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Angela Groothuizen

Angela Groothuizen (born 28 September 1959) is a Dutch singer and television personality. Her initial fame came as a member of the Dolly Dots.

Biography
Angela Groothuizen was born in Alkmaar, and has four brothers and sisters. She joined the band Howling Hurricane, of which one of her brothers was a member, and in 1978 they recorded a single, "Dreamt up Rock". That same year she was asked to join a newly formed girl group, and while she was more rock-oriented, she joined, and in 1979 the Dolly Dots were officially launched.

Musical career
The pop girl group Dolly Dots achieved popularity inside and outside the Netherlands, scoring hits between 1979 and 1988. She is credited also with discovering Roberto Jacketti & The Scooters, a Dutch pop group that scored one big hit ("I Save the Day"), and co-producing their first album in 1984.

After the split of the Dolly Dots in 1988, Groothuizen teamed up with Ruud Mulder, former guitarist of disco/funk-contemporaries Spargo, to record as Angela & the Rude. Additionally she wrote songs for, among others, Kinderen voor Kinderen and Carmen Gomes.

In 1998 the Dots reunited for a one-off concert, which gave rise to a Dolly Dots musical. Love Me Just a Little Bit More played at The Chassé Theatre in Breda and around the Netherlands during 2004, and closed in early 2005. As result of renewed interest in the group after the musical, Warner Bros. Records released a Dolly Dots Greatest Hits compilation of the group as well as a DVD. In May 2007, they sold out Rotterdam Ahoy three nights in a row, and toured the country again in 2008.

In March 2008, Groothuizen released a Dutch-language solo album titled Melk en Honing (Milk and Honey).

In July 2009, fellow-Dolly Dot Ria Brieffies died from lung cancer. At this time Groothuizen and the other Dolly Dots indicated they would never perform together again. However, in 2016 they did come together to perform during a concert of De Toppers, and in 2020 they announced they would do a tour called Sisters on Tour through The Netherlands.

In 2012, she published a children's book, Paula en Khalilo. In April 2013 Groothuizen was awarded the Annie M.G. Schmidt-prijs for her song Vinkeveen, together with author Jan Beuvig and composer Nico Brandsen. In 2015 she recorded with Nico Brandsen 14 Sinterklaas holiday songs. It was accompanied by a sing-a-long book, which sold 175,000 copied, earning it four times platinum status.

Television career
Meanwhile, Groothuizen had begun a television career starting with an adaptation of Challenge Anneka for AVRO. Her contract expired in 2005 and was not renewed. Groothuizen has since moved to commercial television as a panel judge on talent show programs, particularly in Dutch X Factor since 2008. From 2010 until 2012 she was one of the judges on the Dutch version of The Voice, The Voice of Holland. In 2019 and 2020 she presented a television show for RTL, Obese, a weight loss program. She is also active in musical theater; with her show Label (which includes, besides songs by Dutch writers, a number of songs by Leonard Cohen ) she toured throughout the Netherlands in 2010.

Albums

 * As Angela & the Rude (with Ruud Mulder)
 * 1990: Young Souls (reached #46)
 * 1992: ''Walking on Water (reached #71)
 * As J.A.M. (with Julya Lo'ko and Mildred Douglas)
 * 2001: Message in a Bottle
 * Solo
 * 1996: Groothuizen (reached #54)
 * 2008: Melk en honing (reached #46)

Singles

 * As Angela & the Rude (with Ruud Mulder)
 * 1990: "Pressure" (reached #21)
 * 1991: "Young Souls" (reached #32)
 * 1992: "Back to the Real World" (reached #11)
 * Solo
 * 2010: "Bier en Bitterballen" (reached #81)

 * As "The Voice of Holland"
 * 2011: "One Thousand Voices" (reached #1)

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User:Pmkpmk

More to come - for the time being check my blog and the list of my contributions. There's some more on my German profile.

Articles I started in English

 * Brett Tabke
 * Domain taster
 * Loch Lomond Single Malt
 * Woman acceptance factor

Articles I started in German

 * Bodenständig 2000
 * Gruppensimulation (Computergrafik)
 * Gliederpuppe
 * Renderfarm

Links
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Theta Aurigae

Theta Aurigae (Latinized from θ Aurigae, abbreviated Theta Aur, θ Aur) is a binary star in the constellation of Auriga. Based upon parallax measurements, the distance to this system is about 166 ly.

The two components are designated Theta Aurigae A (also named Mahasim ) and B.

Nomenclature
θ Aurigae (Latinised to Theta Aurigae) is the system's Bayer designation. The designations of the two components as Theta Aurigae A and B derives from the convention used by the Washington Multiplicity Catalog (WMC) for multiple star systems, and adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Some authors state that Theta Aurigae had no traditional name, although Richard Hinckley Allen makes a passing reference about the name Mahasim, as a name also used, with various spellings, for Eta Aurigae and Lambda Herculis, from the Arabic المِعْصَم al-miʽşam "the wrist" (of the charioteer). In 2016, the IAU organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN decided to attribute proper names to individual stars rather than entire multiple systems. It approved the name Mahasim for the component Theta Aurigae A on 30 June 2017 and it is now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.

It is known as 五車四 (the Fourth Star of the Five Chariots) in Chinese

Properties
The primary component, Theta Aurigae A, is a large star with more than three times the mass of the Sun and nearly five times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 214 times the Sun's luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 10,220 K, giving it the white hue of an A-type star. The star has a stellar classification of A0pSi, with the 'pSi' suffix indicating it is a chemically peculiar star with an abnormal abundance of silicon.

The primary is classified an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum type variable star and has a surface magnetic field of about 1 kG. Its projected rotational velocity is 55 km s−1, with the star completing a rotation in only 3.6 days. The axis of rotation is inclined by an angle of $51 °$ to the line of sight from the Earth.

The secondary, Theta Aurigae B, is a +7.2 magnitude companion, 4.5 magnitudes fainter than the primary, located at an angular separation of 3.91 arcseconds along a position angle of 304.9° as of 2002. This is an F-type main sequence star with a stellar classification in the range F2-5 V.

The mean combined apparent magnitude of the system is +2.65 but the variation of the primary causes the system's brightness to range from magnitude +2.62 to +2.70 with a period of 1.37 days. The system is an X-ray source with a luminosity of 9.49 × 1026 erg s−1.

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Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation

The Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation is the highest judicial Native American authority of the Navajo Nation, the largest American Indian nation in the United States. According to Harvard Law School, "the judicial system of the Navajo Nation is the most active tribal judicial system in the United States, with a case load that rivals, and in some instances exceeds, many municipal, county, and state judicial systems."

The Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation sits in Window Rock. It is a three-member body consisting of the Chief Justice JoAnn Jayne, and Associate Justices Eleanor Shirley and Tina Tsinigine.

History
The Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation was originally created as the Navajo Tribal Court of Appeals on 1 April 1959 as part of the implementation of the Navajo Tribal Council's establishment of the judiciary as a separate branch of government, the "Judicial Branch of the Navajo Nation Government". Originally it was the court of last resort on the Navajo Nation. From 1978 to 1985 the "Supreme Judicial Council", a political body rather than a court, could hear appeals, on a discretionary basis, from the Navajo Tribal Court of Appeals.

