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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yukon Legislature Seating Plan

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was merge with Yukon Legislative Assembly. I have the distinct feeling that I shouldn't try to find out what STFU means. – Jitse Niesen (talk) 22:42, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Yukon Legislature Seating Plan
I vote NO to deletion. Pellaken 16:18, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now.  Delete; we don't even have an article on the Yukon legislature itself, no need for an article containing a pseudo-image of it its seating plan. —Cryptic (talk) 08:17, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as below. Should've looked harder. —Cryptic (talk) 11:51, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete contextless  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   09:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. as per Cryptic. --Vsion 10:04, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, or at least Merge, as per new information and comments by MS123. The work is great, no extra charges for using color in Wikipedia. Erh.. can I shamelessly copy the idea? --Vsion 00:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

In most other cases, there's a graphic on the main article. My reactions:
 * Delete. Indeed, we do have an article on the Yukon Legislative Assembly containing this information. While that article should be expanded, this article should be deleted as it is surplus to requirements. Capitalistroadster 15:42, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant. see Yukon Legislative Assembly.  Jesse 20:21, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep As the creator of this page, I wish to see it stay. The Yukon Legislature does have as site just as every other legislature in Canada does. I would also point out that this follows the same format of the other legislatures including; The House of Commons, the Senate, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC, and soon to be Nova Scotia and NewBrunswick (as soon as I get around to it). If anyone wonders where this comes from, I recieved the seating plan after contacting the Speaker of the Yukon Legislature Ted Staffen. If anyone wishes to see it, I can upload it. It took quite a while to get this so don't waste it. MS123
 * Merge MS123 has done some good work here, and it should be incorporated into Yukon Legislative Assembly. Ground Zero | t 20:12, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Yukon Legislative Assembly. There's a similar graphic on the Manitoba Assembly page already.  CJCurrie 20:17, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as per GeeZed. Zhatt  20:44, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge into Yukon Legislative Assembly. Good work, of some interest and relevance. Luigizanasi 02:44, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Whoa, nelly. MS123 seems to be right; several other Canadian legislative houses (including the House of Commons) have, for some reason, graphic representations of their seating plans as separate articles from the ones about the Houses themselves. See as follows:
 * 1) Canadian House of Commons seating plan,
 * 2) British Columbia Legislature Seating Plan,
 * 3) Alberta Legislature seating plan,
 * 4) Saskatchewan Legislature Seating Plan,
 * 5) Ontario Legislative Assembly seating plan.

 * 1) I don't think these should have their own articles; if we keep them at all, they should somehow be made to fit into the legislative house's main article.
 * 2) The sidescrolling in the House of Commons graphic is unacceptable; no Wikipedia article should ever scroll beyond the existing right border of the screen. If it just can't fit that way, structure it vertically.
 * 3) In writing a Wikipedia article, the base assumption you have to start with is that your potential reader knows nothing about the topic. Your audience is not a person who already knows enough about Yukon politics that you don't need to explain anything for them -- your audience is a person who doesn't have a freaking clue in HELL what a "Fentie" and a "Duncan" and an "Edzerza" are, or what the difference is between blue and orange, or why the black box isn't lined up with the rest of them. In other words, you have to either wikilink the names so they can find out, or just leave the whole thing inside a longer article in the first place so they actually have some context for it.

   and merge all. Bearcat 04:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

The reason why these articles have thier own seperate pages is because we, or least I wished to keep the size of each article down. Certainly Bearcat must see that putting the entire seating plan of the House of Commons or the Ontario legislature on the same article as thier appropriate legislature page would increase the size of the article by way too much. We could replace these with images, however this leads to much difficulty in having to replace each time the legislature chamges. The other legislatures follow the same format, which I think is important. There is no telling how large the size of the legislatures will be so why not leave this page where it is. To one point the previous user made about Yukon Politics. This page only links to the Yukon Legislature page. The only way to come across this page, other than a search, is to go through the legislature page. This page contains a full list of every MLA. It shows the party leaders, Speaker, and cabinet ministers. Where is the diffuculty in finding out who Fentie is?

Moving on to the House of Commons. There is nothing wrong with having the page shift to the right or the left. This is something that shouldn't be a problem. The seating plan, I believe, would be more difficult to read in an up or down format. Such a thing would be more difficult to format and will be much longer as well. If it ain broke, don't fix it. MS123

 * I disagree with you, MS: each page should have enough context that if someone comes across it by clicking on "random article" from the navigatio menu to your left, there is enough context and at least one link to another page that they can start to figure out what it's about. I think that is a Wikipedia standard. So if it is going to stay as a separate page, it must have some context, like that which I recently added to Yukon Legislative Assembly. As far as where it belongs, that depends on the size of the article. I don't think that the YLA page is too big yet to require a fork, so we might as well put everything on one page. The House of Commons and Ont. leg. are big enough to warrant forking. By the way, I do like these charts, and thank you for taking the time to make them. Keep up the good work. Ground Zero | t 20:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I swear to GOD, the whole world is against me! Bink! There have a gander, take a peek, now what? MS123
 * Merge. I've come across some of these on Special:Shortpages and merged them into the legislature articles to no ill effect. For instance Manitoba Legislature Seating Plan has for some time been integrated into Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. - SimonP 01:41, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge into Yukon Legislative Assembly: the seating plan is part-and-parcel of the assembly. E Pluribus Anthony 02:27, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

 * There's everything wrong with having the page scroll to the right, actually. It's always considered bad form on the web; it's never acceptable web page formatting anywhere. And similarly, "you can only get here from there anyway" is never a valid argument against providing the necessary context; every article has to be formatted and structured as if it were a standalone entity. You can never just assume that your reader either (a) knows what you're talking about, or (b) knows how to find out what you're talking about. It's not just an arbitrary Wikipedia rule; it's a basic requirement of any legitimate article in any reference work of any kind. Bearcat 23:38, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Hey Bearcat, STFU! Just because other pages use this type of format, it doesn't mean that these FEW pages do too! Most of the internet is laced with spyware and advertising, yet I see no argument for that nor would I expect to. Wikipedia is unique. It is an encyclopedia not a webpage. I used to argue that the look of a page or format of a page was more important than the information provided. Now I see that the information provided is more important. Can the seating of the HofC stand alone? I think so. There is a table that shows the colour of each party, so we know what the colours mean. I have added a link to a list of MP's. The title does say Seating Plan. I would not go to this page and look for information about pickles. But finally this page is not supposed to stand alone. It is a fork or offshoot of the House of Commons page. It is done this way to conserve space. MS123

 * Don't you tell me to STFU. That's completely inappropriate and unacceptable. And yes, information is the defining criterion of an encyclopedia; that information still has to be presented in a usable way. Scrolling off the right side of the screen is not acceptable; providing no context within the article itself is not acceptable. It's not just an arbitrary Wikipedia rule; it's a basic requirement of any reference work of any kind. Bearcat 19:12, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

I'll say STFU if I feel like it. We are talking about a seating plan of the legislature in the yukon. Put your opinions on this on you user page, otherwise, who asked you? A BASIC REQUIREMENT? According to you! It is no big deal to scroll to the right on a page. Having to do so doesn't make it unusable. Have you read the page? Why is there no context? What more do you need? There is a link to the Gov't plan, and place in the title Canadian House of Commons. I say again, I would go there to look for pickles. The plan is explained. What is your problem, are you just too lasy to click on the scroll bar, is that it? Never have I, or anyone else I know come across such a site and said "oh, I can't use this" I say that certain sites that shift to the right is unappropriate. But this is different. You don't read it like a book. It is not a continuous sentence that is unreadable. It is for reference. MS123

 * This is a discussion page. I have every right to express my opinion on an open and active discussion in that discussion, and you can take your "STFU and whine about it on your user page" and mail it to someone who cares. This is not about what I say; it's a basic rule of creating a reference work: pages that scroll off to the right HAVE NO PLACE IN A REFERENCE WORK. PERIOD. Oh, and by the way, swearing at a site administrator isn't really the best way to earn yourself a whole lot of respect around here. Bearcat 20:14, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Well maybe I could suck up to you. Maybe then I could earn some. Like I really care if a couple of faceless names respect me or not. I am hear to provide some work and knowledge to an encyclopedia. PERIOD. It is true, you do have the right to express these opinions. But not here. This is about the Yukon Legislature Seating Plan, not about the Canadian House of Commons. YOU brought that up. You tell me to send my opinion to send it to someone who cares. You are the only person to complain about this shift to the right. So you go tell someone who cares. Perhaps an Administrator shouldn't talk about wikipedia's "arbitrary" rules. If you have a problem with them, you and the other administrators can go work that out. Have a Ball! I point out that the plan is more of an image than anything else. Not a piece of literary work. Images shift to the right. And I point out that again that "pages that scroll off to the right HAVE NO PLACE IN A REFERENCE WORK" is still what you say. It is not a policy of wikipedia. If you wish to talk about website formats outside of wikipedia, make an article about it. (STFU, It's just fun to type isn't it. Eh, Bearcat?) MS123

 * You're the one who first brought the House of Commons article into the debate as a comparison. Not me. You. And for the last time, "pages that scroll off to the right HAVE NO PLACE IN A REFERENCE WORK" is not just "what I say"; it's a fact. It doesn't need to be spelled out in Wikipedia policy; it's simple common sense. Perhaps nobody else has said it's a problem, but nobody besides you has said it isn't a problem, either. The point remains that it's not up to you to decide what I'm allowed to say or where. Bearcat 20:52, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

I did bring the House of Commons as a comparison, but what you are talking about is unrelated. The Yukon Legislator Seating Plan does not shift to the right. Listen 2+2=4 is a fact. What you are talking about is opinion, I don't care what you say. Look I'm not going to keep arguing with you. Let's deal with the current issue, and if others raise issues about the HofC later, we can talk about it then. Nice talking to you. MS123

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Talk:Howie Seago

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By the contributions of this article's author, including keep votes to the AfDs of David Seago and Laura Seago, I suspect this was written by Howie Seago himself or a relative of his. I am interested to know what the relationship between the three is. — J I P | Talk 16:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Birthplace?
The prose says Seago was born in Texas. The infobox says he was born in Washington state. Only one can be correct. Anyone have a good source to decide between the two? Gentgeen (talk) 09:30, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Shauri/Archive2

