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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Love Rug

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Love Rug
Unverifiable. 203.120.68.68 09:56, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Comment I have no idea if this is true or not, but I can not find anything that verifies that such a thing exists as in the article. I have however found articles detailing "LOVE" rugs that spell out LOVE in four-square 1960s sytle and one from Wired Magazine detailing a 2003 e-mail mob action. Stu 13:23, 7 October 2005 (UTC) Delete of course. Shag, Beaver, Hung Dynasty, Bushmen etc -- clearly an attempt at humour. Flapdragon 18:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete, pending factuality. "Love Rug" "Hung Dynasty" gives no Googles, while shoving beaver into the mix gets synonyms for vagina. Fascinating stuff. Of course if someone else arrives and delivers some facts about this I'm all for keeping it, or at least merging it into shag rug or similar. GarrettTalk 15:41, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Dreamtime (The Stranglers album)

Dreamtime is the ninth studio album by the Stranglers, released in 1986 by Epic Records. The title track was inspired by a belief of the aboriginal peoples of Australia called Dreamtime.

The single "Always the Sun" peaked at No. 30 in the UK Singles Chart. Dreamtime itself reached No. 16 in the UK Albums Chart, the lowest charting studio album during Hugh Cornwell's recording tenure with the band (1977–90).

Singles released in the UK for this album included "Nice in Nice" (peaked at No. 30), "Always the Sun", "Big in America" (peaked at No. 48) and "Shakin' Like a Leaf" (peaked at No. 58). A fifth single was proposed by the record company, and a remix of the song "Was It You?" was prepared, but it was never released.

Background
The initial recording sessions for Dreamtime began in late 1985 with producer Laurie Latham, who had worked on the band's previous album Aural Sculpture. A few months were spent working on a handful of tracks before the Stranglers and Latham parted company. Latham felt the songs needed more work from the band and had suggested a break in recording. In his 2001 book The Stranglers: Song by Song, guitarist Hugh Cornwell says, "Laurie's comment that our songs weren't ready had left a nasty taste in our mouths because we liked to work with people who were confident in us." The Stranglers therefore decided to continue work on the album with producer Mike Kemp.

Jean-Jacques Burnel (1986): "Well, after three months in a Brussels studio we had only really finished three songs, and these songs aren't even going to be on the album." These three songs were "Shakin' Like a Leaf (single version)", "Norman Normal" (released as a single b-side in 1986), and "You" (released as a single b-side in 1991).

In The Stranglers: Song by Song, Cornwell states that only three songs on Dreamtime were written by the usual songwriting team of himself and Burnel: "Ghost Train", "Mayan Skies" and "Too Precious". The rest were written by the two writers individually. "Always the Sun", "Dreamtime", "Big in America" and "Shakin' Like a Leaf" by Cornwell, and "Was It You?", "You'll Always Reap What You Sow" and "Nice in Nice" by Burnel. Cornwell handles the lead vocals on "You'll Always Reap What You Sow", as the band felt Burnel's "operatic" delivery didn't suit the song.

Dreamtime is the second Stranglers album to feature a three-piece brass section on some tracks. Although credited in the album liner notes for playing drums, Jet Black actually programmed all his drum parts, as he had done on Aural Sculpture.

Critical reception
Contemporary reviews were mixed. A positive review from CMJ New Music Report said that the Stranglers are "a prime example of a band that has streamlined their sound and still retained much of their bite as well as their signature." They described the album as "a smooth production that is pretty, with the ability to be pretty nasty at the same time."

Retrospective reviews were more negative. Alex Ogg of AllMusic wrote, "After Aural Sculpture, this came as a major disappointment. It's not awful, but neither is it in any way essential. ... There are a couple of good songs, like "Always the Sun" and "Nice in Nice" ... but that's simply not enough for a once great band." Ira Robbins of Trouser Press called it an "unfocused time-filler", writing, "Accomplished but bereft of ideas or concept, Dreamtime is a soporific, characterless nightmare."

Track listing

 * Notes
 * "Norman Normal" is an Aural Sculpture outtake. The rest of the bonus tracks were recorded for Dreamtime.
 * The instrumental track "Burnham Beeches" was originally intended as the B-side to the abandoned "Was it You?" single.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the album liner notes, except where noted.

The Stranglers
 * Hugh Cornwell - vocals, guitar
 * Jean-Jacques Burnel - bass, vocals (lead vocals on "Was It You?", "Nice in Nice", "Since You Went Away" and "Norman Normal")
 * Dave Greenfield - keyboards, backing vocals
 * Jet Black - drums, percussion

Additional musicians
 * Alex Gifford - saxophone
 * Hilary Kops - trumpet
 * Martin Veysey - trumpet
 * B.J. Cole - pedal steel guitar (on "You'll Always Reap What You Sow")
 * Simon Morton - additional percussion

Technical
 * The Stranglers - producer
 * Mike Kemp - producer (except "Mayan Skies"), engineer, mixing
 * Ted Hayton - engineer, mixing, mastering
 * Owen Morris - engineer
 * Jean Luke Epstein - sleeve design

Bonus tracks
 * Sil Wilcox - additional guitar (on "Burnham Beeches")
 * The Stranglers - producer (except on "Norman Normal")
 * Mike Kemp - producer (on "Since You Went Away")
 * Laurie Latham - producer (on "Norman Normal")
 * Timm Baldwin - mixing (on "Burnham Beeches")
 * Tony Bridge - remastering (2001 reissue)

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Polish Glacier

The Polish Glacier (Spanish Glaciar de los Polacos) is one of the glacial fields of Cerro Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Andes and the Americas. It was named after the Polish expedition of 1934. Led by Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz, the team developed an alternative route to the peak through the glacier, which was named the Polish Route.

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where did obtain his PhD, was it related to Economics. His bio seems to suggest he is more of Finance Scientist than regular economist.

When did he obtain his PhD? The article mentions this as the start point of an event.

Exact date of birth is needed.--109.252.100.73 (talk) 04:32, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

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'' Vicente's notice as a writer was a result of his association with the royal court of King John II of Spain. He contributed to court dramatic functions and he was noticed by the Queen Dowager Leonore and commissioned to write the first of what would become a plethora of theatrical works.'' -- based on information elsewhere on Wikipedia and the internet, I believe that should be King of Portugal. I changed it, but it anyone believes I'm wrong, feel free to change it back. --JoanneB 10:03, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree, and I´m from Portugal, so I cleaned up a bit the text. The wikipedian who started it hardly can see the differences betwen two different, even related countrys, like Portugal and Spain. User:Mistico
 * I'm the Wikipedian who made that mistake, forgive me. Unfortunately my knowledge of the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies isn't very good. I'm pleased to see how this has been expanded. Keep up the good work! I will give this a good read through and add anything that I can. *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 14:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Perrotitano

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The result of the debate was DELETE. — J I P | Talk 07:17, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Perrotitano
The anonymous author of this thing —204.60.191.215, a vandal?— cared to publicize it by including a link to it in the Spanish cuisine article under the "typical Spanish foods" list (I've removed the link from that article already, check its history section). Well, I, for one, am a Spaniard and I've never heard of this supposed "culinary specialty" of ours in my life. Google doesn't turn out a single hit either. To crown it all, the content of the article is not only extremely biased, it is straight insulting. Uaxuctum 10:03, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Uaxuctum 10:03, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is probably a hoax; there is a total lack of evidence for its existence. Sliggy 22:57, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete under A6 as attempt to disparage Emeril Lagasse and/or the people of Spain; as a second choice, delete per nominator. --Metropolitan90 03:00, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. MCB 06:38, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as per Metopolitan90. Clearly a simple disparagement page; "extremely absurd," indeed. Eaglizard 14:23, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as a hoax. If it's really been "coming up in clubs all over Spain", one would at least expect a few Google hits. --Zetawoof 23:22, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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User:Tolachi

Tolachi is a misspelling of the last name Trachy.