In December 1985 the Supreme Judicial Council was eliminated and the Navajo Tribal Court of Appeals became the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation. It was expressly made the court of last resort.

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King's Crossing

King's Crossing is an American nighttime soap opera which aired on ABC from January 16 to February 27, 1982 for seven episodes.

The show was originally conceived by Lorimar Productions as a retooling of the cancelled CBS drama Secrets of Midland Heights, however it was ended up completely unrelated from its predecessor, with only Linda Hamilton, Doran Clark, Marilyn Jones and Daniel Zippi returning as completely different characters.

Series overview
The show centered on the Hollister family, who had returned to the small town of King's Crossing, California, which they had left ten years earlier. The family consisted of Paul (Bradford Dillman), a recovering alcoholic hoping for a fresh start as an English professor at the town's college, his long-suffering wife Nan (Mary Frann), their two daughters, Carey (Jones), who becomes involved with stablehand Billy (Zippi), and Lauren (Hamilton), an aspiring pianist who falls in love with her piano teacher, symphony conductor Jonathan Hadary (Michael Zaslow).

Nan is trying re-establish a connection with her cold and distant Aunt Louisa Beauchamp (Beatrice Straight), who had never approved of Paul and resents Nan's attempts to reclaim the family home. Willa (Dorothy Meyer) is Louisa's black housekeeper, and Jillian (Clark) was Carey and Lauren's crippled and disturbed cousin who is discovered by Carey hidden away in family's attic. Louisa's attempts to hide family secrets and the true story behind Jillian's accident were not revealed before the show was canceled, however it strongly resembled the storyline involving Angela and Emma Channing on the other Lorimar production Falcon Crest, which aired at the same time on CBS.

Cast and characters

 * Bradford Dillman as Paul Hollister
 * Mary Frann as Nan Hollister
 * Linda Hamilton as Lauren Hollister
 * Doran Clark as Jillian Beauchamp
 * Marilyn Jones as Carey Hollister
 * Daniel Zippi as Billy McCall
 * Dorothy Meyer as Willa Bristol
 * and Beatrice Straight as Louisa Beauchamp

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User talk:Ukrainiannationalist

Your reading does not follow taken rules and so there was is broken WP:3RR

Advice - honour rules (on ukrainian http://uk.wikipedia.org)

(uk: Ваші редагування не зовсім відповідають правлилам вікіпедії, і не носять енциклопедичний харакактер, a публіцистичний і скоріш за все ви порушили Правило трьох відкатів і були забанені. Про правила можна прочитати українською на http://uk.wikipedia.org)--Yakudza 15:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Шановний пане Ukrainiannationalist, Ваша учась у редагуванні статей Вікіпедії була б набагато кориснішою, якби Ви доклали більше зусиль задля дотримання прийнятих тут правил. Вікіпедія не є трибуною для пропаганди будь-яких поглядів. Тому емоційні публіцистичні статті краще приберегти для інших сайтів. У статтях Вікіпедії слід подавати фактичну інформацію, що відповідає тематиці статті і підкріплена посиланнями на надійні джерела. Стосовно статті Lviv, то там більш доречною була б інформація про участь митрополита УГКЦ Андрія Шептицького у порятунку єврейських дітей під час Другої світової війни. Чи могли б ви знайти таку інформацію і відповідні джерела? З повагою, --AndriyK 16:32, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Essexmutant/Archive

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I see that you have been working here a lot, but all the same: a warm Welcome!

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Wikiproject
Hello Essexmutant, Im SWD316. I would like to invite you to join the Professional wrestling Wikiproject because of your excellant contributions to pro wrestling related articles. All you have to do to join is add your name to the list of members. Hope you join! — M o e   ε  20:08, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Your edits
I found some errors inside your edits on the Previous World Wrestling Entertainment roster. You added the release of the same superstar twice and you added a few names you added that are still under contract. I'm going to list the edits here so you see them:

 * Ricky Steamboat - is still under contract, needs to be removed so his name isn't listed twice when he is released.
 * Arn Anderson - see Ricky Steamboat
 * Dusty Rhodes - see Ricky Steamboat
 * Hulk Hogan - listed under 1993 and 2003; only need one release listed, the latest one being in 2003.
 * Davey Boy Smith - listed under 1988 and 2000; only need one; latest one being 2000.
 * Rick Rude - listed under 1990 and 1997; only need one; latest being in 1997.
 * Dustin Rhodes - listed under 1991 and 2003; only need one; latest being 2003.

This list was not intended to insult you or anything, I thought would let you know of your errors. — M o e   ε  17:51, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

 * True, to some extent. Some wrestlers were best remembered as the years they were last there, but the list is supposed to signify the last time they were employed to WWE. Also, the Gobbeldygooker and Blue Meanie WERE under contract. WWE gave them short-term contracts as they do most wrestlers, and if they "get over" with the fans they give them a contract extension, but they didn't. Pamela Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Mohammed Ali and Cyndi Lauper never had a contract; hence they are not on the list. Thanks for the response. — M o e   ε  00:03, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Pat Tanaka was released from his contract in 1992, not 1994. Even though he made an appearance. Please, if you can, go back to see if you did this with any other wrestlers. The list should tell when thier contract was terminated or expired. An example would be The Rock. He was released on December 31, 2004, but since then he has made several appearances but he would listed under 2004, not his last appearance.

 * Sorry you feel there is a double-standard there. I was just trying to make an EXACT AND ACCURATE list of when wrestlers were released from thier contracts. This goes back to my last statement. Pat Tanaka was released in 1992. NOT 1993 or 1994. Even though he made appearances, like The Rock, he has been released since then. The mention of the Gobbeldygooker was unnessecary. He WAS contracted for appearances but was, after that one PPV, released. He had a contract and it was terminated. Pat Tanaka's contract expired in 1992. That's when he should be listed. — M o e   ε  20:36, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Previous WWE Roster
Hi there Essexmutant, it's Moe Epsilon. I came here to discuss the "few mistakes" on the Previous World Wrestling Entertainment roster list. Yes all of those you listed on the talk page were mistakes. Except one. George Steele, he didn't have a contract renewal in the WWE after his previous release. He only made, maybe 4 at the most, appearances with The Oddities and then was never to appear again. Thanks for finding those mistakes! — M o e   ε  21:07, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Poker Nicknames
Do you mind if I create re-directs on your poker player nicknames form your poker player pages? - Super Mario Re-directed most of them, some nicknames did not seem right to have a re-direct a poker player, thanks for letting me do them. - Super Mario Okay, I re-directed the following: Tony Bloom, Garry Bush, Dave Colclough, Harry Demetriou, Peter Evans, Gary Jones, Lucy Rokach, Charalambos Xanthos, Pascal Perrault, Roy Brindley, Martin De Knijff, Layne Flack, Micheal Mizrachi, and Steve Zolotow. Give me some ideas for the others that could have a re-direct for their nickname, like John Kabbaj, Willie Tann, Simon Trumper, Bruno Fitoussi, Liam Flood, and Hoyt Corkins. Thanks. - Super Mario
 * No problem matey. Good idea. Essexmutant 22:55, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Cool. Can you let me know which ones were added, just so I can keep them on my watchlist? Cheers. Essexmutant 15:54, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi there, sorry I haven't checked my Talk in a while. Not sure if you'd noticed, but Brindley and Flack don't appear to have redirects. I imagine Kabbaj can be redirected from Large, Tann and Flood can be redirected from an extra line at the top of The Dice Man and Gentleman, Trumper can be redirected from Ace (disambiguation), Fitoussi can be added to King, and Corkins can be added to Cowboy (disambiguation). I have also added a few other players recently - check the list of players at User:Essexmutant for a complete list. Essexmutant 15:17, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Italics on poker players' nicknames