Hi
It was my pleasure to help you :-)! I want you to know that you don't stand alone when you're dealing with rude people. As for your English, you are too modest. I think your English is brilliant and I have been thinking of telling you so! I'd also love to meet you in person one day, and as for Norse mythology, I'll be your teacher anytime :-).--Wiglaf 07:35, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Greetings
Hi Shauri, thank you for the kind words on my Talk page - it is my pleasure to meet you. I am very impressed by the edits that you have made over at Texas Ranger Division. In my first read-through, it seems nearly perfect. I see that Katefan is also workign on it. Between the two of you, I think it is nearly perfect, but I will read it more carefully this weekend and see if I can make any improvements. Thanks again for your great contributions. Johntex\talk 17:40, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Adminship
Dear Shauri! I wonder if I would have the honour of nominating you for admin. Your well-documented social skills and your determined work on moving pages to FA status make you a natural admin candidate. I hope that I will have the priviledge of being the one that nominates you.--Wiglaf 09:50, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

 * An excellent call Wiglaf! I second the nomination...and if someone's beat me to it, I third it! --R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 11:01, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Kannur
Can you help me out on improving Kannur to FA status. sumal 03:08, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

E-mail
I don't mean to bug you, you don't have to reply to it, but considering how unreliable the Wikipedia e-mail feature seems to be, I've got to ask: did you get my message? Bishonen | talk 07:30, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Stone of Fal
Buenas Noces Shauri, (Just back from my second beginners Spanish class). Thanks for the redirect - I didn't see the Lia Fail article. Dlyons493 22:25, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Spring Heeled Jack
Thanks for putting up the Mainpage date template. Looks like you had a lot to do with its becoming a FA in the first place so, congratulations. --hydnjo talk 02:18, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

First day of school
Hehe, one sentence makes all the difference. --fvw *  05:59, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Texas Rangers-RNC
RE: Your note that the Texas Rangers are the oldest law enforcement agency and the RNC is the oldest police force. Not only does that sound good to me, but it is historically correct and I edited the RNC page as such saying that they are the oldest civil police force. Jcmurphy 03:02, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Valencian Community
Estos angloparlantes se han creído que la Comunidad Valenciana es un país. He tenido que cambiar "Land of Valencia" por "Valencian Community", y ya esto terminando de arreglar los enlaces. Una salutació des de Granada. Gabri-en 15:43, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Nomination for admin
It is my pleasure to tell you that you are now nominated for admin.--Wiglaf 09:31, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Whichever way this vote goes. Just continue the great work, don't change you great attitude, and you will be an admin before Christmas. You deserve it.--Wiglaf 09:15, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll echo Wiglaf's words. I think you're a fine editor. You will be an admin on the next nomination if this one fails. I'm quite sure of that. This one's an almost pass as it is right now (17/6/1). I think all the oppose votes get down to a basic point; wanting to see the contribution pattern of activity continue for a while before voting support. Nobody has raised any other serious objection, nor should there be one.
 * I was very disheartened by this quote from you "it gives me the impression that all I did at WP was worth nothing" Please, please, please do not take statements on an RfA as condemnation of your efforts. I've been following WP:RFA for several months now, and I've never seen a voter attack someone. If someone makes an oppose or neutral vote, there is usually a strong explanation and some direction to take from it on how to improve. Even if you infer something negative from a voter, please remember; they are just one person among more than 440,000 registered users and there are millions more that are not registered. That's a butterfly's voice in a windstorm. Have patience, know that you do good work and be happy about it, and always strive to improve even if people think you're perfect! (people aren't perfect so how can an imperfect being understand perfection? -Deep philosophy for a Tuesday afternoon) --Durin 21:18, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Spring-heeled Jack
Dear Shauri

First, thanks for the generous comments on my talk page, which I appreciate, though frankly I'm not sure they're really deserved.

As I said on the talk page for Spring-heeled Jack, I'm very pleased you are making time to revise your article. I can understand that you must feel tired of the whole subject after putting so much work into the piece already - indeed it's largely for that reason that I've steered clear thus far of writing in any detail on my own main interests for Wikipedia.

Please do feel free to come back to me for any additional material you may feel you need, and ask any questions you want. I believe strongly in sharing all my research and material, as it's only in this way that accurate coverage of any subject is to be achieved. Simply publishing a paper in a hard-to-find journal such as Fortean Studies (print run 2,500 copies) has not advanced understanding of SHJ much if at all in almost a decade, and a really accurate, well-informed article on a forum such as Wikipedia will make more difference more quickly than anything I'm likely to achieve on my own. Don't be disheartened - you're already pretty close to getting it right, after all.

Good luck with your editing over the weekend. I and I'm sure many others greatly appreciate all your efforts. Mikedash 20:52, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Hola!
Que tal! Te encontré por el saludo que le dejaste a Pablo, y cuando vi que estabas en WP:RFA decidí votar. :)

Yo soy de Buenos Aires, pero aca en Los Angeles hay tan pocos Argentinos que las diferencias se hacen chicas... solo en el fútbol seguimos siedo bien distintos. :)

Si queres date una vuelta por Argentina-related regional notice board, ya se que sos Española pero siempre una mano viene bien... seguro que hay cosas en las que nos podes ayudar. Un abrazo, y espero que nos sigamos cruzando por ahí

--Sebastian Kessel Talk 23:43, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey, Felicidades! :) By the way, algún parentesco con Alejandro Sanz? Digo, ya que el también es español. :) --Sebastian Kessel Talk 15:28, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you very much for your vote on my RFA, it is now the 8th most supported RFA ever, and it couldnt have happened without your vote. I look forward to serving wikipedia. Again, thanks. →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  23:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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Album de la Pléiade

The Album de la Pléiade is a book published every year in May by the "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade", a series of classic French and international texts by French publishing house éditions Gallimard. It is usually about an author published in the series, although occasionally about a collective from a specific time period (1961 recording and 1989 album) or an important topic of the collection (1970 and 2009 albums).

Featured authors are generally chosen upon their entry in the series or a major addition of their works.

Each album is richly illustrated and focusses on iconography, with an accompanying bibliographical text by a renowned specialist of the selected author. It is produced in the same format, leather-bound cover and gold lettering as volumes of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, but has generally fewer pages and is printed on thicker paper to allow the inclusion of many colour images.

The Albums are not for sale. They are offered by the booksellers to customers who purchase three books from the collection. They tend to be distributed very quickly and immediately become collectors' items. Because of this, the most popular books of the collection such as, among others, Album Proust (1965), Album Céline (1977) or Album Balzac (1962) can only be obtained on reselling markets at high prices (often found around $200–$300). The older (1960s-1970s) books are also often high priced due to their rarity, even if the author is less popular. The oldest, Dictionnaire des auteurs de la Pléiade (Dictionary of the Authors of the Pléiade), published in 1960 has always been the most expensive, selling for over $400–$450.

List of the albums

 * 1960: Dictionnaire des auteurs de la Pléiade, a dictionary considered as the forerunner to the albums.
 * 1961: Poètes du XVIe siècle, an LP record of poems by 16th-century poets read by renowned actors such as María Casares, with an appended booklet in Pléiade format containing all featured poems.
 * 1) 1962: Honoré de Balzac
 * 2) 1963: Émile Zola
 * 3) 1964: Victor Hugo
 * 4) 1965: Marcel Proust
 * 5) 1966: Stendhal
 * 6) 1967: Arthur Rimbaud
 * 7) 1968: Paul Éluard
 * 8) 1969: Saint-Simon
 * 9) 1970: Classical theater
 * 10) 1971: Guillaume Apollinaire
 * 11) 1972: Gustave Flaubert (1st)
 * 12) 1973: George Sand
 * 13) 1974: Charles Baudelaire (1st)
 * 14) 1975: Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * 15) 1976: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * 16) 1977: Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1st)
 * 17) 1978: Blaise Pascal
 * 18) 1979: Henry de Montherlant
 * 19) 1980: Jean Giono
 * 20) 1981: Paul Verlaine
 * 21) 1982: Albert Camus
 * 22) 1983: Voltaire
 * 23) 1984: Colette
 * 24) 1985: André Gide
 * 25) 1986: André Malraux
 * 26) 1987: Guy de Maupassant
 * 27) 1988: François-René de Chateaubriand
 * 28) 1989: “The Writers of the French Revolution”
 * 29) 1990: Lewis Carroll
 * 30) 1991: Jean-Paul Sartre
 * 31) 1992: Jacques Prévert
 * 32) 1993: Gérard de Nerval
 * 33) 1994: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 * 34) 1995: William Faulkner
 * 35) 1996: Oscar Wilde
 * 36) 1997: Louis Aragon
 * 37) 1998: Julien Green
 * 38) 1999: Jorge Luis Borges
 * 39) 2000: NRF
 * 40) 2001: Marcel Aymé
 * 41) 2002: Raymond Queneau
 * 42) 2003: Georges Simenon
 * 43) 2004: Denis Diderot
 * 44) 2005: One Thousand and One Nights
 * 45) 2006: Jean Cocteau
 * 46) 2007: Michel de Montaigne
 * 47) 2008: André Breton
 * 48) 2009: the Holy Grail
 * 49) 2010: Molière
 * 50) 2011: Paul Claudel
 * 51) 2012: Jules Verne
 * 52) 2013: Blaise Cendrars
 * 53) 2014: Marguerite Duras
 * 54) 2015: Giacomo Casanova
 * 55) 2016: William Shakespeare
 * 56) 2017: Georges Perec
 * 57) 2018: Simone de Beauvoir
 * 58) 2019: Romain Gary
 * 59) 2020: Joseph Kessel
 * 60) 2021: Gustave Flaubert (2nd)
 * 61) 2022: Franz Kafka
 * 62) 2023: Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2nd)
 * 63) 2024: Charles Baudelaire (2nd)

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Hull Paragon Interchange

Hull Paragon Interchange is a transport interchange providing rail, bus and coach services located in the city centre of Kingston upon Hull, England. The G. T. Andrews-designed station was originally named Paragon Station, and together with the adjoining Station Hotel, it opened in 1847 as the new Hull terminus for the growing traffic of the York and North Midland (Y&NMR) leased to the Hull and Selby Railway (H&S). As well as trains to the west, the station was the terminus of the Y&NMR and H&S railway's Hull to Scarborough Line. From the 1860s the station also became the terminus of the Hull and Holderness and Hull and Hornsea railways.