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 * Ba East (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Ba (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives.  (original)
 * Ba Town: the Town at the heart of Ba Province. (rewrite)
 * Ba West (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Ba West (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Bau Island: The chiefly island whose small size belies its vast importance. (original)
 * Belgium, Fiji Embassy to: This embassy doubles as the Fiji Mission to the European Union. (original)
 * Beqa: a Fijian island, famous for its firewalking. (original)
 * Blue Ribbon campaign (Fiji): the campaign in favour of the Fijian government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission. (original)
 * Bua: a Province of Fiji. (original)
 * Bua (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Bua Macuata West (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives.  (original)
 * Buca Bay: tourist resort on the Fijian island of Vanua Levu. (original)
 * Bulou: a title held by Fijian chieftainesses on the island of Kadavu. (original)
 * Burebasaga Confederacy: the largest of three confederacies of Fijian chiefs. (original)

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 * Cabinet (Fiji): A description of Fiji's Cabinet system of government, with a list of current Cabinet member. (original)
 * Cakaudrove: a Province of Fiji. (original)
 * Cakaudrove East (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Cakaudrove West (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Cakaudrove West (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Chief Justice (Fiji): A description of the office, with a list of those who have held it. (original)
 * Chief Minister (Fiji): The office that later became that of the Prime Minister. (original)
 * Chinese in Fiji: a small, but influential, community in Fiji. (original)
 * Christian Democratic Alliance (Fiji): A Fijian political party, active in the late 1990s and early 2000s. (original)
 * Citizens Federation: Fijian political party of the 1960s, a forerunner to the present-day National Federation Party. (original)
 * Communal constituencies (Fiji): Parliamentary constituencies allocated to candidates and voters registered on ethnic rolls. (original)
 * Conservative Alliance (Fiji): nationalistic Fijian political party. (original)
 * Constituency Boundaries Commission: the body determining electoral boundaries in Fiji. (original)
 * Constitution of Fiji - Preamble - Chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17: a series of essays on the eighteen chapters (including the preamble) of the Fijian Constitution. (original)
 * Council of Rotuma: the municipal and legislative body of Rotuma, a Fijian dependency. (original)
 * Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit Court Martial, Fiji: the court martial of the CRW soldiers convicted of the Queen Elizabeth Barracks mutiny of 2 November 2000. (original)
 * Court of Appeal of Fiji: one of three Fijian courts established by the Constitution. (original)
 * Culture of Fiji: Focusing on the culture of indigenous Fijians, rather than of immigrant peoples. (original)
 * Cunningham (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)

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 * Daily Post: A newspaper owned by the Fijian government. (original)
 * Demographics of Fiji: Facts and figures about Fiji. (major edit)
 * Diplomatic relations of Fiji: a list of Fijian missions abroad, and foreign missions in Fiji. (original)
 * Dravuni: an atoll in Fiji's Kadavu Group. (original)

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 * Economy of Fiji: an overview of the Fijian economy. (major edit)
 * Elections in Fiji: A list of elections to the Fijian Legislative Council (1966), and to the House of Representatives since independence in 1970: 1972 - March 1977 - September 1977 - 1982 - 1987 - 1992 - 1994 - 1999 - 2001 - 2006. (original)
 * European Union, Fiji Mission to: This mission doubles as the Embassy of Fiji to Belgium. (original)

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 * Fakpure: Rotuman chiefly title. Added list of title holders. (major edit)
 * Federation Party: Fijian political party formed out of the Citizens Federation in 1963, a forerunner to the present-day National Federation Party. (original)
 * Festivals in Fiji: A list that reflects Fiji's cultural diversity. (original)
 * Fiji: an article about the Republic of the Fiji Islands. (major edit)
 * Fiji coup of 2000 (main article): An article now; timeline now moved here. (rewrite)
 * Fiji coup of 2000:Alleged plot against Ratu Iloilo: Allegations of a plot involving Senator Apisai Tora against Fijian President Josefa Iloilo. (original)
 * Fiji coup of 2000:Removal of Ratu Mara: A significant detail of the Fiji coup of 2000. (original)
 * Fiji coup of 2000:Aftermath: a report on the investigations, trials, and manoeverings that have followed in the wake of the 2000 coup. (original)
 * Fiji coup of 2000:Mutinies: An account of the mutiny at Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks on 2 November 2005. (original)
 * Fiji coup of 2000:Trials: Persons tried, convicted, and acquitted of involvement in the coup. (original)
 * Fiji coup of 2000:Investigations: Police investigations into the financing, organizing, and motives for the coup. (original)
 * Fiji coup plot of 2006: the threatened overthrow of Fiji's civilian government in December. (original)
 * Fiji Constitutional Crisis of 1977: the first major challenge to Fiji's institutions since independence. (rewrite)
 * Fiji crisis of 2005-2006: the escalation of a crisis simmering for over a year. (original)
 * Reaction to Fiji crisis of 2005-2006: domestic and foreign reaction. (original)
 * Timeline of Fiji crisis of 2005-2006: covering late 2005 and early 2006. (original)
 * Fiji Democratic Party: a Fijian political party that operated between June 2002 and April 2005. (original)
 * Fiji Hindi: the home-grown language of the Indo-Fijian community. (major edit)
 * Fiji Labour Party: One of Fiji's major political parties. (rewrite)
 * Fiji Law Reform Commission: a statutory body advising the Fijian Parliament. (rewrite)
 * Fiji Law Society: the body registering and regulating lawyers in Fiji. (original)
 * Fiji Live: online Fijian news service. (original)
 * Fijian presidential election, 2000: The election to fill the vacancy caused by Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's resignation. (rewrite)
 * Fiji presidential election, 2006: The election for the 2006-2011 term. (original)
 * Fiji Sun: online Fijian news service. (original)
 * Fiji Television: Fiji's television network, with an online Fijian news service. (original)
 * Fiji Times: Fiji's oldest newspaper. (original)
 * Fiji Week: an annual festival culminating in Fiji's independence day on 10 October. (original)
 * Fiji Week, 2004: a week of national reconciliation planned for 4-11 October 2004. (original)
 * Fiji Week, 2005: a week of festivities leading up to Independence Day on 10 October. (original)
 * Fiji Village: online Fijian news service. (original)
 * Fijian Alliance: the former ruling political party of Fiji (1966-1987). (original)
 * Fijian Association Party: a once-significant political party of Fiji. (original)
 * Fijian dollar: Fiji's currency. (major edit)
 * Fijian electoral system: an overview of the many changes in the history of Fiji's electoral system. (original)
 * Fijian mercenaries in Bougainville: a diplomatic incident that has embarrassed the Fijian government. (original)
 * Fijian military unrest in 2006: a series of incidents that took place in the leadup to the military coup in late 2006. (original)
 * Fijian language: the section about the national language debate is mine. (major edit)
 * Fijian name: About Fiji's naming conventions. (original)
 * Fijian ethnic group: An article about Fiji's indigenous people. (original)
 * Fijian Political Party: the political party that governed Fiji in the 1990s. (original)
 * Fijian Nationalist Party: a former political party in Fiji advocating political supremacy for indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Flag of Fiji: including the debate over proposed changes to Fiji's national flag. (major edit)
 * Foreign reaction to the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill (Fiji): The reaction of foreign governments and organizations to Fiji's most controversial legislation. (original)
 * Foreign relations of Fiji: an overview of Fiji's foreign policy and relationships. (rewrite)
 * Fulaga: an island in Fiji's Lau archipelago. (original)

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 * Gau Island: an island in Fiji's Lomaiviti archipelago. (original)
 * General Electors: Fijian citizens not of ethnic Fijian, Indo-Fijian, or Rotuman descent. (original)
 * Grand Coalition for Fiji - a coalition of five ethnic Fijian-led parties formed on 30 July 2005. (original)
 * Great Council of Chiefs (Fiji): An article about a powerful feudal institution that chooses Fiji's President. (original)

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 * High Court (Fiji): one of three Fijian courts established by the Constitution. (rewrite)
 * History of Fiji: an overview of Fiji's history, especially since 1874. (rewrite)
 * History of Fiji:Discovery: Fiji up to 1820. (rewrite)
 * History of Fiji:The rise and fall of Cakobau: Fiji 1820-1874. (rewrite)
 * History of Fiji:Colonial Fiji: Fiji 1874-1970. (rewrite)
 * History of Fiji:The modern nation: Fiji since 1970. (major edit)
 * House of Chiefs (Fiji): an overview of the Fijian nobility. (original)
 * House of Representatives (Fiji): A brief description of the Fijian House of Representatives, and a list of its members. (original)

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 * Index of Fiji-related articles: An index of (hopefully) all Wikipedia articles pertaining to Fiji. (original)
 * India-Fiji relations: highlights from the relationship between Fiji and India. (original)
 * Indo-Fijian: Fijian citizens of Indian descent. (original)
 * Instruments of Independence (Fiji): the founding document of independent Fiji. (original)

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Haandfæstning

A Haandfæstning (Modern Håndfæstning & Modern Håndfestning, lit. "Handbinding", plural Haandfæstninger) was a document issued by the kings of Denmark from 13th to the 17th century, preceding and during the realm's personal union with the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Following Sweden's independence, similar documents were also issued by its kings. In many ways it is a Scandinavian parallel to the English Magna Carta.