 * Hi, thanks for the message. It's not general practice to italicise nicknames (see Nat King Cole for example), but I'm happy to let this one go if this is normal practice in the poker world. Martpol 17:33, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Kirill Gerasimov
This article really needs some sources, especially since the article quotes a lot of figures. I noticed that you created it. Please provide the sources. Thanx. TheRingess 09:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I have added external links that should cover all of this. Cheers. Essexmutant 09:40, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Hywel Morgan
The tag that you are looking for is deleteagain. Uncle G 18:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Essexmutant 18:15, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:User poker vs. Template:User Poker
The template you created is redundant to user poker at Userboxes/Hobbies. Would you consider renaming it to Template:User PokerLegend or some such? 1001001 04:08, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, hadn't realised. Now changed as requested. Essexmutant 07:13, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar
After seeing your name on yet another poker article's history page, I thought it was time you had a barnstar for your efforts. None of them seemed all that relevant to poker, so I've gone for the original one. CTOAGN (talk) 05:09, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you good sir! Essexmutant 10:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin
You seem to speak wisely on AFD. I'd be willing to nominate you for adminship if you feel you are ready for it. --kingboyk 17:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. I was considering nominating myself in the future, but was going to wait till it had been 6 months since my first edit. Please feel free to nominate me though. Essexmutant 17:38, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Is 6 months the norm? If so maybe best to wait and give me a shout then? --kingboyk 17:45, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks mate. As per the e-mail I sent to you, we can wait till 22nd January then go for it. Cheers! Essexmutant 18:00, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

The Hendon Mob
Why's you remove the links for the individual players? They may eventually be notable enough to have their own pages, and then the links will have to be restored. I don't get why you would remove them. Linkspro 04:03, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * My only feeling was that having the links missing made the article looked messy and incomplete because they were so high up on the page. To be honest, they should probably each be separate articles. Essexmutant 10:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Update: articles now created for Joe Beevers, Barny Boatman, Ross Boatman and Ram Vaswani. Essexmutant 13:45, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Life
The Barnstar of Life may be awarded to an editor who makes particularly fine Life-related contributions; I have poker related articles on my watchlist and see how much effort you put into that area. You well and truly deserve this one. Great contributions, thanks. --Alf melmac 15:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks Alf! Essexmutant 15:55, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem!
Yeah I am going through some of the player articles and linking to the specific WSOP articles. You are doing very good work. Poker is big enough now that it deserves high quality articles. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 12:38, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Btw, I created a World Series of Poker category. I will work on getting all of the tourney results put into it. I am also going to make sure we have redirects for the all of the years, like "1979 World Series of Poker" redirecting to World Series of Poker, 1979. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 14:42, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Good idea. Thanks for your help. Essexmutant 14:47, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Done! :) Tonight I will start a cat for bracelet winners. We already have one for main event winners. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 15:29, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Are you going to categorise it as WSOP Preliminary Event Bracelet winners alone, to differentiate between that and Main Event winners, or will you do it purely as bracelet winners and make Main Event winners a subcategory? Essexmutant 15:31, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I made Main Event winners a subcat of bracelet winners. If you disagree, you can always change it. I won't object. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 09:47, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Here's an article you can add to
Proposition bet. I was really surprised that we didn't have an article on that. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 17:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I'll have a think about it this week and see what I can add. Essexmutant 17:41, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Davidjackson_1998.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Davidjackson_1998.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --OrphanBot 11:56, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Just to clarify, I have already requested the deletion of this image. Essexmutant 14:14, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Poker WikiProject
I've been thinking about setting up a poker WikiProject. You seem to do more work on poker articles than anyone: do you think we'd have enough people who'd be interested to make it worthwhile? CTOAGN (talk) 14:27, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd be up for getting involved and helping you found this. I've created over 100 (probably about 150) poker articles that should really be covered by such a WikiProject. The closest there is currently is a WikiProject for Las Vegas, which only really covers the WSOP. Other people who contribute a lot include 2005 and Woohookitty. Super Mario and Alf would also be good to have on board. Anything I can do to help, please let me know. Essexmutant 16:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Casino games
I saw that you were interested in poker from you joining the LV project. I changed the format of the games in Casino game. Asas result, it seems to make ense to group the poker games together. As someone who may be more versed in poker what do you think? I suspect that when you look at that list, you will see many common casino versions are missing and meed to be added. Looking forward to seeing what changes you make, if any. Vegaswikian 19:50, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll have a look at it tomorrow. Essexmutant 21:02, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Davidjackson_recent.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Davidjackson_recent.jpg. The image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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 * As with the above, I have already requested the deletion of this image. Essexmutant 00:54, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Hemish Shah
I worked it out from the Victoria Coren article that's linked from the page. It gives his age and his birthday, and I had the date of his death so I worked it out from that. I'll move the article to a References section seeing as I've used it as one. CTOAGN (talk) 15:10, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Poker
I had plenty of positive feedback, so I've set up a project at WikiProject Poker. It's a bit bare at the moment, so please be bold and add anything that you think should be in there and put any suggestions on the talk page. Also, please add yourself to the table in the Participants section. Thanks, CTOAGN (talk) 19:51, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've added myself. Will investigate further during the week. Good work matey. Essexmutant 22:53, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Wrestling awards
Hi,

Sorry about that rv. I meant to revert this change, and I must have screwed up. My apologies. jdb ❋ (talk) 07:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

V - blurbs needed
Would you be willing to help me with the character bust out pages by writing blurbs for the various groups (The Resistance, The Visitors, The Collaborators, and The Fifth Column)? Lady Aleena 23:00, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the offer. I haven't watched the show in a couple of years, so my memory may be a bit hazy at times. I think I would be better at expanding the articles once created than starting the articles from scratch. Hope this helps. Essexmutant 11:09, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Adminship
Hi mate, I've decided it wouldn't be best for me to nominate since a) I don't know you very well and b) I'm not an admin myself. I'd happily support you, though, so give me a shout if anything happens. --kingboyk 22:06, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough mate. Essexmutant 22:08, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

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Category:Kroger

The following are links to the various articles profiling the operations of supermarket giant The Kroger Co.

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Talk:Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation

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Come all, let us make it fine. --MissingLinks 15:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Categories
Is this court really a US federal court and a national supreme court? Apokrif (talk) 14:32, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
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This message is regarding the article World of Warcraft. Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. -- Syrthiss 15:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

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Inbreeding depression

Inbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness that has the potential to result from inbreeding (the breeding of related individuals). The loss of genetic diversity that is seen due to inbreeding, results from small population size. Biological fitness refers to an organism's ability to survive and perpetuate its genetic material. Inbreeding depression is often the result of a population bottleneck. In general, the higher the genetic variation or gene pool within a breeding population, the less likely it is to suffer from inbreeding depression, though inbreeding and outbreeding depression can simultaneously occur.