At the beginning of the 20th century the North Eastern Railway (NER) expanded the trainshed and station to the designs of William Bell, installing the present five arched span platform roof. In 1962 a modernist office block Paragon House was installed above the station main entrance, replacing a 1900s iron canopy; the offices were initially used as regional headquarters for British Rail.

A bus station was erected adjacent to the north of the station in the mid 1930s. In the early 2000s plans for an integrated bus and rail station were made, as part of a larger development including a shopping centre; St Stephen's shopping centre, a hotel, housing, and music and theatre facilities. The new station, named "Paragon Interchange" opened in September 2007, integrating the city's railway and bus stations under William Bell's 1900s trainshed.

The station is currently operated by TransPennine Express, which provides train services along with Northern Trains, Hull Trains and London North Eastern Railway.

Background
In 1840 the Hull and Selby Railway opened the first railway line into Hull, terminating at a passenger and goods terminal, Manor House Street station, adjacent to the Humber Dock, near the old town. Subsequently, the Hull and Selby Railway entered into working arrangements with the Manchester and Leeds Railway and then the York and North Midland Railway. In 1845 an Act of Parliament enabled the York and North Midland and/or the Manchester and Leeds to take a lease of the company with an option to buy the line at a later date – only the York and North Midland was subsequently active. In 1846 the Hull and Selby completed its Bridlington branch which connected from a junction at Dairycoates near Hull to a line the York and North Midland was building from Bridlington to Seamer, connecting to its York to Scarborough Line, forming a railway route from Hull to Scarborough on the east coast.

First railway station, hotel and branches (1848)
In 1846 the York and North Midland and Manchester and Leeds railways began proceedings to create a new terminal station and connecting branch line in Hull. The York and North Midland (Hull Station) Act 1847 was subsequently passed.

The new station had the advantage of being better situated for travellers, and allowed the old station to be used exclusively for freight traffic. In addition the Hull and Selby company were keen to attract the investment in a new station from the leaseholders, as the capital investment was likely to increase the permanence of the relationship with the lessors.

The branches to the station were constructed off the Bridlington branch: a branch turning north-east close to the line's crossing of the Hessle Road; and a branch turning south-east at 'Cottingham Junction' near to Haverflatts farm; the two branches met at a junction 0.5 mi roughly west of the new station. In addition a new connecting chord was made from the Hull and Selby Line, to the Bridlington branch, allowing direct through running from the west into the new station. The station was located on the western edge of the growing Georgian town, and took its name from "Paragon Street".

Construction contracts had been signed by early 1847, before the bill had been formally passed. The station opened in 1847 without any notable ceremony.

The station and hotel were both in the Italian Renaissance style, with both Doric and Ionic order elements; the facades show inspiration from the interior courtyard of the Palazzo Farnese. The main station building was aligned east–west, south of the tracks, facing onto Anlaby Road – a two-storey centrally located booking hall was entered via a small porte-cochère, and flanked by eleven bay wide single storey wings, with two storey three bay buildings on either end, one a parcels office, the other the station master's house. The train shed contained five tracks and two platforms, each 30 ft, covered with a three span iron roof. The station site was nearly 2.5 acre.

The hotel was in a similar style to the station, located at the east end of the station with its main façade and entrance facing east. It was completed in 1849 as a three-storey building, nine bays wide, of area 120 by. The centre of the building contained a 650 ft square lightwell with ground glass roof.

Architect for both buildings was G. T. Andrews, and represent his last major commission. The station and hotel were described by some contemporaries as "Hudson's Folly", who thought the scale of the development too great; the station was the largest built in England to that time associated with a railway station. By the time of completion of the station hotel George Hudson, chairman of the York and North Midland was in disgrace after his fraudulent dealings had been discovered. The hotel's official opening ceremony took place on 6 November 1851.

Additional facilities at the station also included a locomotive house, on the west end of north side of the main shed; a coal depot to the north-west; and a turntable. A new engine shed was constructed in the 1860s, and a 20 engine shed was constructed in the mid 1870s.

In 1853 Queen Victoria visited the town, and the use of the station hotel given to the corporation for the accommodation of the royal party; a throne room was created on the first floor, and the royal household accommodated on the second. The royal party including the Queen, Albert, Prince Consort and five royal children arrived on the Royal Train on 13 October 1853 at Paragon Station. The visit concluded with a dinner at the hotel on 14 October.

NER period (1854–1923)
In 1853 the Victoria Dock Branch Line had opened in Hull, connecting the Victoria Dock and a number of stations in Hull on a circular route around the outskirts of the town; the line connected to the existing network at junctions 0.5 mi west of the station. This line was doubled in mid 1864 and brought more trains into Paragon: from the Hull and Hornsea Railway (opened 1864); and from the Hull and Holderness Railway (opened 1854) via a connecting chord to the Victoria Dock Branch Line. Further developments in the 1860s created additional or shorted routes into Paragon; the York to Beverley Line was completed in 1865 with the opening of the Market Weighton to Beverley section; the Hull and Doncaster Branch to south Yorkshire in 1869; and the line to Leeds extension was completed, extending the line from Hull to Leeds to the city centre, and allowing through running westward.

In 1873 the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway obtained running powers into Hull, and passenger trains from that company running to Paragon from August. In 1898/9 the Hull and Barnsley Railway and the NER began work towards constructing a joint dock in Hull (see Alexandra Dock); as part of this cooperation between the two companies the H&BR gave the NER running powers over its line in Hull, and the NER allowed the H&BR to run into and use Paragon station.

The growth of traffic was accommodated in the mid 1870s by adding a third middle platform to the trainshed; the outer platforms were also lengthened beyond the shed, and short bay platforms added on either side. The cross platform was widened at the expense of the length of the main platforms; the booking office and parcels offices swapped positions, and the middle portico walled up to create greater enclosed space. In 1884/5 the hotel was also expanded, adding room at first floor level by extending westward across a concourse entrance. In 1887 a station canopy was added over the ends of the departure (southside) platform that extended beyond the shed.

In addition to the standard facilities the increased emigration to the United States in the 19th century led to the construction of an emigrant station, south-west of the main station, in part due to concerns over public health dangers, such as cholera; the station also enabled more efficient handling of the large numbers of emigrants. The station rooms were built in 1871 to the designs of Thomas Prosser, and extended 1881. Because of its historical significance the building is now grade II listed.

An extensive enlargement of the station was authorised by the NER board in 1897, as part of the extension programme the station's engine shed facilities were transferred to a new site at Botanic Gardens; the transfer was complete by 1901, and in 1902 work began on the rebuilding of the station; the expansion of the site was northwards towards Colliers Street, and required purchases and demolition of houses south of the street.

The main station was enlarged to a design by NER architect William Bell. The extension included a new five span steel platform roof, with a two span roof over the concourse, built by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co., with the offices resited to the east end of the station, facing the station concourse, together with the adjacent Hotel. Half of the new office spaces was taken up by a tiled booking office, with wooden booking windows, and architectural detailing in faience. The booking office's main entrance faced Paragon Square (Ferensway) accessed under a large iron made porte-cochère. The enlarged station opened 12 December 1904. An additional range of buildings was built c. 1908 to the south-east of the station, to provide stock rooms for the hotel.

As built the station had nine platforms under the four southernmost spans of the roof; the northernmost span had facilities for special goods, such as cars and horses, and was screened off from the other four; it was served by platform 1, known as the fish dock or fish platform, which was also used for fish. The southern bay platforms, and 1887 platform roof was retained for a total of fourteen passenger platforms; platforms 1–9 also received low level roofs outside the main shed. The original station offices were retained and used as waiting rooms and parcel offices.

In 1904 the station signalling system was converted to an electro-pneumatic power signalling system – the station had two signal boxes: Paragon Station box was a 143 lever box and was located at the end of platforms 1 and 2; Park Street box, with 179 levers was located 714 ft west of the station.

In World War I, the station hosted a rest station and canteen for servicemen.

On 5 March 1916 during a First World War Zeppelin raid that killed 17, a bomb blast blew out the glass in the station roof.

LNER period (1923–1948)
From 1924 passenger trains running from the Hull and Barnsley Line became able to run into Paragon station with the construction of a connecting chord between the NER and H&BR networks in north-west Hull. The H&BR's Cannon Street station closed in the same year.

On 14 February 1927 it was the site of a head-on train collision (see Hull Paragon rail accident) in which 12 passengers were killed and 24 seriously injured, caused by a signalling error.

In 1931–32 the hotel was internally revamped, and expanded by the addition of an extra storey of rooms on the roof, replacing staff bedrooms; and by cement rendered wing on either side of the main entrance; an art deco entrance onto the station concourse was also added. A railway museum was established by Hull Museums director Thomas Sheppard in the station in 1933.

In 1935 the decision was made to resignal the station and approaches, replacing the 1904 electro-pneutmatic power signalling system with an electrically operated system. "Park Street" and "Paragon station" signal boxes were to be replaced with a single box; the running lines out of the station, including those controlled by the West Parade signal box, were to be track circuited. The system was an early British example of electrical interlocking. 48 points were controlled, using thumb switches in the signal box. Power supply was from the Hull Corporation at 400 V 50 Hz three phase, with a backup generator powered by a 28 hp Petter oil-engine. The main external system was electrified at 110 V AC, with shunt signals at 100 or 55 V AC; the point motors, previously electro-pneumatically operated were retained, with a 50 cuft per hour 80 psi max. pressure compressor system, duplicated for redundancy. Signalling was electric lamp backlit. The Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd was the main supplier of the equipment. A new signal box was installed, a LNER type 13, resembling in architectural design the Southern Railway's Streamline Moderne signal boxes, but with square corners.

