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Poland men's national basketball team

The Poland men's national basketball team (Reprezentacja Polski w koszykówce) represents Poland in international basketball competitions. They are controlled by the Polish Basketball Federation (PZKosz).

Poland has competed at the EuroBasket on 28 occasions, with their best performance at the tournament coming in 1963, as hosts, finishing as runners-up. Poland has competed six times at the Olympic Games, with their best finish being fourth place at the first edition of the event in 1936. Poland have also made two appearances at the FIBA World Cup, with their first coming in 1967, and their second occurring 52 years later in 2019.

1936 Olympic Games
The 1936 Summer Olympics was the first tournament Poland took part in. They eventually placed an impressive fourth at the event, in the then 23 team tournament.

EuroBasket 1937
The EuroBasket 1937 in Riga, marked the first ever appearance for the national team at the European Basketball Championship. In the preliminary round the Poles dropped their first match to France, but rebounded with victories against Latvia and Czechoslovakia. They finished with an 2–1 record, and moved on to the semi-finals where they played Lithuania. There they were defeated by the eventual champion Lithuanian squad 31–25, relegating them to the bronze medal match. For the bronze, the team was defeated again by France to end their maiden run at the Eurobasket.

EuroBasket 1939
Two years later at EuroBasket 1939 in Kaunas, the competition format was a single round-robin without playoffs. Latvia and Lithuania both defeated Poland whereas the other five teams in the competition fell to the Poles. With Lithuania undefeated and Poland and Latvia tied with a record of 5–2, the loss to Latvia was decisive in pushing Poland to third place and the bronze.

EuroBasket 1946
Due to World War II, the next European basketball championship was at EuroBasket 1946 in Geneva. The Poles started well, with a victory over Luxembourg. They then lost their next two preliminary round matches to Italy, and Hungary to finish in third place of the four-team group. That result put them in the 7th–10th place classification semi-final, where they lost again, this time to Belgium. In the 9th/10th place playoff, Poland defeated England.

EuroBasket 1947
The EuroBasket returned to the odd-year schedule with EuroBasket 1947 in Prague. Poland placed second in their preliminary group, losing only to eventual silver medallist Czechoslovakia en route to a 2–1 record. They then went 1–2 in their semi-final group, falling to the gold medal Soviet Union team and bronze medal Egypt. This put Poland in a 5th/6th place playoff against France, who had been 1–2 in the opposite semi-final group. France went on to win, 62–29.

EuroBasket 1955
After an 8-year hiatus, Poland returned at EuroBasket 1955 in Budapest. They quickly showed that they could still play with the European field, winning all four of their preliminary round games to advance to the final round. Despite their mediocre 3–4 record in that round, the Poles had demonstrated that they could be effective against the best of the European pool with a 72–68 win over eventual runners-up Czechoslovakia. They eventually finished 5th overall of the 18 teams in the tournament.

EuroBasket 1957
Two years later in Sofia, Poland competed at EuroBasket 1957. Despite being seeded into the same preliminary pool as the Soviet Union, the Poles went 2–1 in the round-robin and advanced to the final round. There they lost their first six of seven games in that round, getting their first win in the last game of the round, against France to finish the tournament in 7th place.

EuroBasket 1963
Five years later the national team hosted EuroBasket 1963 in Wroclaw. They got off to a fast start winning their first match against Spain 79–76. They fell to the Soviet Union in their next match. But, eventually ran the table the rest of the way in their preliminary round group to finish with an 6–1 record to advance. In the semi-finals the Poles defeated Yugoslavia, to get within a win of the gold medal. There they met up against the Soviet Union again, and were dominated 61–45 to instead take silver.

1964 Olympic Games
As vice champion of the EuroBasket, at the 1964 Summer Olympics, the Poles came off an impressive start as they finished 3rd out of 8 in the preliminary round. Overall, they finished 6th out of 16, ahead of SFR Yugoslavia, Uruguay and Mexico, which were all major players at the global stage at that time.

1967 World Cup
The 1967 World Cup was the first appearance for the national team to compete at the global tournament. The team finished 2–1 in their preliminary group, with victories against Paraguay and Puerto Rico to advance to the final round. There they finished their first ever trip to the World Cup with an subpar 2–4 record, placing 5th in the event.

1968 Olympic Games
Just like at the last Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the Poles finished the preliminary round at the 1968 event in Mexico City with a winning record. Overall, they finished 6th out of 16. Just like at the EuroBasket 1967, Poland won against Bulgaria for its closest victory of the tournament.

Seventh Heaven (1987-1997)
From 1987 to 1997, the national team only managed to qualify for the European Basketball Championship three times out of a possible six. They finished in seventh place in each tournament in 1987, 1991, and 1997. Although after 1997 Poland would fail to qualify for the top European basketball event for the next decade.

The 10-year span
After years of failed qualifications, Poland finally made their way back to the EuroBasket at the 2007 tournament. It was quite an unexpected achievement for the Poles. But, overall they did not make much noise. Because of injury, many key players including Michał Ignerski and Maciej Lampe did not compete at the event. The Poles lost all 3 games, but even in defeat they remained competitive losing by only 8 to a well-regarded French team and by 9 to the Italian squad.

EuroBasket 2009
The White and Red hosted the EuroBasket 2009, making it the first time the national team qualified for consecutive EuroBasket tournaments since the mid 1980s. They got off to an impressive start putting away Bulgaria in the first game 90–78. The team followed that up with another strong performance versus Lithuania 86–75, before dropping their final game in preliminary play against Turkey. With an 2–1 record the team was able to advance to the second round. There, the team came up short in group play with an 1–4 record and a 9th place finish overall at the event.

Later years (2009-2019)
After 2009, the national team qualified for every EuroBasket in the 2010s. But they could only manage to finish in the top half of the tournament once, that being in 2015.

2019 World Cup
In 2019, the national team qualified for the World Cup. It was their first qualification to a global event since 1980 Olympics in Moscow. During the 2019 FIBA World Cup, Poland was put into a group with group favourite China, Ivory Coast, and Venezuela. After a convincing win over Venezuela, Poland upset the hosts 79-76 in front of a max-capacity crowd in Beijing. Poland was down 72-69 with 15 seconds left before Chinese NBA center Zhou Qi made 2 straight turnovers allowing Poland to send the game into overtime. Aaron Cel made a driving layup to put Poland up 78-76 and the upset was sealed when Yi Jianlian missed the game-tying shot. Poland finished 3-0 in their group and moved onto the next round, where they defeated Russia 79-74 before losing to Argentina. In the quarterfinals they faced eventual champions Spain and narrowly lost 90-78, eventually finishing the tournament in 8th place.

EuroBasket 2022
At the EuroBasket 2022 qualification, Jeremy Sochan became the youngest player to ever play for Poland's national team. In his very first game, he led Poland over Romania 88-81. He played 29 minutes in which he scored 18 points, including a four-point play (3 pointer plus foul and free throw) at the end and a game-deciding block. The Orly played in Group D held in Prague. Poland started off with a win over co-host Czech Republic by 99-84. But in their second match, they fell back to Finland by 89-59. They later went back strong with their second win over Israel by 85-76. They won in their fourth match against the Netherlands 75-69. But in the fifth and final preliminary match, lost to Serbia by 96-69. In the knockout stage, they started their Final Phase campaign in the Round of 16 with a win over Ukraine by 93-86. In the quarter-finals, they stunned Slovenia by winning 90-87. But in the semi-finals they were unable to catch up and lost to France by 54-95. In the third place match, Poland fell behind to co-host Germany and lost by 69-82. Poland finished fourth in the final standings, it became Poland's strong finish for the first time since 1967.

EuroBasket 2025
Poland will co-host the EuroBasket 2025 after being able to step in for Ukraine. Poland is currently playing in the qualifiers despite already earning an automatic qualification as co-host. Matches will be held at the Spodek in Katowice.

Current roster
Roster for the 2024 Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Head coach history
• 🇪🇪/🇵🇱 Walenty Kłyszejko – (1936–1939)

• 🇵🇱 Józef Pachla & Mieczysław Piotrowski – (1946)

• 🇵🇱 Józef Pachla – (1947–1948)

• 🇪🇪/🇵🇱 Walenty Kłyszejko & Jerzy Patrzykont – (1949)

• 🇵🇱 Tadeusz Ulatowski – (1950)

• 🇵🇱 Władysław Maleszewski – (1950–1953)

• 🇵🇱 Tadeusz Ulatowski & Jan Rudelski – (1953)

• 🇵🇱 Andrzej Kulesza & Romuald Markowski – (1954)

• 🇵🇱 Władysław Maleszewski & Jerzy Patrzykont – (1955)

• 🇵🇱 Zygmunt Olesiewicz – (1956)

• 🇵🇱 Jan Rudelski – (1957)

• 🇵🇱 Jan Rudelski & Jerzy Patrzykont – (1958)

• 🇵🇱 Zygmunt Olesiewicz & Jerzy Lelonkiewicz – (1959)

• 🇵🇱 Zygmunt Olesiewicz – (1960)

• 🇵🇱 Jerzy Lelonkiewicz – (1961)

• 🇵🇱 Zygmunt Olesiewicz – (1961)

• 🇵🇱 Witold Zagórski – (1961–1975)

• 🇵🇱 Jerzy Świątek – (1977–1979)

• 🇵🇱 Stefan Majer – (1980)

• 🇵🇱 Jerzy Świątek – (1981–1983)

• 🇵🇱 Andrzej Kuchar – (1984–1987)

• 🇵🇱 Arkadiusz Koniecki – (1987–1992)

• 🇵🇱 Tadeusz Aleksandrowicz – (1993)

• 🇵🇱 Eugeniusz Kijewski – (1993–1998)

• 🇵🇱 Piotr Langosz – (1998–2000)

• 🇵🇱 Dariusz Szczubiał – (2000–2003)

• 🇵🇱 Andrzej Kowalczyk – (2003–2004)

• 🇷🇸 Veselin Matić – (2004–2006)

• 🇸🇮 Andrej Urlep – (2006–2008)

• 🇮🇱 Muli Katzurin – (2008–2010)

