sahara Trust High School, Sonepur
 * Vishwabharti Chintan Shikshya Niketan, Sonepur
 * St Anne's Convent School, Sonepur
 * Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Sonepur
 * Sri Aurobindo Integral Education & Research Center, Sonepur
 * Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya, Sonepur
 * Bhimabhoi Vidyapita, Lachhipur
 * Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Lachhipur

Colleges

 * Sonepur College, Sonepur-Raj
 * Model Degree College, Subarnapur
 * Shree Ram College, Rampur
 * Maharaja High School, Sonepur
 * Dunguripali College, Dunguripali
 * Gram Panchayat College, Lachhipur
 * Buddhiram College, Menda
 * Birmaharajpur College Birmaharajpur

Politics
This district is a part of Balangir Lok Sabha constituency. The MP of Balangir is Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo from the BJP.

Vidhan Sabha Constituencies
The following are the two Vidhan sabha constituencies of Subarnapur district and the elected members of each area.

Villages
Tulunda
 * Baghahandi

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Seabrook Potato Crisps

Seabrook Crisps (often shortened to Seabrook's) is a UK brand of crisps produced in Bradford, England, by Seabrook Crisps Ltd.

History
The company was founded in 1945 by Charles Brook, and the name supposedly arose because of an error in a photo-processing shop; instead of writing "C. Brook" on a film, a clerk wrote "Seabrook". Original production was in Allerton, but in 1979-80 a larger factory opened in the Princeville area of Bradford; production continued at the Allerton factory until 2004. Seabrook's crisps are distributed widely in the north of England, and increasingly in the south, and are also sold through mail order.

Most of the potatoes used by the company are grown within 50 miles of the Bradford headquarters, Seabrook House. The crisps, sold in a variety of pack sizes, are salted with sea salt and are produced in a range of new and traditional flavours. The brand is best known for its bold flavours.

In 2017, Seabrook Crisps employed about 150 people, and was 75% owned by LDC (Lloyds Development Capital) and 25% by the management team: Jonathan Shuttleworth (CEO), Daniel Woodwards (COO), Jon Wood (commercial director) and Paul Monk (chairman). The company turnover in 2017 was approximately £28 million per annum.

In October 2018, Seabrook Crisps was acquired by the UK subsidiary of Japanese snack company Calbee.

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Steve Swanson (guitarist)

Steve Swanson is the former lead guitarist for the death metal band Six Feet Under. He took over guitar duties from Allen West (of Obituary), who left the band in late 1997. Before Swanson joined in February 1998, he was in Massacre with Terry Butler on bass.

He has two children.

In early December 2008, Swanson's house was broken into, and a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, six guitars, a Line 6 guitar amp, and a Hewlett Packard laptop were stolen.

Six Feet Under

 * Maximum Violence (1999)
 * Graveyard Classics (2000)
 * True Carnage (2001)
 * Bringer of Blood (2003)
 * Graveyard Classics 2 (2004)
 * 13 (2005)
 * Commandment (2007)
 * Death Rituals (2008)
 * Graveyard Classics 3 (2010)
 * Wake the Night! Live in Germany (2011)
 * Undead (2012)
 * Unborn (2013)

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Emperors of Soul

Emperors of Soul is a 1994 box set compilation for The Temptations, released by Motown Records. The five-disc collection covers the Temptations' entire four-decade history, from the first recording of The Distants in 1959 ("Come On") to four new recordings by the then-current Temptations lineup of Ali-Ollie Woodson, Theo Peoples, Ron Tyson, and stalwart members Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin.

The first two discs and the first half of the third disc collect the original mono versions of the Temptations' most popular singles, including "My Girl", "Ain't Too Proud to Beg", and "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)", and several b-sides, album tracks, and unreleased songs. The rest of the set continues on through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s with later hits, album tracks, and unreleased songs.

Track listing
* - previously unreleased

** - mono 45 single, with stereo LP intro added to beginning

*** - newly recorded song

Disc 1: Early years
All tracks in mono.

 * 1) "Come On" (by Otis Williams & the Distants) (Otis Williams, Johnnie Mae Matthews, J. Bennett)
 * 2) "Oh, Mother of Mine" (Mickey Stevenson, Otis Williams)
 * 3) "Romance Without Finance" (Stevenson, Eddie Kendricks)
 * 4) "Check Yourself" (Berry Gordy, Elbridge Bryant, Melvin Franklin, Williams)
 * 5) "Dream Come True" (Gordy)
 * 6) "Mind Over Matter (I'm Gonna Make You Mine)" (credited as "The Pirates") (Devora Brown)
 * 7) "I'll Love You 'Til I Die" (credited as "The Pirates") (Clarence Paul)
 * 8) "Paradise" (Gordy)
 * 9) "Slow Down Heart" (Smokey Robinson)
 * 10) "I Couldn't Cry If I Wanted To" (Norman Whitfield, Eddie Holland)
 * 11) "Witchcraft (For Your Love)" (Stevenson, Robert Hamilton)*
 * 12) "I Want A Love I Can See" (Robinson)
 * 13) "The Further You Look, The Less You See" (Robinson, Norman Whitfield)
 * 14) "Farewell My Love" (Gordy)
 * 15) "A Tear From A Woman's Eyes" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland)
 * 16) "The Way You Do the Things You Do" (Robinson, Bobby Rogers)
 * 17) "I'll Be in Trouble" (Robinson)
 * 18) "The Girl's Alright With Me" (Whitfield, Kendricks, Holland)
 * 19) "Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)" (Whitfield, Holland)
 * 20) "Baby, Baby I Need You" (Robinson)
 * 21) "My Girl" (Robinson, Ronnie White)
 * 22) "(Talking 'Bout) Nobody But My Baby" (Whitfield, Holland)
 * 23) "It's Growing" (Robinson, Pete Moore)
 * 24) "You'll Lose A Precious Love" (Robinson)
 * 25) "Since I Lost My Baby" (Robinson, Moore)
 * 26) "You've Got To Earn It" (Robinson, Cornelius Grant)
 * 27) "My Baby" (Robinson, Moore, Rogers)
 * 28) "Don't Look Back" (Robinson, White)