During the Hull Blitz of 1941 the station received direct hits on the night of 7 May, with many incendiary bombs hitting the roof. The signal box was badly damaged when a parachute mine exploded nearby during the same night the station's small railway museum was destroyed by fire.

BR period (1948–1995)
The main entrance canopy was replaced by an office building Paragon House in 1962. The building was originally used as a regional headquarters for British Rail, but was unused in later years.

In 1965 the Newington branch which had been used by trains running from west of Hull to Bridlington and beyond was closed and replaced by a new chord near Victoria crossing. The roofs sheltering platforms 1–9 outside the main shed were removed in the 1970s.

In the 1980s a new "travel centre" (booking and information office) was added on the station concourse. The body of the building was faced with light sandstone, with lighting via semicircular arched windows, and an approximately barrel roofed skylight. In the same period a clerestory roofed waiting room was added at the head of the station platforms, an architectural homage to both Victorian trainshed roofs and clerestory carriages.

After the privatisation of British Transport Hotels in the 1980s the "Royal Station Hotel" was renamed Royal Hotel.

Post privatisation period (1995–present)
In 1990 the hotel was gutted by a fire, the interior was rebuilt and the hotel re-opened in 1992.

In 2000 outline planning permission was given for a transport interchange and shopping and leisure complex near Ferensway, Hull; in 2001 full planning documents were submitted for works on a 16.8 ha site included a new shopping arcade development incorporating a hotel and car parking facilities; a transport interchange incorporating the station; as well as landscaping, setting out of streets, a petrol station and a housing development. The development also included new facilities for the Hull Truck Theatre and the Albemarle Music Centre. The shopping development is known as St Stephen's shopping centre. The interchange fully opened on 16 September 2007.

Features of the railway 2007 station redevelopment include a new canopy to the Ferensway entrance; the "Paragon House" office block was demolished as part of the redevelopment. The former station booking office area was restored, and in 2009 opened as a community area. From 2009 a mobility scooter hire service was provided at the station. The interior of the booking office is used (2011) as a branch of WH Smith.

The new transport interchange was officially opened by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh when they unveiled a plaque on 5 March 2009 after arriving at the station on the Royal Train.

A £65,000 bronze statue of Hull resident poet Philip Larkin by Martin Jennings was unveiled on the concourse of Hull Paragon Interchange on 2 December 2010, marking the 25th anniversary of the poet's death. The statue was located near to the entrance to the Station Hotel, a favoured watering place of the poet. In 2011, an additional five slate roundels containing inscriptions of Larkin's poems were installed in the floor around the statue; and in 2012 a memorial bench was installed around a pillar near the statue.

In February 2017 a full-size model of the Gipsy Moth aircraft used by Amy Johnson to fly solo from Britain to Australia, created over a six-month period by inmates of Hull Prison, was put on display at the station. This remained throughout the City of Culture but moved to the adjacent St Stephen's shopping centre in March 2018. The station underwent a revamp during 2017, with a £1.4 million investment providing a new waiting area and more retail units.

In August 2023, a planning application was made by Network Rail to bring Platform 1 back in to use.

History and description
A bus station was built adjacent to Paragon station in 1935, at a cost of £55,000 on land freed by slum clearance.

A new bus station integrated with the main railway station was developed and constructed in the first decade of the 21st century. (see also §Paragon station post privatisation.)

Hull Paragon Interchange opened on Sunday 16 September 2007 combining rail and bus station services on a single site. The bus terminal has 38 bus and 4 coach stands, replacing a separate 'island' bus station; the site of the former Hull Bus Station, adjacent to the north of the railway station now forms part of the St Stephen's shopping centre. The bus ranks are located at the north of the station, in a "saw-tooth" arrangement. The entrance to the station is from Ferensway, and a reversing roundabout was provided at the west end of the station. The station has approximately 1,700 bus departures per day (September 2010). The area under the northernmost span of the trainshed roof was converted into the concourse and queueing area for the bus station.

Bus services
Bus services run from the station to all areas of Hull, as well as to the East Riding and North Lincolnshire and as far out as York, Leeds, Grimsby and Scunthorpe on some express services. Most city bus services are operated by Stagecoach East Midlands, whilst East Yorkshire is the main bus company for services to the East Riding. Services to North East Lincolnshire are operated by Stagecoach in Lincolnshire and Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes.

Rail services
Hull Paragon is managed by TransPennine Express, serving mainly its North TransPennine route and several Northern Trains routes. Additional services are provided by Hull Trains and London North Eastern Railway.

 * TransPennine Express operates a Monday-Saturday service of one train per hour to and from Liverpool Lime Street via Leeds and Manchester Victoria. Direct services to and from Manchester are less frequent after 7 pm. In May 2017, a later direct service to Manchester Piccadilly was introduced. On Sunday, a similar service runs at the reduced frequency of approximately every one to two hours; services start later and finish earlier, with no direct service to Manchester Airport. All services are operated by Class 185 Desiros.

 * Northern Trains' weekday service consists of two trains per hour from Hull to Bridlington, made up of one semi-fast service and one stopping service, with one service per hour continuing through to Scarborough. Northern also operates one fast service per hour to Sheffield via Goole plus a second local stopping train each hour to Doncaster and hourly to both York and Halifax via Leeds. At peak times, there are additional services between Hull and Beverley, calling at Cottingham. Weekend running is similar, but with reduced frequencies on some routes and all services finishing earlier. Most fast services from Sheffield call at Hull before continuing to Scarborough, although some timetables show these services as separate rather than continuous. All services are typically operated by a mixture of Class 150 Sprinters, Class 155 Sprinters, Class 158 Express Sprinters and Class 170 Turbostars.

 * Hull Trains operates a weekday service of seven trains in each direction to London King's Cross. At weekends, this service is reduced with 6 trains on Saturday and 5 on Sunday. However, Sunday services were increased to 6 trains in each direction from December 2017. Every day, one train to London starts at Beverley progressing to Hull in the early morning, with one late night train from London terminating at Beverley after Hull. All services are currently operated by Class 802 Paragons.

 * London North Eastern Railway operates one train per day Monday-Saturday in each direction between Hull and London King's Cross, with the morning service departing at 06:58 and the evening service arriving back at 20:05, from where it then returns to Doncaster. On Sundays, there is no morning departure, with only an evening arrival from London. Each service is operated by a Class 800 Azuma.

Platforms

 * Platform 1 – A bay platform. Returned to use in the spring of 2024 after extensive work. Northern services only, for trains of up to 3 carriages.

 * Platform 2 – Northern Trains services on routes to Sheffield from Bridlington or Scarborough or services from York terminating here.
 * Platform 3 – TransPennine Express services terminating from Liverpool Lime Street along with Platform 4.
 * Platform 4 – TransPennine Express services from Liverpool Lime Street.
 * Platform 5 – Northern Trains services terminating from Doncaster and also occasionally used for services from York when platform 2 is in use.
 * Platform 6 – Northern Trains services from Beverley or services terminating here from Sheffield.
 * Platform 7 – Hull Trains services from/to London King's Cross/Beverley and Northern services from/to Bridlington/Scarborough terminating or from Doncaster/Sheffield. This platform is also used by London North Eastern Railway's limited service to and from King's Cross, with the platform being just about long enough to accommodate a 9-car Azuma.

Naming

The railway station is commonly known as Paragon Station, Hull Paragon or just Hull Station; National Rail refers to the station as Hull (HUL). The name originates from nearby Paragon Street, which was itself built in c. 1802;the name dates back earlier. The Paragon Hotel public house, now the Hull Cheese, gave its name to the street and dates back as far as 1700.

The station was opened as Hull Paragon Street on 8 May 1848 by the York and North Midland Railway; the North Eastern Railway used the name Hull Paragon, however, the Paragon suffix was used inconsistently over ninety years from its opening to 1948.

Since the British Railways period, which commenced in 1948, the official name has been Hull, which excludes the Paragon suffix.

The term Hull (Paragon) has also been used by Network Rail. Since redevelopment in 2007, the official name has been Paragon Interchange; however, as of 2012, timetables continued to use Hull, except when referring to bus services.

The hotel has been known as the Station Hotel or Royal Station Hotel from its early history; after privatisation in the 1980s, the owners renamed it Royal Hotel. As of 2014, as part of the Mercure Hotels group, the hotel's official name is now the Mercure Hull Royal Hotel.

In popular culture
The station has been used as a filming location in the film Clockwise, in an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot "The Plymouth Express" and in the comedy Only Fools and Horses episode "To Hull and Back".

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User talk:DavidMichaelMyers

I am a long-time student of money. I am brand new to Wikipedia, but highly desirous of making a useful, valid contribution.

I find this article to have several good points and several very bad points. I notice that a number of people have picked up on them, however I am very cautious and reluctant to go in and edit like a bull in a china shop.

I will start off by saying here that the lead-in definition of "money" is deficient, in my opinion.

I will try to work up what I consider to be an adequate and complete definition.

First off, the word "money" should not be thrown around loosely as it seems to be in this article.

I will have to read thoroughly and edit the history section in order to correct some terribly bad assumptions before I can completely explain this; however, suffice it to say:

THERE IS "real money" and there are "money substitutes."

Gold, silver, platinium (and any other highly durable, relatively rare commodity metal of high, provable purity) are presently the only practical forms of REAL money in this world. These are the commodities that are UNIVERSALLY accepted as media of exchange, stores of value, etc.

All the other things that are commonly called money (due to laziness) such as Federal Reserve Notes, US coinage, other nations' coinage and currency, checks, electronic bookkeeping entries, credit cards, debit cards, etc. are just that: forms of currency, which by definition are money substitutes.

This is a MOST IMPORTANT POINT! In order to have a good understanding of money and all the problems and issues surrounding it one must thoroughly grasp and really understand this.

If you sit down and think hard about money you can come only to the conclusion that you need to have something "physical" to use as a reference or standard. And the reason is derived from the very definition of money: money is a "commodity" that is widely accepted as a "medium of exchange" and as a long-term "store of value."