• 🇧🇾/🇵🇱 Igor Griszczuk – (2010–2011)

• 🇸🇮 Aleš Pipan – (2011–2013)

• 🇩🇪 Dirk Bauermann – (2013–2014)

• 🇺🇸 Mike Taylor – (2014–2021)

• Igor Miličić – (2021–present)

Past rosters
1936 Olympic Games: finished 4th among 21 teams

1 Zdzisław Filipkiewicz, 2 Florian Grzechowiak, 3 Zdzisław Kasprzak, 4 Jakub Kopf, 5 Ewaryst Łój, 6 Janusz Patrzykont, 7 Andrzej Pluciński, 8 Zenon Różycki, 9 Paweł Stok, 10 Edward Szostak (Coach: Walenty Kłyszejko)

1937 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 8 teams

3 Michał Czajczyk, 4 Stefan Gendera, 5 Florian Grzechowiak, 6 Zdzisław Kasprzak, 7 Janusz Patrzykont, 8 Andrzej Pluciński, 9 Zbigniew Resich, 10 Zenon Różycki, 11 Jarosław Śmigielski, 12 Paweł Stok (Coach: Walenty Kłyszejko)

1939 EuroBasket: finished 3rd among 8 teams

4 Jerzy Gregołajtis, 5 Bohdan Bartosiewicz, 6 Jarosław Śmigielski, 7 Zbigniew Resich, 8 Florian Grzechowiak, 9 Stanisław Pawłowski, 10 Paweł Stok, 11 Jerzy Rossudowski, 12 Zdzislaw Kasprzak, 13 Ewaryst Loj, 14 Włodzimierz Pławczyk (Coach: Walenty Kłyszejko)

1946 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 10 teams

3 Zbigniew Resich, 4 Rościsław Iwanow-Ruszkiewicz, 5 Jacek Arlet, 6 Jarosław Śmigielski, 7 Franciszek Szymura, 8 Florian Grzechowiak, 9 Edward Jarczyński, 10 Paweł Stok, 12 Zdzisław Kasprzak, 14 Władysław Maleszewski (Coach: Józef Pachla)

1947 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 14 teams

3 Józef Żyliński, 4 Ludwik Barszczewski, 5 Bohdan Bartosiewicz, 6 Jacek Arlet, 7 Jerzy Dowgird, 8 Edward Jarczyński, 9 Henryk Jaźnicki, 10 Paweł Stok, 11 Romuald Markowski, 12 Zbigniew Resich, 13 Tadeusz Ulatowski, 14 Władysław Maleszewski (Coach: Józef Pachla)

1955 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 18 teams

3 Leszek Kamiński, 4 Witold Zagórski, 5 Wincent Wawro, 6 Jerzy Sterenga, 7 Mieczysław Feglerski, 8 Jerzy Mlynarczyk, 9 Bohdan Przywarski, 10 Sławomir Złotkiewicz, 11 Jędrzej Bednarowicz, 12 Stefan Wojcik, 13 Andrzej Nartowski, 14 Tadeusz Pacuła, 16 Władysław Pawlak, 17 Ryszard Olszewski (Coach: Władysław Maleszewski)

1957 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 16 teams

3 Wincent Wawro, 4 Janusz Wichowski, 5 Andrzej Pstrokoński, 6 Andrzej Nartowski, 7 Mieczysław Feglerski, 8 Ryszard Olszewski, 9 Krzysztof Sitkowski, 10 Władysław Pawlak, 11 Jerzy Młynarczyk, 12 Stefan Wojcik, 13 Zdzisław Skrzeczkowski, 14 Tadeusz Pacuła (Coach: Władysław Maleszewski)

1959 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 17 teams

3 Jerzy Piskun, 4 Janusz Wichowski, 5 Andrzej Pstrokoński, 6 Andrzej Nartowski, 7 Bohdan Przywarski, 8 Ryszard Olszewski, 9 Krzysztof Sitkowski, 10 Władysław Pawlak, 11 Jerzy Młynarczyk, 12 Zbigniew Dregier, 13 Zenon Matysik, 14 Tadeusz Pacuła (Coach: Zygmunt Olesiewicz)

1960 Olympic Games: finished 7th among 16 teams

3 Jerzy Piskun, 4 Janusz Wichowski, 5 Andrzej Pstrokoński, 6 Andrzej Nartowski, 7 Jerzy Młynarczyk, 8 Ryszard Olszewski, 9 Krzysztof Sitkowski, 10 Mieczysław Łopatka, 11 Bohdan Przywarski, 12 Zbigniew Dregier, 13 Dariusz Świerczewski, 14 Tadeusz Pacuła (Coach: Zygmunt Olesiewicz)

1961 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 19 teams

4 Janusz Wichowski, 5 Andrzej Pstrokoński, 6 Jerzy Piskun, 7 Jerzy Młynarczyk, 8 Ryszard Olszewski, 9 Krzysztof Sitkowski, 10 Władysław Pawlak, 11 Zygmunt Wysocki, 12 Ryszard Niewodowski, 13 Leszek Arent, 14 Andrzej Nartowski, 15 Stanisław Olejniczak (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1963 EuroBasket: finished 2nd among 16 teams

4 Janusz Wichowski, 5 Andrzej Pstrokoński, 6 Leszek Arent, 7 Wiesław Langiewicz, 8 Stanisław Olejniczak, 9 Krzysztof Sitkowski, 10 Jerzy Piskun, 11 Bohdan Likszo, 12 Mieczysław Łopatka, 13 Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, 14 Andrzej Nartowski, 15 Zbigniew Dregier, (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1964 Olympic Games: finished 6th among 16 teams

4 Janusz Wichowski, 5 Andrzej Pstrokoński, 6 Tadeusz Blauth, 7 Andrzej Perka, 8 Stanisław Olejniczak, 9 Krzysztof Sitkowski, 10 Jerzy Piskun, 11 Bohdan Likszo, 12 Mieczysław Łopatka, 13 Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, 14 Krystian Czernichowski, 15 Zbigniew Dregier (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1965 EuroBasket: finished 3rd among 16 teams

4 Janusz Wichowski, 5 Andrzej Pstrokoński, 6 Czesław Malec, 7 Andrzej Perka, 8 Stanisław Olejniczak, 9 Wiesław Langiewicz, 10 Jerzy Piskun, 11 Bohdan Likszo, 12 Mieczysław Łopatka, 13 Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, 14 Edward Grzywna, 15 Zbigniew Dregier (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1967 FIBA World Cup: finished 5th among 13 teams

4 Janusz Wichowski, 5 Włodzimierz Trams, 6 Czesław Malec, 7 Henryk Cegielski, 8 Igor Oleszkiewicz, 9 Wiesław Langiewicz, 10 Andrzej Chmarzynski, 11 Bohdan Likszo, 12 Mieczysław Łopatka, 13 Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, 14 Bolesław Kwiatkowski, 15 Zbigniew Dregier (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1967 EuroBasket: finished 3rd among 16 teams

4 Mirosław Kuczyński, 5 Włodzimierz Trams, 6 Czesław Malec, 7 Henryk Cegielski, 8 Maciej Chojnacki, 9 Waldemar Kozak, 10 Grzegorz Korcz, 11 Bohdan Likszo, 12 Mieczysław Łopatka, 13 Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, 14 Bolesław Kwiatkowski, 15 Zbigniew Dregier (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1968 Olympic Games: finished 6th among 16 teams

4 Grzegorz Korcz, 5 Włodzimierz Trams, 6 Czesław Malec, 7 Henryk Cegielski, 8 Andrzej Kasprzak, 9 Edward Jurkiewicz, 10 Adam Niemiec, 11 Bohdan Likszo, 12 Mieczysław Łopatka, 13 Kazimierz Frelkiewicz, 14 Bolesław Kwiatkowski, 15 Andrzej Pasiorowski (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1969 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 12 teams

4 Marek Ladniak, 5 Włodzimierz Trams, 6 Jan Dolczewski, 7 Henryk Cegielski, 8 Andrzej Seweryn, 9 Edward Jurkiewicz, 10 Adam Niemiec, 11 Bohdan Likszo, 12 Waldemar Kozak, 13 Bolesław Kwiatkowski, 14 Krzysztof Gula, 15 Grzegorz Korcz (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1971 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 12 teams

4 Marek Ladniak, 5 Grzegorz Korcz, 6 Jan Dolczewski, 7 Henryk Cegielski, 8 Andrzej Seweryn, 9 Edward Jurkiewicz, 10 Jerzy Frolow, 11 Janusz Cegliński, 12 Waldemar Kozak, 13 Mirosław Kalinowski, 14 Eugeniusz Durejko, 15 Zbigniew Jedlinski (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1972 Olympic Games: finished 10th among 16 teams

4 Andrzej Pasiorowski, 5 Grzegorz Korcz, 6 Jan Dolczewski, 7 Franciszek Niemiec, 8 Andrzej Seweryn, 9 Waldemar Kozak, 10 Andrzej Kasprzak, 11 Janusz Cegliński, 12 Mieczysław Łopatka, 13 Ryszard Białowąs, 14 Eugeniusz Durejko, 15 Piotr Langosz (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1973 EuroBasket: finished 12th among 12 teams

4 Andrzej Pasiorowski, 5 Grzegorz Korcz, 6 Jan Dolczewski, 7 Jerzy Plebanek, 8 Andrzej Seweryn, 9 Tomasz Tybinkowski, 10 Tadeusz Grygiel, 11 Janusz Cegliński, 12 Jacek Kalinowski, 13 Zdzisław Myrda, 14 Eugeniusz Durejko, 15 Piotr Langosz (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1975 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 12 teams

4 Tadeusz Grygiel, 5 Tomasz Garlinski, 6 Piotr Langosz, 7 Franciszek Niemiec, 8 Andrzej Seweryn, 9 Edward Jurkiewicz, 10 Adam Gardzina, 11 Wojciech Fiedorczuk, 12 Marek Ladniak, 13 Zdzisław Myrda, 14 Eugeniusz Durejko, 15 Dariusz Kwiatkowski (Coach: Witold Zagórski)