Inbreeding depression seems to be present in most groups of organisms, but varies across mating systems. Hermaphroditic species often exhibit lower degrees of inbreeding depression than outcrossing species, as repeated generations of selfing is thought to purge deleterious alleles from populations. For example, the outcrossing nematode (roundworm) Caenorhabditis remanei has been demonstrated to suffer severely from inbreeding depression, unlike its hermaphroditic relative C. elegans, which experiences outbreeding depression.

Mechanisms
Inbreeding (i.e., breeding between closely related individuals) results in more recessive traits manifesting themselves, as the genomes of pair-mates are more similar. Recessive traits can only occur in an offspring if present in both parents' genomes. The more genetically similar the parents are, the more often recessive traits appear in their offspring. This normally has a positive effect, as most genes are undergoing purifying selection (the homozygous state is favored). However, for very closely related individuals, there is an increased likelihood of homozygous deleterious genes in the offspring which can result in unfit individuals. For the alleles that confer an advantage in the heterozygous and/or homozygous-dominant state, the fitness of the homozygous-recessive state may even be zero (meaning sterile or unviable offspring).

An example of inbreeding depression is shown in the image. In this case, a is the recessive allele which has negative effects. In order for the a phenotype to become active, the gene must end up as homozygous aa because in the geneotype Aa, the A takes dominance over the a and the a does not have any effect. Some recessive genes result in detrimental phenotypes by causing the organism to be less fit to its natural environment.

Another mechanism responsible for inbreeding depression is the fitness advantage of heterozygosity, which is known as overdominance. This can lead to reduced fitness of a population with many homozygous genotypes, even if they are not deleterious or recessive. Here, even the dominant alleles result in reduced fitness if present homozygously (see also hybrid vigour).

Overdominance is rare in nature. For practical applications, e.g. in livestock breeding, the former is thought to be more significant – it may yield completely unviable offspring (meaning outright failure of a pedigree), while the latter can only result in relatively reduced fitness.

Natural selection
Natural selection cannot effectively remove all deleterious recessive genes from a population for several reasons. First, deleterious genes arise constantly through de novo mutation within a population. Second, most offspring will have some deleterious traits, so few will be more fit for survival than the others. Different deleterious traits are extremely unlikely to equally affect reproduction – an especially disadvantageous recessive trait expressed in a homozygous recessive individual is likely to eliminate itself, naturally limiting the expression of its phenotype. Third, recessive deleterious alleles will be "masked" by heterozygosity, and so in a dominant-recessive trait, heterozygotes will not be selected against.

When recessive deleterious alleles occur in the heterozygous state, where their potentially deleterious expression is masked by the corresponding wild-type allele, this masking phenomenon is referred to as complementation (see complementation (genetics)).

In general, sexual reproduction in eukaryotes has two fundamental aspects: genetic recombination during meiosis, and outcrossing. It has been proposed that these two aspects have two natural selective advantages respectively. A proposed adaptive advantage of meiosis is that it facilitates recombinational repair of DNA damages that are otherwise difficult to repair (see DNA repair as the adaptive advantage of meiosis). A proposed adaptive advantage of outcrossing is complementation, which is the masking of deleterious recessive alleles (see hybrid vigor or heterosis). The selective advantage of complementation may largely account for the avoidance of inbreeding (see kin recognition).

However animals often do not avoid inbreeding. Among animals, inbreeding avoidance is highly variable. Inbreeding avoidance through mate selection appears to evolve only when there is both a risk of inbreeding depression and there also are frequent encounters between sexual partners that are related to each other.

Management
Hybridization as a conservation effort is appropriate if the population has lost "substantial genetic variation through genetic drift and the detrimental effects of inbreeding depression are apparent" and a similar population should be used. Different populations of the same species have different deleterious traits, and therefore their cross breeding is less likely to result in homozygosity at most loci in the offspring. This is known as outbreeding enhancement, which can be performed in extreme cases of severe inbreeding by conservation managers and zoo captive breeders to prevent inbreeding depression.

However, intermixing two different populations can give rise to unfit polygenic traits in outbreeding depression (i.e. yielding offspring which lack the genetic adaptations to specific environmental conditions). These, then, will have a lowered fitness than pure-bred individuals of a particular subspecies that has adapted to its local environment.

In humans
Inbreeding may have both detrimental and beneficial effects. The biological effects of inbreeding depression in humans can on occasion be confounded by socioeconomic and cultural influences on reproductive behavior. Studies in human populations have shown that age at marriage, duration of marriage, illiteracy, contraceptive use, and reproductive compensation are the major determinants of apparent fertility, even amongst populations with a high proportion of consanguinous unions. However, several small effects on increased mortality, longer inter-birth intervals and reduced overall productivity have been noted in certain isolated populations, though other studies show increased fitness of offspring and no effect on lifespan past the 2nd cousin level.

Charles Darwin was one of the first scientists to demonstrate the effects of inbreeding depression, through numerous experiments on plants. Darwin's wife, Emma, was his first cousin, and he was concerned about the impact of inbreeding on his ten children, three of whom died at age ten or younger; three others had childless long-term marriages.

Humans do not seek to completely minimize inbreeding, but rather to maintain an optimal amount of inbreeding vs. outbreeding. Close inbreeding reduces fitness through inbreeding depression, but some inbreeding brings benefits. Indeed, inbreeding "increases the speed of selection of beneficial recessive and co-dominant alleles, e.g. those that protect against diseases."

In wolves
A small isolated highly inbred population of gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, USA, was considered in 2019 to be at imminent risk of extinction. This gray wolf population had been experiencing severe inbreeding depression primarily due to the homozygous expression of strongly deleterious recessive mutations. Defects arising from severe inbreeding among the wolves included reduced survival and reproduction, malformed vertebrae, syndactyly, probable cataracts, an unusual “rope tail” and anomalous fur phenotypes. A separate small inbred population of gray wolves in Scandinavia was also found to suffer from inbreeding depression due to the homozygous expression of deleterious recessive mutations.

Factors reducing inbreeding depression
Whilst inbreeding depression has been found to occur in almost all sufficiently studied species, some taxa, most notably some angiosperms, appear to suffer lower fitness costs than others in inbred populations. Three mechanisms appear to be responsible for this: purging, differences in ploidy, and selection for heterozygosity. It must be cautioned that some studies failing to show an absence of inbreeding depression in certain species can arise from small sample sizes or where the supposedly outbred control group is already suffering inbreeding depression, which frequently occurs in populations that have undergone a recent bottleneck, such as those of the naked mole rat.

Purging selection
Purging selection occurs where the phenotypes of deleterious recessive alleles are exposed through inbreeding, and thus can be selected against. This can lead to such detrimental mutations being removed from the population, and has been demonstrated to occur rapidly where the recessive alleles have a lethal effect. The efficiency of purging will depend on the relationship between the magnitude of the deleterious effect that is unmasked in the homozygotes and the importance of genetic drift, so that purging is weaker for non-lethal than for recessive lethal alleles. For very small populations, drift has a strong influence, which can cause the fixation of sublethal alleles under weak selection. The fixation of a single allele for a specific gene can also reduce fitness where heterozygote advantage was previously present (i.e., where heterozygous individuals have higher fitness than homozygotes of either allele), although this phenomenon seems to make a usually small contribution to inbreeding depression. Although naturally occurring, purging can be important for population survival, deliberately attempting to purge deleterious mutations from a population is not generally recommended as a technique to improve the fitness of captive bred animals. In plants, genetic load can be assessed through a test analogous to an inbreeding depression test called an Autogamy depression test.