History
The haandfæstning was the result of the strength of the power of the nobility. The first Danish king who was forced to sign this kind of charter was King Eric V in 1282. It was used as a regular coronation charter for the first time in 1320. Between 1440 and 1648 it was a normal condition for the recognition of a new king. When absolute monarchy was introduced in 1660 the last haandfæstning was mortified.

Unlike in England there was no permanent charter to sign; every new king had to accept a new one that applied to his own reign. On the other hand, all haandfæstninger were based on the same model. The king had to promise that he would rule as a just king; that he would co-operate with the nobility; that he would never imprison any free man; that all leading offices (what one would today call "cabinet minister posts") and all local administration would be filled only by noblemen; and that questions of war and peace depended on the acceptance of the nobility.

The charters did not necessarily transform the kings into puppets; most of them were able to create a solid base of power during their reign. And hardly any Danish king of the period totally kept the rules of the håndfæstning. The severity of the demands of the nobility also wavered from time to time.

In modern Dutch, the word 'handvest' still can mean both 'treaty' and (as a loan translation) 'manifesto'.

End of the era
Absolutism was underpinned by a written constitution for the first time in Europe in 1665 Kongeloven ("King's Law") of Denmark–Norway, which ordered that the Monarch "shall from this day forth be revered and considered the most perfect and supreme person on the Earth by all his subjects, standing above all human laws and having no judge above his person, neither in spiritual nor temporal matters, except God alone". This law consequently authorized the king to abolish all other centers of power. Most important was the abolition of the Council of the Realm.

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Alternity rocks wooo! - webmaster of alternityrpg.net We noticed here http://alternityrpg.net/onlineforums/index.php?showtopic=3788&st=0&#entry71560 and here http://alternityrpg.net/onlineforums/index.php?showtopic=3268

Dice
I always thought there was no d10 in the Alternity dice system because it is not a platonic solid in the form usually used for dice.

208.64.165.129 08:35, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

You know, Alternity was my very first RPG... i cant recall if it came with a d10... I'm pretty sure it did. But it might not have. Man i'm useless. Soylent.Hero 08:40, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Probabilities
When rolling two dice there is no flat area, the curve schould look this "/\" or am I wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.181.242.68 (talk) 19:19, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

 * It depends on how many dice you're rolling, and of what sorts. If you roll 2d20, it will look like /\, but if you roll a twenty-sided die and a six-sided die, and add the results together, it will look like this /`````````\. The reason is this: how do you get the result 2? You have to roll 1s on both dice. How about 3? 1+2 or 2+1. 4? 1+3, 3+1, or 2+2. Ect. Once you hit seven, though, you have 1+6, 6+1, 2+5, 5+2, 3+4, 4+3. But 8 has exactly the same chance of coming up: 7+1, 2+6, 6+2, 3+5, 5+3, 4+4. Because the limit is on the maximum value of the 6 sided die, but the 20-sided die has a much larger limit, you end up with the same probability of rolling any number between 1+1+(smaller die's maximum value) and 21 (at which you get everything from 20+1 to 15+6). Titanium Dragon 23:50, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Former Playtester
I was one of the playtesters for Alternity back before it was released. My name is in the back of the book (GM). Although it's a dead topic now, if there's any need for information, I'll try to help. MikeSims (talk) 04:43, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

System: Basis for Comparison
Under System, we currently have: "Classes were replaced by professions". There is no context for this. As a nerd, I assume this implies a comparison with the D&D version of the time, but it's not explicit. Could be fixed in many ways, depending on whether or not a comparison is desired or if a more general description of the basic character structure is preferred. Effrenatus (talk) 00:41, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

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 * Kabara: one of the Lau Islands and home island of Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. (original)
 * Kadavu (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Kadavu Island, Fiji's fourth-largest island. (rewrite)
 * Kadavu Group: a Fijian archipelago dominated by Kadavu. (original)
 * Kaibu: one of Fiji's Lau Islands. (original)
 * Kanacea: an island in Fiji's Lau archipelago. (original)
 * Kioa: an outlier to the Fijian island of Vanua Levu. (original)
 * Koro-ni-O: the centre of Fiji's hydroelectric industry. (original)
 * Korovou, Tailevu: the heart of Fiji's dairy industry. (original)
 * Kubuna Confederacy: traditionally the highest-ranked of three confederacies of Fijian chiefs. (original)

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 * Labasa (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Labasa (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Labasa Rural (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Lakeba: an island in Fiji's Lau archipelago. (original)
 * Lami: a Town in Fiji. (original)
 * Lami (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Lau (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Lau Islands: the archipelago which, though thinly populated, has disproportionately contributed to Fiji's leadership. (major edit)
 * Laucala: one of three islands to the east of Thurston Point, Taveuni, Fiji. (original)
 * Laucala (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Laucala (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Lau Taveuni Rotuma (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Lautoka: Fiji's second largest city. (rewrite)
 * Lautoka City (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Lautoka City (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Lautoka Rural (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Leader of the Opposition (Fiji): A commentary on the office of Leader of the Opposition, and a list of people who have held it. (original)
 * Legislative Council (Fiji): the precursor to the modern Fijian Parliament. (original)
 * Leleuvia: an island in Fiji's Lomaiviti archipelago. (original)
 * Levuka: the former capital of Fiji. (original)
 * List of Chairmen of the Great Council of Chiefs: A listing of those who have chaired the Great Council of Chiefs. (original)
 * List of Fijian Heads of State: Links to articles about Fiji's Heads of State since the 1700s. (original)
 * List of Fijian politicians: a split from the List of Fijians. (original)
 * List of Fijian sportspeople: Split from List of Fijians. (original)
 * List of Fijians: A list of prominent Fijian people. (rewrite)
 * List of Foreign Ministers of Fiji: Including their terms of office and the Prime Ministers under whom they served. (original)
 * List of Governors of Fiji: Covering the period 1874-1970, when Fiji was a British Crown Colony. (original)
 * List of Governors-General of Fiji: Covering the period 1970-1987. (original)
 * List of Ministers for Fijian Affairs: The holders of the Cabinet portfolio responsible for indigenous development in Fiji. (original)
 * List of political parties in Fiji: Including some historical parties. (major edit)
 * List of Premiers of the Kingdom of Viti: A list of those who headed the government of the short lived Fijian kingdom of 1871 to 1874. (original)
 * List of Presidents of Fiji: Covering the period since 1987. (original)
 * List of Prime Ministers of Fiji: Covering the period since 1967. (original)
 * List of Speakers of the House of Representatives (Fiji): Covering the period since 1972. (original)
 * List of Vice-Presidents of Fiji: A brief description of the office, and a list of the persons who have held it. (original)
 * Local government of Fiji: The first and second tiers of local government in Fiji. (rewrite)
 * Lomaiviti (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Lomaiviti Islands: an archipelago and Province of Fiji. (original)
 * Lomaivuna Namosi Kadavu (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)

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 * Macuata: a Province of Fiji. (original)
 * Macuata East Cakaudrove (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Macuata East (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Macuata (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Magodro (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Makogai: an island in Fiji's Lomaiviti archipelago. (original)
 * Mamanuca Islands: an archipelago to the west of Nadi, Fiji. (original)
 * Master of the High Court (Fiji): junior judges who sit on Fiji's High Court. (original)
 * Matagi: one of three islands to the east of Thurston Point, Taveuni, Fiji. (original)
 * Matuku, Fiji: an island in Fiji's Lau archipelago. (original)
 * Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma: Fiji's largest Christian denomination. (original)
 * Military-church relations in Fiji: With particular focus on the strains caused by the Unity Bill. (original)
 * Military opposition to the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill (Fiji): Opposing the pardoning of political prisoners. (original)
 * Military unrest since the Fiji coup of 2000: on the increasing tension between the Fijian government and the Military. (original)
 * Moala Island: an island in Fiji's Lau archipelago. (original)
 * Moala Islands: an island in Fiji's Lau archipelago. (original)
 * Moderate voices on the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill (Fiji): more nuanced positions on the Fijian government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission. (original)
 * Municipal elections in Fiji: an overview of elections to Fiji's city and town councils. (original)
 * Municipal election, 2002: an election that produced very mixed results for Fiji's major parties. (original)
 * Municipal election, 2005: an election regarded as a trial run for the 2006 parliamentary election. (original)