1979 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 12 teams

4 Dariusz Zelig, 5 Zbigniew Kudlacz, 6 Wojciech Rosiński, 7 Eugeniusz Kijewski, 8 Andrzej Seweryn, 9 Tomasz Garlinski, 10 Leszek Chudeusz, 11 Justyn Węglorz, 12 Mieczysław Młynarski, 13 Zdzisław Myrda, 14 Ryszard Prostak, 15 Krzysztof Fikiel (Coach: Jerzy Świątek)

1980 Olympic Games: finished 7th among 12 teams

4 Dariusz Zelig, 5 Leszek Doliński, 6 Wojciech Rosiński, 7 Eugeniusz Kijewski, 8 Jerzy Bińkowski, 9 Marcin Michalski, 10 Ireneusz Mulak, 11 Justyn Węglorz, 12 Mieczysław Młynarski, 13 Zdzisław Myrda, 14 Ryszard Prostak, 15 Krzysztof Fikiel (Coach: Stefan Majer)

1981 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 12 teams

4 Dariusz Zelig, 5 Dariusz Szczubial, 6 Wojciech Rosinski, 7 Eugeniusz Kijewski, 8 Zbigniew Bogucki, 9 Jerzy Binkowski, 10 Miroslaw Boryca, 11 Justyn Weglorz, 12 Mieczyslaw Mlynarski, 13 Jaroslaw Jechorek, 14 Ryszard Prostak, 15 Krzysztof Fikiel (Coach: Jerzy Świątek)

1983 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 12 teams

4 Dariusz Zelig, 5 Stanisław Reschke, 6 Stanisław Kiełbik, 7 Eugeniusz Kijewski, 8 Jarosław Jęchorek, 9 Jerzy Bińkowski, 10 Ireneusz Mulak, 11 Justyn Węglorz, 12 Mieczysław Młynarski, 13 Zbigniew Bogucki, 14 Ryszard Prostak, 15 Krzysztof Fikiel (Coach: Jerzy Świątek)

1985 EuroBasket: finished 11th among 12 teams

4 Dariusz Zelig, 5 Dariusz Szczubiał, 6 Andrzej Żurawski, 7 Marek Sobczyński, 8 Jarosław Jęchorek, 9 Jerzy Bińkowski, 10 Ireneusz Mulak, 11 Justyn Węglorz, 12 Adam Fiedler, 13 Henryk Wardach, 14 Jarosław Zyskowski, 15 Krzysztof Fikiel (Coach: Andrzej Kuchar)

1987 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 12 teams

4 Dariusz Zelig, 5 Ryszard Prostak, 6 Mirosław Boryca, 7 Marek Sobczyński, 8 Jarosław Jęchorek, 9 Jerzy Bińkowski, 10 Dariusz Szczubiał, 11 Dariusz Kobylański, 12 Adam Fiedler, 13 Jerzy Kołodziejczak, 14 Henryk Wardach, 15 Krzysztof Fikiel (Coach: Andrzej Kuchar)

1991 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 8 teams

4 Dariusz Zelig, 5 Maciej Zieliński, 6 Wojciech Królik, 7 Piotr Baran, 8 Jarosław Marcinkowski, 9 Jerzy Bińkowski, 10 Dariusz Szczubiał, 11 Adam Wójcik, 12 Jarosław Jechorek, 13 Jacek Duda, 14 Mariusz Bacik, 15 Tomasz Torgowski (Coach: Arkadiusz Koniecki)

1997 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 16 teams

4 Robert Kościuk, 5 Andrzej Pluta, 6 Krzysztof Mila, 7 Jarosław Darnikowski, 8 Dominik Tomczyk, 9 Maciej Zieliński, 10 Adam Wójcik, 11 Tomasz Jankowski, 12 Piotr Szybilski, 13 Rafał Bigus, 14 Mariusz Bacik, 15 Krzysztof Dryja (Coach: Eugeniusz Kijewski)

2007 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 16 teams

4 Bartłomiej Wołoszyn, 5 Andrzej Pluta, 6 Robert Skibniewski, 7 Robert Witka, 8 Filip Dylewicz, 9 Radosław Hyży, 10 Adam Wójcik, 11 Kamil Pietras, 12 Szymon Szewczyk, 13 Iwo Kitzinger, 14 Przemysław Frasunkiewicz, 15 Łukasz Koszarek (Coach: Andrej Urlep)

2009 EuroBasket: finished 9th among 16 teams

4 Maciej Lampe, 5 Krzysztof Roszyk, 6 Michał Chyliński, 7 Krzysztof Szubarga, 8 Robert Skibniewski, 9 Szymon Szewczyk, 10 Adam Wójcik, 11 Michał Ignerski, 12 David Logan, 13 Marcin Gortat, 14 Robert Witka, 15 Łukasz Koszarek (Coach: Muli Katzurin)

2011 EuroBasket: finished 17th among 24 teams

4 Dardan Berisha, 5 Adam Łapeta, 6 Robert Skibniewski, 7 Adam Waczyński, 8 Piotr Pamuła, 9 Paweł Leończyk, 10 Szymon Szewczyk, 11 Thomas Kelati, 12 Piotr Szczotka, 13 Łukasz Wiśniewski, 14 Adam Hrycaniuk, 15 Łukasz Koszarek (Coach: Aleš Pipan)

2013 EuroBasket: finished 21st among 24 teams

4 Przemysław Karnowski, 5 Thomas Kelati, 6 Maciej Lampe, 7 Krzysztof Szubarga, 8 Michał Chyliński, 9 Przemysław Zamojski, 10 Mateusz Ponitka, 11 Michał Ignerski, 12 Adam Waczyński, 13 Marcin Gortat, 14 Adam Hrycaniuk, 15 Łukasz Koszarek (Coach: Dirk Bauermann)

2015 EuroBasket: finished 11th among 24 teams

0 Aleksander Czyż, 5 Aaron Cel, 6 A. J. Slaughter, 7 Damian Kulig, 10 Mateusz Ponitka, 12 Adam Waczyński, 13 Marcin Gortat (C), 15 Łukasz Koszarek, 17 Przemysław Zamojski, 24 Przemysław Karnowski, 33 Karol Gruszecki, 66 Robert Skibniewski (Coach: Mike Taylor)

2017 EuroBasket: finished 18th among 24 teams

3 Michał Sokołowski, 5 Aaron Cel, 6 A. J. Slaughter, 7 Damian Kulig, 8 Przemysław Zamojski, 9 Mateusz Ponitka, 12 Adam Waczyński, 15 Łukasz Koszarek, 21 Tomasz Gielo, 24 Przemek Karnowski, 33 Karol Gruszecki, 34 Adam Hrycaniuk (Coach: Mike Taylor)

2019 FIBA World Cup: finished 8th among 32 teams

2 Aleksander Balcerowski, 3 Michał Sokołowski, 5 Aaron Cel, 6 A. J. Slaughter, 9 Mateusz Ponitka, 12 Adam Waczyński, 13 Dominik Olejniczak, 15 Kamil Łączyński, 33 Karol Gruszecki, 34 Adam Hrycaniuk, 55 Łukasz Koszarek, 77 Damian Kulig (Coach: Mike Taylor)

2022 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 24 teams

1 Jarosław Zyskowski, 2 Aleksander Balcerowski, 3 Michał Sokołowski, 5 Aaron Cel, 6 A. J. Slaughter, 9 Mateusz Ponitka (C), 10 Łukasz Kolenda, 11 Aleksander Dziewa, 13 Dominik Olejniczak, 23 Michał Michalak, 30 Jakub Garbacz, 55 Jakub Schenk (Coach: Igor Miličić)

Manufacturer

 * 2011: Spalding
 * 2013–15: Zina
 * 2016–2021: Adidas
 * 2022–present: 4F

Sponsor

 * 2011: Prokom
 * 2013: Lotto
 * 2015: Tauron
 * 2017: Energa

Videos

 * Slovenia v Poland – Highlights – EuroBasket 2022 (Quarter-finals) Youtube.com video

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What's going on here? I can't find the discussion on CFD of the deletion of Category:Plantagenet. What's the story here?

Also, House of Anjou isn't a specific enough category. After the Plantagenet Kings of England lost control of Anjou, there were two separate Capetian Houses of Anjou. john k 02:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

House of Anjou
Around 7 Oct 2005, all persons previously classified as "Plantagenet" were moved into the classification "House of Anjou", muddling the contents a bit. Since there is a British Angevin line, and two French royal lines that bear the name House of Anjou, a more specific classification system is needed. I propose something like the following, but would welcome suggestions on naming of categories before starting to institute them. - Nunh-huh 17:10, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Category: Houses of Anjou
 * sub-category: Counts of Anjou
 * sub-category: Plantagenet dynasty (or British Angevins)
 * sub-category: House of York
 * sub-category: House of Lancaster
 * sub-category: House of Anjou (senior branch) or French House of Anjou, first branch, or First Capetian House of Anjou or House of Capet-Anjou
 * sub-category: House of Anjou (junior branch) or French House of Anjou, second branch, or Second Capetian House of Anjou or House of Valois-Anjou.

 * With regards to the House of Lancaster, should we distinguish between the first house of Lancaster (Edmund Crouchback and his agnatic descendants) and the second house of Lancaster (John of Gaunt and his agnatic descendants)? Currently, the former are just in the general category, while Category:House of Lancaster is reserved for John of Gaunt's descendants.  A further question is what to do about bastard lines.  I think here specifically of the Beauforts.  (And then of course there's the Beauforts' bastard line, the Somersets, from whom arose the present day Dukes of Beaufort).  I'd suggest that sinister lines should be in their own subcategory as well, and not included in the main category. john k 18:06, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm all for being as specific as we can be. Are there any names we can use for these that are already used by historians? Feel free to add them into the schema. - Nunh-huh 18:24, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Since John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster was the son-in-law of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, the two Houses of Lancaster are not unrelated. Perhaps they should go to the same category. The distinction should be made at the introduction of the category.

The Beauforts and Somersets could form subcategories of their own. Lets say "Category:Beaufort family" and "Category:Somerset family" after the similarly named "Category:Bach family", "Category:Brontë family", etc. The introduction should clearly state who was the "founder" of the family and what was his relation to the ancestral family. However "illegitimate" should be used instead of "bastard".