Little pieces of paper with pretty markings on them are not money, they are "money substitutes," and to be worth something, the bearer must be able to exchange his "substitutes" for real money anytime he wants to. Otherwise, the guys who print or write the pretty little pieces of paper can swindle the gullible ones.

Also, pretty little copper slugs shaped into the form of coins with a shiny coating are not money. If anyone believes that, then they should check the going rate for copper at their local recycling center. (I use Ernie's Junkyard up on USRoute 11, north of Martinsburg.) These coins are also "money substitutes." Gullible people don't know or understand the difference.

Ideally, a little old lady in Ottumwa could put away in safekeeping a small gold piece that would buy two loaves of good bread and come back ten, twenty, a hundred, or even five hundred years later and buy the same amount of bread. (Or even a little more or a little better bread as production efficiencies and competition increase) with the same small gold piece.

Only with a common, universal, "unmanipulatable" standard of reference, can mankind devise a truly rational monetary system.

Fiat money systems are mirages. Those who disdain commodity metals do not seem to understand or admit this.

But who cares? "In the long run we are all dead!"

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Doctorow

Doctorow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Dmitry Doctorow (1756–1816) — Russian general
 * E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015) — author of novels blending history and social criticism
 * Cory Doctorow (born 1971) — blogger, activist, and science fiction author

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User talk:Shauri/Archive3

You're a sysop!
Hi,, Congratulations on Becoming a Sysop Hey there. I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except patent nonsense like "aojt9085yu8;3ou"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.

Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun! =Nichalp  «Talk»= , 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Me too
Welcome, Shauri, to where you belong, among the admins!--Wiglaf 10:48, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Rfa

 * Congrats on Rfa success Shauri.    Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   12:53, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Congratulations on your well earned adminship. --Bhadani 13:09, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You're welcome, and congratulations! Andre ( talk ) 21:18, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Popups tool
Lupin|talk|popups 14:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations - you seem to deserve it
Hi, Shauri. Congratulations on being made an admin. I hope you didn't mind my slightly flippant remark about "hugs" when I was voting! (Since I was voting for you, I figured that you wouldn't!) I remember in the (very happy) years when I lived on the continent, feeling almost alarmed at the tendency of people to kiss me on my birthday etc. when they hardly knew more about me than just my name! Anyway, I'm delighted that your RfA was successful. Although I hadn't come across you before – which means that we must be interersted in very different articles – the comments made by others, and my own brief look through your contributions, suggested that you respect other people's views and feelings. And, to my mind, that's a far more important quality in an admin than the number of edits, or success in having contributed to a Featured Article. Regards. Ann Heneghan (talk) 17:55, 2 October 2005 (UTC) P.S.  I think Grace Note is male, not female, although the user name almost invites the error!

Yay! You're a Cabalist!
Welcome to the admin ranks! I'm very glad to see that your RfA passed (was a little worried there for a while). Did you know that only 0.13% of all users are admins? That's pretty exclusive. I'm sure you'll be fine. Now, just make sure you have enough time to rollback my userpage when the vandals attack. ;). Congrats! Bratsche talk 21:34, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Congrats, BTW my name is Jon not Jobe, that was just a really random user name i picked for soem reason. Job  e  6  [[Image:Peru flag large.png|20px]] 21:40, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Great job!
Hi Shauri, I know the reply might be deemed unneccsary, but I just wanted to express my delight at your successful admin nomination and to say thanks for the thanks :-). Even though I don't know you, your edits demonstrate that you'll perform your admin duties with responsibility and thoughtfulness. By the way, I hope you have the same success with the Texas Ranger Division article as you did with Spring Heeled Jack. Thanks to a certain Chuck Norris, I'm really fascinated about the Texas Rangers :-D I hope I come across you again. Take care, and sorry about this gushing message :-). SoLando 22:01, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks & Congrats

Thanks you for the congrats, and congrats yourself on becomeing an admin. Is so surreal isnt it? Hope you enjoy your new powers and responsibilities. →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  22:07, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

/me tags his name on the award. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 22:17, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations on your promotion and thank you for your kind words. --Allen3 talk 23:30, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Bravo!
Congratulations on your adminship! --Briangotts (talk) 23:08, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

I congratulate you for becoming the admin. :-) :-) :-) Alx-pl   D  23:19, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * A tender smile has occured on my face after your flower. It is my honour to have it :-) Alx-pl   D  20:48, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, and congrats!  Rob e  rt  23:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Congrats! Wield that mop with pride. :-) Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 02:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Your RfA
Congratulations, and you're quite welcome! --Merovingian (t) (c) 02:56, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations on becoming an admin! But be careful about handing out random hugs to strange older men you meet on Wikipedia!! By the way why do you take your talk page with milk? CambridgeBayWeather 08:13, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

RFA
Thanks for the warm notes and compliments. First time I've ever been given a hug :). Me,  a wiki legend??? But thanks anyways and hope to see more of you in FAC. Regards,  =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:04, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If you're looking for some tips on adminship; I've written something here: User talk:DESiegel. You may find it useful as a newbie admin. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  09:07, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

the usual :)
Congrats on getting "elected" :). Try to take it easy the first couple of weeks, esp. not to get too dragged into the politics, mmk? Take care :) Ryan Norton T 09:48, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Still more congradulations
As I was saying on my Talk page- CONGRADULATIONS to you, my dearest friend. It is a joy to collaborate with you! You are a great contributor and will be a great admin as well. *MEGA WARM HUG* from your Dood Ex Machina --R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 14:40, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi.
Hi Shauri. I thought your article on Spring Heeled Bob was awesome. By the way I'm friends with R.D.H., he says he knows you. Anyway, I think you're interesting & thought maybe you wanted to swap a conversation? If you don't that's okay... Spawn Man 14:12, 3 October 2005 (UTC) P.S. Did you know, you share the same name as a place in Kenya?

Congratulations!
Congratulations on the results of your RfA! It's unfortunate when the candidate doesn't feel trusted, and I'm glad if my comments in some way helped you feel that the community had a little more confidence in you. Your answers to the questions, and also to the opposition, showed a level-headed graciousness that is too often abandoned online, and really impressed me. I know you'll make a good administrator, and I hope the politics associated with the position doesn't get you down. If you want a second opinion on anything, feel free to leave me a note on my talk page, and again, congratulations! --Scimitar parley 14:52, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Shauri-- Thank you very much for your kind words and support on my RfA, although it appears to be too little, too late. It appears at the moment to be headed for "no consensus". Since many editors have said they may vote support in a few months time, I hope you might consider supporting me again. People really seem to be divided over me, even though it's supposed to be "no big deal". Oh well. I guess I will just have to stick with it and try again later. Gracias, mi amiga. -- Lord Vold e  mort  (Dark Mark) 21:02, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

And yet more congratulations
Hi Shauri. Congratulations on your adminship. I completely missed the last few RfA nominations, otherwise I would have definitely voted for you. From what I have seen, you will make a great Admin! Happy Editing! -- Chris 73 Talk 05:55, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

userpage
Hi Shauri! Your userpage is so impressive. And those images...--Wiglaf 06:06, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * A bit creepy... Spawn Man

Namaskar
Namaskar Shauri, congratulations and my best wishes for your new avatar as an administrator. We shall surely have more interaction. And, I am telling you the truth (I believe none is listening!) – thanks for the warm hugs. --Bhadani 14:52, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

That's fine
Congratulations. Have a barnstar on me:

Take care, Molotov (talk)  19:16, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

AHEM
Shauri, I had no idea you were even up for admin. Now I randomly visit your talk page and am pleased to see that not only were you nominated, but were promoted. Congratulations! I only wish I could have seen the nom to add my $.02. All my best · Katefan0(scribble) 20:38, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: Congrats
And congrats on yours...and no I'm not paying. :) I was glad to see your admin RfA succeed. On an emotional level, I thought you should become an admin. On a logical one, I wanted to see the pattern continue. I hope it does! You're a great editor. --Durin 21:02, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Ive kinda sorta fixed your image section for you. If you dont like it, thats ok, you can just revert it :). →Jo urna list   >>talk<<  22:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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User:Michael Favor

Michael Favor is charmed by Wikipedia and tickled by the opportunity to participate.

Michael Favor is also interested in cross-platform, open-source software.

Michael Favor is not accustomed to writing about himself in the third-person.

Email can be sent to michael_wikipedia at owlcreek dot org.

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Chapeltown

Chapeltown may refer to:

 * Chapel Town, Cornwall, England
 * Chapeltown, Lancashire, a village in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen, England
 * Chapeltown, South Yorkshire, a suburb of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
 * Chapeltown, Leeds, a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
 * Chapeltown, County Kerry, a village on Valentia Island, Ireland

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Talk:Chapeltown

removing Chapeltons
Have removed the various Chapeltons, as they are disambiguated on the Chapelton disambig page - having two lists of them raises risk of someone amending one or other but not both. PamD 10:20, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Nolot

This article has a lot of technical terms that people who do not have experience with chess would not understand. This should be rewritten into a more user-friendly article with less technical talk. MJ 16:26, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Clean up
I have redone the diagrams using the board template, stripped out or commented out the editorializing/narrating commentary/OR ("Computer X shouldn't be able to solve this for 10 years" and my favorite "Ribli is a solid player...") and reworked the remaining annotations to have them read cleaner. The main thing missing here are sources; the web does pull up some, and I have to guess some standard computer chess books refer to this suite. If anyone has any of these books, your assistance in soucring this article is greatly appreciated. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 16:50, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Name
Should be Nolot test suite or Nolot chess test suite. --AndrejJ (talk) 15:19, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I made those pages into redirects back here. I have no strong opinions about which should be the main page.  Baccyak4H (Yak!) 15:43, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Nolot 9
"B2b. 4.Qg4 gxf6 5.gxf6 Nxd3 (5...Bf8? 6.Qh3+ Kg8 7.Bh6! is winning) 6.Rxd3 Bf8 7.Rdd1 is unclear."