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 * Nabua, Fiji: a suburb of Suva, Fiji; the site of the Queen Elizabeth Barracks. (original)
 * Nadi (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Nadi Rural (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Nadi Urban (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Nadroga (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Nadroga (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Nadroga-Navosa: a Province of Fiji. (original)
 * Nadroga Navosa (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Naigani: an island in Fiji's Lomaiviti archipelago. (original)
 * Naitasiri: a Province of Fiji. (original)
 * Naitasiri (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Namena Lala: an outlier to the Fijian island of Vanua Levu. (original)
 * Namosi: a Province of Fiji. (original)
 * Namosi (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Nananu-i-Ra: an island of the coast of Rakiraki, Fiji. (original)
 * Nasaqalau: village on the Fijian island of Lakeba, in the Lau archipelago. (original)
 * Nasinu: a fast-growing Town in Fiji. (original)
 * Nasinu (Indian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 19 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indo-Fijians. (original)
 * Nasinu Rewa (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Nasinu Urban (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * National Alliance Party of Fiji: Fijian political party founded by Ratu Epeli Ganilau in 2005. (original)
 * National constituencies (Fiji): Former Parliamentary constituencies ethnically but elected by universal suffrage. (original)
 * National Democratic Party (1960s): Fijian political party of the 1960s, a forerunner to the present-day National Federation Party. (rewrite)
 * National Democratic Party (2006): Fijian political party founded to contest the [[Fijian general election, 2006|2006 elections. (original)
 * National Federation Party (Fiji): a once-major political party, supported mostly by Indo-Fijians. (rewrite)
 * National language debate in Fiji: the debate over whether to make Fijian, and possibly also Hindustani, compulsory in all schools. (original)
 * Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party: an extreme ethno-nationalist party apparently involved in the 2000 coup. (original)
 * Native Land Register: the official register of indigenous Fijian landowners. (original)
 * Nausori: a Town in Fiji. (original)
 * Nausori Naitasiri (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Naviti: an island in Fiji's Yasawa Group. (original)
 * New Labour Unity Party (Fiji): a minor party, founded by Tupeni Baba in 2001. (original)
 * New Nationalist Party (Fiji): Fijian political party. (original)
 * North East Urban (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * North West Urban (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * North Eastern (General Electors Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 3 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for ethnic minorities. (original)
 * Northern Division, Fiji: One of four administrative Divisions grouping Fiji's fourteen provinces. (major edit)
 * Nukulau: Fijian island with a rich history. (original)

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 * Ogea Driki: an island in Fiji's Lau archipelago. (original)
 * Ogea Levu: an island in Fiji's Lau archipelago. (original)
 * Ono Island: a member of Fiji's Kadavu Group. (original)
 * Ono-i-Lau: an island in Fiji's Lau archipelago. (original)
 * Open constituencies: Parliamentary constituencies elected by universal suffrage. (original)
 * Ovalau: the main island in Fiji's Lomaiviti archipelago. (original)

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 * Party of National Unity (Fiji): Fijian List of political parties in Fiji, based in Ba Province. Better known as PANU.  (original)
 * People's Coalition: the coalition dominated by the Fiji Labour Party that swept to power in the 1999 election. (original)
 * People's National Party (Fiji): small indigenous Fijian political party. (original)
 * Politics of Fiji: description and history of the Fijian political system. (major edit)
 * President of the Court of Appeal of Fiji: the presiding officer of Fiji's Appeal Court. (original)
 * Protector of Fiji: a former political party in Fiji. (major edit)
 * Puisne judge (Fiji): judges who sit on Fiji's High Court and Appeal Court. (original)

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Cartwright Hall

Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district. It was built on the former site of Manningham Hall using a gift of £40,000 donated by Samuel Lister and it is named after Edmund Cartwright. The gallery which opened in 1904 initially had a display of artworks loaned from other galleries and private collections until it was able to purchase a permanent collection of Victorian and Edwardian works using money raised by the 1904 Bradford Exhibition.

Cartwright Hall stands in Lister Park and enjoys scenic views of the city. Cartwright Hall has been held to represent "Bradford Baroque", a style of architecture typical of Bradford. It is however designed by the same architects as Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Sir John W. Simpson and E.J. Milner Allen), also in the Baroque style.

The purpose-built gallery is home to a collection of permanent works, from Old Masters to 20th-century British paintings and sculpture. Cartwright Hall also has a biennial open exhibition and contemporary and historical exhibitions by local, national and international artists. Since the mid 1980s the Bradford museum group has collected works that are associated with the cultural background of many post-war migrants to the Bradford area. Acquisitions include contemporary South Asian Art - Islamic calligraphy, phulkari style illustrated textiles and items of contemporary Sikh art, including a portrait of Guru Nanak.

In 1983 Cartwright Hall was briefly used as part of the musical number Every Sperm is Sacred in the Monty Python film, The Meaning of Life.

In 2003 an Unreal Tournament map was created featuring the inside of the hall as part of a contest for PC Format Magazine.

Notable holdings

 * Tristram and Isoude stained-glass panels, by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., 1862. Acquired via Cartwright Hall in 1917, they are now permanently on display at Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley (also run by Bradford Museums and Galleries)

Notable staff

 * Nima Poovaya-Smith, curator

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 * Qamea: one of three islands to the east of Thurston Point, Taveuni, Fiji. (original)
 * Qaranivalu: a senior chiefly title in the Fijian Province of Naitasiri. (rewrite)
 * Qelelevu: the only inhabited island in Fiji's Ringgold Isles Group. (original)
 * Queen Elizabeth Barracks (Fiji): the headquarters of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces. (original)

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 * Ra, Fiji: a Province of Fiji. (original)
 * Ra (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Ra (Open Constituency, Fiji): One of 25 former Open Constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives. (original)
 * Rabi Island: an outlier to the Fijian island of Taveuni, in the Vanua Levu Group. (original)
 * Rakiraki: a region of Ra Province, Fiji. (original)
 * Ratu: An explanation of Fiji's nobility. (original)
 * Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day: Fiji's national holiday, held in honour of their greatest statesman. (original)
 * Reconciliation and Unity Commission (Fiji): A controversial commission proposed by the Fijian government. (original)
 * Religious reaction to the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill: A summary of the response of Christian and Hindu organizations to this controversial bill. (original)
 * Rewa, Fiji: a Province of Fiji. (original)
 * Rewa (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji): One of 23 communal constituencies in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for Indigenous Fijians. (original)
 * Ringgold Isles: an archipelago forming an outlier to the Fijian island of Vanua Levu. (original)
 * Ro: a title held by Fijian chiefs in Rewa Province. (original)
 * Roko Tui Dreketi: The Paramount Chief of Rewa and Burebasaga, Fiji. (original)
 * Rotuma: a Dependency of Fiji with considerable autonomy. (major edit)
 * Rotuma Day: 13 May, the date celebrating Rotuma's 1881 annexation to Fiji by the United Kingdom. (original)
 * Rotuma Group: an island group in Fiji, dominated by Rotuma Island. (original)
 * Rotuma (Rotuman Communal Constituency, Fiji): The at-large communal constituency in the Fijian House of Representatives that was formerly reserved for ethnic Rotumans. (original)

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Orellanine

Orellanine or orellanin is a mycotoxin found in a group of mushrooms known as the Orellani of the family Cortinariaceae. Structurally, it is a bipyridine N-oxide compound somewhat related to the herbicide diquat.