However the "Category:House of Anjou" name remains a problem. As it currently stands it may as well include the half-siblings of Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou: Baldwin III of Jerusalem and Amalric I of Jerusalem and the descedants of the later. They are also "House of Anjou" Royals after all. User:Dimadick

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Collingham, Nottinghamshire

Collingham is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 2,738, increasing to 3,052 at the 2021 census.

Collingham is on the River Trent and the A1133 main road, just off the A46, 6 mi from Newark-on-Trent, 15 mi from Lincoln, and 28 mi from Nottingham.

The civil parish of Collingham comprises the villages of Brough, Danethorpe and Danethorpe Hill and Collingham itself, which is made up of North Collingham and South Collingham; each with a medieval church.

History
Collingham is close to the old Roman fort at Brough and there have been several local finds of Roman coins, jewellery and villa remains. It lies close to the Fosse Way on its way to Lincoln. The village name suggests a fairly early Saxon foundation, preceding the occupation of eastern England by the Danes and it is naturally mentioned in the Domesday Book. It is thought that the Great North Road crossed the Trent here before Newark was founded; prior to the river's change of channel westwards it ran close to the village and was the cause of much flooding. Many of the other villages close by have names which suggest that they were later daughter settlements. It possessed two churches in North and South Collingham from before the Norman conquest. The parishes extended from the river floodplain onto the uncultivated moorland on the higher ground between Trent and Witham, allowing for good grazing and meadowland throughout the year.

In medieval and early modern times Collingham operated an openfield system and enclosure did not take place until the turn of the 18th/19th centuries, changing much local farming from a small holding of strips and the right to extensive grazing, to individual small cottage holdings or a precarious existence as a landless agricultural labourer. The wide square fields and relatively few isolated farms are the result. One field was set aside in the enclosure award of 1790 for lease every year with the revenues being put to the use of the poor of the parish. Around the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century there was an influx of agricultural labour, displaced from the enclosures of the upland Lincolnshire villages in places like Boothby Graffoe, Coleby and Harmston, taking the place of former Collingham people who had moved to towns such as Lincoln, Newark and Nottingham in search of better employment.

During the siege of Newark in the English Civil War, the countryside was subject to deprivation from the opposing armies wanting food and fresh horses and the village suffered. In 1664, a mercer of Collingham, one Thomas Ridge, issued his own copper halfpenny tokens, in response to currency shortage after the civil war.

In the 19th century Collingham was fairly self-sufficient with its own watchmaker, shoemakers, blacksmiths, dressmakers, schools, grocers and carriers. There were many local societies and the Nonconformist churches had their own congregations. At one point there was considerable enmity between the vicar of North Collingham and the rector of South Collingham with many disputes about the schools in the village. There are a large number of listed buildings in the village, from the c16 through to the c19, and the village is highly valued as a place to live and commute from.

Facilities

Local amenities include the Co-op and One-Stop convenience stores, butcher's, general store, newsagent and post office. There is a medical centre/dentist/pharmacy complex which serves much of the surrounding area, plus a library in the same building. Now collectively known as Collingham Village Centre, negotiations are currently under way between Collingham Parish Council, Lincolnshire Co-operative, Collingham Football Club, and other interested parties, to build a new, much larger, Co-op supermarket, and a greatly enlarged car park. This will add another two to four retail outlets in the Village Centre, and is supported by the majority of the villagers who voted in a Parish Council survey.

There are some sporting facilities in Collingham, notably Collingham F.C. and Collingham Cricket Club. There are also facilities for tennis, bowling and croquet while the nearby River Trent seems very popular with anglers.

Collingham is fairly easy to get to by road or railway, being very close to the A46 and 5.5 miles from the A1/A46 junction at Newark-on-Trent. Collingham is served by the Nottingham-Lincoln railway line used by East Midlands Trains, which passes close to the east side of the village, where there is the station, and you can reach most parts of the Midlands. There is an East Coast station at Newark Northgate from which London can be reached as well as all locations on the East Coast Main Line. A bus service to Newark operates on an irregular basis, with two daily buses running to Lincoln on a daily basis.

Bypass
One ongoing issue affecting the village regards a bypass. The issue is not new, and has surfaced a number of times over the past sixty years or so, the last time being rejected in favour of another project in the county, a new bus station in Mansfield. The proposed bypass is not seen as a priority and in addition would damage the countryside and natural environment along the east side of the village.Many villagers pose the argument that the damage to the environment would be more than offset by the reduction in damage to the built environment along the High Street, and the cessation of the use of Low Street as a 'rat run' to avoid the traffic lights at the Station Road junction. Pressure groups within the village continue to campaign for the bypass to be built, regardless of how remote the possibility.

Notable people
The composer John Blow was born in the village. Two brothers from the village, John and William Bacon, took part in the Charge of the Light Brigade (under the assumed name of Baker). William was killed, but John returned, later leaving the Army. Both are buried in North Collingham churchyard.

Drummer William Bowerman, formerly of I Was a Cub Scout and Brontide is from Collingham.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smurf Communism

 * 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 Keep -- (drini's page| ☎ ) 20:51, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Smurf Communism