Stockfish at depth >30 thinks 7. Rdd1 is a bad move:

FEN: r1r2b1k/5p2/2n1pPb1/p3P3/1p1p1BQ1/3R2P1/qP3PB1/2R3K1 w - - 1 7 31/56 +2,48  Rcd1 Qc4 Qh4+ Kg8 Qg5 Kh7 Bf1 Nxe5 Bxe5 Bh6 Qh4 Qc5 Re1 Rg8 Rxd4 Rad8 Rxd8 Rxd8 g4 Qf8 g5 a4 Bg2 Bf5 Ra1 a3 bxa3 b3 Re1 31/56 +1,13  Qh4+ Kg8 Rd2 Nxe5 Rcd1 Nd7 Rxd4 Ra7 Be4 Qa4 Bxg6 fxg6 f7+ Kxf7 Qh8 Qb5 Be3 e5 R4d3 Nf6 Bxa7 e4 R3d2 Qf5 Qh4 b3 Be3 Bb4 31/56 +0,79  Rd2 Nxe5 Qh4+ Bh7 Rxc8 Rxc8 Bxe5 Qb1+ Kh2 Qe1 Qxd4 Kg8 Bd6 Rd8 Qf4 Bg6 Bxb4 Rxd2 Bxd2 Qe2 Bc3 Qh5+ Bh3 Bc5 f3 Qd5 Bf1 31/56  0,00  Rdd1 Qxb2 Bxc6 Rxc6 Rxc6 d3 Rd2 Qb1+ Rd1 Qb2 31/56  0,00  Qh3+ Kg8 Rcd1 Bxd3 Rxd3 Qb1+ Bf1 Nxe5 Bxe5 Rc1 Qg4+ Kh8 Qh4+ Kg8 Qg4+ 31/56  0,00  Re1 Bxd3 Qh4+ Kg8 Qg5+ Bg6 Be4 Ra7 Bxg6 fxg6 Qxg6+ Bg7 Bh6 Qd5 f4 Nxe5 fxe5 d3 Bxg7 Qc5+ Kf1 d2 Bh6+ Kh8 Bg7+ Kg8 31/56  0,00  Kh2 Bxd3 Rh1 Bh7 Be4 Bxe4 Kg1+ Bxh1 Qh5+ Kg8 Qg4+ Kh7 Qh4+ Kg6 Qg4+ Kh7 31/56 -1,14  Rxc6 Rxc6 Rxd4 Qxb2 Be3 Qb1+ Kh2 Qf5 Qh4+ Kg8 Bxc6 Rc8 Rf4 Qh5 Ba4 Qxh4+ Rxh4 Rc3 Bd4 Ra3 Bd7 Bf5 Rf4 Rd3 Rxf5 exf5

analysis after 7. Rcd1:

FEN: r1r2b1k/5p2/2n1pPb1/p3P3/1p1p1BQ1/3R2P1/qP3PB1/3R2K1 b - - 2 7 33/62 +2,74  Qc4 Qh4+ Kg8 Qg5 Kh7 Bf1 Nxe5 Bxe5 Bh6 Qh4 Qc5 Re1 Rg8 Rxd4 Rad8 Rxd8 Rxd8 g4 Rd2 g5 Kg8 gxh6 Kh7 Qf4 Qc2 Bc4 Rd1 33/62 +3,44  Qxb2 Qh4+ Kg8 Qg5 Qe2 Bf3 Qa2 Be4 Bg7 Bxg6 fxg6 Qxg6 Rc7 g4 b3 Rh3 Qc2 Rdd3 b2 Rh8+ Kxh8 Rh3+ Kg8 Qxc2 Rb8 Rb3 Rcb7 33/62 +4,45  Bxd3 Qh5+ Kg8 Rxd3 Qb1+ Bf1 Nxe5 Qxe5 Rc5 Qe2 Kh8 Qg4 Rf5 Qh4+ Kg8 g4 Rxf6 Qxf6 Bg7 Qg5 Qe1 Rxd4 Re8 Rd7 a4 Be3 Qb1 Qf4 33/62 +9,84  Kg8 Be4 Bg7 Bxg6 fxg6 Qxg6 Ra7 g4 Qd5 Rh3 Nxe5 Qh7+ Kf8 fxg7+ Rxg7 Bh6 Rcc7 Qh8+ Ke7 Qxg7+ Kd6 Qf8+ Kc6 Bf4 Kb7 Rh8 33/62 +10,28 Qa4 Qh4+ Kg8 g4 Qc2 Rh3 Bh7 Bf1 Bh6 Qxh6 Qg6 Qh4 Kf8 Bd3 Ke8 Qxh7 Qxh7 Rxh7 Rab8 Be4 Rb5 Rh8+ Kd7 Rxc8 Kxc8 Bxc6 Rb6 33/62 +11,41 Bh7 Qh4 Kg8 g4 Qa4 Bf1 Qc2 Rh3 Bh6 Qxh6 Qg6 Qh4 Kf8 Bd3 Ke8 Qxh7 Qxh7 Rxh7 Rab8 Be4 Rb5 Rh8+ Kd7 Rxc8 Kxc8 Bxc6 Rb6

So above line should be changed into "7.Rcd1 is winning."? --176.198.187.19 (talk) 15:53, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Universally measurable set

Finiteness condition
So it seems I goofed in my first definition; looking around, everyone seems to impose some finiteness condition on the measure. Does this actually matter? Can someone cook up a universally measurable set of reals that's not measurable with respect to, say, Hausdorff measure of dimension 1/2 ? --Trovatore 16:27, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You asked me to comment on this. Unfortunately, my set theoretic knowledge is rather limited. In particular, I don't know what Polish spaces or analytic sets are. So, can't help much. Oleg Alexandrov 03:55, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Some such A ?
In the section "Example contrasting with Lebesgue measureability", it says that "Thus we can think of A as a subset of the interval [0,1], and evaluate its Lebesgue measure". Later is says "there are some such A without a well defined Lebesgue measure". It is unclear whether the "some such A" in the second statement refers to a set not in 2^omega or whether the first statement should have said "attempt to evaluate its Lebesgue measure". Tashiro (talk) 15:57, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

I made an edit following your suggestion. Thank you. 185.69.144.34 (talk) 18:22, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Missing properties
Hello, I suggest properties of universally measurable sets should be added. Such that whether intersections and unions (countable?) are universally measurable, and continuous images and preimages. Thank you 148.252.128.209 (talk) 08:26, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

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Summary
Cover art for Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris' 1987 Trio album.

Fair use in Trio (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris album)
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Adriana Behar

Adriana Brandão Behar (born February 14, 1969, in Rio de Janeiro) was one of the most outstanding volleyball players of her generation.

Behar is Jewish. She moved to beach volleyball in 1993, after playing in the Brazilian women's national indoor volleyball squad. Pairing with Shelda Bede, she won more than 30 international tournaments of beach volleyball as well as two Olympic medals. Together, they have won more than 1,000 matches and 114 titles.

Of Lebanese Jewish origin, she is the only Brazilian athlete in the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, next to universal sport legends like the American swimmer Mark Spitz and the former Formula 1 pilot Jody Scheckter.

Recognition
She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2017.

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Madyes

Madyes was a Scythian king who ruled during the period of the Scythian presence in West Asia in the 7th century BCE.

Madyes was the son of the Scythian king Bartatua and the Assyrian princess Šērūʾa-ēṭirat, and, as an ally of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which was then the superpower of West Asia and whose king Ashurbanipal was his uncle, he brought Scythian power to its peak in West Asia.

After the Neo-Assyrian Empire started unravelling, Madyes was assassinated by the Median king Cyaxares, who expelled the Scythians from West Asia.

Name
The name Madyes is the Latinised form of (Μαδυης), which is itself the Ancient Greek form of an Old Iranic name.

Iranologist had initially suggested that the original form of Madyes's name was Scythian, meaning “mead,” derived from a term for honey, *madu-.

However, the Iranic sound /d/ had evolved into /δ/ in Proto-Scythian, and later evolved into /l/ in Scythian, due to which the Proto-Iranic term *madu- had become *malu- in Scythian, hence why the scholar Mikhail Bukharin considered the derivation of Madyes from as unlikely, and, noting that the name of Madyes was transmitted through Persian sources to the Greek authors who recorded it, proposed that the name Μαδυης instead originated from a Western Iranic form, meaning “Median.”

Historical background
In the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, a significant movement of the nomads of the Eurasian steppe brought the Scythians into Southwest Asia. This movement started when another nomadic Iranic tribe closely related to the Scythians, either the Massagetae or the Issedones, migrated westwards, forcing the Early Scythians of the to the west across the Araxes river, following which the Scythians moved into the Caspian Steppe from where they displaced the Cimmerians.

Under Scythian pressure, the Cimmerians migrated to the south along the coast of the Black Sea and reached Anatolia, and the Scythians in turn later expanded to the south, following the coast of the Caspian Sea and arrived in the steppes in the Northern Caucasus, from where they expanded into the region of present-day Azerbaijan, where they settled and turned eastern Transcaucasia into their centre of operations in West Asia until the early 6th century BCE, with this presence in West Asia being an extension of the Scythian kingdom of the steppes. During this period, the Scythian kings' headquarters were located in the steppes to the north of Caucasus, and contact with the civilisation of West Asia would have an important influence on the formation of Scythian culture.

Background
Madyes was the son of the previous Scythian king, Bartatua, and possibly the grandson of Bartatua's predecessor, Išpakaia. Išpakaia had been an enemy of the then superpower in West Asia, the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and was killed in battle against the Assyrian king Esarhaddon, after which Bartatua became the king of the Scythians and instead sought to ally with the Assyrians.

The name of Madyes's mother is not recorded, but, since Bartatua had asked in marriage the hand of the Assyrian princess Šērūʾa-ēṭirat, who was the daughter of Esarhaddon and the sister of his successors Ashurbanipal and Shamash-shum-ukin, and there was a close alliance between the Scythians and Assyria under the reigns of Bartatua and Madyes, this suggests that the Assyrian priests did approve of this marriage between a daughter of an Assyrian king and a nomadic lord, which had never happened before in Assyrian history; the Scythians were thus brought into a marital alliance with Assyria, and Šērūʾa-ēṭirat was likely the mother of Bartatua's son Madyes.