Disc 2: "Classic-5" years
''All tracks in mono unless otherwise noted. ''

 * 1) "Get Ready" (Robinson)
 * 2) "Fading Away" (Robinson, Moore, Rogers)
 * 3) "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (Whitfield, Holland)
 * 4) "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" (Whitfield, Barrett Strong, Janie Bradford)
 * 5) "Who You Gonna Run To" (Robinson)
 * 6) "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" (Whitfield, Holland)
 * 7) "I Got Heaven Right Here On Earth"* (Kendricks, Whitfield, Holland)
 * 8) "(I Know) I'm Losing You" (Grant, Whitfield, Holland)
 * 9) "All I Need" (Frank Wilson, Holland, R. Dean Taylor)
 * 10) "Sorry Is A Sorry Word" (Holland, Ivy Jo Hunter)
 * 11) "I'm Doing It All"* (Robinson, Grant)
 * 12) "No More Water In The Well" (Robinson, Moore, Rogers)
 * 13) "You're My Everything" (Grant, Whitfield, Roger Penzabene)
 * 14) "Just One Last Look" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
 * 15) "Angel Doll"* (Stevie Wonder, Clarence Paul, Morris Broadnax)
 * 16) "(Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need" (Whitfield, Holland)
 * 17) "Don't Send Me Away" (Kendricks, Robinson)
 * 18) "Hello Young Lovers" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II)
 * 19) "Ol' Man River" [Alternate Version]* (Jerome Kern, Hammerstein II)
 * 20) "I Wish It Would Rain" (Whitfield, Strong, Penzabene)
 * 21) "I Truly, Truly Believe" (George Gordy, Margaret Gordy, Allen Story)
 * 22) "I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)" (Whitfield, Strong, Penzabene)
 * 23) "Please Return Your Love To Me" (Whitfield, Strong, Barbara Neely)
 * 24) "How Can I Forget" (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 25) "For Once in My Life" (live from TCB) (stereo) (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden)
 * 26) "My Girl" [Acapella] (bonus track) (Robinson, White)

Disc 3: "Psychedelic soul" years
All tracks in stereo unless otherwise noted.

 * 1) "Cloud Nine" (mono) (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 2) "Why Did She Have To Leave Me (Why Did She Have To Go)" (mono) (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 3) "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" (Diana Ross & the Supremes and the Temptations) (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Jerry Ross)
 * 4) "I'll Try Something New" (Diana Ross & the Supremes and the Temptations) (mono) (Robinson)
 * 5) "Runaway Child, Running Wild" (single edit) (mono) (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 6) "Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down" (mono) (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 7) "I Can't Get Next to You" (mono) (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 8) "Message From A Black Man" (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 9) "War" (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 10) "Psychedelic Shack" ** (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 11) "Hum Along and Dance" (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 12) "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" (mono) (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 13) "Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite The World)" (mono) (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 14) "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" (mono) (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 15) "Take a Look Around" (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 16) "It's Summer" (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 17) "Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)" (Whitfield, Strong)
 * 18) "I Ain't Got Nothin'" (C. Maurice King, Evans King)
 * 19) "Mother Nature" (Dino Fekaris, Nick Zesses)
 * 20) "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" (single edit) (Whitfield, Strong)

Disc 4: Funk/disco years
All songs in stereo.

 * 1) "Masterpiece" (single edit) (Whitfield)
 * 2) "Plastic Man" (single edit) (Whitfield)
 * 3) "Hey Girl" (I Like Your Style) (Whitfield)
 * 4) "Law Of The Land" [Alternate Mix] * (Whitfield)
 * 5) "Let Your Hair Down" (Whitfield)
 * 6) "Heavenly" (Whitfield)
 * 7) "You've Got My Soul on Fire" (Whitfield)
 * 8) "Happy People" (Lionel Richie, Jeffrey Bowen, Donald Baldwin)
 * 9) "Shakey Ground" (Eddie Hazel, Al Boyd, Bowen)
 * 10) "Glasshouse" (Charlemagne)
 * 11) "A Song for You" (Leon Russell)
 * 12) "Memories" (Baldwin, Bowen, Kathy Wakefield)
 * 13) "Keep Holdin' On" (Brian Holland, Eddie Holland)
 * 14) "Darling, Stand By Me (Song For My Woman)" (Dennis Edwards, Richard Street, Franklin, Williams)
 * 15) "Who Are You" (original title: "Who Are You (and What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life)")
 * 16) "In a Lifetime" (Ron Tyson, Ron Baker)
 * 17) "Power" (Gordy, Angelo Bond, Jean Mayer)
 * 18) "Isn't the Night Fantastic" (Franklin, Edwards, Street, Williams, Glenn Leonard)
 * 19) "Aiming at Your Heart" (Charles B. Simmons, Richard Roebuck, Joseph B. Jefferson)

Disc 5: 1980s and 1990s
All songs in stereo.

 * 1) "Standing On The Top" [Pt. 1] (Rick James)
 * 2) "Sail Away"
 * 3) "Treat Her Like A Lady" (Ali-Ollie Woodson, Williams)
 * 4) "My Love Is True (Truly For You)"
 * 5) "Do You Really Love Your Baby"
 * 6) "Magic"
 * 7) "Lady Soul" (Mark Holden)
 * 8) "I Wonder Who She's Seeing Now"
 * 9) "Look What You Started"
 * 10) "Soul To Soul"
 * 11) "Special"
 * 12) "My Kind Of Woman" *
 * 13) "Hoops Of Fire"
 * 14) "Error Of Our Ways" ***
 * 15) "Givin' U The Best" ***
 * 16) "Elevator Eyes" ***
 * 17) "Blueprint For Love" ***

Disc One

 * Originally recorded between 1959 and 1965
 * Lead and background vocals: Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Elbridge "Al" Bryant, Melvin Franklin, Otis Williams
 * Lead vocals on "Come On": Richard Street
 * Additional background vocals on "Come On": James "Pee-Wee" Crawford.
 * Additional background vocals on "Come On" and "It's Growing": The Andantes
 * Producers: Johnnie Mae Matthews, Morty Craft, Andre Williams, William "Mickey" Stevenson, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Clarence Paul, Norman Whitfield, and Holland-Dozier-Holland
 * Instrumentation: The Funk Brothers