 * Merge This provides a useful footnote to the Smurf entry. As someone who came in looking for info on Smurf Communism I was disappointed to see that somebody somewhere wants to prevent me from finding out about this from Wikipedia.  And I thought this site was about sharing information ...
 * Keep A lot of ideas are considered silly to some, but hold merit with others. Who are we to delete something we don't particularly value?
 * Keep Great information and first thing found in my google searcj. Unsigned vote by 149.142.112.2.
 * Original research; also silly. tregoweth  02:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - While corny, it does provide a surprisingly useful analysis of communism, and pulls together references to other relevant articles. This is not a new or short-lived analysis, and I have personally used the content in seriousness annually for years.
 * Delete per nomination. tregoweth  02:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a long standing rumor and Google says] it has over 12,000 links about Smurfs and Communism. Zach (Sound Off) 02:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Not original research. I've seen this brought up in several places before, and there are plenty of websites that cover this, amazingly enough, that can be cited for this article. In fact, this was mentioned on The Smurfs article, and it seems to have been given a main article because it became too long. Toothpaste 02:21, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, also, this article needs criticism of the theory. Most of the websites where I heard this covered in detail had a criticism to go along with it. Toothpaste 03:51, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Interesting stuff, but I've never heard of it before this, and it just seems too "corny" to be in an encyclopedia. Private Butcher 03:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep insidious communism. Klonimus 03:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Yea, it is silly, but does seem to be somewhat notable --Rogerd 03:26, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - notable (possibly intentional) metaphor. -- BD2412 talk 04:47, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Note - in reference to many comments below, I agree that a rename is advisable. I like Smurfs and communism. BD2412  talk 05:10, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep this type of article is one of the things that makes wikipedia special. Just because the article is about a silly topic, doesn't mean it can't be in the encyclopedia.  We have a whole collection of this stuff at Unusual articles. --best, kevin  · · · Kzollman | Talk · · · 05:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This is pure nonsense. Pretty much every kids show that promotes sharing and inter-dependence could get an article called (show name) communism.  Just because a bunch of other web sites cover something, doesn't mean we should go down there with them.     --rob 05:30, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for the same reason we need an article about the moon landing hoax hypothesis. If something is at least semi-seriously entertained by enough people who do enough rubbing elbows over it and so on, it deserves mention here. However, the article needs to be improved to include the counter view and the good points brought up by rob. Qaz  ( talk ) 07:19, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I remember when my teacher taught me about Communism, the Smurfs were used as an example :-). Amren (talk) 13:48, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per rob, or i'll expect Barney Communism or Big Bird Communism articles, at least until the GOP succeeds with its corporate takeover of PBS. "Sharing is good...unless it gets in the way of profit margins!" Karmafist 14:48, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Extreme traffic cone sex keep, this article has references. The basis of the nomination was that it was original research. Alphax τεχ 14:54, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but Rename to Smurfs (comparisons to communism) or Smurfs in popular culture. Has references so not original research. feydey 15:56, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, silly. If kept, should be removed from serious categories and placed into a Smurf category.-gadfium 19:28, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - notable, interesting and has references. No reason for it to be deleted. --Loopy 00:15, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - It's not original research, and is not too silly - it can be seen as providing evidence of the exposure of children to vaguely socialist ideas through childrens' television. It is therefore potentially useful. --Potemkin100 02:19, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * STRONG KEEP I was looking up this topic today (did a google search and clicked on the wikipedia link only to find that people are trying to get it deleted so I had to comment because it was clearly of use to me) and this says many of the same things other sites discuss about the topic.  It's interesting and can be backed up by numerous other sites.  This is not an idea that's too far fetched and there is clearly research involved.  Please keep it!!  (Unsigned comment by 24.34.169.228 (talk))
 *  Smurf  This smurfy article is just what Wikipedia needs! Caerwine 05:30, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Wikipedia is not a printed encyclopedia, and there's no reason to save space by deleting a well-written article such as this, as unconvential as the topic may be.  Bushytails 06:05, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as insufficiently notable. It's not whether an article is about something wacky or unconventional or silly, it's whether people out in the rest of the world are aware of, or are discussing or recognizing the subject. The Google test above is misleading; if you go a few pages into the Google results, they become pretty random and the "Smurf" and "Communism" references are not necessarily related. "Smurf Communism" (with quotes) yields only 217 results. MCB 06:47, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, but if you type "Communist Smurf" (with quotes), you get 1330 results on google. and 761 for "smurfs are communist" and if you google "papa smurf" and "karl marx" together (both in quotes) you get 2020 results.--Kewp (t) 08:45, 9 October 2005 (UTC)talk
 * Keep well known concept, has been around for quite a while. --Kewp (t) 08:45, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Well, it looks like this will be kept now.  I would suggest a new name be thought of.  At a minimum "Communism" should not be capitlized, since "Smurf Communism" is not a proper name of anything.  Something semi-neutral like Smurfs (comparisons to communism) would be legitimate (as it doesn't imply there is actually such a thing).  Unfortunately, we've now set a precident here, and everyone and everything ever called a "communist" might get a comparable serious or silly POV fork-article.  --rob 08:57, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I would like this article to stay right where it is, but if it does get moved somewhere, I would suggest Smurfs in popular culture, so that we can add the rant from Donnie Darko to it as well. :) --Jacquelyn Marie 22:53, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep MSTCrow 10:01, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP!!! - This actually came up at my University --24.15.4.5 15:28, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep why delete ? 203.109.252.196 15:34, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep- Interesting in an "urban legends / Art Bell / conspiracy " sort of way.user:Murse
 * Keep. It has references; how is it original research? And silliness is not one of our criteria for deleting articles. --Ashenai (talk) 15:45, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Very weak. The article as written is nonsensical and too credulous of the idea. Probably spinning on "Smurf rumors" as its own article would suffice. That said there is some justification to this. Scholarly articles on the theory are lacking, but not nonexistent. I did find one article at scholar google that seem to indicate elements of the anti-globalization movement discuss the idea. There seems a small cultural relevance to the notion.--T. Anthony 16:11, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If you think it's "too credulous," you know, you could change it yourself. Add some incredulousness, or whatever. It's the encyclopedia everyone can edit! :) --Jacquelyn Marie 22:54, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I may do that, but I wanted to wait on editing until the delete voting is done.--T. Anthony 06:00, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I've heard university professors discuss this, perhaps it should be moved to a sub-section of Marxism or Communism, but if it's good enough for academia, it belongs here.Rainman420 16:22, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Excellent, well researched article. (preceding comment by 66.58.97.210) --Ashenai (talk) 17:48, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep commonbrick 19:58, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * ""Keep""
 * Keep. It has references, professors discuss it -- what more do you want? --Jacquelyn Marie 22:49, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep it! Are you crazy?!  Why on earth would you want to delete something as original yet true as this?  Buncha pinkos. (preceding comment by 83.41.183.179) --Ashenai (talk) 01:16, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Tentative Keep I think who ever wrote this should need to add what the official position of the people who make the Smurfs is on them being a possible communist allegory.  --User:jsonitsac (talk) 21:25, 9 October, 2005 (EST)"
 * This made me curious to see what, if any, political views Peyo had but there isn't much to find on the issue. Nor does there seem to be much, if any, response by his company on this or any rumor/theory regarding them.--T. Anthony 03:57, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. --cprompt 03:50, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Neat little tidbit - culturally relevant. :D 24.0.98.29 03:55, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Popular social(ist) discussion topic - keep it! --Moontorch 06:08, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep I was looking for information on exactly this subject. Thankfully nobody had deleted it... yet :/ --plicease 06:21, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's well written, it's an interesting take on a form of government, and humourwise I think it's right up there with "Bert is Evil". It'd be a pity to delete this article Saberwyn 08:31, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but.... It is a very in depth article with good references. It should not, however be under the Communism section. It is a general theory that many people have heard about, and interesting as a fictional representation of a 'communist utopia', whether the creator intended it to be so or not.Hegar 10:10, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. Even though it's never been confirmed by the creator, there are far too many parallels between the ideals of practical socialism and the smurfs for this to be dismissed off-hand. Anyone who's really studied Soviet political history / ideology will agree. But yes, should be under a "socialist" rather than a "communist" heading if you want to split hairs. User:Von_sanchez
 * Keep. This isn't like the postmodern deconstructionism that someone tried to insert into C Is For Cookie. DS 11:57, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Ineresting, well-written, and informative on both subjects--Smurfs and Communism.  Logophile 16:02, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sure, it's a troll, but it's still better-written than most of the stuff on here. Twinxor t 04:12, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with the Smurfs page. Simply put, it seems to be a valid area of speculation, albeit silly. However, I think it does not warrant its own page.--ttogreh 07:06, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's not original research but a theory that has been around for a long time. David Sneek 07:57, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep.AaronSw 21:30, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep wadehouston 11 October 20:05 (US Central Time)
 * Merge This is a theory that I have been going off about for many, many years to friends when the Smurfs come up in a conversation. Where I first heard it, I have no idea.  I'm not sure what shocked me more, the fact that there was a Wikipedia article devoted to the idea, or the fact that it took me this long to even look it up.  However, I think it could be merged with the main Smurfs article.
 * Merge Seems relevant, but it's a stretch to have it stand on its own. I think it can be merged with the main article in its own section, and also condensed and cleaned up a bit. Ottamymind 02:22, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge Fastbak77 03:34, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Interesting and wide-spread cultural phenomenon and debate. Tfine80 05:28, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mostly original research, and the few bits that aren't can go in Smurf. Gamaliel 05:34, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Smurfy Keep as per above Roodog2k (Hello there!) 15:36, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. C'mon guys, this is transparently a personal essay. Sure, it is amusing as hell but is it enyclopedic? No. --Maru (talk) 21:42, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. My faith in Wikipedia will be sorely tested if this article is kept.  Slac  speak up!  22:01, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Also extreme traffic cone sex keep. Valid and notable basis in that the subject is real and didn't originate here. --Kizor 01:14, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. But should add it's an Urban Legend, since there's no correlation between Peyo and Marx. Jonah Falcon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.215.166.135 (talk • contribs)
 * Keep This article is not original research, as some have claimed, just look at the references at the bottom. Nor dose it claim that Smurf communism is a fact. Read the introduction and you'll see that it's a description of an idea that has been floating on the Internet. Seano1 00:02, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Of course! It's a cultural artifact, and an amusing one to boot.  Are the Wikipedia rules humorless? --Paultopia 13:34, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The idea sounds absurd at first and many think that this article is therefore a troll or a joke. I disagree with them, I think this link between smurfs and communism is a very credible and a valid theory with historical importance. And if it's deleted, I'm pretty sure some newbie creates a new article from the same subject with a different title within months. Trujillo's Dog 01:31, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, if only for the humor value. :)--Kross | Talk 12:29, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - This is probably not original research as some have mentioned, for this meme has been in existence somehow dating back as far as my college years (that would be 1991). There is bound to be some publication somewhere. DomQ, 09:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

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Penwortham

Penwortham is a town and civil parish in South Ribble, Lancashire, England, on the south bank of the River Ribble facing the city of Preston. The town is at the most westerly crossing point of the river, with major road and rail links crossing it here. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 23,047.

History
The distinctive town name is derived from Celtic and Anglo Saxon origins, it is a hybrid of the Welsh pen, meaning hill and the Old English word worphamm, meaning enclosed homestead, with earlier names of Peneverdant and Pendrecham (1200); Penwrtham (1204); Penuertham (1212); Penwortham (1260) and Penewrthamn (1292).

The town's history can be traced to pre-historic times with archaeological evidence showing that the ford at Middleforth was used to cross the River Ribble. Penwortham was listed in the Domesday Book as "Penverdent". At the Norman conquest in 1066 the Barony was held by King Edward. In the 12th century Penwortham was the head of a barony held by Warine Bussel which included a large part of Leyland Hundred and manors in West Derby and Amounderness. Penwortham Castle, a motte-and-bailey castle was built during the post-Norman conquest period overlooking the Ribble and its ford by Roger of Poitou and served to guard the estuary and a ford crossing it. After Roger built Lancaster Castle, Penwortham declined in importance. Some evidence of this castle is still evident in St Mary's Churchyard but only the mound remains. In later centuries a manor house was built, but no evidence remains.

The barony was acquired by Roger de Lacy in 1205, and descended as part of the Honour of Clitheroe to the Earls and Dukes of Lancaster and the Crown. In the 16th century there were disputes about suit and service due to the court of Penwortham from the members of the fee. Charles I sold the royal manor to Edward Ditchfield and others in 1628 and it later passed to the Faringtons of Worden in Leyland. Courts were held until the late 19th century. Court rolls and books are kept at Worden Hall. Penwortham Priory was built in the west of the town.

Higher Penwortham has an old legend linked to it. The Fairy Funeral seen on the road through Penwortham Wood, was thought to forecast death.

Penwortham Hall, formerly called "The Lodge", was built in 1801 by John Horrocks, founder of the Preston cotton-manufacturing industry. It was sold by his son Peter to William Marshall, whose son Frederick died in 1889. It was left by Frederick to his sister, the wife of Rev. T. Ross Finch. The property, which is a Grade II listed building, is today used as a series of private dwellings.

The parish was part of Preston Rural District throughout its existence from 1894 to 1974. In 1974 the parish became part of the Borough of South Ribble.

In 2024, the government housing agency Homes England intervened to allow 1,100 homes to be built in Penwortham after the local councillors had blocked the project for several years.

Demography
Penwortham is one of the largest civil parishes by population in Lancashire, with a population of 23,436 recorded in the 2001 census. The town's development closely resembles that of Preston.

Geography
The Lower Penwortham area developed during the Victorian period which is evidenced by the large number of terrace housing along Leyland Road and the surrounding streets. Higher Penwortham is characterised by its 1920s and onwards, post-war semi-detached housing. The town includes the localities of Howick Cross and Middleforth, and the Kingsfold housing estate.

In recent times there have been several new housing developments, especially around the Broad Oak Farm, Bee Lane, Kingsfold Drive, Stricklands Lane and Factory Lane areas of the town.

Landmarks

Penwortham Priory was built for the Rawsthorne family and redesigned by the Cumbrian architect George Webster. The priory was demolished due to the rapid expansion of the area and the need for new housing. Penwortham Church Lodge was originally situated on Penwortham Hill towards Preston, but as a consequence of widening the A59 road the lodge was taken down and removed to a residential road in Hutton. Penwortham Water Tower was built in the late 19th century and has been converted to a dwelling. It is part of a development of semi-detached cottages built for employees of the local squire, Lawrence Rawstorne.

The original attempt to build a bridge over the River Ribble to Preston was completed in 1755, only to collapse the following year. The Penwortham Old Bridge opened in 1759 to replace it and still stands today, although it is no longer accessible to motorised traffic.

Education
As well as a number of primary schools, the three high schools in Penwortham are All Hallows Catholic High School, Penwortham Girls' High School and Penwortham Priory Academy. All are situated in close proximity to Liverpool Road, in the centre of the town.