Polyploidy
Many angiosperms (flowering plants) can self-fertilise for several generations and suffer little from inbreeding depression. This is very useful for species which disperse widely and can therefore find themselves growing in a novel environment with no conspecifics present. Polyploidy (having more than two paired sets of each chromosome), which is prevalent in angiosperms, ferns and a select few animal taxa, accounts for this. By having several copies of a chromosome, as opposed to two, homozygosity is less likely to occur in inbred offspring. This means that recessive deleterious alleles are not expressed as frequently as with many copies of a chromosome; it is more likely that at least one will contain a functional allele.

Selection for heterozygosity
Selection for heterozygosity is rare, as lost loci undergo purifying selection for homozygous loci. Inbreeding depression has also been found to occur more gradually than predicted in some wild populations, such as in the highly inbred population of Scandinavian wolves. This appears to be due to a selection pressure for more heterozygous individuals, which generally are in better condition and so are more likely to become one of the few animals to breed and produce offspring.

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Drunk tank

A drunk tank is a jail cell or separate facility accommodating people who are intoxicated, especially with alcohol. Some such facilities are mobile, and may be spoken of as "booze buses".

Traditionally, and in some jurisdictions currently, the circumstances of drunk tank occupants may vary widely, as to whether in fact intoxicated, whether willingly there, whether isolated to protect them from others, confined to protect others from them, or simply permitted to find shelter, and whether legally under arrest, charged with an offense, or neither. Those in need of more long-term treatment may be referred to a rehabilitation center.

Czech Republic
In the Czech Republic the name is protialkoholní záchytná stanice, colloquially záchytka. The first such institution in Czechoslovakia was opened in 1951 by psychiatrist Jaroslav Skála; its first patient was a Russian naval engineer. During its first 30 years of service, Prague's sobering-up station treated over 180,000 people. Other facilities in the country treated over 1,000,000 people. During its peak in Czechoslovakia, there were over 63 such institutions.

Poland
In Poland drunk tanks or "sobering-up chambers" (izba wytrzeźwień) exist in bigger cities (52 as of 2013), hosting a total of 300,000 people yearly. Being drunk by itself is not an offense. If police find a drunk person wandering near railroad tracks, or in harsh weather, they will try to return the person home. If the person is violent or a danger to others, they will be sent to a drunk tank. These facilities charge fees just like hotels, usually the highest legal rates possible, thus they're known as "the most expensive hotel in town". In 2019, the highest legal fee was 309 złoty (about USD80) for 24 hours.

Russia
Such institutions, known as vytrezvitel (вытрезвитель, literally a "soberator"), were introduced in 1904 in Tula by Fedor Archangelsky, a local physician. Soviet drunk tanks, though affiliated with the health care system and having a feldsher on the staff, were infamous for beating and looting their inmates, which prompted the authorities to close all drunk tanks: first in Ukraine (1999), then in Russia (2011).

In December 2020 the Russian parliament passed a law reinstating the practice of drunk tanks. The move was motivated by the number of intoxicated persons that freeze to death in Russia's harsh winter climate conditions (about 10,000 people annually).

Switzerland
In Switzerland, intoxicated persons can be placed into a sobering-up cell when they pose a danger to themselves or society. While public intoxication is not a crime per se, some police departments assess a fee for the use of their facilities and the related personnel costs incurred by the intoxicated party. For instance, the Zürich Stadtpolizei charges 450–600 Swiss francs for a night in the ZAB, or "Zürich Sobering-up and Supervision Site" (Zürcher Ausnüchterungs- und Betreuungsstelle), which is informally referred to as "Hotel Suff" ("Hotel Booze").

United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the idea of privately run drunk tanks (or "welfare centres"), separate from police stations and funded by the penalties issued against those held there, was discussed in 2013 and gained support from the Association of Chief Police Officers. Mobile drunk tanks, also known as "booze buses", and officially as "alcohol recovery centres", have since been introduced in some cities (Bristol being the first to do so). Newcastle calls its bus a "safe haven van" and parks it next to St John Ambulance.

United States
In the United States, the drunk tank was associated with unsafe conditions resulting in disability or death. Reports from San Francisco, California (dating from 1949) show the dire conditions faced by intoxicated people.

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Association Against the Prohibition Amendment

The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment was established in 1918 and became a leading organization working for the repeal of prohibition in the United States. It was the first group created to fight Prohibition, also known as the 18th Amendment. The group was officially incorporated on December 31, 1920. Its activities consisted of meetings, protests, and distribution of informational pamphlets and it operated solely upon voluntary financial contribution. Due to low amount of financial contributions, the Association was largely stagnant until prominent members joined in the mid-1920s.

Development
Although the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA) formed in 1918, it largely stayed stagnant until prominent members joined in the mid-1920s. Prominent members of the organization included Pierre S. du Pont, Irénée du Pont, John J. Raskob, Jouett Shouse, Grayson M.P. Murphy, and James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. Its publicity campaign, begun in 1928, helped mobilize growing opposition to the 18th Amendment. It included, as an official song, "Light Wine and Beer" by Dave Kohn and George Vest Jr., music by Bert Keene. Although the Association depended on donations, it refused to accept money from business with a vested interest in alcohol consumption, such as breweries and distilleries. There were over 500,000 members in 28 states.

Activities
In order to promote its cause, the Association distributed over 1,250,000 research pamphlets, often focusing on the negative effects that Prohibition had upon the economy and how it proliferated the amount of illegal distilleries. The Association claimed in the 18 different research pamphlets it distributed that the cessation of Prohibition would help the economy, and later on stated that repealing the 18th Amendment would ultimately help the United States recover from the Great Depression.

Success and Disbandment
The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment officially disbanded on December 5, 1933, after the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment by three-fourths of the states officially ended Prohibition. The Association's final operation was a celebration on the evening of December 5 of 170 members at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.


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Iota Aurigae

Iota Aurigae (ι Aurigae, abbreviated Iota Aur, ι Aur), officially named Hassaleh, is a star in the northern constellation of Auriga. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 2.7, which is bright enough to be readily visible to the naked eye. Parallax measurements give a distance estimate of roughly 490 ly from the Sun.

Nomenclature
ι Aurigae (Latinised to Iota Aurigae) is the star's Bayer designation.

It bore the traditional name Al Kab, short for Kabdhilinan, from the Arabic كعب ذي العنان "the ankle of the rein holder (charioteer)". Under the name Alkab, this star is a marker on the astrolabe described by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Treatise on the Astrolabe in 1391.

It bore the novel name Hassaleh in Antonín Bečvář's 1951 atlas. The origin and meaning of the name have not been discovered despite extensive search, and no connection to any language has been discovered. The IAU Working Group on Star Names (WGSN)has approved the proper name Hassaleh for this star.

It is known as 五車一 (the First Star of the Five Chariots) in Chinese.

Properties
At Iota Aurigae's distance, extinction from interstellar dust is causing a magnitude reduction of about 0.6. Examination of the spectrum yields a stellar classification of K3 II, with the luminosity class of 'II' indicating this is a category of evolved star known as a bright giant. Since 1943, the spectrum of this star has served as one of the stable anchor points by which other stars are classified. The effective temperature of the outer envelope is 4,160 K, which is cooler than the Sun's effective temperature and gives Iota Aurigae the orange hue of a K-type star.