Disc Two

 * Originally recorded between 1965 and 1968; bonus track recorded in 1964
 * Lead and background vocals by David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams
 * Producers: Norman Whitfield, Smokey Robinson, Frank Wilson, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Clarence Paul, Jeffrey Bowen, and Ivy Jo Hunter
 * Instrumentation: The Funk Brothers and L.A. session artists
 * Aaron Smith: Drums

Disc Three

 * Originally recorded between 1968 and 1972
 * Lead and background vocals by Dennis Edwards, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, Otis Williams, Richard Street, and Damon Harris
 * Lead vocals on "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" and "I'll Try Something New": Diana Ross
 * Background vocals on "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" and "I'll Try Something New": Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong
 * Producers: Norman Whitfield, Frank Wilson, and Nickolas Ashford
 * Instrumentation: The Funk Brothers and L.A. session artists

Disc Four

 * Originally recorded between 1972 and 1982
 * Lead and background vocals by Dennis Edwards, Richard Street, Damon Harris, Glenn Leonard, Louis Price, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams
 * Producers: Norman Whitfield, Jeffrey Bowen, Berry Gordy, and James Anthony Carmichael
 * Instrumentation: The Funk Brothers, The Commodores, Rose Royce, and L.A. session artists

Disc Five

 * Originally recorded between 1982 and 1994
 * Lead and background vocals by Dennis Edwards, Ali-Ollie Woodson, Richard Street, Glenn Leonard, Ron Tyson, Theo Peoples, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams
 * Additional leads and background vocals on "Standing on the Top": Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Rick James, and the Mary Jane Girls
 * Guest rap on "My Kind of Woman" by Ice-T
 * Producers: Rick James ("Standing on the Top"), Berry Gordy, Thom Bell, Norman Whitfield ("Sail Away"), Ali-Ollie Woodson, and Otis Williams
 * Instrumentation: Earl Van Dyke, Ali-Ollie Woodson, Norman Whitfield, and L.A. and Philadelphia session musicians.

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William Murdoch (politician)

James William Murdoch (June 15, 1904 – April 28, 1984 ) was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1960 to 1963. He served as the Progressive Conservative MPP for Essex South from his election in 1943 until his defeat in 1963.

He was born in Leeds, England, the son of James Murdoch and Elizabeth Mary Hole, and was educated in England. Murdoch came to Canada, where he became a farmer, in 1923. In 1932, he married Marie Bondy. Murdoch served on the local school board and was treasurer on the municipal council for Harrow, Ontario. Murdoch was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1963. From 1968 to 1971 and from 1974 to 1976, he served on Amherstburg town council. He died in 1984 in Amherstburg. He is buried at Colchester Memorial Cemetery, Colchester, Ontario.

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Thanks for the note about the Cobia. I've always wanted to come take a tour - maybe someday. I was wondering if you could tell me what documents and records the museum has for the Cobia's WWII service. Do you have any photos or movies of the Cobia from that time, or copies of the Cobia's battle reports? --Zippy (talk) 05:51, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I can definitely check into it. I don't know of the top of my head, other than some of the summaries we have in the quick answer manual.  Also, I'm not sure if you're the person who added it to the article on the Cobia or not, but Gato-class submarines had a crew of 80 men, not 60.  Crew of the Cobia was 72 enlisted and 8 officers.  I'm looking for documentation to counter that in place on the article, because that's dead wrong according to the sub vets I have spoken with through the museum. ArrowQuivershaft (talk) 06:09, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

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User:Molotov~enwiki

Hi, I am so excited to have my own Wikipedia account! I live in Barcelona, Spain, and I work as a history professor and work as a minister. I'll put my educational background and life story here:

I was born in Texcali, Mexico, in 1972, but I moved to Spain when I was five. My parents were in aviation, so I moved back and forth, and I went to high school in Baltimore in the 1980's.

 * Graduated from George Washington high in 1990,
 * Graduated from a college in Madrd
 * I have a doctorate of ministry, and I am working on one in history.

Happy editing!

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BDI

BDI may refer to:

Science and technology

 * Beck Depression Inventory, a psychometric test for measuring the severity of depression
 * Belief–desire–intention model, a cognitive model developed by Michael Bratman
 * Belief–desire–intention software model, a methodology and framework for programming rational and intelligent agents
 * (bi-directional isolation), an HTML element that isolates an online section of text
 * Big Data Institute, at the University of Oxford

Other uses

 * Baltic Dry Index, an economic indicator
 * Bradford Interchange, West Yorkshire, England (National Rail station code)
 * Brand development index, a measure used in the allocation of media, and promotion for a specific product or service
 * Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, Federation of German Industries
 * Burundi (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code)
 * Democratic Union for Integration, the largest Albanian political party in North Macedonia
 * Behavioural Dynamics Institute, a precursor to the SCL Group

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Tatiana Troyanos

Tatiana Troyanos (September 12, 1938 – August 21, 1993) was an American mezzo-soprano remembered as "one of the defining singers of her generation". Her voice, "a paradoxical voice — larger than life yet intensely human, brilliant yet warm, lyric yet dramatic" — "was the kind you recognize after one bar, and never forget", wrote Cori Ellison in Opera News.

Troyanos' performances "covered the full range of operatic history" in an international career of three decades that also produced a variety of operatic recordings, among them Carmen (co-starring Plácido Domingo and conducted by Georg Solti), cited almost four decades later as "the finest of all Carmens." After ten years based at the Hamburg State Opera, Troyanos became widely known for her work with the Metropolitan Opera beginning in 1976, with over 270 performances (several dozen of them broadcast or televised) spanning twenty-two major roles.