Public services and amenities
Penwortham Leisure Centre is part of Penwortham Priory Academy. It includes a 25-metre indoor swimming pool, gym and squash courts which are open to the general public.

One of Lancashire's oldest charities, Galloway's Society for the Blind, established in 1867, has had its headquarters in Penwortham since 1950. The charity provides services to 6,500 blind and visually impaired people across Lancashire and beyond.

In March 2020 Liam Stemson and Ellis McKeown founded Penwortham's first craft gin distillery, Fairham Gin. The pair released their Signature Edition, Dry Lancashire Gin, in April 2021, followed by Ochre Edition in November 2021. In July 2021 the distillery partnered with the Ribble Rivers Trust so that every 70cl bottle of gin buys a tree sapling that is to be planted in the Lancashire area.

Media
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North West and ITV Granada. Television signals are received from the Winter Hill TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Lancashire, Heart North West, Smooth North West, Central Radio North West, Greatest Hits Radio Lancashire, Capital Manchester and Lancashire and Radio Leyland, a community based station. The town is served by these local newspapers, Lancashire Telegraph and Lancashire Evening Post.

Transport

The town has excellent transport links across the River Ribble. Liverpool Road leads into Preston via the "New Penwortham Bridge" of 1915. Penwortham Cop Lane railway station was on the West Lancashire Railway between Preston and Southport, until the line closed in 1964. The cutting which carried the railway under Cop Lane has been widened and now carries the A59 Penwortham bypass, known as Golden Way, which leads directly into Preston via the "Preston Flyover", which is now the main crossing over the river.

Frequent bus routes serving Penwortham are provided by Preston Bus and Stagecoach and, until it ceased trading in October 2015, by John Fishwick & Sons. All services operate to and from Preston city centre.

Notable people

 * Former footballer and now TV pundit Mark Lawrenson was born Preston and grew up in Penwortham.
 * Former WWE wrestler Wade Barrett (real name Stu Bennett) grew up in Penwortham.
 * Jessica Taylor from pop group Liberty X lived in Penwortham.
 * Former England international and Ashes-winning cricketer Andrew Flintoff is currently signed to the local cricket club.

Community events
Many events are run in Penwortham throughout the year to bring together the community and celebrate different occasions. The longest running event, Penwortham Gala, is held annually on Hurst Grange Park, starting with a procession of floats that are filled with children from local primary schools and community organisations. This is followed by entertainment, stalls and a funfair throughout the day and into the evening. Penwortham Live had its second event after beginning in April 2013, as a festival of music, art, drama and poetry. Live entertainment was available over the weekend throughout many local businesses, predominantly on the main high street, Liverpool Road. Penwortham Christmas market is an annual festive market located on Liverpool Road. This is a one-day event in December, offering craft stalls, gifts, food and drink and entertainment.

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Kohnstamm's phenomenon

First described by German neurologist Oskar Kohnstamm (1871–1917) in 1915, Kohnstamm's phenomenon is a sustained involuntary contraction of a muscle after a prolonged voluntary contraction. The simplest demonstration, sometimes called "the floating arms experiment", is to have a subject press the arms against a door frame or wall for about thirty seconds, and then step away. The arm will involuntarily rise.

Russian scientists Victor Gurfinkel, Mikhail Lebedev and Yuri Levick used Kohnstamm's phenomenon to activate tonogenic structures in humans and thereby demonstrate postural automatisms, such as neck reflexes.

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Sigma Aquarii

Sigma Aquarii, Latinized from σ Aquarii, is a double star in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius, positioned about 1.3° to the south of the ecliptic. Due to its proximity to the ecliptic, this star is subject to occultation by the Moon. It has a white hue and is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.81. Based upon parallax measurements, the distance to this star is approximately 53.6 pc. It is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +11 km/s.

The stellar classification of Sigma Aquarii is A0 IVs, indicating that it is a subgiant star. The s qualifier means that its absorption lines are sharp (narrow) in comparison with standard stars, caused by a relatively slow rotation. It has been categorized as a hot Am star, meaning that it is a chemically peculiar, although this is now considered doubtful. The spectrum displays at least double the normal abundances of elements like magnesium, aluminum and silicon, while helium and scandium are under-abundant. Calcium, normally deficient in Am stars, has near-normal abundance.

The Hipparcos catalogue identified Sigma Aquarii as a possible astrometric binary with an orbital period of 654 days.

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Talk:Tracer gun

Does anyone know if there's a patent that can be looked up for the mechanism of this device? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1007:B008:D2CC:A486:C7EB:260C:4241 (talk) 05:25, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
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Picture needed
There is a guy/gal selling several vintage tracer guns on eBay right now (including the rifle version). I've emailed him/her asking that the picture be donated to Wikipedia, and I hope the person comes through. Crypticfirefly 02:11, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

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Michael Dransfield

Michael Dransfield (12 September 1948 – 20 April 1973) was an Australian poet active in the 1960s and early 1970s who wrote close to 1,000 poems. He has been described as "one of the most widely read poets of his generation."

Early life
Dransfield was born in Sydney, and educated at Sydney Grammar School. He briefly studied English literature and language at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney before dropping out. He worked for some months as a clerk at the Australian Taxation Office before drifting into the counter-culture. From then on he worked intermittently, living mainly in Paddington, Balmain, and Darlinghurst in Sydney, and in the north coast town of Casino, and he travelled frequently between Tasmania and Queensland, visiting his large group of friends and fellow poets.

Poetry
Dransfield wrote his first poem at the age of eight and began to write regularly at fourteen. He was a prolific poet, writing lyrical poems, which as his career progressed came to focus more and more on drug experiences. His poetry was first published in the mid-1960s.

Dransfield's poems were published in Meanjin, Southerly, Poetry Australia and Poetry magazine. His first published collection was Streets of the Long Voyage. He published two more books, including Drug poems (Sun Books, 1972).

Between 1967 and 1969, Dransfield corresponded and exchanged poems with Peter Kocan, who had been imprisoned for attempting to assassinate federal opposition leader Arthur Calwell, and who was then a patient at the Morisset Mental Hospital in Morisset, New South Wales. The letters comprise drafts of poems by Dransfield, quotes of poems by other poets, and recommendations for books Kocan should read.

Themes
Dransfield's poems address "people marginalised by society" "the relationship of the creative self to the outside world" "personal identity, the family, the relationship between human beings and the natural world, poetry itself, and states of mind"

Death
In his early twenties Dransfield was plagued by ill health. He died at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Sydney, on 20 April 1973, aged 24, leaving behind close to a thousand poems. Sources report conflicting causes of death, including that he died of a heroin overdose, infection related to drug use and a report that the coroner's finding on the cause of death was "acute broncho-pneumonia and brain damage".

Legacy
Rodney Hall, who as poetry editor of The Australian newspaper had been among the first to publish Dransfield's poetry, edited and posthumously published several collections of Dransfield's poetry during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Collected Poems (UQP, 1987). In 2011 a poet character called "Michael" (evidently based on Dransfield) was featured in the second part of the ABC telemovie Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo.

Several of Dransfield's poems were set to music by Paul Stanhope for mixed choir as Three Geography Songs in 1997. Other composers who have set his texts include Ross Edwards, Simon Reade, Paul-Antoni Bonetti, and Dan Walker.

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Hindmarsh Stadium

Hindmarsh Stadium (also known as Coopers Stadium under naming rights) is a multi-purpose stadium in Hindmarsh, an inner western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is the home of the Australian A-League team, Adelaide United.

The stadium has a capacity of 16,500, of which 15,000 is seated, and is home to professional football (soccer) A-League team Adelaide United, who regularly fill this capacity, and averaged crowds of over 12,000 to its matches during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons. United used the stadium for its home matches in both the league and in various AFC Champions League campaigns. The venue hosted five matches during the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and underwent a redevelopment to the eastern stand in preparation.

History
Built in 1960, the stadium stands on the site that was once Lindsay Circus/Hindmarsh Oval which housed the Hindmarsh Cricket Club (later West Torrens District Cricket Club) from 1857 - 1921, and West Torrens Football Club of the SANFL from 1905 until 1921. During World War I, the Patriotic Football League, a group of SANFL clubs that wanted to continue playing football during the war, played many games at the venue. The 1916 Patriotic Football League Grand Final was held at the ground between and  with Port Adelaide winning 7.11 (53) to 1.13 (19).

The Soccer Association of South Australia owned land on a former brick pit on Torrens Road at Brompton named Rowley Park which was located only 5 km from the city, and the original plan was for the land to be the home of Soccer in SA as the site formed a natural bowl. However, the Soccer Association had received negative press regarding its failure to grow grass on the site. Rowley Park also had a tendency to flood during winter as the bottom of "The Brick Pit" was below the level of the water table which made playing soccer virtually impossible. The land was eventually leased to a group of speedway drivers and would become the famous Rowley Park Speedway which ran from December 1949 until it closed in April 1979. The land was eventually sold and is now the Kym Bonython housing estate, named for the speedway's long time promoter Kym Bonython.

When it became obvious to the Soccer Association that Rowley Park would be unsuitable as a soccer venue they obtained a lease on Hindmarsh Oval from the Hindmarsh Council. The old Hindmarsh Oval was developed over the years into a rectangular stadium capable of holding 15,000 with a single tier grandstand built in 1960 that held approximately 2,000 while 6 light towers for night games (plus another 8 smaller light towers on the grandstand roof) were installed during the mid-1970s. Other than the grandstand, the ground was all terracing surrounding the playing surface. This changed in 1996 when seats were installed on the eastern side of the ground.

Along with the Olympic Sports Field, Hindmarsh became one of two Adelaide venues in the former National Soccer League which was launched in 1977. Hindmarsh was the home ground of the Adelaide City Zebras (who also played games at the Sports Field), and later the home ground for West Adelaide Hellas. Hindmarsh would eventually become the sole Adelaide NSL venue during the late 1980s.

In 1986, Hindmarsh Stadium hosted the first leg of the NSL Grand Final between Adelaide City and Sydney Olympic. Olympic won 1–0. Adelaide would go on to win the 2nd leg in Sydney 3–1 and become NSL Champions. Hindmarsh again hosted the NSL Grand Final (this time a single game) in 1994-95 when Adelaide City faced the Mark Viduka led Melbourne Knights. In front of a crowd of over 16,000 the Knights defeated the Zebras 2–0.