It is a weak X-ray emitter with an X-ray luminosity of about 1.8 × 1027 ergs s−1. This emission is most likely coming from transient loops of plasma in Iota Aurigae's outer atmosphere, which have a temperature of around 3 million K. This is a suspected variable star, although this variability remains unconfirmed.

Unconfirmed substellar companions
During the Extreme Solar Systems conference held on June 25–29, 2007, in Santorini, Greece, Reffert et al. announced the detection of two substellar objects orbiting Iota Aurigae in 2:1 resonance. Such companions would be brown dwarfs with orbital periods of approximately 2 and 4 years. No minimum mass for the candidates was provided. So far the detection has not been confirmed, though Hekker et al. (2008) listed significant radial velocity variations at periods of 767 and 1586 days.

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Ann Henderson-Sellers

Ann Henderson-Sellers (born 1952) is an Emeritus Professor of the Department of Environment and Geography at Macquarie University, Sydney. She was the Director of the Joint Planning Staff (JPS) of the World Climate Research Programme in 2006 and 2007 and was the Director of the Environment Division at ANSTO from 1998 to 2005. She was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Development) of The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1996–1998. Prior to this she was the founding director of the Climatic Impacts Centre at Macquarie University where she continues to hold a Professorship in Physical Geography.

Early life and education
Ann Henderson-Sellers was born in 1952 in Sheffield, United Kingdom, and from an early age had to fight against cultural norms that girls can't and don't study maths and science. She studied mathematics at the University of Bristol, then completed her PhD in 1976 in collaboration with the Meteorological Office in Britain. During her PhD, she married Brian Henderson-Sellers, a PhD student at the University of Leicester, which caused her funding to get canceled as the assumption was 'if a woman got married she would be fully supported, financially, by her husband'.

Earth science
Henderson-Sellers previously led the WMO Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes, which operates as an international Internet-based "collaboratry". She recently led the Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment (MECCA) Analysis Team. She also acts as a consultant to the United Nations University on various aspects of the impact of climate. During 1995 she was a convening lead author for the IPCC SAR.

Professor Henderson-Sellers has been an Earth Systems scientist all her life spearheading the description and prediction of the influence of land-cover and land-use change on climate and human systems. She has a BSc in mathematics, undertook her PhD in collaboration with the U.K. Meteorological Office and earned a D.Sc. in climate science in 1999. She is an elected Fellow of Australia's Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and was awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia for Service to Australian Society in Meteorology in 2003.

Ann is an ISI "highly cited" author of over 500 publications, including 14 books and an elected Fellow of America's Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society.

Her essay “The IPCC Report: What The Lead Authors Really Think” discusses IPCC lead authors' views, especially on the 4th Assessment Report process.

Works

 * "A Climate Modelling Primer" (first author Kendal McGuffie, 4th Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2014).

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Coke (coal) moved to Coke (fuel)
This is why I made the million edits tonight. Just in case anyone wonders. --Unconcerned 08:38, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

intro to molecule
Excellent work, thank you. This is more or less what I've been been trying to grope toward in my recent edits on that article. --Arkuat 05:58, 2005 July 17 (UTC)

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Talk:Films About Ghosts (The Best Of...)

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I just about remember a movie I saw as a child. All I remember is it was a wartime film, probably American, and it was about a group of men who had been in a plane crash in a desert area. I think they split into 2 groups, one stays with the wreckage while another goes off for help, but they just end up back at the wreck. They can't get away at all and have no communication. I think at the end of the film a rescue party arrives, but it becomes apparent that all the crew of the crashed plane are ghosts, and as they realise this themselves, the rescue party (I think they are from many years after the war) start collecting bones from the dead mean and as they do, the ghosts disappear. At the very end of the movie, the rescue party leave but there is just one ghost left behind because the haven't found his bones......

I'd really like to see this film again, but I've no idea who was in it or what it was called. No-one I've asked about it seems to know what I'm talking about. I found a movie site once where people where talking about it, and some thought it was Twiglight Zone with William Shatner, it wasn't that one. And it wasn't Pheonix either.... any ideas?
 * —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.6.139.11 (talk • contribs) 10:29, October 12, 2005.

So you're saying you searched for "Films About Ghosts", expecting to find a List of films about ghosts, but ended up at a Counting Crows album? LOL, I find that kind of amusing actually. Let's create the list, then? —  F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( TALK )  07:12, 14 October 2005 (UTC)


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Barbara Valentin

Barbara Valentin (born Ursula Ledersteger; 15 December 1940 – 22 February 2002) was an Austrian actress. She worked in film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Biography
Valentin was born in 1940 as Ursula Ledersteger in Vienna, Austria (then part of Nazi Germany). Her father was the Austrian art director, Hans Ledersteger and her mother the actress, Irmgard Alberti. She had a half-brother, Alfred Ledersteger. She was married to German film director Helmut Dietl.

During the early to mid-1980s, Valentin was close friends with Freddie Mercury, who lived with her and her daughter together in her Munich apartment for some time. She is featured in the music video for the Queen song, It's a Hard Life.

During her career, Valentin was nicknamed "the German Jayne Mansfield".

On 22 February 2002, Valentin died of a stroke in Munich, Germany at the age of 61. She was buried in the Ostfriedhof in Munich, Germany.

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Piccolo (disambiguation)

A piccolo is a small flute.

Piccolo may also refer to:

Musical instruments

 * Piccolo trumpet
 * Piccolo clarinet
 * Piccolo oboe
 * Piccolo saxophone, better known as the soprillo
 * Violino piccolo
 * Violoncello piccolo
 * Piccolo heckelphone
 * Piccolo snare drum
 * Piccolo bass

Fictional characters

 * Piccolo (Dragon Ball), from the Dragon Ball series
 * King Piccolo, a demon king from the Dragon Ball series
 * Anthony Piccolo, on the television series seaQuest DSV
 * Piccolo, a Pixl from Super Paper Mario

Other uses

 * Piccolo (surname), a list of people
 * Piccolo Teatro (Milan), Italy's first permanent theatre
 * Il Piccolo, the daily newspaper of the region of Trieste, Italy
 * Piccolo (1959 film), a Yugoslavian film
 * Piccolo (2023 film), an Indian Marathi-language film
 * Piccolo (album), a 1977 release by the Ron Carter Quartet
 * Piccolo Summit, a mountain in British Columbia, Canada
 * 1366 Piccolo, an asteroid
 * Piccolo (firecracker), a firecracker sold in Europe
 * Technoflug Piccolo, a German motor glider
 * A specific implementation of zooming user interface
 * A quarter-size bottle of champagne
 * A form of data transmission by shortwave radio using multiple frequency-shift keying
 * Piccolo protein (presynaptic cytomatrix protein), PCLO
 * A medium-sized variety of cherry tomato
 * Piccolo (horse)
 * Piccolo, an upmarket brand of baby food

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Talk:Public speaker

I disagree with the merge, while linked, the two are separate concepts. The public speaking article can cover good public speaking tips, while this article can cover the "business" of public speaking, where many former politicians (it is a political stub afterall) or businessmen or whomever go on paid speaking tours. Reflex Reaction 15:29, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Agreement with merge
Both pages are small and although there are differences the basic concept is simular if not exactly the same; surely the point of an artical is to expand on the basics. People are intelligent enough to distinguish between the two.