Early life
Born in New York City, Troyanos spent her earliest days in the Manhattan neighborhood where Lincoln Center, the new home of the Metropolitan Opera, would arise a quarter century later. She grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and attended Forest Hills High School. Her early childhood was clouded by a deep sense of abandonment; her parents, operatic hopefuls who, she said, "had beautiful voices" —her father, born on the Greek island of Cephalonia, was a tenor, and her mother, from Stuttgart, was a coloratura soprano — had separated when she was an infant and later divorced, "ill-matched to each other and ill-suited to parenthood".

She was looked after by Greek relatives and lived for around a decade at the Brooklyn Home for Children, which had relocated to Forest Hills. She said of her childhood, "My past is hard to overcome." She described the children's home itself as "bleak but marvelous". It was there that her life in music began. She studied piano for seven years, first at the home, where her instructor was Metropolitan Opera bassoonist Louis Pietrini, who had volunteered to teach the children a variety of instruments — initially teaching them solfège, which Troyanos later called "the basis of my musical education" — and her studies continued, on scholarship, at the Brooklyn Music School. In several interviews she recalled early expectations of becoming a concert pianist. "Determined since childhood", by other accounts, "to become an opera singer," she sang in school choirs and New York's All City High School Chorus; when she was sixteen, a teacher heard her voice in the chorus and took time "to find out who the voice belonged to ... and got me to the Juilliard Preparatory School and my first voice teacher".

In her late teens, she moved to the Girls' Service League in Manhattan and later to a co-ed boarding house not far from the old Met, which she frequently attended as a standee. She was employed as a secretary to the director of publicity at Random House, and performed in choruses, ranging from church choirs (with a scholarship at the First Presbyterian Church) to musical theater; "Tatiana Troyanos, almost hidden in the chorus, came soaring through with a pellucid and magnificent quality of tone as the Arab Singing Girl," proclaimed Kevin Kelly of The Boston Globe in his review of a summer stock production of Fanny in September 1958.

Continuing at the Juilliard School, Troyanos was chosen as a soloist for Bach's St. John Passion in 1959 and for the Verdi Requiem in 1962, by which time she had begun vocal studies with Hans Heinz, who "understood my voice and helped me open it up at the top ... and gradually I found all my top notes." She described Heinz, with whom she continued to study after her graduation in 1963, as "the major influence in my life ... Our work together built the foundation that was so essential to my career."

New York City Opera and Hamburg years
After a long run in the nuns' chorus in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, Troyanos was engaged by the New York City Opera and made her professional operatic debut in April 1963, on the first night of the spring season, as Hippolyta in the New York premiere production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She sang Jocasta in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex that season, Marina in the company's first production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov the following year, and various other roles through 1965. These years also saw performances of Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Aspen Music Festival, Carmen at the Kentucky Opera, the contralto roles in Iolanthe and The Yeomen of the Guard at the Boston Arts Festival, as well as Herodias in Salome with the Toronto Symphony.

Offered a Metropolitan Opera contract with limited stage opportunities, but choosing a path also taken by other American singers at the time, she left in the summer of 1965 in quest of more intensive performing experience in Europe, where, having auditioned successfully for three companies, she was to make the Hamburg State Opera, led by the nurturing Rolf Liebermann, her home base for the next decade, first as a member of its renowned ensemble and later as a guest artist. "It made sense to go to Germany," she recalled. "I found an intendant [Liebermann] ... who encouraged me and who knew how to further my career slowly. That was really what I wanted. I wanted to be in the theater every day, learning roles slowly, not quickly, and certainly not under any kind of pressure. That's really what I got." Her first parts there included Lola in Cavalleria rusticana and Preziosilla in the premiere of a new production of La forza del destino, and by year's end she was singing Carmen, a key role she would later bring to Geneva, London, and the Metropolitan Opera spring tour. Eventually at Hamburg she would sing, in her words, "just about every mezzo role around."

But it was the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1966 (for which Liebermann himself had recommended her) that saw her breakthrough performance in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos (to the Ariadne of Régine Crespin). In her role debut as the Composer, wrote Elizabeth Forbes, "she made a heart-breaking—and heart-broken—adolescent, whose voice, in Strauss's great paean to the power of music, soared into the warm, Provencal night and seemed to hang there like the stars of a rocket."

That performance, followed by her first Octavian in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at London's Covent Garden in 1968 (to the Marschallin of Lisa Della Casa), effectively initiated her international career—although, said Liebermann, "she returned to Hamburg unspoiled" after her triumph at Aix and "'took up her modest engagements as if nothing had happened.'" The early success at Aix was caught by French television and a kinescope has been preserved.

"Troyanos has a sumptuous voice, a very sharp intelligence, enormous ambition, and do-or-die determination to be a great artist," observed British record producer Walter Legge, whose laurels included many of Maria Callas's classic recordings. Troyanos concurred, "I have this do-or-die determination, probably to overcome past insecurities, difficulties, fears ... certain things never go away. There are things within me that I live with and channel into exciting performances." A 1967 Hamburg Opera tour first brought her to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera's new home at Lincoln Center in a selection of twentieth-century repertory including Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, in which she "especially excelled with her rich voice" as Baba the Turk.

Her appearance as Handel's Ariodante opposite Beverly Sills in the opening week of the Kennedy Center in 1971 (under the baton of Julius Rudel, who had originally brought her to the New York City Opera) served to reintroduce her to American opera audiences. There followed debuts at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (as Charlotte in Massenet's Werther, 1971), Dallas Opera (Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, 1972), Opera Company of Boston (Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, 1975), and notably at San Francisco Opera (Poppea in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, 1975—about which Chronicle reviewer Robert Commanday wrote, "The means by which Poppea seduces Nero ... could liquefy even stone the way the sensational new mezzo soprano Tatiana Troyanos sang").