History
Orellanine first came to people's attention in 1952 when a mass poisoning of 102 people in Konin, Poland, resulted in 11 deaths. Orellanine comes from a class of mushrooms that fall under the genus Cortinarius, and has been found in the species C. orellanus, rubellus, henrici, rainerensis and bruneofulvus. Poisonings related to these mushrooms have occurred predominately in Europe where mushroom foraging was common, though cases of orellanine poisoning have been reported in North America and Australia as well. There are several reported cases of people ingesting orellanine-containing mushrooms after mistaking them for edible or hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Orellanine was first isolated in 1962, when Stanisław Grzymala extracted and isolated orellanine from the mushroom C. orellanus. Grzymala was also able to demonstrate the nephrotoxicity of C. orellanus and determine various physical and chemical properties of orellanine. He found that the toxicity of the mushroom was due to both delayed and acute kidney injury.

The chemical structure of orellanine was first deduced by Antkowiak and Gessner in 1979, who identified it as 3,3',4,4'-tetrahydroxy- 2,2'-bipyridine-1,1'-dioxide.

The first successful synthesis of orellanine was reported in 1985. The total synthesis of orellanine from 3-hydroxypyridine was reported a year later in 1986.

Synthesis
The first synthesis of orellanine was reported in 1985 by Dehmlow and Schulz, and required ten steps starting from 3-aminopyridine. The following year, Tiecco et al. reported the total synthesis of orellanine in nine steps starting from 3-hydroxypyridine.

Structure
Orellanine is a bipyridine N-oxide. Orellanine displays tautomerism, with the more stable tautomer being the pyridine N-oxide form. The chemical structure of orellanine has been confirmed by X-ray crystallography. In the crystal structure, the two pyridine rings are nearly perpendicular to each other, making orellanine chiral. However, samples of orellanine extracted from mushrooms are optically inactive racemic mixtures, likely due to racemization during the extraction process.

Toxicity
Orellanine displays a wide spectrum of toxin effects in plants, animals, and microorganisms. Although the mechanism of toxicity of orellanine is not yet fully understood, it likely targets cellular processes found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Orellanine has been found to inhibit the synthesis of biomolecules such as proteins, RNA, and DNA, and promote non-competitive inhibition of several enzymes such as alkaline phosphatase, γ-glutamyltransferase, and leucyl aminopeptidase. In addition, orellanine has also been shown to interfere with the production of adenosine triphosphatase.

Orellanine is a bipyridine with positively charged nitrogen atoms, and chemically resembles the bipyridine herbicides paraquat and diquat. Like orellanine, paraquat and diquat are toxic not only to plants, but also to humans and livestock. Bipyridine compounds with charged nitrogen atoms disrupt important redox reactions in organisms, 'stealing' one or two electrons and sometimes passing the electrons along into other, often undesirable, redox reactions. The terminal products of these reactions can be harmful reactive oxygen species such as peroxide or superoxide ions, the latter of which are harmful to cells. It is thought that orellanine produces oxidative stress in a similar manner to paraquat and diquat.

In humans, a characteristic of poisoning by the nephrotoxin orellanine is the long latency; the first symptoms usually do not appear until 2–4 to 14 days after ingestion. The latent period decreases with the quantity of mushrooms consumed. The first symptoms of orellanine poisoning are similar to the common flu (nausea, vomiting, stomach pains, headaches, myalgia, etc.), these symptoms are followed by early stages of kidney failure (immense thirst, frequent urination, pain on and around the kidneys) and eventually decreased or nonexistent urine output and other symptoms of kidney failure occur. If left untreated death will follow.

The of orellanine in mice is 12 to 20 mg per kg body weight;  this is the dose which leads to death within two weeks. From cases of orellanine-related mushroom poisoning in humans it seems that the lethal dose for humans is considerably lower.

Treatment
There is no known antidote against orellanine poisoning. Treatment consists mainly of supportive care and hemodialysis, if needed. Complete recovery of renal function is recovered in only 30% of poisoned patients. There are reports of cases where treatment using corticosteroids and antioxidants led to improved clinical outcomes.

Research
This compound is currently in clinical trials as a potential treatment for various forms of renal cancer.

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10 (The Stranglers album)

10 is the tenth studio album by English rock band the Stranglers, released in March 1990 by Epic Records. It was the last to feature guitarist/lead singer Hugh Cornwell. 10 peaked at No. 15 and spent four weeks in the UK Albums Chart.

There was a big band sound to this album, possibly due to the production work of Roy Thomas Baker and the continued use of a horn section. One of the highlights was the cover version of Question Mark & the Mysterians' hit "96 Tears" (which reached No. 17 in the UK Singles Chart). Cornwell has expressed satisfaction with the way this album turned out, whereas the rest of the band, including live guitarist John Ellis, who joined the band on the next album, have all expressed negative feelings about 10.

Singles released in the UK for this album were "96 Tears" and "Sweet Smell of Success" (UK No. 65). "Man of the Earth" was due to be the third single from the album, however, Epic decided against it.

Background
Since the Stranglers last album Dreamtime, released in October 1986, the band had toured extensively until the end of 1987, released the 1987 single "All Day and All of the Night", and the 1988 live album All Live and All of the Night. The band had begun recording 10 in bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel's newly-built 16-track home studio in Cambridgeshire in 1988. By 1989, with help from local engineer Owen Morris, the band had recorded around 20 tracks which they delivered to their label CBS/Epic for a late 1989 release. The label's A&R man Muff Winwood, however, was unhappy with the production and suggested re-recording the album with producer Roy Thomas Baker, aiming for the American market. According to Hugh Cornwell in his 2001 book The Stranglers: Song by Song, the band had never heard of Baker before but were told he had produced various successful Queen albums. "Roy was sold to us on the basis that he could produce the sound that the Americans wanted," Cornwell said.

The album was recorded in autumn 1989 at Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands. To achieve a bigger sound on the album, Baker would multi-track Cornwell's guitars. "Whenever I had a guitar part, Roy would make me play it 22 times and record it on separate tracks," Cornwell said. "He'd then mix it all down to stereo and it would sound immense with 22 guitars all playing the same part." At the suggestion of Baker, the band also recorded a cover of "96 Tears" for the album. The spoken section on "Let's Celebrate" is read by Baker's wife, Tere.

Despite the album's American-friendly sound and the moderate success of "Sweet Smell of Success" in the United States (reaching No. 5 on the US Modern Rock Chart), the band did not undertake a US tour. Cornwell, feeling the band had come to a halt in their artistic evolution, decided to leave the band following the last gig on the supporting tour.

Album cover
The album sleeve shows the members of the band dressed up as ten of the most notable world leaders of the time (l-r: Yasser Arafat, Rajiv Gandhi, Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, George H. W. Bush, Fidel Castro, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Benazir Bhutto and Joshua Nkomo). The cover was created by Jean-Luke Epstein and Grant Louden from the design company Graphyk. Epstein had designed most of the Stranglers' album and single sleeves during their Epic years, starting with Aural Sculpture in 1984.

Critical reception
AllMusic's Alex Ogg called the album a "meager fare of dislocated pop and half-assed R&B," writing, "The Stranglers actually released very, very few bad albums. 10, sad to say, is one of the few, and it's an absolute stinker." Ira Robbins of Trouser Press wrote, "Although Roy Thomas Baker produced the rock'n'rolly 10 ... things didn’t turn out all that bad. As horrifying as it is to hear this once-dynamic group reduced to covering "96 Tears" ... the originals that otherwise comprise the record are pretty lively." In his 1997 book No Mercy: The Authorised and Uncensored Biography of The Stranglers, David Buckley wrote that the problem with the album wasn't so much Roy Thomas Baker's production, but the fact that the songs were "simply stale and boring", with the cover "96 Tears" being the only quality song.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the album liner notes, except where noted.
 * The Stranglers
 * Hugh Cornwell – guitar, lead (1-3, 5-7, 9, 12, 15-18) and backing vocals
 * Jean-Jacques Burnel – bass, lead (4, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14) and backing vocals
 * Dave Greenfield – keyboards, backing vocals
 * Jet Black – drums, percussion
 * Additional personnel
 * Alex Gifford – saxophone
 * Sid Gauld – trumpet
 * Chris Lawrence – trombone
 * Stuart Brooks – trumpet solo (1)
 * Simon Morton – congas (1)
 * Tere Baker – voice (5)
 * Pamela G. – voice (8)
 * Technical
 * Roy Thomas Baker – producer
 * Timm Baldwin – engineer
 * Jean-Luke Epstein – sleeve design
 * Grant Louden – sleeve design
 * 2001 reissue
 * John Ellis – additional guitar (18)
 * The Stranglers – producer (all bonus tracks)
 * Owen Morris – producer (11, 12, 14 )
 * Ted Hayton – producer (16, 17)
 * Mike Kemp – producer, engineer (18)
 * Bruce Lampcov – mixing (11)
 * Timm Baldwin – mixing (12, 13)
 * Kevin Killen – mixing (14)
 * Michael H. Brauer – mixing (18)
 * Tony Bridge – remastering (2001 reissue)

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Port of Brisbane

Port of Brisbane is the shipping port and coastal suburb of the City of Brisbane, on the east coast of Queensland, Australia. In the, Port of Brisbane had "no people or a very low population".