Bartatua's marriage to Šērūʾa-ēṭirat required that he would pledge allegiance to Assyria as a vassal, and in accordance to Assyrian law, the territories ruled by him would be his fief granted by the Assyrian king, which made the Scythian presence in West Asia a nominal extension of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Under this arrangement, the power of the Scythians in West Asia heavily depended on their cooperation with the Assyrian Empire; henceforth, the Scythians remained allies of the Assyrian Empire. Around this time, the Urartian king Rusa II might also have enlisted Scythian troops to guard his western borderlands.

The marital alliance between the Scythian king and the Assyrian ruling dynasty, as well as the proximity of the Scythians with Mannai and Urartu, placed the Scythians under the strong influence of Assyrian culture. After Bartatua's death, Madyes succeeded him.

Conquest of Media
When, following a period of Assyrian decline over the course of the 650s BCE, Esarhaddon's other son, Shamash-shum-ukin, who had succeeded him as the king of Babylon, revolted against his brother Ashurbanipal in 652 BCE, the Medes supported him, and Madyes helped Ashurbanipal suppress the revolt externally by invading the Medes. The Median king Phraortes was killed in battle, either against the Assyrians or against Madyes himself, who then imposed Scythian hegemony over Media for twenty-eight years on behalf of the Assyrians, thus starting a period which Greek authors called the “Scythian rule over Asia.”

Madyes soon expanded the Scythian hegemony to the state of Urartu as well, with Media, Mannai and Urartu all continuing to exist as kingdoms under Scythian suzerainty.

Defeat of the Cimmerians
During the 7th century BCE, the bulk of the Cimmerians were operating in Anatolia, where they constituted a threat against the Scythians’ Assyrian allies, who since 669 BCE were ruled by Madyes's uncle, that is Esarhaddon's son and Šērūʾa-ēṭirat's brother, Ashurbanipal. Assyrian records in 657 BCE might have referred to a threat against or a conquest of the western possessions of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in Syria, and these Cimmerian aggressions worried Ashurbanipal about the security of his empire's north-west border. By 657 BCE the Assyrian divinatory records were calling the Cimmerian king Tugdammi by the title of ("King of the Universe"), which could normally belong only to the Neo-Assyrian King: thus, Tugdammi's successes against Assyria meant that he had become recognised in ancient West Asia as equally powerful as Ashurbanipal, and the kingship over the Universe, which rightfully belonged to the Assyrian king, had been usurped by the Cimmerians and had to be won back by Assyria. This situation continued throughout the rest of the 650s BCE and the early 640s BCE.

In 644 BCE, the Cimmerians, led by Tugdammi, attacked the kingdom of Lydia, defeated the Lydians and captured the Lydian capital, Sardis; the Lydian king Gyges died during this attack. After sacking Sardis, Tugdammi led the Cimmerians into invading the Greek city-states of Ionia and Aeolis on the western coast of Anatolia. After this attack on Lydia and the Asian Greek cities, around 640 BCE the Cimmerians moved to Cilicia on the north-west border of the Neo-Assyrian empire, where, after Tugdammi faced a revolt against himself, he allied with Assyria and acknowledged Assyrian overlordship, and sent tribute to Ashurbanipal, to whom he swore an oath. Tugdammi soon broke this oath and attacked the Neo-Assyrian Empire again, but he fell ill and died in 640 BCE, and was succeeded by his son Sandakšatru.

In 637 BCE, the Thracian Treres tribe who had migrated across the Thracian Bosporos and invaded Anatolia, under their king Kōbos and in alliance with Sandakšatru's Cimmerians and the Lycians, attacked Lydia during the seventh year of the reign of Gyges's son Ardys. They defeated the Lydians and captured their capital of Sardis except for its citadel, and Ardys might have been killed in this attack. Ardys's son and successor, Sadyattes, might possibly also have been killed in another Cimmerian attack on Lydia in 635 BCE.

Soon after 635 BCE, with Assyrian approval and in alliance with the Lydians, the Scythians under Madyes entered Anatolia, expelled the Treres from Asia Minor, and defeated the Cimmerians so that they no longer constituted a threat again, following which the Scythians extended their domination to Central Anatolia. This final defeat of the Cimmerians was carried out by the joint forces of Madyes, whom Strabo credits with expelling the Treres and Cimmerians from Asia Minor, and of Sadyattes’s son, Ardys’s grandson, and Gyges's great-grandson, the king Alyattes of Lydia, whom Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Polyaenus claim finally defeated the Cimmerians.

In Polyaenus' account of the defeat of the Cimmerians, he claimed that Alyattes used "war dogs" to expel them from Asia Minor, with the term "war dogs" being a Greek folkloric reinterpretation of young Scythian warriors who, following the Indo-European passage rite of the , would ritually take on the role of wolf- or dog-warriors.

Scythian power in West Asia thus reached its peak under Madyes, with the territories ruled by the Scythians extending from the Halys river in Anatolia in the west to the Caspian Sea and the eastern borders of Media in the east, and from Transcaucasia in the north to the northern borders of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the south.

Revolt of Media and death
By the 620s BCE, the Neo-Assyrian Empire began unravelling after the death of Ashurbanipal in 631 BCE: in addition to internal instability within Assyria itself, Babylon revolted against the Assyrians in 626 BCE under the leadership of Nabopolassar. The next year, in 625 BCE, Cyaxares, the son of Phraortes and his successor to the Median kingship, overthrew the Scythian yoke over the Medes by inviting the Scythian rulers to a banquet and then murdering them all, including Madyes, after getting them drunk.

Aftermath
Madyes's relationship with the Scythian kings after him and the identity of his successor are both unknown, although shortly after his assassination, some time between 623 and 616 BCE, the Scythians took advantage of the power vacuum created by the crumbling of the power of their former Assyrian allies and overran the Levant and reached as far south as Palestine till the borders of Egypt, where their advance was stopped by the marshes of the Nile Delta, after which the pharaoh Psamtik I met them and convinced them to turn back by offering them gifts. The Scythians retreated by passing through Askalon largely without any incident, although some stragglers looted the temple of Astarte in the city, which was considered to be the most ancient of all temples to that goddess, as a result of which the perpetrators of this sacrilege and their descendants were allegedly cursed by Astarte with a “female disease,” due to which they became a class of transvestite diviners called the Enaree (meaning “unmanly” in Scythian).

According to Babylonian records, around 615 BCE the Scythians were operating as allies of Cyaxares and the Medes in their war against Assyria. The Scythians were finally expelled from West Asia by the Medes in the 600s BCE, after which they retreated into the Pontic Steppe.

Legacy
The Graeco-Roman authors conflated Madyes with his predecessors and successors into a single figure by claiming that it was Madyes himself who led the Scythians from Central Asia into chasing the Cimmerians out of their homeland and then defeating the Medes and the legendary Egyptian king Sesostris and imposing their rule over Asia for many years before returning to Scythia. Later Graeco-Roman authors named this Scythian king as Idanthyrsos or Tanausis, although this Idanthyrsos is a legendary figure separate from the later historical Scythian king Idanthyrsus, from whom the Graeco-Romans derived merely his name.

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Cliff Battles

Clifford Franklin Battles (May 1, 1910 – April 28, 1981) was an American football tailback who played in the National Football League (NFL). Battles was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968.

Early life
Battles was born in Akron, Ohio, the son of Frank Battles, a saltworker for the BFGoodrich and Firestone tire companies, and Della Battles. He played high school football at Kenmore High School. Kenmore today honors athletes who carry on Battles' tradition, those who letter in three sports their senior year, with the Cliff Battles Award. Kenmore High School is at the corner of 13th Street and Battles Avenue, but the avenue is not named after Cliff. It was so named before he became famous.

College career
Battles attended and played college football at West Virginia Wesleyan College. His most prominent season was 1931, when he scored 15 touchdowns and had four extra points. The best game of his college career was also in 1931 in a game against Salem College, when he scored seven touchdowns and had 354 rushing yards, 91 kick return yards, and 24 receiving yards, totalling 469.

He acquired the nickname "Gip" (sometimes spelled "Gipp") because of his admiration for Notre Dame back George Gipp, the subject of Knute Rockne's "win one for the Gipper" speech.

While at West Virginia Wesleyan, Battles won 15 letters in five sports – four each in football and track, three each in baseball and basketball, and one in tennis. While there, he was a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and Rhodes Scholarship candidate.

He was named to the West Virginia Hall of Fame in 1950 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.

While at West Virginia Wesleyan, Battles also played semipro football for the South Akron Awnings under the name of Jones.

Professional career
After college, Battles got many offers from NFL teams including the New York Giants and Portsmouth Spartans, among other NFL teams. But he signed with the Boston Braves (now the Washington Commanders) in 1932, who offered him $175 per game, compared with a high of $150 from the other teams.

In 1932, Battles won the NFL's rushing title as a rookie. He also performed well during the 1933 season and on October 8, 1933, Battles, playing for the newly named Boston Redskins, became the first player to exceed 200 rushing yards in a game, finishing with 215 yards on 16 rushes and one touchdown against the Giants.

In 1937, the Redskins moved from Boston to Washington, D.C., and acquired quarterback Sammy Baugh. For the 1937, Baugh and Battles combined their talents just as everyone had anticipated. During their last regular-season game, Battles scored three touchdowns and the Redskins beat the Giants for the Eastern Division title. In the 1937 NFL Championship against the Chicago Bears a week later, Battles scored the first touchdown in a 28–21 victory that gave the Redskins their first NFL title.

In what would end up being his last regular-season game on December 5, 1937, Battles ran for 165 yards against the Giants at the Polo Grounds. This was the record for most rushing yards for a player in the final regular-season game of his NFL career until Tiki Barber broke the record on December 30, 2006, with 234 rushing yards.

In the 1937 NFL season, Battles was again the league's leading rusher with 874 yards on 216 carries and won all-league honors for the fifth time in six years. In six seasons, Battles totaled 3,511 yards rushing. A two way threat, he also finished his career with 15 interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown.

After 1937, Battles hoped for a raise in salary. George Preston Marshall, the owner of the Redskins, refused to pay him more than $3,000 a year (the amount Battles had been paid since his rookie season). Battles chose retirement instead, and left the game as a player at the end of 1937.