The Metropolitan Opera years
Troyanos returned to New York to make her Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian, closely followed by the Composer, in the spring of 1976. "The star of the show was Miss Troyanos ... the most aristocratic Octavian at the Met in years," wrote Speight Jenkins in a review of the Rosenkavalier in the New York Post. "She has a large, warming lyric mezzo-soprano with perfect control ... her singing of the Trio and the final duet was perfection itself." Octavian (her most frequently sung role at the Met, with thirty performances through 1986) and the Composer were often described as her signature or calling-card roles. She also became closely identified, on stage and screen, with another trouser role, Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, and Martin Mayer wrote in Opera magazine that she "gave the work a dramatic punch few of us had known was there." Her other most frequent appearances at the Met were as Prince Orlofsky in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, Venus in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Giulietta in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, and Eboli in  Verdi's Don Carlos. A mainstay and "one of the most beloved artists at the Metropolitan Opera" from 1976 until her death in 1993, she was internationally revered for her uniquely sensual, burnished sound, her versatility and beauty, as well as the thrilling intensity of all her performances. "Because of the burning intensity and conviction of her dramatic projection," wrote Clyde T. McCants in his book on American opera singers, "sometimes listening to Troyanos's recordings we tend to forget the radiant glory of the voice itself."

While the St. James Opera Encyclopedia acknowledged that "the persistent pulse of her vibrato," which imbued roles like Carmen with "a fiercely elemental life force," was "not to every listener's taste," David Hamilton offered another perspective:  the "close pickup" of one recording, he wrote in High Fidelity magazine,  "unflatteringly magnifies the natural vibrato of Tatiana Troyanos' beautiful voice into something more like a beat ... a distortion of the effect she makes in a hall."

As her "vibrato uncoiled to yield a plummier sound", wrote Cori Ellison, "she chose to stretch her medium-weight voice to suit her temperament", adding Wagner roles at the Met—beginning with Venus in Tannhäuser (opening the 1978 season) and Kundry in Parsifal (initially in a Saturday matinee broadcast in 1980) — while continuing to sing Mozart, Handel, and Cavalli.

From 1981 to 1983, she appeared in all three season opening nights at the Met — "typically enough", James Levine, the conductor for all three, noted, "in three different styles and languages" — as Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma in 1981 (opposite Renata Scotto and Plácido Domingo), Octavian in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier in 1982 (opposite Kiri Te Kanawa and Kurt Moll), and Didon in Berlioz's Les Troyens in 1983. She also appeared in seven new productions at the Met, including the company's premiere productions of Berg's Lulu (as Countess Geschwitz) in 1977, Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex (as Jocasta) in 1981, Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito (as Sesto) in 1984, and Handel's Giulio Cesare (as Cesare) in 1988. In her La Scala debut in 1977, she sang in Norma opposite Montserrat Caballé in the first opera performance to be televised live throughout the world.

Opera and concert repertoire
Troyanos was known for her impassioned portrayals of everything from trouser roles to femmes fatales; "the most boyish rose-bearer was also the most womanly Charlotte," wrote George Birnbaum in the Classical CD Scout. "I'm lucky that I look like the roles I do, whether it's Octavian or Carmen or Kundry or Giulietta ... It's a flexible look and I'm a flexible actress. I must get ahold of a role or die", Troyanos once said.

Asked which mezzo type she'd rather play, "somebody's mother or some guy", Troyanos once quipped: "I prefer the guys — but maybe a guy who also wears a beautiful dress from time to time."

In Handel's Giulio Cesare, she sang both leading parts: Cleopatra (here essaying a soprano role, opposite Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on Karl Richter's 1969 recording for Deutsche Grammophon), and the alto title role of Caesar (at the opera in San Francisco in 1982, Geneva in 1983, and at the Met in 1988).

Other roles Troyanos sang on opera stages in the course of her career included
 * Cavalli's Diana (in La Calisto)
 * Gluck's Orfeo (in Orfeo ed Euridice)
 * Cimarosa's Elisetta (in Il matrimonio segreto)
 * Mozart's Cherubino (in Le nozze di Figaro) and Donna Elvira (in Don Giovanni)
 * Donizetti's Giovanna Seymour (in Anna Bolena) and Maffio Orsini (in Lucrezia Borgia)
 * Verdi's Amneris (in Aida)
 * Puccini's Suzuki (in Madama Butterfly)
 * Wagner's Venus ( in Tannhäuser), Brangäne (in Tristan und Isolde), Fricka (in Das Rheingold), Waltraute (in Götterdämmerung), and Kundry (in Parsifal)
 * Humperdinck's Hansel (in Hansel and Gretel)
 * Richard Strauss's Clairon (in Capriccio)
 * Berlioz's Marguerite (in La damnation de Faust)
 * Saint-Saëns' Dalila (in Samson and Delilah)

and two roles she created,
 * Penderecki's Sister Jeanne (in The Devils of Loudun), Hamburg State Opera, 1969
 * Glass's Queen Isabella (in The Voyage), Metropolitan Opera, 1992

Her singing was preserved in thirty-five live Metropolitan Opera broadcasts of complete operas (a number of which, including roles she never recorded in the studio — Princess Eboli, Giulietta, Brangäne, Waltraute, Geschwitz — have been restored in recent years for the Met's satellite radio channel); she was also heard in broadcasts from San Francisco Opera (including Poppea and Caesar—the latter was chosen as SFO's archival rebroadcast for 2016) and Lyric Opera of Chicago (including Romeo and the Rheingold Fricka). Eight more Met performances, plus a joint concert with Plácido Domingo, were televised, as were Norma (opposite Joan Sutherland) at Canadian Opera Company, and the last production in which she appeared, Capriccio at San Francisco Opera.

All these telecasts have been released in home video versions except for the Met's Die Fledermaus and Les contes d'Hoffmann, which are available from its streaming service, "Opera on Demand".

Troyanos sang roles in concert performances of operas ranging from Ulysses in Handel's Deidamia (Washington, 1987) and Farnace in Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto (New York, 1992) to Sara in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux (London, 1970) and Judith in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle (in Hungarian, under Georg Solti, Pierre Boulez and Rafael Kubelik in Chicago, Cleveland, New York and London between 1972 and 1981). In 1984 she sang with the Philadelphia Orchestra in the world premiere, in English, of Act I of Rachmaninoff's opera Monna Vanna, which had been left in piano score by the composer and orchestrated by Igor Buketoff. Along with Monna Vanna, her performances of such pieces as Berlioz's Les nuits d'été and Mahler's Rückert Songs and Das Lied von der Erde could be heard on radio broadcasts of major American orchestras. She was featured in Chicago Symphony broadcasts from the Ravinia Festival from 1980 to 1990, which included works like Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Mahler's Das klagende Lied. She was active as a song recitalist (her first recital was at the Paris Opera in 1972.