Geography
Port of Brisbane is located in the lower reaches of the Brisbane River on Fisherman Islands, an artificial island reclaimed from the smaller Fisherman Islands group at the mouth of the river, adjacent to Brisbane Airport. It currently is the third busiest port in Australia and the nation's fastest growing container port. It is the endpoint of the main shipping channel across Moreton Bay which extends 90 km north to Mooloolaba and is dredged to maintain a depth of 14 m at the lowest tide.

Queensland's next two largest ports are the Port of Gladstone and the Port of Townsville.

According to the former Queensland Department of Primary Industries the Port of Brisbane was the most likely entry point of the South American fire ant to Australia.

About 60% of the coal transported through the port originates from the New Acland Mine.

History
In 1980, the narrow gauge Fisherman Islands line was opened between the port and a junction near Lindum on the Cleveland line. This was converted to dual /  gauge in 1997 under the Keating Government's One Nation program.

In January 2008, Port of Brisbane Corporation signed an agreement with Brisbane Container Terminals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Port Holdings, subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, which Hutchison will operate berths 11 and 12 for 42 years.

Deposits of silt and sediment in the ports channels and berths have caused delays of up to five days in the delivery of cargo including oil supplies. This has occurred in 2011, 2013 and 2014. Millions of dollars is spent on dredging annually.

Demographics
In the, Port of Brisbane had "no people or a very low population".

In the, Port of Brisbane had "no people or a very low population".

Facilities
The port is managed by the Port of Brisbane Pty Ltd (PBPL) under a 99-year lease from the Queensland Government. The Port of Brisbane has 29 operating berths including nine deep-water container berths and three deep-water bulk berths as well as 17 bulk and general cargo berths. In total the port facilitates more than 2,600 ships each year and transports more than 28 million tonnes of cargo each year.

Portside Wharf at Hamilton was completed in 2006 and is an international standard facility for cruise liners, offering restaurants, coffee shops, gift shops, and other facilities. However, due to the height restrictions of the Gateway Bridge and length restriction of 270 m that far upstream, the larger ocean-going cruise liners must dock further down the river at the more industrial Multi User Terminal at the Port of Brisbane. On 2 June 2022, the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal opened on the northern bank of the Brisbane River in the suburb of Pinkenba opposite the port. The cruise terminal is located at Luggage Point next to the Luggage Point Sewage Treatment Plant (which has been renamed the Luggage Point Resource Recovery Centre). The terminal can accommodate the largest cruise vessels in the world. It is operated by the port but will not be part of the suburb of Port of Brisbane.

The port accommodates a visitors centre and in 2005 a shorebird roost was constructed. The bird roost is the largest site built specifically for migratory shorebirds on the east coast of Australia.

Transport links
The Port of Brisbane Motorway is a short road linking the Gateway Motorway to the Port of Brisbane.

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Safari park

A safari park, sometimes known as a wildlife park, is a zoo-like commercial drive-in tourist attraction where visitors can drive their own vehicles or ride in vehicles provided by the facility to observe freely roaming animals.

A safari park is larger than a zoo and smaller than a game reserve. For example, African Lion Safari in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada is 750 acre. For comparison, Lake Nakuru in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya, is 168 km2, and a typical large game reserve is Tsavo East, also in Kenya, which encompasses 11747 km2.

Many parks have conservation programmes with endangered animals like: elephants, white rhinos, giraffes, lions, tigers, cheetahs and wild dogs.

General overview of a safari park
The main attractions are frequently large animals from Africa which people can see in wildlife reserves such as: giraffes, lions (including white lions), white rhinos, African bush elephants, hippopotamuses, zebras, ostriches, lesser and greater flamingos, ground hornbills, guineafowl, African buffaloes, sometimes dromedary camels, great white and pink-backed pelicans, African sacred ibises, Ankole cattle, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, chimpanzees, baboons, African wild dogs, Barbary sheep, crowned cranes, Egyptian geese, saddle-billed, yellow-billed and marabou storks, Nile crocodiles (in a side paddock), Nubian ibexes, and many antelope species including- wildebeest, hartebeest, topi, gazelles, elands, lechwe, addaxes, oryxes, bongos, kudus, nyalas, impalas, springbok, blesbok, sitatunga, duikers, waterbucks, sable antelopes, and roan antelopes, just to name a few.

Also in the reserves there are animals that are not from Africa: Asian species include: Asian elephants, Indian and Sumatran rhinoceroses, gaur, water buffaloes, nilgais, blackbucks, banteng, markhor, Malayan tapirs, wild asses, sambar deer, Indian hog deer, yaks, gibbons, tigers (including white tigers), Asian black bears, Eld's deer, babirusas, chital, dholes, barasinghas, painted storks, peafowl, and Bactrian camels; North American species include: American black bears, brown bears, wolves (including Arctic wolves), American bison, elk, and white-tailed deer; South American species include: llamas, alpacas, jaguars, capybaras, anteaters, South American tapirs, rheas, and black-necked swans; Australian species include kangaroos, wallabies, emus, and black swans; European species include: European bisons, Eurasian wolves, mute swans, fallow deer, red deer, and moose.

Most safari parks have a "walk-around" area with animals too small or too dangerous to roam freely in the reserves, like: small birds, squirrel monkeys, penguins, marmosets, tamarins, mongooses, meerkats, lemurs, gorillas, reptiles, hornbills, red pandas, snow leopards, otters and warthogs. Some also have: children's zoos, aquariums, butterfly houses and reptile and insect houses. Besides animals, in the walk-round area, there are public facilities like toilets, snack bars and cafés, play areas and sometimes amusement rides. There can be walk-through exhibits with animals like kangaroos, lemurs and wallabies. The Knowsley Safari in England keeps Siberian tigers and giraffes in their walking area.

Safari parks often have other associated tourist attractions: golf courses, carnival rides, cafés/restaurants, ridable miniature railways, boat trips to see aquatic animals like sea lions, life-sized recreations of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, plant mazes, playgrounds, monorails, cable cars and gift shops. These are commonly found in the walk-around area. On river safari areas, there may be islands with primates; Longleat keeps gorillas and black-and-white colobus on their islands, which are used to house chimpanzees and siamangs; African Lion Safari in Canada has black-and-white ruffed lemurs, ring-tailed lemurs, lar gibbons, siamangs, Colombian spider monkeys, Geoffroy's spider monkeys, pink-backed pelicans and black swans in the waters.

History and list of parks
The predecessor of safari parks is Africa U.S.A. Park (1953–1961) in Florida.

The first lion drive-through opened in 1963 in Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo. In double-glazed buses, visitors made a tour through a one-hectare enclosure with twelve African lions.

The first drive-through safari park outside of Africa opened in 1966 at Longleat in Wiltshire, England. Longleat, Windsor, Woburn and arguably the whole concept of safari parks were the brainchild of Jimmy Chipperfield (1912–1990), former co-director of Chipperfield's Circus, although a similar concept is explored as a plot device in Angus Wilson's "The Old Men at the Zoo" which was published five years before Chipperfield set up Longleat. Longleat's Marquess of Bath agreed to Chipperfield's proposition to fence off 40 ha of his vast Wiltshire estate to house 50 lions. Knowsley, the Earl of Derby's estate outside Liverpool, and the Duke of Bedford's Woburn estate in Bedfordshire both established their own safari parks with Chipperfield's partnership. Another circus family, the Smart Brothers, joined the safari park business by opening a park at Windsor for visitors from London. The former Windsor Safari Park was in Berkshire, England, but closed in 1992 and has since been made into a Legoland theme park. There is also Chipperfield's "Scotland Safari Park" established on Baronet Sir John Muir's estate at Blair Drummond near Stirling, and the American-run "West Midland Safari and Leisure Park" near Birmingham. One park, along with Jimmy Chipperfield at Lambton Castle in North East England, has closed.