Coaching career
After the 1937 season, Cliff Battles accepted a $4,000 job as an assistant football coach at Columbia University coached there from 1938 to 1943. While at Columbia, Battles was also the head coach of the men's basketball team from 1942 to 1943. He then served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. After the war, Battles became head coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1947.

After football
After the end of his coaching career, Battles became an associate with General Electric in the Washington Metropolitan Area before retiring in 1979. He died on April 28, 1981, in Clearwater, Florida, and is buried in Parklawn Memorial Park in Rockville, Maryland.

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Barbara Schwartz (artist)

Barbara Schwartz (1949 – May 8, 2006 in New York City) was an American abstract artist, painter, sculptor and art teacher.

Schwartz was born in Philadelphia. She studied at Carnegie Mellon University for her BFA. She moved to New York and had her first solo show in 1975 at the Willard Gallery. Towards the end of the 1970s, she aimed to develop abstract painting, including non-Western decorative elements, such as an Islamic influence, as well as integrating geometric with organic forms. Her painted plaster reliefs were associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement in New York. From 1978, she taught at the School of Visual Arts.She was Keith Haring teacher. In 1979, she was represented in the Whitney Biennial. She experimented with numerous materials, including wood, glass, and metal, and often cast pieces in bronze and aluminum. She used glazed ceramic for her work in the 1990s. Her last representing gallery was the Andre Zarre Gallery in New York, where she had a show shortly before her death.

Her work is in the collections of New Mexico Museum of Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, Neuberger Museum, New York, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

She married, and was divorced from, artists Bill Jensen and Art Schade. She died age 58 from leukemia which developed from chemotherapy she had twelve years previously for ovarian cancer, said her companion, Richard Johnson; she was also survived by her stepdaughter, Megan Schade.

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Russian Circles

Russian Circles is an American post-metal band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was originally formed by childhood friends Mike Sullivan and Dave Turncrantz after their previous musical projects dissolved. After parting ways with their original bass player Colin DeKuiper in 2007, the trio was rounded out by Brian Cook. The band has gained widespread recognition based on a series of critically acclaimed albums and extensive international touring. Their name is taken from a drill exercise used in ice hockey, a sport Sullivan and Turncrantz grew up playing in their original hometown of St. Louis.

History
Russian Circles was formed in late 2004 by guitarist Mike Sullivan and bassist Colin DeKuiper (both formerly of instrumental band Dakota/Dakota), they quickly recruited drummer Dave Turncrantz, formerly of St. Louis band Riddle of Steel.

In the autumn of 2007, it was announced that the band had parted ways with Colin DeKuiper. As a result, the bass tracks on their second album, titled Station, were handled by ex-Botch/These Arms Are Snakes bass player Brian Cook, who then joined the band permanently. The group's third full-length, Geneva, was released on October 20, 2009 and reached No. 24 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.

In 2011, Russian Circles signed to Sargent House who had previously only exclusively released the band's albums on limited edition vinyl. Their fourth studio album Empros was released on October 25, 2011. A supporting tour with Deafheaven followed the release. In May 2013 the group began recording their fifth studio album, produced by Brandon Curtis. Memorial was released at the end of October 2013 and featured a guest-vocal by Chelsea Wolfe. Together they embarked on a co-headlining UK/European tour in the fall.

Russian Circles released its sixth studio album Guidance on August 5, 2016 through Sargent House. The album was produced by Kurt Ballou of Converge fame. On August 1, 2019, they released their seventh studio album, Blood Year, recorded at GodCity Studio in Salem and Steve Albini's Electrical Audio Studio in Chicago and again produced by Kurt Ballou.

The band's eighth album Gnosis was released on August 19, 2022 via Sargent House. It was engineered and mastered by Kurt Ballou.

Studio albums

 * Enter (2006, Flameshovel)
 * Station (2008, Suicide Squeeze)
 * Geneva (2009, Suicide Squeeze)
 * Empros (2011, Sargent House)
 * Memorial (2013, Sargent House)
 * Guidance (2016, Sargent House)
 * Blood Year (2019, Sargent House)
 * Gnosis (2022, Sargent House)

EPs

 * Russian Circles EP (2004, self-released)

Live albums

 * Live at Schubas 05/27/2005 (2005, Re:Live)
 * Live at Dunk! Fest (2017, Sargent House)

Singles and split releases

 * "Upper Ninety" (2006, Suicide Squeeze)
 * Russian Circles / These Arms Are Snakes (split with These Arms Are Snakes) (2008, Sargent House)

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George Snyder (politician)

George Elmer Snyder (January 12, 1929 – April 5, 2017 ) was an American politician, businessman, author, inventor, and marketing professional. He served in the Maryland State Senate from 1959 to 1974. Snyder served as the Majority leader of the Maryland Senate and was the Chairman of the Maryland Senate Finance Committee from 1971 to 1974.

Biography
Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, Snyder attended Washington County Public Schools. He then graduated from the University of Maryland and attended the University of Maryland School of Law. Snyder was married to Karen Englehart Snyder and had six children and ten grandchildren. He served in elected office as a Democrat, although he ran as a Republican in the 1982 Florida Senate Race for the seat occupied by Lawton Chiles. He served as the President of the National Taxpayers Union and led a nationwide effort to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the United States Constitution. Snyder passed away in 2017 at the Glenbridge Health and Rehabilitation Center in Boone, North Carolina.

Maryland General Assembly
In 1958 at the age of 29, Snyder was elected to serve in the Maryland State Senate representing Washington County. He served a total of four terms, eventually retiring from Maryland politics in 1974 after withdrawing from the Democratic primary for Governor of Maryland. By 1971, Snyder served as the Democratic Senate Majority Leader, member of the Legislative Council, and was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. He was a member of the Maryland delegation to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where he eventually voted to nominate Hubert Humphrey to become the democratic nominee for President of the United States.

Committee assignments and leadership roles

 * Member of Maryland State Senate, 1959–1974
 * Chair, Aviation, Roads, and Transportation Committee, 1963–1966
 * Correctional Administration Committee, 1965–1968
 * Taxation and Fiscal Matters Committee, 1965–1968
 * Special Joint Committee on Prisons, 1967
 * Chairman, Finance Committee, 1971–1974
 * Member, Legislative Council, 1971–1974
 * Senate Majority Leader, 1971–1974

Candidacy for Governor of Maryland
After years of deep conflict with then-sitting Governor Marvin Mandel, Snyder publicly announced that he would challenge Mandel in the Democratic primary for the Office of Governor. Hyman A. Pressman, the Comptroller of Baltimore, filed as his running mate seeking the party's nomination for the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland. Pressman previously ran as an independent candidate in the 1966 Maryland gubernatorial election. After several weeks it became clear that the demographic challenges of running for state-wide office from the relatively less densely populated western part of the state would hamper the campaign. On July 18, 1974, Snyder ended the campaign.

Balanced Budget Amendment and the National Taxpayers Union
Snyder lobbied and testified before more than 40 state legislatures in a campaign to get the states to force a constitutional convention to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment. By 1979, the effort to push the states to support an amendment had made serious progress with 29 of the 34 states required for a constitutional convention. Working at the federal level proved challenging, but several successes were achieved in the early 1980s. On May 19, 1981, the Senate Judiciary Committee, for the first time, approved the proposed constitutional amendment by a vote of 11–1. At the time, Snyder declared: ''”This is really a great day for the American taxpayers. The fiscal affairs of our country are about to be afforded the same safeguards as our Constitution freedoms ... and may be as crucial to protecting those rights.”''

An opposition effort, particularly at the state-level, was led by then-Massachusetts Lt. Governor Thomas P. O'Neill III and a number of organizations including the AFL–CIO and Common Cause, led by Fred Wertheimer.

After the departure of Grover Norquist from the leadership of the National Taxpayers Union in 1982, Snyder was appointed executive director of the organization.

1982 United States Senate campaign
After moving to Sarasota, Florida, in the late 1970s, Snyder broadened his career as a business consultant and made the decision to become a Republican. Leaning on his prior experience in elected office, he filed to run for the United States Senate in the 1982 election against the incumbent Senator Lawton Chiles. He was defeated in a three-way Republican primary carrying 27 percent of votes cast.

Business and innovation
As a serial entrepreneur, Snyder was involved in founding, co-founding, or acquiring numerous businesses throughout his life. He was the holder of several patents on processes and devices. Snyder owned a soft pretzel company, Dutchie, Inc. of Smithsburg, Maryland, where he pioneered frozen foods processes and methods of distribution. For example, Snyder developed and patented a then-novel design for a compact oven intended for use by commercial clients in the shopping, amusements, entertainment, and sport sectors.

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. -Splash talk 18:00, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Flora Ogilvy
The article tells us nothing about her, only about her relatives; is the fact that there are thirty-four people between her and the throne significant enough to warrant an article? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 16:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, or merge into some sort of genealogical list of heirs to the throne. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 16:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Line of succession to the British Throne covers this information perfectly adequately. I note that the line of succession article has lots of links to articles that are equally or more banal, for example Kelly Knatchbull or Peter Liddell-Grainger, plus a whole bunch of red-links that could easily prompt more... Sliggy 19:10, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
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Dwan

Dwan is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

 * Allan Dwan (1885–1981), pioneering Canadian-born American film director, producer and screenwriter
 * Dorothy Dwan (1906–1981), American actress of the 1920s
 * Jack Dwan (1921–1993), American professional basketball player
 * John Dwan, one of the founders of the 3M corporation
 * Kenny Dwan (born 1948), former British rower and Queen's Bargemaster
 * Lisa Dwan (born 1977), Irish actress
 * Tom Dwan (born 1986), American professional poker player
 * Dwan Edwards (born 1981), American National League Football player
 * Virginia Dwan (born October 18, 1931), Founder of avant-garde art galleries in Los Angeles and New York
 * Robert Dwan (1915-2005), Director of Groucho Marx's radio and TV show, You Bet Your Life

Fictional characters:
 * Jessica Lange's character in King Kong (1976 film)

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