After dinner speaker is very vague, other than the basic definition. gidonb 05:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Remove merge template
I have removed both the merge templates. There is no consensus and no real interest. Lets move on.Frelke 12:48, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

The Sportsman Dinner
Moved from article to talk, unreferenced, etc. RJFJR (talk) 15:43, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

The UK after dinner speaking circuit is the 'grandfather' of the genre. Although after dinner utterances have been made for 300+ years in UK the 'circuit' was a phenomenon born in the 1960's.

Merge proposed again
I added a tag suggesting mergeto Public speaking because: a public speaker is someone who does public speaking... RJFJR (talk) 15:49, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Montana (disambiguation)

Remove Superfluous Dab's
It strikes me as highly unlikely that someone might stumble over this Dab page in his quest for Montana Wines. Surely, if he's looking for Montana Wines, he will type in something like, well, Montana Wines. And since there isn't even a stub for Montana Wines (it's a redlink), I think it should be removed from the Dab page. --GraemeMcRae 15:30, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Just a little note (I've fixed this), German Montana or Montana Cans is not also known as MTN. That is Spanish Montana, the original Montana paint, which doesn't have it's own page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.26.230 (talk) 18:16, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Name
I've noticed that there is no link to the use of Montana as a name. I know a few people by that name, and believe there should be a page for it. I will create one if anyone else agrees. (The unsigned text, above, was written by 24.18.2.61 on 26 October 2005)

 * Well, 24.18.2.61 — Can I call you 24.18.2.61? — one of the criteria for including an article in Wikipedia is that it be about some "noteable" topic. I'm not sure a new page about Montana as a given name is noteable.  (I'm pretty sure it isn't.)  But a paragraph at the top of the Montana (disambiguation) page woulMontana is called the "Big Sky State".d probably be a good idea.  Look at the Peter article to see an example in which a discussion of the first name seques into a disambiguation towards the bottom of the article.  My advice: go for it!  The worst that will happen is that someone will think your idea stinks and revert your change.  Usually that doesn't happen, and my bet is that a short discussion on this page about the use of Montana as a first name will be well received.  You'll never know unless you give it a try.  Be bold!—GraemeMcRaetalk 15:39, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Cigarette brand
There's also a cigarette brand called Montana. Aminabzz (talk) 13:31, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

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For comparing to the Wapo list

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Category talk:Horse racing venues in the United Kingdom

Ugh. I wish I'd seen this earlier. There are no "horse racing tracks" in the United Kingdom - there are plenty of racecourses, though. Varitek 15:31, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This name was agreed as a compromise for all countries. In the U.S. they have horse race tracks, but the category is Category:Horse racing venues in the United States.

I'd like to try and bring some order to these pages, I think there should be some regular format to the different racecourse pages.

I'd suggest something like:

Description
What type of course it is(as in level throughout, uphill straight, stuff like that), size, handedness, any unusual features such as figure-of-eight.

History
Just brief histories at first, which could be expanded later

Major Races
What should qualify here? Pattern races. Listed and above? How would that pick up major handicaps?

Other
Particualrly notable renewals of races, horses associated with the track. Maybe the section title should be Trivia.

Any suggestions/observations? Ruudboy 00:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)


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Memory Lane

Memory Lane may refer to

Film and television

 * Memory Lane (2012 film), a 2012 science-fiction film directed by Shawn Holmes
 * Memory Lane (1926 film), a 1926 silent film starring Eleanor Boardman
 * Brian "Memory" Lane, a character in the BBC television drama series New Tricks, played by Alun Armstrong
 * "Memory Lane" (The Vampire Diaries) an episode of the TV series The Vampire Diaries

Music

 * Memory Lane (album), a 2023 album by Old Dominion
 * Memory Lane, a 2010 album by The High Kings
 * Memory Lane: The Best of McFly, 2012
 * "Memory Lane", a 1979 song by Minnie Riperton from the album Minnie
 * "Memory Lane", a song by Bugzy Malone
 * "Memory Lane", a song by Elliott Smith from the album From a Basement on the Hill
 * "Memory Lane", a song by McFly from the album Wonderland
 * "Memory Lane", a song by Tim McGraw from the album Tim McGraw
 * "Memory Lane (Sittin' in da Park)", a song by Nas from the album Illmatic

Other uses

 * Memory Lane (Denton, Maryland), a house on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
 * Memory Lane (audio drama), a Doctor Who audio drama
 * Memory Lane, Inc, the company that operates classmates.com, a social media website
 * Memory Lane Music Group, New York-based music publishing company founded in 1923

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Talk:Frederick Douglass

"slave"
An edit made at 14:08, 21 February 2023 went through the article changing many if not all uses of "slave" to "enslaved person," and made similar edits to avoid "slave." I get the idea -- one's status should not define one -- but that many edits overdoes it. "Slave" is a neutral and acceptable word. I changed back two of the edits because they had inadvertently changed the meaning. I left the others alone, because there is nothing wrong with "enslaved person," but replacing every use of "slave" suggests that Wikipedia is bending over backwards to be politically correct, and we don't want to convey that impression. Maurice Magnus (talk) 01:02, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

I just noticed and reverted a third effort to avoid "slave." "Freedom seeker" for "fugitive slave" is ridiculous. Maurice Magnus (talk) 01:29, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

 * Good calls. Personally, I don't see much objection to the word slave, but I don't see a problem with 'enslaved person' either. Let's not try to make it a bigger issue than it needs to be: so long as clarity and precision are preserved, and direct quotes are left untouched, I don't see much point in wasting ink on it. Changing slaveholder to enslaver seems more problematic. To me, enslaver conjures up images of someone catching slaves or first enslaving them, rather than someone who purchases and holds them. But I can see why one might want to emphasize the necessary ongoing subjugation and oppression. Either way, let's focus on being clear and sticking to the commonly used terms, rather than bending over backwards in either direction. David12345 (talk) 01:48, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Maurice Magnus, David12345, thanks for some of the best thoughts I ever read on that subject. Rsk6400 (talk) 08:04, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Maurice Magnus (talk) 18:59, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

On 12 Sep 2023, user Zacwill reverted all the changes made (e.g. from "enslaved person" to "slave") in Feb., with the comment "rm revisionist language". In general, I am in favor of language that does not define a person by one attribute ("slave"); if Frederick Douglass was a slave, and nothing else, we would not be discussing him, reading his writings, analyzing his stances on the issues of his day. But, I need to ask: does WP have policy on this, or at least discussed it and printed those discussions? Paulmlieberman (talk) 13:18, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

 * I don't see how substituing the simple term "slave" for the unwieldy neologism "enslaved person" is a rejection of Douglass's importance as a thinker. Rather, it is a rejection of awkward and euphemistic language. Douglass had no qualms about using the word "slave", and neither should we. Zacwill (talk) 13:43, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Paulmlieberman, as far as I know, there is no policy, but regarding article names there was this discussion: Talk:List_of_slaves Rsk6400 (talk) 14:22, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware of any policy or guideline on this point either. To be clear, 'enslaved person' is not a "neologism". It is perfectly ordinary English that has been in use for centuries. On the other hand, the use of an ordinary noun such as 'slave' does not imply that this is a person's only attribute. Both of these claims are bad arguments grounded in falsehoods. Both terms are used in reliable sources, so there is also not an external consensus to exclusively prefer one or the other. So we should welcome changes to simplify awkward phrasings or clarify ambiguities, but not to impose shibboleths (in either direction) on the article. --RL0919 (talk) 15:55, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