Between 1967 and 1974, Lion Country Safari, Inc. opened 6 animal parks, one near each of the following American cities: West Palm Beach, Florida; Los Angeles, California; Grand Prairie, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Cincinnati, Ohio, and Richmond, Virginia. The first park, in South Florida, is the only Lion Country Safari still in operation.

Royal Burgers' Zoo at Arnhem, opened a "safari park" in 1968 within a traditional zoo. In 1995, Burgers' Safari modified this to a walking safari with a 250 m boardwalk. Another safari park in the Netherlands is Safaripark Beekse Bergen.

Most safari parks were established in a short period of ten years, between 1966 and 1975.

 * Africa
 * Egypt: Alexandria (Africa Safari Park, 2004)
 * Americas
 * Brazil: São Paulo (Zoo Safári, 2001 - this park was formerly known as Simba Safari from 1972 to 2001)
 * Canada:
 * Ontario: Hamilton (African Lion Safari, 1969)
 * Quebec: Hemmingford (Parc Safari, 1972), Montebello (Parc Omega, 1985)
 * Chile: Rancagua (Safari Park Rancagua, 2009)
 * Guatemala: Escuintla (Auto Safari Chapin, 1980)
 * Mexico:
 * Amacuzac (Zoofari, 1984)
 * Puebla (Africam Safari, 1972)
 * Puerto Rico: Vega Alta (Safari Park, 1970). The name of the park was simply "Safari Park".
 * United States:
 * Arizona: Camp Verde (Out of Africa Wildlife Park, 1988)
 * Arkansas: Gentry (Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari, 1970)
 * California: Escondido (San Diego Zoo Safari Park, formerly San Diego Wild Animal Park, 1972)
 * Florida: Loxahatchee (Lion Country Safari, 1967)
 * Georgia: Pine Mountain (Wild Animal Safari, 1991)
 * Louisiana: Epps (High Delta Safari Park)
 * Maryland: Largo (The Largo Wildlife Preserve, 1973–1978, now the site of Six Flags America)
 * Nebraska: Ashland (Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari)
 * New Jersey: Jackson Township (Great Adventure, 1974, now the site of Six Flags Great Adventure & Wild Safari), West Milford ("Warner Brothers Jungle Habitat", 1972–1976)
 * Ohio: Port Clinton (African Safari Wildlife Park, 1973), Mason (Lion Country Safari at Kings Island, 1974–1993)
 * Oregon: Winston (Wildlife Safari, 1973)
 * Texas: Grand Prairie (Lion Country Safari, 1971–1992), San Antonio (Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch, 1984), Glen Rose (Fossil Rim Wildlife Ranch, 1984), (Texas Safari Park, 2023)
 * Virginia: Doswell (Lion Country Safari at Kings Dominion, 1974–1993), Natural Bridge (Virginia Safari Park, 2000)
 * Asia
 * Bangladesh: Gazipur (Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park, 2013), Cox's Bazar (Dulahazara Safari Park, 1999)
 * China: Shenzhen (Safari Park, 1993), Shanghai (Wild Animal Park, 1995), Qinhuangdao (Qinhuangdao Wildlife Park, 1995), Guangzhou (Xiangjiang Safari Park, 1997), Jinan (Safari Park, 1999), Badaling (Safari World, 2001)
 * India: Etawah (Etawah Safari Park, formerly Lion Safari Etawah, 2018), Rajgir (Rajgir Zoo Safari, 2022)
 * Indonesia: Taman Safari, with three locations in Bogor, Mount Arjuno and Bali (in Bali includes Marine Park)
 * Israel: Ramat Gan (Ramat Gan Safari, 1974)
 * Japan: Miyazaki (Phoenix Zoo, 1975), Usa (Kyushu Natural Animal Park African Safari, 1976), Mine (Akiyoshidai Safari Land, 1977), Tomioka (Gunma Safari Park, 1979), Susono (Fuji Safari Park, 1980), Himeji (Central Park, 1984)
 * Malaysia: Alor Gajah (A'Famosa Resort, 2001), Gambang (Bukit Gambang Safari Park)
 * Pakistan: Lahore (Lahore Zoo Safari, 2009, formerly Lahore Wildlife Park, 1982)
 * Philippines: Busuanga (Calauit Safari Park, 1975), Morong (Zoobic Safari, 2003), Carmen (Cebu Safari and Adventure Park, 2018)
 * Singapore: (Night Safari, 1994)
 * Taiwan: Guanxi (Leofoo Village Theme Park)
 * Thailand: Bangkok (Safari World, 1988)
 * United Arab Emirates: Dubai (Dubai Safari Park, 12 December 2017)
 * Vietnam: Phú Quốc (Vinpearl Safari, 2015)
 * Europe
 * Austria: Gänserndorf (Safaripark, 1972–2004)
 * Belgium: Aywaille (Le Monde Sauvage, 1975)
 * Denmark: Givskud (Løveparken, 1969), Knuthenborg (Knuthenborg Safari Park, 1969), Ebeltoft (Ree Park – Ebeltoft Safari, 1991)
 * France: Thoiry (Réserve Africaine, 1968), Peaugres (Safari de Peaugres, 1974), Sigean (Réserve africaine de Sigean, 1974), Saint-Vrain (Parc du Safari de Saint-Vrain, 1974–1999), Obterre (Haute Touche Zoological Park, 1980) owned by the National Museum of Natural History, Port-Saint-Père (Planète Sauvage, 1992)
 * Germany: Gelsenkirchen (ZOOM Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen, 1949), Tüddern (Löwen-Safari, 1968–1990), Stuckenbrock (Safariland Stukenbrock, 1969), Hodenhagen (Serengeti Park, 1974)
 * Great Britain: Longleat (1966), Windsor (1969–1992), Woburn (1970), Knowsley (1971), Lambton (Lion Park, 1972–1980), Bewdley (West Midlands Safari Park, 1973), Blair Drummond (1970), Highland Wildlife Park (1972)
 * Italy: Bussolengo (Parco Natura Viva, 1969), Fasano (Zoosafari Fasanolandia, 1973), Pombia (Pombia Safari Park, 1976), Murazzano (Parco Safari delle Langhe, 1976), Ravenna (Safari Ravenna, 2012)
 * Netherlands: Hilvarenbeek (Safaripark Beekse Bergen, 1968)
 * Portugal: Santiago do Cacém (Badoca Safari Park)
 * Russia: Zadonsky District (Кудыкина гора)
 * Spain: Penagos (Cabarceno Natural Park, 1990)
 * Sweden: Kolmården (Safari Park, 1972–2011), Smålandet (Markaryds Älg & Bison Safari)
 * Oceania
 * Australia
 * New South Wales: Warragamba (African Lion Safari, 1968–1991)
 * South Australia: Monarto (Monarto Safari Park, 1983)
 * Western Australia: Wanneroo (Wanneroo Lion Park, 1971–1988)

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Mercedario

Cerro Mercedario is the highest peak of the Cordillera de la Ramada range and the eighth-highest mountain of the Andes. It is located 100 km to the north of Aconcagua, in the Argentine province of San Juan.

Ascent history
It was first ascended on January 18, 1934, by Adam Karpiński and Wiktor Ostrowski, members of a Polish andinist expedition led by Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz. The Polish party erected a cairn on the summit.

In 1968, after several attempts by some of the strongest Argentine climbers, a Japanese group led by Saburo Yoshida accomplished the first ascension of the south side. In 1971 an Austrian expedition led by Fritz Moravec and Othmar Kucera, climbed the north side. In 1972, Italians Sergio Job Gino and Antonio Beorchia Nigris climbed the Mercedario through the normal route and discovered some Inca ruins just below the summit. In January 1975 an Italian expedition led by Antonio Mastellaro managed to climb the east side. In 1983 a small expedition from Gorizia was able to traverse the south-west ridge, which is considered the most difficult trail of the mountain, and one of the last mountaineering issues in the Andes. On January 27 Mauro Collini, Sergio Figel, Mario Tavagnutti and Rudi Vittori reached the top.

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Talk:WFA

WindFish, why do you want this page deleted?
 * Less than 1000 Google results for Weighted Finite Automata. Not notable. Perhaps it is notable, I am uncertain to whether or not 900-something Google results counts as notable. -WindFish 10:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:The three revert rule is silly

Please stop removing content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --JoanneB 10:16, 7 October 2005 (UTC)


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Jean-Marie Balestre

Jean-Marie Balestre (9 April 1921 – 27 March 2008) was a French auto racing administrator, who became President of the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA) from 1978 to 1991 and President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) from 1985 to 1993.