She made a Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1978), as well as in a series of duo recitals with the soprano Benita Valente which began after they co-starred in Ariodante at the Santa Fe Opera in 1987. Concert telecasts with Troyanos included Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder with the Boston Symphony in 1979 and a recital with pianist Martin Katz, featuring Ravel's Shéhérazade, Falla's Siete canciones populares españolas and songs by Berlioz and Mahler, at the Casals Festival in 1985.

Audio and video discography
Troyanos enjoyed an equally versatile career as a recording artist; her first appearance as a soloist in a recording hall was as Dorabella, opposite Leontyne Price's Fiordiligi, in Mozart's Così fan tutte under Erich Leinsdorf (recorded in London in 1967, released in 1968, and winner of the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 1969). She went on to sing Cherubino in Karl Böhm's recording of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, the title role in Bizet's Carmen for Sir Georg Solti (she was described in the Penguin classical record guide as "quite simply the subtlest Carmen on record ... Troyanos' singing is delicately seductive too"), the Composer in Ariadne for both Böhm and Solti, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas for both Charles Mackerras and Raymond Leppard, and Anita in Leonard Bernstein's high-profile (if controversial) operatic recording of his West Side Story, among numerous other roles. David Anthony Fox in the St. James Opera Encyclopedia concluded that many of Troyanos's discs "capture her faithfully — or ... as faithfully as is possible without her marvelous physical presence ... In fact, she never made a bad record, and—artist that she was—in every case Troyanos contributed something unique and memorable."

These recordings were released commercially on LP and/or CD:
 * Bartók, Bluebeard's Castle – Judith (Boulez, 1976, Columbia/Sony)
 * Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (Böhm, 1970, DG)
 * Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montecchi – Romeo (Caldwell/Scott, live 1975, VAI)
 * Bellini, Norma – Adalgisa (Cillario, live 1975, Gala)
 * Bellini, Norma – Adalgisa (Levine, 1979, Columbia/Sony)
 * Berlioz: Les Troyens, Plácido Domingo, Allan Monk (Chorèbe), John Cheek, Paul Plishka (Narbal), Douglas Ahlstedt, Philip Creech, Claudia Catania, Jessye Norman (Cassandre), Tatiana Troyanos (Didon), Jocelyne Taillon; Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus,James Levine. DVD: Deutsche Grammophon Cat: 00440 073 4310. CD: Laser Disc: Pioneer Artists Cat: PA-85-137 (1983)
 * Bernstein, West Side Story – Anita (Bernstein, 1985, DG)
 * Bizet, Carmen (Solti, 1975, Decca/London)
 * Cavalieri, Rappresentatione di Anima, e di Corpo – Anima (Mackerras, 1970, DG Archiv)
 * Donizetti, Lucrezia Borgia – Orsini (Rescigno, live 1974, Melodram)
 * Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto – Cleopatra (Richter, 1969, DG)
 * Mahler, Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" (Boulez, live 1973, Documents)
 * Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana – Santuzza (Schermerhorn, live 1976, Gala)
 * Massenet, Werther – Charlotte (Plasson, 1979, EMI/Angel)
 * Mozart, Così fan tutte – Dorabella (Leinsdorf, 1967, RCA/BMG)
 * Mozart, Così fan tutte – Dorabella (Maag, live 1968, Mondo Musica)
 * Mozart, Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe (La Finta Giardiniera) – Ramiro (Schmidt-Isserstedt, 1972, Philips)
 * Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro – Cherubino (Böhm, 1968, DG)
 * Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro – Marcellina (Levine, 1990, DG)
 * Mozart, Missa Brevis in C, "Sparrow Mass" (Kubelik, 1973, DG)
 * Penderecki, Die Teufel von Loudun – Jeanne (Janowski, 1969, DG)
 * Purcell, Dido and Aeneas – Dido (Mackerras, 1967, DG Archiv)
 * Purcell, Dido and Aeneas – Dido (Leppard, 1977, Erato/Apex)
 * Scarlatti, A., Endimione e Cintia – Cintia (Lange, 1969, DG Archiv)
 * Schoenberg, Gurre-Lieder – Wood Dove (Ozawa, 1979, Philips)
 * Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos – Composer (Böhm, live 1967, Melodram)
 * Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos – Composer (Böhm, 1969, DG)
 * Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos – Composer (Solti, 1977, Decca/London)
 * Strauss, Capriccio – Clairon (Böhm, 1971, DG)
 * Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier – Octavian (Böhm, live 1969, DG)
 * Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex – Jocasta (Abbado, live 1969, Opera d'Oro/Memories)
 * Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex – Jocasta (Bernstein, 1972, Columbia/Sony)
 * Wagner, Götterdämmerung – Second Norn (Levine, 1989, DG)
 * Auger, Janowitz and Troyanos in Concert – Handel, Mozart, Strauss (Eichhorn, live 1968, Originals/Bella Voce)
 * Troyanos and Valente – Handel and Mozart, Arias & Duets (Rudel, 1991, MusicMasters/Musical Heritage)
 * A Salute to American Music, Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala XVI – Copland, "At the River" (Conlon, 1991, RCA/BMG)
 * Tatiana Troyanos in Recital – Schumann, "Frauenliebe und -leben"; Rachmaninoff, Four Songs; Ravel, "Five Greek Folksongs"; Rossini, "La Regata Veneziana" (Levine, piano, live 1985, VAI, released 1999)