 * I have to disagree with the claim that "enslaved person" is "perfectly ordinary English that has been in use for centuries". I'm sure you could find sporadic instances of the phrase in older literature, but it is only within the 21st century that usage has exploded: see Google Ngrams. This is not a natural development, but a consequence of the misguided belief that it is somehow problematic to describe slaves as slaves. Zacwill (talk) 19:51, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

 * As I've said in other discussions of this usage of "enslaved", reactionaries and historical revisionists like to pretend, or believe, if they aren't familiar with the history, that the term "enslaved" used in this context is a recent innovation. It is not. For example, there are 19 instances of "enslaved" and 9 instances of "enslavement" in The Portable Frederick Douglass, with writings by the man himself. Even Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, refers to a speech by George Shelby, a very light-skinned man who prefers to cast his lot with the "oppressed, enslaved African race". There are 53 instances of "enslaved" in the cited reliable source, Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader, published in 1999. Modern-day historical revisionists, especially here in the South of the United States where I live, have sought, and still seek to erase this history, and rail against the restoration of a very old usage that reclaims the human dignity of enslaved black persons and their descendants. Carlstak (talk) 20:12, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

 * To be clear, a search of The Portable Frederick Douglass returns 0 results for "enslaved person", 5 results for "enslaved people", and 184 results for "slave(s)". This seems to prove my point. Zacwill (talk) 20:37, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

 * And my point is that it is not a recent innovation. It's not a matter of number of instances historically used, it's a matter of listening to the voices of modern-day black people who tell us the words they prefer, just as "colored" (as opposed to "people of color") isn't used in the US anymore, in deference to the expressed wishes of black people who live here. My black friends who've stated their opinion on the matter all prefer "enslaved persons".

 * Of course, racists and neo-Confederates don't care what they think; even as recently as the late 1980s, the country store four miles down the road from where I lived still had a sign up over one of the restrooms that said "Colored". It wasn't even used as a toilet anymore, but they never bothered to take the sign down, because they really didn't care what black people think, and preferred to rub it in their faces. It's the same today with this issue. Carlstak (talk) 21:00, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Carlstak, thanks for pointing out the language issue's connection with the age-long history of White people disregarding the feelings of Black people. But in order to cool down a bit, let me present the results of a random search in two academic publications I happen to have at hand: Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning (2016) uses "slave" mostly as a modifier ("slave trade", "slave ship") or when reflecting historical sources (even outside of direct quotations). In other contexts, he seems to prefer terms like "enslaved Africans", but without being 100% consistent. David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018) always seems to use "slave". Being sure that Blight is neither racist nor neo-Confederate, I'd conclude that both uses are OK in modern academic language, while I personally prefer "enslaved people / person". Rsk6400 (talk) 08:17, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply, Rsk6400, but I think you've missed my main point. I'm talking about the so-called "push" referred to by Zacwill in his edit summary which says "The push to remove the word "slave" from common parlance is absolutely revisionist." The voices of black people I'm talking about are the voices of many black people today, not voices from the past from even such as Frederick Douglass. This movement to change the way we talk about the enslaved has emanated from black intellectuals such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, despised by white supremacists and Trumper types. For example, Coates states the case in this video, "People were not slaves, they were enslaved". It is true that usage of the old, baggage-laden terms is still broadly acceptable in academia, but so-called "political correctness" has always been about respecting and showing deference to the feelings of repressed minorities, or in other words, showing simple human courtesy. Not that it can't be taken too far, but I don't believe that is the case here. Carlstak (talk) 12:05, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
 * What about the voices of the vast majority of english speakers today who don't like being forced onto the euphemism treadmill? 2603:8080:1500:4506:FD0F:1E60:3097:9064 (talk) 07:15, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Douglass's father
Until July 3, under "Birth family," this article stated, "his father was 'almost certainly white', according to historian David W. Blight in his 2018 biography of Douglass." It cited Adam Gopnik's New Yorker article. This statement was false, because Blight's book did not say that Douglass's father was "almost certainly white." Rather, Gopnik wrote that Blight "shows" that Douglass's father was "almost certainly white." But, again, Blight didn't say that.

Therefore, on July 3, I edited it to state, "his father was 'almost certainly white', according to Adam Gopnik, reviewing David W. Blight's 2018 biography of Douglass." But this isn't quite accurate either, because Gopnik was not expounding on Douglass; he was falsely attributing the statement to Blight.

What Blight says is that Douglass said that his father was white. That is sufficient for our purposes. We can cite Douglass, without mentioning that Blight quoted him, and without mentioning Gopnik's false statement about what Blight wrote. Maurice Magnus (talk) 18:22, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

In making this edit, I deleted the references to Blight's book and Gopnik's review of it. Blight is cited numerous times in the article, but Gopnik's review is not cited. Because it is a substantial work, I added it to "Newspapers and magazine articles." Maurice Magnus (talk) 19:06, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 July 2023
"Adam Gopnik, "American Prophet: The gifts of Frederick Douglass", The New Yorker, October 15, 2018, pp. 81–82" this source does not exist. 46.239.92.3 (talk) 06:58, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
 * There is an online version of that article, which says at the bottom that it appeared in the printed issue under the title "American Prophet". --RL0919 (talk) 07:53, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Here's the full online citation:
 * Peaceray (talk) 23:54, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Under "Newspaper and magazine articles," I replaced the Gopnik listing with your version; thanks. Maurice Magnus (talk) 19:35, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Under "Newspaper and magazine articles," I replaced the Gopnik listing with your version; thanks. Maurice Magnus (talk) 19:35, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

Why I changed the title of Douglass's third autobiography in the endnotes
I have a facsimile edition of Douglass's third autobiography, as published in 1881. Endnote 3 in Life and Times of Frederick Douglass confirms that it was published in 1881, and that it was titled, as my facsimile edition is, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself, His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time. In the endnotes to Frederick Douglass, the title of the book was given as The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, from 1817 to 1882 and the year of publication was given as 1882. This title and year refer to the British edition and can be viewed by clicking on the arrow at the end of endnote 1 of Frederick Douglass and going to page 9 of 499. I changed the British title to the American title because I believe that the first edition should be cited. (I neglected to change "(1882)" to "(1881)," but I will do so shortly.) I have not changed from the British publisher (London: Christian Age Office) to the American publisher (Hartford, Conn.: Park Publishing Co.), because the link in each endnote that cites the book takes us to the British edition. I appreciate that having the American title and year but the British publisher is inconsistent, and if someone thinks that we should deal with this differently, then you can say so. Maurice Magnus (talk) 21:34, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

To be honest, when I changed the title, I thought that The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, from 1817 to 1882 was a mistake -- probably from a later edition, not from the first British edition. Had I known that, I wouldn't have changed it. But I am not going to revert what I did, because I don't think that it is important enough to go back through multiple edits. Maurice Magnus (talk) 22:05, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

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