As soccer was generally played to smaller crowds during the 1970s and 1980s, Hindmarsh became a regular host of the Socceroos in some of their international matches, with Adelaide-based players such as Robert Zabica, Alex Tobin, and the Vidmar brothers Aurelio and Tony all playing prominent roles.

Association football since 2000
Hindmarsh Stadium was one of the venues chosen to host preliminary matches for the men's soccer during the 2000 Olympics held in Sydney. This saw the stadium receive almost a complete rebuild which brought it to its present status. The field was lengthened from 110 to 120 metres to be able to also accommodate both rugby league and rugby union which used longer field dimensions (though the minimum field length of a union field including in-goal areas is actually 120 metres so shorter than desirable in-goals are required), the six old light towers were replaced with four television standard ones (one in each corner with lights also on the front edge of the grandstand roof) and the former terracing was now all seated, uncovered stands with only the grandstand built in the mid-1990s remaining in place. During the Olympics, temporary stands were erected in the corners of the stadium to bring capacity up to 20,000. Hosting matches from Groups A and B, the recorded attendance at Hindmarsh was set at 18,340 when Italy drew 1–1 Nigeria on 19 September 2000.

Other soccer played in the stadium in the past include several international matches, including most of the games played in the 2004 OFC Nations Cup - an event where the Socceroos began their qualifying campaign for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In 2007 the venue hosted the first two rounds of the Olyroos campaign as they qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics. With the rise in the sports popularity in Australia, Hindmarsh is rarely used these days by the Socceroos other than for training purposes or matches against lower ranked countries such as those from the Pacific islands. International matches now generally take place at larger capacity venues such as Sydney's 84,000 seat Stadium Australia, Brisbane's 52,500 seat Lang Park, or the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the 100,024 capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground. Though with the redevelopment of the Adelaide Oval to a world class, FIFA compliant 53,583 capacity stadium (50,083 seated), there is renewed speculation that the Socceroos will return to Adelaide for high-profile international matches.

Adelaide United
Hindmarsh Stadium has been the home ground of A-League Men club Adelaide United since the formation of the club in 2003. The stadium's record attendance outside of the 2000 Olympic Games is 17,000 at the 2008 AFC Champions League Final second leg between Adelaide United and Gamba Osaka of Japan. Adelaide lost 2–0, being the first Australian side to reach the Final of the AFC Champions League.

Since 2013, the stadium has been known has Coopers Stadium, under sponsorship from Adelaide brewery Coopers.

The venue took host to the inaugural FFA Cup Final on 16 December 2014 which saw Adelaide United defeat Perth Glory. It has gone on to have a rich cup football history, with United hosting and winning in 2018 and 2019. United were 1–0 victors with an attendance of 16,142.

Rugby football
Hindmarsh Stadium not only hosted soccer matches but also hosted Rugby union and Rugby league. In 1992 the New Zealand All Blacks played an exhibition game against a South Australian 'Select' team. The All Blacks, including goal kicking Stand-off Grant Fox who would retire the following year as the All Blacks highest ever point scorer, ran out easy winners while FitzSimons, playing up to the crowd by humorously claiming innocence, was sent off midway through the second half after numerous infringements. At the time this made FitzSimons the only Wallaby (although his international career had finished by the time of the match) to ever be sent off in a match against the All Blacks.

In 1998 the short lived National Rugby League team the Adelaide Rams used Hindmarsh for their last 4 home games of the 1998 NRL season. The Rams début at the venue was a success when they thumped the Balmain Tigers 52–0 in front of 7,351 fans. The Rams would end up 2–2 at Hindmarsh after defeating the Auckland Warriors, but losing to Manly-Warringah and North Sydney. The Rams were to continue using Hindmarsh as their home ground in the 1999 NRL season giving them a rectangular venue suited to league rather than an oval as was their previous home, the Adelaide Oval. However the team was wound up by owners News Ltd only weeks before the start of the 1999 season.

On 15 April 2006 on a Saturday night the stadium hosted its first NRL match since the Rams final home game in 1998 when the Sydney-based Penrith Panthers played that year's NRL Grand Finalist the Melbourne Storm. With 7,017 fans in attendance the Storm ran out easy 40–18 winners with emerging rugby league superstar Greg Inglis scoring 3 tries for Melbourne. It was a home match for the Panthers who brought the game to Adelaide due to renovations being completed at their usual home, Penrith Stadium in western Sydney.

On 3 October 2008 it was announced by the SA Government Minister for Recreation and Sport Michael Wright coach Ricky Stuart, head coach of Sydney-based NRL team the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, that the Sharks would play three NRL home games at Hindmarsh over 3 years starting from 2009. The first of those was against the North Queensland Cowboys on 19 April 2009. On a sunny autumn day the Cowboys defeated the Sharks 34–10 in front of 8,547 fans, the record crowd for a rugby league match at Hindmarsh.

Unfortunately for NRL fans in Adelaide it was announced early in the 2010 season that Cronulla had been allowed by the SA Government to pull out of their contract. Cronulla's official reasons were wanting to concentrate on their home fans by not taking home games away from Toyota Stadium. The NRL return to Adelaide in 2010 when another Sydney based club Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs played a home game at the Adelaide Oval instead of Hindmarsh against the Melbourne Storm. The Bulldogs had planned to make the Adelaide Oval their 'other' home, returning in 2011, again against the Storm, but this was also abandoned after just two years.

Rugby league attendances and results
Hindmarsh Stadium has hosted six top grade rugby league matches.

Upgrades
In 1996 as part of the rebuilding of the venue before the 2000 Summer Olympics, the original single tier grandstand with its wooden bench seats was demolished and replaced by the current two tier structure. The terracing on the opposite wing was also removed and replaced by seating. When the ground was rebuilt before the Olympics only the new grandstand would remain in place.

In 2021 Hindmarsh Stadium began undergoing a $53 million redevelopment which included new stadium lighting, a roof for the eastern grandstand, big screens, improvements to the stadium's change-rooms, upgrades to the media facilities, spectator amenities, and a corporate facility in the Eastern stand. The redevelopment was completed in January 2023, months in advance of the stadium's fixtures for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

2000 Olympic Games football fixtures
Hindmarsh Stadium hosted seven games of the 2000 Olympic men's football tournament. The stadium's all-time attendance record of 18,430 was set during the Group A match between Italy and Nigeria.

2023 FIFA Women's World Cup fixtures
The venue hosted 6 matches of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup - 4 group games and 1 knockout fixture.

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Leninsky Avenue

Leninsky Avenue (Ленинский проспект, Leninsky prospekt) or Lenin Avenue (проспект Ленина, Prospekt Lenina) was a common name for major avenues in many cities of the former Soviet Union commemorating Vladimir Lenin. there were about 20 Leninsky Avenues and over 100 Lenin Avenues in Russia.

Notable avenues include:

 * In Russia
 * Leninsky Avenue, an avenue in Moscow
 * Leninsky Avenue, Saint Petersburg, an avenue in Saint Petersburg
 * Leninsky Avenue, Voronezh, an avenue in Voronezh
 * Lenin Avenue, Vyborg, an avenue in Vyborg
 * Lenin Avenue, an avenue in Yekaterinburg

 * In other countries
 * Lenin Avenue, Gomel, main avenue in Gomel
 * Leninsky Avenue, Donetsk, an avenue in Donetsk
 * Leninsky Avenue was the 1961−1991 name of the Independence Avenue in Minsk.
 * Leninsky Avenue was the 1967−1997 name of the Abul Khair Khan Avenue in Aktobe.
 * Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Dostyq Avenue in Almaty.
 * Lenin Avenue was the pre-1992 name of the Rudaki Avenue in Dushanbe.
 * Lenin Avenue was the 1959−1990 name of the Liberty Avenue (Lviv) in Lviv.
 * Lenin Avenue was the 1960−2016 name of the Central Avenue, Mykolaiv in Mykolaiv.
 * Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Mashtots Avenue in Yerevan.
 * Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Gediminas Avenue in Vilnius.
 * Lenin Avenue was the Soviet-times name of the Stephen the Great Boulevard in Chișinău.
 * Lenin Avenue was the 1952−2016 name of the Cathedral Avenue (Zaporizhzhia) in Zaporizhzhia.

Several train and metro stations are named Leninsky Avenue or Lenin Avenue:
 * Leninsky Prospekt (Moscow Metro), a metro station in Moscow
 * Leninsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro), a metro station in Saint Petersburg

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Category talk:U-boat fiction

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Westminster High School (Colorado)

Westminster High School is a public secondary school (grades 9-12) operated by Westminster Public Schools in Westminster, Adams County, Colorado, United States.

The campus is on almost the same lot as the original building. Features include three multi-purpose basketball courts, an indoor track, a lecture hall, and a 725-seat theater, all within a 375000 sqft building. The school also features the Future Center, a portion of its library dedicated to teaching students about various career opportunities, post-secondary education, and concurrent enrollment in college level programs.

History
At the end of 1996, it was announced that all incoming freshmen in the '08-'09 school year, as well as all sophomores in the district who currently attended either Ranum or Westminster High School, would be attending the current Westminster High School campus until the new building was finished, for the '10-'11 school year. The district then announced the new school name would also be Westminster High School and the new school colors would be teal, black, and silver, with the wolves as a mascot.

The original Westminster High School was located at 7300 Lowell, which later became the Career Enrichment Park when Westminster High School moved from 73rd and Lowell to its current location in 1976. When originally established in 1949, the school colors were blue and white, and the mascot was a Warrior.