There are DVDs of 10 complete operas featuring Troyanos:
 * Jeanne – Die Teufel von Loudun, Penderecki (Janowski, 1969)
 * Santuzza – Cavalleria rusticana, Mascagni (Levine, 1978)
 * Eboli – Don Carlo, Verdi (Levine, 1980)
 * Sesto – La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart (Levine, 1980)
 * Adalgisa – Norma, Bellini (Bonynge, 1981)
 * Octavian – Der Rosenkavalier, R. Strauss (Levine, 1982)
 * Venus – Tannhäuser, Wagner (Levine, 1982)
 * Didon/ Cassandre – Les Troyens, Berlioz (Levine, 1983 and 1984)
 * Composer – Ariadne auf Naxos, R. Strauss (Levine, 1988)
 * Clairon – Capriccio, R. Strauss (Runnicles, 1993)

There are also on DVD:
 * In Concert At The Met with Plácido Domingo (Levine, 1982)
 * The Making of West Side Story (Bernstein, 1985)
 * George London: A Tribute: Mozart, "Deh, per questo istante" (Hollreiser, 1984)
 * The Unanswered Question: Poetry of Earth (6): Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex – Jocasta (Bernstein, 1972)

Other voices
Soprano Benita Valente provided a unique glimpse of Troyanos as working musician. "I don't know any singer who spent as much time in depth with the music," Valente said. "I don't think she even knew what a stamp she put on each role. She didn't talk about this. But we spent a lot of time working on our recitals, and when I was in her New York apartment, just seeing the music on the piano was a revelation." The scores were "covered with instructions to herself ... words and signs in a big, bold slanted hand" filling "every margin and possible space ... It was like a diary in those scores", said Valente.

Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham recalled, "Once I started performing, I got quite acquainted with the art of Tatiana Troyanos, another artist from whom I learned 100% commitment." Early in her career, Graham sang Annio to Troyanos' Sesto in La clemenza di Tito. Preparing Sesto herself years later, "I went back to my Clemenza score and opened it up, and the smell of the paper reminded me of Tatiana. Isn't that weird? And seeing certain phrases, I can still hear her voice in my head. It's not that we were that close. But I was so impacted by her performance and the power of being on stage with her, that just looking at the score and remembering the Annio/Sesto duet, I can still hear that voice in my ear, the way she sang certain phrases of recit."

"When I did my first Sesto ... there were certain phrases that I found myself singing just like she did, because it was in my ear that way," said Graham. "I was never so inspired by a colleague on the stage as I was by Tatiana, because she just gave everything."

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato confessed that during the time before the role of the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos ultimately "clicked" for her, "my preparation for Strauss's naïve Komponist seemed to be way too slow. I had also been listening to the consummate artist, Tatiana Troyanos, a great deal, and I was thinking, 'I just can't do this role justice. I won't be ready. I just can't sing it like her.'"

Final season
Troyanos died on August 21, 1993, in New York, at the age of 54, of cancer. Nine years after her death, Opera News identified this as breast cancer, initially diagnosed in the mid-1980s and later in remission, which was found only in July 1993 to have metastasized to her liver. Her earlier cancer diagnosis had been undisclosed at the time; the Opera News article, by Eric Myers, now reported that "through all her treatments, she valiantly, strenuously battled illness and nerves and kept most of her singing engagements." She was survived by her mother, Hildegard Fournier, and a brother. She was interred in Pinelawn Memorial Park, Long Island, New York. The year after her death, the Metropolitan Opera performed a concert in her memory; Music Director James Levine wrote, "The idea that we are gathered here ... to pay memorial tribute to Tatiana Troyanos is incomprehensible. What it means, of course, is that our Metropolitan Opera family has lost one of the most important, beloved artists and friends in its entire history."

Although described as "an exceedingly private person offstage," Troyanos had become known increasingly to suffer from inner ear and sinus problems, along with severe performance anxiety (Opera magazine said she was, "by all reports, someone caught between a rock and a hard place: her stage fright was equalled only by her love of singing"). Her death, however, was unforeseen and "came as a shock to the close-knit opera community," as Tim Page wrote at the time. "Ms. Troyanos had kept her illness to herself and continued to perform almost to the end."

She had last sung at the Met—the last of three performances of Waltraute (a role debut) to Gwyneth Jones' Brünnhilde in Wagner's Götterdämmerung, conducted by Levine—on May 1, 1993. That April and May, she also sang in Mahler's Third Symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in both Boston and New York, one of three prominent singers who came to the rescue when the scheduled soloist withdrew from the series of concerts. "Troyanos is still a profoundly immediate and expressive artist," wrote Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe, adding that "hers was the most pliant and meaningful delivery and coloration of the text, the most beautiful, sophisticated and natural shaping of the musical line." James Oestreich in The New York Times reported that "Troyanos offered a searching, almost harrowing reading."

Troyanos was scheduled to reprise the Mahler Third at Tanglewood in August, but her final stage appearances were in a somewhat lighter vein, as the actress Clairon in Richard Strauss' Capriccio at San Francisco Opera between June 12 and July 1, 1993. She had fallen ill during rehearsals but sang all the performances, and Joseph McLellan of the Washington Post recalled that the revival was "highlighted not only by the radiant presence of Kiri Te Kanawa but by the deceptively robust performance of Tatiana Troyanos." Taking part in a Strauss symposium in San Francisco "a short two months before she died, she was the most blooming and healthy-looking presence in the room," wrote Leighton Kerner in the Village Voice.

Daniel Kessler observed that "beneath the veneer of the casualness of her Clairon for San Francisco on those late 1993 Spring evenings, with each performance she gave, there was a conscious endeavor to build or perfect over what had gone before."

Troyanos last sang on the last day of her life, in Lenox Hill Hospital for other patients, one of whom "told her that this was the first time in three years that she had completely forgotten her pain."

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Mount Hawke

Mount Hawke is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately 8 mi west-northwest of Truro, 5 mi north-northeast of Redruth, and 2+1/2 mi south of St Agnes.

The village is in a former mining area in the administrative civil parish of St Agnes. It has a school, Mount Hawke Community Primary School, a post office and various shops. The settlements bordering Mount Hawke are Banns (northwest) and Menagissey (south); Porthtowan is further away westward.

The village is represented on Cornwall Council by the electoral division of Mount Hawke and Portreath. The population as of the 2011 census was 4,401.