Early life
Balestre was born at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône. He studied law in Paris, and afterwards worked as a journalist on a number of publications.

World War II
Details of Balestre's activities during World War II are unknown. He was a member of the French Nazi division of the SS, but later claimed to have been an undercover agent for the French Resistance, and received the Legion of Honour for services to France in 1968.

Career
After the war, he worked as a journalist for Robert Hersant at a successful French automobile magazine called L'Auto-Journal. Balestre continued to work with Hersant as he expanded his publishing operations, which made Balestre a wealthy individual. He was a founding member of the Fédération Française du Sport Automobile, a French national motorsport organization, in 1950, and in 1961 became the first president of the International Karting Commission of the FIA. He was elected president of the FFSA in 1973 and president of the FIA's International Sporting Commission in 1978. He was instrumental in transforming the International Sporting Commission into the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA) in 1978 winning the election by 29 votes to 11 over Tom Binford.

In the late 1970s, photographs began to circulate of Balestre wearing a German SS uniform, and he took unsuccessful legal action to suppress their publication.

Balestre was heavily involved in what is colloquially called the FISA–FOCA war, a political battle over finances and control of the Formula One World Championships between 1980 and 1982. Balestre and his opponent, Bernie Ecclestone, settled the dispute after Enzo Ferrari brokered a compromise. Balestre signed the first Concorde Agreement, under which FOCA was granted the commercial rights to Formula One while the FIA retained control of all sporting and technical regulations.

In 1986, a few hours after the death of Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto in a crash, Balestre announced the unilateral decision of FISA to ban Group B rallying in favour of the slower, less technically advanced Group A. Despite this decision, WRC driver fatalities peaked in 1989.

Balestre is credited with establishing specific crash test requirements for Formula One cars, significantly improving the safety of the sport. He was also a key proponent of the switch to naturally aspirated engines in 1989, also arguing that such a move was essential for safety reasons.

However, Balestre has also been accused of using his power for more than it was intended. In, after Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost collided at Suzuka, there were implications in Autosport magazine that Balestre was involved in manipulating the World Championship in favour of Prost, as Senna would be disqualified from the race, fined, and suspended. This ultimately led to Max Mosley's decision to run for the FISA presidency. Senna fell out with Balestre who threatened to revoke his super license but was included on the 1990 entry list. However, when Senna collided with Prost in 1990 at the same circuit, Balestre did not intervene or sanction the Brazilian. Years later, after leaving the presidency of FIA, Balestre admitted to having acted to benefit Prost in 1989.

Balestre was elected as president of the FIA, while remaining president of FISA, in 1986. He was replaced as president of FISA in 1991 when he lost the election to Max Mosley in October by a vote of 43 to 29. Facing certain defeat in the re-election to the FIA presidency in October 1993, Balestre elected to stand down, and proposed that FISA be abolished and Mosley replace him as president of the FIA. Balestre maintained the presidency of the FFSA until the end of 1996.

Death
Balestre died on 27 March 2008, aged 86.

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User:WindFish/Speedy deletion

This is an archive of pages I have nominated for speedy deletion. It is not complete; there were some in the past that I nominated, but that was a while ago and I don't want to go searching for what they were.

WHY, WINDFISH, WHY!?
I made this page to display the work I do on Wikipedia — more than just editing Pokémon articles!

The list
The latest additions are on top.

 * 1) Sebastian sturm - non-English.
 * 2) Voorhees High School - "This school sucks. That's about it, really. Oh, and Señor Okane is balding."
 * 3) Battle of Crown Point - "Hey colon" was the only content.
 * 4) A Modern Utopia - "utopia" was the only content.
 * 5) Mauritius Grey Parrot - "harr har hAR" was the only content.
 * 6) Penicilin G - "can penicilin G kill gram- positive?" was the only content.
 * 7) Durrty Doogz - poorly written bio.
 * 8) Yam (Location) - "Hello" was the only content. "Goodbye" was my reason for nomination.
 * 9) Elez koci - bio. Made normal.
 * 10) Jon Turteltaub - "Jon Turteltaub rapes horses" was the only content.
 * 11) London: A Short History - some craziness.
 * 12) Criminal Justice Act 2003 - see below.
 * 13) Operation Titanic - contained not but the page title, misspelled.
 * 14) Pope John Paul Kiddiefiddler - vandalism/biography with image of man masturbating.
 * 15) 1979 European Parliament Election - praise for European Parliament.
 * 16) Bling Creosote - a bio with no results on Google.
 * 17) Frolloping - I added this to BJAODN.
 * 18) Louis Hatton - apparently a n00b with a small chicken.
 * 19) Backstab - "plz see jerjer" was the only content; "Is jerjer a backstabber? OH WELL, NON-NOTABLE" said I.
 * 20) Elada Omnia Consulting - an advertisement for some company.
 * 21) Emily cuprate - bio.
 * 22) Filip Orelj - short software developer bio. I noted that his name was similar to "Dilip", a guy who works for IBM.
 * 23) Gundam: Hathaway's Flash - copy-paste of Wikipedia text.
 * 24) Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange - just a period. It has since been fixed up.
 * 25) J2SE 5.0 Annotations and its use in Core Java - sounds like some copy-pasted report.
 * 26) Wishkid "Wish Kid is Coming Soon On Boomerang and Shake with Hi Hi Puffy Yumi Ami and What's Happening Now." ... what?
 * 27) Impreginate - just a word definition which was misspelled.
 * 28) An Autobiographical Statement - just some copy-pasted stuff.
 * 29) Loretta Fahy - bio.
 * 30) Hazel May and the Hashish Tramps - only 90 Google results for this non-notable band.
 * 31) NOW Broadband TV - see below. Was deleted, but returned as a proper article.
 * 32) Metro Radio Hong Kong - see below. Was deleted, but returned as a proper article.
 * 33) Cable TV Hong Kong - "The article starts here." was the only content. My nomination reason was "No it doesn't". Was deleted, but returned as a proper article.
 * 34) Crealy Park - "bo" was the only content.
 * 35) Tamsy - ASCII of some fat-head guy.
 * 36) Yu Luo - bio praising some university guy.
 * 37) Transfer of learning - non-neutral, bad formatting & grammar.
 * 38) Flambards Village Theme Park - "it is well gud" was the only content.
 * 39) Itxboot - not in English.
 * 40) Skoleløsning - not in English.
 * 41) DSC-P10 - testing.
 * 42) Stuart ackers - insulting bio.
 * 43) MILF Hunter - vandalism and testing.
 * 44) Iain morris - bio; repeat creation.
 * 45) Church of Kanglagarrr - only content was "IT IS TEH R00XR!!!" - how kitsch.
 * 46) Mark devaney - bio.
 * 47) Nitrokiss - non-notable band.
 * 48) International travel - link to a photo of "Spaland".
 * 49) John Bouris - bio.
 * 50) Nested PCR - the only content was "nested-pcr".
 * 51) Beizama - "Just a link to another site, not in English" was my reason for nomination. Fixed, I guess.
 * 52) Jozankei - testing wiki syntax, etc.
 * 53) Plate waste - 227 kilobytes of ~ (wiki signatures).
 * 54) The Tonight Show with John Farnham & Dannielle Gaha - lambasting the poor show.
 * 55) The OH in Ohio - "Crude humor! Humph!" was my reason for nomination.
 * 56) Shri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji - empty.
 * 57) Stanley78 - bio.
 * 58) Tundra Wolf - bio.
 * 59) Tommy low - bio.
 * 60) Wikipedia a bunch o' cunts - my reason for nomination was "Insulting me, boo hoo hoo".
 * 61) Corsica Nazione - some person trying to promote his or her hateful group. Now neutral.
 * 62) WFA - non-notable.
 * 63) Comparison of vector graphics markup languages - HTML that didn't work.
 * 64) Patience Hodgson - bio.
 * 65) Shane techo - bio.
 * 66) Classification of Products by Activity - patent nonsense.
 * 67) University of Makati - empty.
 * 68) Juan Gabriel de Castro - bio.

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title: User:WindFish/Speedy deletion