Demographics

 * Hispanic 62.2%
 * White 5.2%
 * African American 1.8%
 * Asian 8.7%
 * Native American 1.1%

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Category talk:User grc

Is this category for classical (Attic) Greek only, or for modern Greek? If, as the text suggests, it's the former, why is there no category for the latter? --zenohockey 02:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * This is for classical Greek, and there is one for modern Greek (Category:User el). I'm actually thinking about making a new one for Koine Greek (which is the dialect I'm learning), since it's kind of in-between ancient and modern.  –Benjamin  ( talk )  02:15, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes please do - this is the one I'm learning too, also would you be able to establish a grc-0 category (like en-0) and when you do it a Koine Greek-0 as well, thanks as that is when my abilities are Kevinalewis 10:03, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

 * The Koine Greek user language templates are under ke, at Category:User ke. And, I have made ke-0 at Template:User ke-0.  –Benjamin  ( talk )  17:38, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Any particular reason for specifying Attic (γλῶττα)? It's just that I mostly read non-Attic authors ... not that I think there should be separate templates for Attic, Ionic, Doric, Aeolic, epic, Lesbian, Macedonian, and Illyrian, that'd be kind of silly ... Petrouchka 20:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Some of the user templates have errors (capital letters at the start, incorrect breathing marks etc.). Are there any objections to me changing them so that ὅδε appears rather than Ὄδε? LeighvsOptimvsMaximvs 11:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

A GRC Wiki
There are Hundreds of users who knows the Ancinent Greek language. Why we don't try to start a GRC Wikipedia???--Greek Transistor (talk) 14:36, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

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Chi Aquarii

Chi Aquarii, Latinized from χ Aquarii, is the Bayer designation of a star in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. The distance to this star, based upon parallax measurements with a 7% margin of error, is roughly 610 ly. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of about 5.

This is a red giant star with a spectral classification of M3 III. The interferometry-measured angular diameter of this star is 6.70 ± 0.15 mas, which, at its estimated distance, equates to a physical radius of about 137 times the radius of the Sun. It is classified as a semi-regular variable star and its brightness varies by an amplitude of 0.0636 in magnitude. The identified pulsation periods are 32.3, 38.5, and 44.9 days.

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Talk:Filipino nationalism

Wikipedia vs WikiPilipinas
Dudes, this article is better suited for WikiPilipinas. TheTechieGeek63 (talk) 13:18, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

 * A WikiPilipinas:Filipino nationalism article already exists. Both that article and this WP article started from the 11:43, September 5, 2005 version of this article, but the two articles have taken different editorial forks from there.
 * I've added a refimprove tag to the article. From what I've seen, sparsity of cited sources is often an indication of WP:OR, WP:POV and/or WP:Plagarism. Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 01:30, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Title
Patterned the title from the Chinese nationalism article. --Jojit fb 02:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Shouldn't it be "Filipino nationalism" then? --Saintjust 17:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Brown Raise Movement
Mention of and references to Brown Raise seem to have appeared recently in this and other Filipino-focused Wikipedia articles. I'm wondering whether and to what extent this is spam. It seems to me that if this organization is to be prominently mentioned, it should meet Wikipedia's notability criteria, and there should be a Wikipedia article about it. If I was just seeing links to their website in External links sections, I might or might not remove them as apparent link spam (WP:ELNO #4). -- Boracay Bill (talk) 21:42, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Development section mis-statement?
This section says, "Spain had already ruled the Philippines for more than three centuries before Filipino nationalism developed." It seems to me that the Philippine revolts against Spain article provides a few (perhaps not all of the 53 listed, but probably some of those) counter-examples. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 02:20, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

The early revolts listed were neither directly nor indirectly linked to the 1896 Revolution that established the Philippines as a nation. Moreover, various history books written by Filipino historians etablish the execution of GomBurZa as the beginning of Filipino Nationalism.

Hmmm, you know, Philippine history is a delicate matter to edit on wikipedia. Even Filipino historians argue amongst themselves about the identity of Filipinos. Pre-Hispanic Philippines is just one side of the coin and Spanish Philippines another. For example, Teodoro Agoncillo seems to veer towards the pre-hispanic datus as the base of Filipino identity while Nick Joaquin and Jose Guerrero towards the Creole insurgencies. There seems to be a common denominator between the two schools of thought though and that is the Philippine nation was established in 1896 through that revolution. Agoncillo calls it the Revolt of the Masses (Indios) while Joaquin/Guerrero calls it the Revolt of the Ilustrados (Creoles). Historians from both schools of thought do not trace Filipino nationalism to the pre-hispanic civilizations.

 * I was apparently unclear. I take the assertion, "Filipino Nationalism is an upsurge of patriotic sentiments and nationalistic ideals in the Philippines of the 19th century that came consequently as a result of more than two centuries of Spanish rule ..." in the article's lead sentence to include the implied assertion that nationalism (from that article: "the identification of an ethnic identity with a state". "the belief that one's nation is of primary importance") did not exist in the Philippines prior to the 19th century and that movements to establish or protect a homeland did not occur in the Philippines prior to the Katipunan. In fact, such movements did occur (see the Philippine revolts against Spain article), and I'm pretty sure that participants in those movements could fairly be described as Philippine nationalists. I would describe Chief Dagami of Gabi, the primary participant in the Dagami Revolt of 1567 (which actually occurred in 1565) as having been a Philippine nationalist; the leader of the Magalat Revolt 1n 1596 is said in that WP article to have committed atrocities upon his fellow natives for refusing to rise up against the Spaniards. Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:26, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Please render this in understandable English
From the article: "By July 1892, an Ilustrado mass man in the name of Andrés Bonifacio established a revolutionary party based on the Filipino nationalism that started with Los Hijos del País--Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan." Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:28, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Chronological confusion
I noticed this edit adding material to the section headed Further progress of Filipino Nationalism (1820s-1860) out of chronological sequence in relation to material already present there. Then, looking at the section, I noticed that it contains material referring to dates outside of the period the header declares that it covers (1810-1813, 1807, 1816, 1762-1764, 1873). It looks to me as if some cleanup is needed here. This article is far enough outside my normal focus that I hesitate to jump in and fiddle with it, and I've got other things to do, so for now I'll just mention this apparent need for cleanup here. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:55, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Cleanup. Much more needed.
I did a little cleanup editing on this article today. One thing I noticed was that the lead sentence had a cite reading "Nick Joaquin, History and Culture." I could not find such a book in Google Books. I did find the following, and it seems to me that one of these might be the intended source. I'm not sure which, so I've removed the questionable citation.

This article seems to cover a lot of historical material which is not directly related to its topic. It seems to me that much of the material in this article should be removed, and perhaps merged into one or another of the articles in the History of the Philippines group of articles. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:49, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Political Bias?
I have noticed that some of the sections in this article are written by left-leaning professors as well as those of the right and fear that the objectivity of the article might be lost. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.144.233.140 (talk) 06:46, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

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The Unicorns: 2014

 The Unicorns: 2014  is an EP by the Unicorns released in 2004 by Suicide Squeeze Records. It was the band's final release prior to their split in late 2004. The 7" version was pressed on purple vinyl and limited to 2,000 copies.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by the Unicorns.

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Westminster High School

Westminster High School may refer to:

 * Westminster High School (Manila)
 * Westminster High School (California)
 * Westminster High School (Colorado)
 * The Westminster Schools, Atlanta, Georgia
 * Westminster High School (Maryland)
 * Westminster School (Connecticut), a private, coeducational college-preparatory, boarding and day school located in Simsbury, Connecticut

title: Westminster High School


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Let's Get Together Now

Let's Get Together Now is the official local song of the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. Performed by the Supergroup Voice of Korea/Japan (Lena Park and Brown Eyes from South Korea and Sowelu and Chemistry from Japan), it was released in three separate versions: a full Japanese version, a full Korean version (with some English at the end), and a merged version which combines the lyrics of the two versions. The last of the three was included in the official soundtrack album and was performed in the opening ceremonies in Seoul on May 31, 2002.

Composed by Daisuke Kawaguchi and Kim Hyung-Suk and written by Yoshimitsu Sawamoto, Kiyoshi Matsuo, Park, and Kim, the lyrics tell spirit of gathering and coming together as one, as with the theme of the two countries in co-hosting the said event. Although this is not the official theme song (which is Boom by Anastacia), this song proves to be popular.

The single was certified gold by the RIAJ in March 2002.

title: Let's Get Together Now


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Book the Forteenth

 * 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. — J I P | Talk 09:09, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Book the Forteenth

 * Delete. This page should be deleted because there is no proof that there will be a fourteenth book, and there is evidence that shows that there will only be 13. Also, if we have a page for book the fourteenth it should be SPELLED CORRECTLY Pacaman 02:14, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: the 14th book of what? -- Kjkolb 03:16, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete it links to a Lemony Snicket book, but nothing notable established --Rogerd 03:24, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. The page should be reconstituted (under the proper title of Book the Fourteenth (A Series of Unfortunate Events) only when notable information is available regarding its potential existence. Justin Bacon 03:34, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOT a crystal ball (Oh, and I've booked the fourteenth, and I've also pencilled in the seventeenth in case not everyone can make it next Friday). Grutness...  wha?  06:02, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - there's strong reasoning for believing there will be thirteen books in the series (see Book the Thirteenth (A Series of Unfortunate Events)), and nothing to suggest otherwise. CLW 07:00, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOT crystal ball Qaz  ( talk ) 07:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Do not regard this as true, as it is only a rumor that there will be this many books says it all, really. Sonic Mew | talk to me 15:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Justin Bacon. --Jacquelyn Marie 22:55, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Upsilon Aquarii

Upsilon Aquarii, Latinized from υ Aquarii, is the Bayer designation for a binary star system in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.21. Parallax measurements give a distance estimate of 74.8 ly from Earth. This is a high proper-motion star that is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of –2.3 km/s. It is part of the Hercules-Lyra association.

The primary component is an F-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of F7 V. It is less than a billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 35 km/s. The star has 1.4 times the mass of the Sun and 1.5 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 3.6 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,597 K, giving it the yellow-white hue of an F-type star.

The star displays an excess of near infrared radiation, suggesting it has a circumstellar disk of dusty debris. This disk has a mean temperature of $−2.28$ and is orbiting at an estimated radius of $1.49$. A faint stellar companion was detected in 2007 at the Gemini Observatory, with a separation of $3.581$ from the primary. This is equivalent to a physical projected separation of $6,514$, which yields an estimated orbital period of ~486000 days. The debris disk is orbiting close to the dynamically unstable region of this system.

title: Upsilon Aquarii