Churches
Mount Hawke ecclesiastical parish was created in 1847 from part of the parish of Perranzabuloe and a smaller part of the parish of Illogan. Before this date, Mount Hawke was enumerated under St Agnes. The parish has been in the Hundred of Powder and the Truro Registration District since its creation. It is in the rural deanery of Powder and the archdeaconry of Cornwall. The parish church is on the south edge of the village and is dedicated to St John the Baptist. It is built of local stone with Bath stone dressings in the Perpendicular style and was consecrated on 5 August 1878 by the Bishop of Truro, Edward Benson.

Mount Hawke also has an active Methodist chapel.

Recreation
Mount Hawke is the location of Cornwall's largest indoor skatepark. There is also a cricket club which plays in the Cornwall League. The village has a park called the 'Millennium Green' with a jungle gym, a slide and swings. 'The Mount Hawke Boys' is a private club for young people. Mount Hawke also has its own Women's Institute building and a playschool held in the Methodist church.

Cornish wrestling
Cornish wrestling tournaments, for prizes, were held in Mount Hawke in the 1900s.

Railway
When the first section of the Truro and Newquay Railway was opened in 1903, it passed east of the village. In 1905, extra stations were provided along the line as halts. Mount Hawke Halt railway station was the first such halt for eastbound trains 1$5/8$ miles from the junction with the main line west of Chacewater. The halt was nearly a mile from the village on the road to Chiverton Cross. The line closed in February 1963, the first Cornish railway to close under the Beeching axe.

Notable residents
British singer-songwriter Alex Parks, winner of the television show Fame Academy in 2003, was brought up in Mount Hawke.

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Sterling Forest State Park

Sterling Forest State Park is a 22,180 acre state park located in the Ramapo Mountains in Orange County, New York. Established in 1998, it is among the larger additions to the New York state park system in the last 50 years.

History
Sterling Forest was originally part of a vast tract of land called Cheesecock that a group of English colonists bought from the Iroquois Indians in 1702. The land eventually came to belong to the Sterling Iron Works, which mined and shipped iron ore from a number of sites within the park. The last of the mines was closed in the 1920s. By the mid-1990s the Sterling Forest Corporation, a subsidiary of Trygg-Hansa, a Swedish insurance company, held title to 17,500 acres of the forest. The corporation was actively pursuing development of the property, proposing construction of 14,500 residential units and 7.4 million square feet of commercial and light industrial space. At risk was a largely undeveloped habitat of eastern hardwood forest, lakes, and streams in the nation's most densely populated metropolitan region.

Public advocacy for conservation of Sterling Forest had existed since the 1950s, but without success. By the 1990s, this advocacy was centered on the Public/Private Partnership to Save Sterling Forest, a coalition of twenty-nine New York and New Jersey nonprofit organizations chaired by Robert O. Binnewies, Executive Director of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. The Public/Private Partnership worked for almost a decade to secure funding commitments from the federal government, the State of New Jersey, the State of New York, and private sources to achieve acquisition of most Sterling Forest Corporation holdings. In 1998, The Trust for Public Land and the Open Space Institute negotiated a purchase on behalf of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission of 15,805 acres of corporate holdings for $55 million. Governors George Pataki (NY) and Christine Todd Whitman (NJ) jointly announced that Sterling Forest State Park was established.

Among additional acquisitions subsequent to establishment, in November 1999, The Trust for Public Land and the Open Space Institute succeeded in purchasing 659 acres from New York University for inclusion in the park.

In December 2000, The Trust for Public Land and the Open Space Institute negoitiated for the purchase of 1,065 acres from the Sterling Forest Corporation to expand Sterling Forest State Park.

In 2005, The Trust for Public Land in conjunction with the State of New York Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation purchased a 90-acre farm in Warwick, NY to add to the state park.

In 2006, the park was expanded yet again after a 575 acre tract in the center of the forest known as Sterling Forge came on the market. Sterling Forest LLC developers planned to construct 107 luxury homes and an 18-hole golf course on the tract. Concerned members of the public rallied and were able to procure the tract for the state park. The final $13.5 million sale price was negotiated by The Trust for Public Land, funded through the State of New York Environmental Protection Fund. and private contributions.

In February 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the addition of another 112 acres to the state park, resulting from a partnership with the Orange County Land Trust.

These and other acquisitions have resulted in Palisades Interstate Park Commission holdings of 22,180 acres at Sterling Forest. Residential and commercial development no longer threaten negative impact to the natural ecosystem. Public outdoor recreation is the predominant use.

Funding for various acquisitions, beginning with the purchase in 1998 of 15,805 acres, have included the Lila Acheson and DeWitt Wallace Fund, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Victoria Foundation, the Trust for Public Land, the State of New York, the State of New Jersey, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, the federal government, and contributions from private individuals.

Park description and facilities
The park's forest habitat is important for the survival of several species, including timber rattlesnakes, black bear, fox, various raptors and songbirds, and many rare invertebrates and plants. The forest is embedded in a larger area of over 100000 acre of largely uninterrupted woodland that serves both as a wildlife corridor and as a watershed for nearby urban areas. The park contains a number of lakes and reservoirs including Sterling Lake and Blue Lake. Hunting, fishing, ice fishing, hiking and snowshoeing opportunities are available.

The park lies in the New York - New Jersey Highlands, a 1 e6acre stretch of natural habitat from the Hudson to the Delaware River that links the Abram S. Hewitt State Forest in New Jersey with Harriman State Park in New York. The park conserves a part of the Northeastern coastal forests ecoregion. It also protects the Appalachian Trail corridor, which crosses the northern portion of Sterling Forest. The park is administered by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. The Appalachian Trail in Sterling Forest is maintained by the New York - New Jersey Trail Conference.

The park includes the Frank R. Lautenberg Visitor Center, which offers exhibits about the local environment and overlooks Sterling Lake. The Sterling Mountain Fire Observation Tower and Observer's Cabin is located on Sterling Mountain.

A New York State hunting license and a Sterling Forest State Park hunting permit are required to hunt in the park, which is only permitted during deer and turkey season. Some areas are closed to hunting.

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