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Arbat Street

Arbat Street (Russian ), mainly referred to in English as the Arbat, is a pedestrian street about one kilometer long in the historical centre of Moscow, Russia. The Arbat has existed since at least the 15th century, which makes it one of the oldest surviving streets of the Russian capital. It forms the heart of the Arbat District of Moscow. Originally the street formed part of an important trade-route and was home to many craftsmen.

In the 18th century, the Russian nobility came to regard the Arbat as the most prestigious living area in Moscow. Almost completely destroyed by the great fire of 1812 associated with Napoleon's occupation of Moscow, the street required rebuilding. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it became known as a place where petty nobility, artists, and academics lived. In the Soviet period, it housed many high-ranking government officials.

, the street and its surroundings are undergoing gentrification, and it is considered a desirable place to live. Because of the many historic buildings, and due to the numerous artists who have lived and worked in the street, the Arbat has also become an important tourist attraction.

Location and route
The Arbat is in the historic center of Moscow. It begins at Arbatskaya square (Арбатская площадь), 800 metres west of the walls of the Moscow Kremlin. Arbatskaya square is also the meeting point of the Boulevard Ring and Vozdvizhenka Street (Улица Воздвиженка). The part of this square which is adjacent to the Arbat is called Arbat Gate (Арбатские Ворота), as it is the site of one of the ten gates of the old city wall. The wall, which was intact from the 16th to the 18th centuries, followed the path of the current Boulevard Ring. From this point the Arbat runs southwest, with a dozen side streets leading off, and ends at Smolenskaya Square (Смоленская площадь), which intersects with the Garden Ring. Continuing on from the Arbat in a westerly direction is the eight-lane Smolenskaya Street (Смоленская улица). This street changes its name several times within the city limits, ultimately crossing the MKAD ring road, and becoming the M1 highway to Smolensk, Minsk and Warsaw.

Until the middle of the 20th century, the Arbat remained part of the main road from the Moscow Kremlin westwards. In the 1960s a parallel road, the New Arbat (Новый Арбат) was built, and took on this function. The New Arbat with its wide sidewalks and 1960s tower blocks has no sidestreets. Two decades later the Arbat was made into the first pedestrian zone in Moscow. In order to avoid confusion with the New Arbat, people began to refer to the Arbat as the Old Arbat (Старый Арбат).

Origins and etymology
The Arbat is one of the oldest surviving streets in Moscow. Exactly when it came into existence is not recorded, but a document from July 28, 1493 mentions it. The document describes a fire which started in the wooden Church of Nicholas on the Sand (Церковь Николы на Песках). The fire spread throughout Moscow, devastating large areas of the city, which consisted for the most part of wooden structures. The original meaning of the place name Arbat remains unknown. In addition to places with Slavic names, there are also numerous places of Oriental origin in Moscow. Geographically Moscow is located within Russia between the wooded northwest and the southwestern steppe areas. The Russian steppes in Eurasian steppes were through its history largely inhabited by nomadic tribes. Many theories assume that the term arbat is of Oriental origin.

Several hypotheses attempt to explain it:

 * Probably the most widespread hypothesis states that the name comes from the Arabic word أرباض arbāḍ, meaning "suburb" or "outskirts". This fits with the fact that from the 16th century the area surrounding the Arbat did form the outer district of the city, the Kremlin being the city centre. Like many traders from various oriental cultures, the Arabs have also used the Volga river, which flows through the Russian steppe into the Caspian Sea, for their trade with Vikings. Some local historians explain the origin of the term with reference to the frequent attacks of the Crimean Khanate on Moscow in the 15th and 16th centuries, linked with the fact that many Arabic loan words had entered the Turkic languages (including Tatar) by this point.
 * Another hypothesis links the word Arbat with the Tatar word arba, i.e. "cart". This is explained either by reference to the significance of the Arbat as a trade route, and thus used by traders and their carts, or by the possible existence of a workshop in the area which produced carts. In a vernacular sense, the word Arbat means neighbourhood or residential area in Tatar languages.
 * In the 19th century the historian and archaeologist Ivan Yegorovich Sabelin proposed a purely Russian origin for the street name. According to him, the word Arbat derives from the adjective gorbat, i.e. "bumpy", which corresponds to the uneven nature of the land on which Moscow is built. However, this theory is disputed, as in fact the space where the Arbat is located is flatter than much of the city.
 * The word Arbat is also found in Persian language (Persian: ارباط). A village which is called Arbat exists in Iran.

A non-Russian origin of the word Arbat is generally held to be more likely than a Russian origin. Possibly lending some weight to this view, an Arbat Street (Арбатская улица) exists in Kolomna, 100 km southeast of Moscow. It is possible that the name of the place has Mongolian roots which came through the Golden Horde culture to Muscovite Russia. Arbat was in ancient times the name of the whole area and not just of the one street. The location of the Old Arbat was in ancient times situated between the borders of today's Sadovoe Kolco. (Garden Ring), Ermolayevski, Vozdvizhenka and Arbat.

15th to 17th century

As early as the 15th century the Arbat formed the first part of a road which linked Moscow — predominantly the Kremlin — with the western regions of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and thus via Poland with other areas of Europe. This location attracted craftsmen to the Arbat, and they set up shop here en masse. This period is recalled in the names of some of the side streets off the Arbat, for example Plotnikov pereulok (Плотников переулок), i.e. "Carpenters' Lane", Serebryanyi pereulok (Серебряный переулок), i.e. "Silver Lane". As well as the workshops of craftsmen, there were also a great number of churches on the Arbat, along with some houses where merchants and members of the clergy lived.

During the reign of Ivan IV of Russia ("the Terrible"), the Arbat had a less salubrious connotation. It was here that the infamous bodyguards of the Tsar, the Oprichnina, had their headquarters. It was from here that orders were issued for mass executions and torture of alleged traitors to the crown. In Alexey Tolstoy's historical novel Ivan the Terrible we find the following interpretation of the atmosphere of the period, "News of the fearsome plans had spread throughout Moscow, and a deathly silence reigned. The shops were closed, the streets empty, and only occasionally one heard the galloping horses of the messengers of the Tsar, who had come down to the Arbat, to his favourite palace."

After the dissolution of the Oprichnina, and the death of Ivan the Terrible, the Arbat's significance as a trade route began to grow again. Not only merchants travelled this route, but also Tsars, along with their messengers and soldiers. Foreign invaders also used the Arbat when attacking the Kremlin, and when retreating in defeat. Time and again the Arbat proved important to the defence of the Kremlin: From its Eastern end, the volunteer army of Prince Dmitry Pozharsky delivered a decisive blow to the troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Field Marshal Jan Karol Chodkiewicz. In the 16th and 17th centuries, three regiments of Streltsy troops were stationed on the Arbat, to better defend the Kremlin.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the neighbourhood was graced with elegant churches, notably the one featured in Vasily Polenov's celebrated painting A Courtyard in Moscow (1879).

18th and 19th centuries
By the 19th century at the latest the growth of Moscow meant that the Arbat was now in the centre of the city rather than at its edge, and so it became an ever more desirable place to live. In 1736 about half the street was destroyed in yet another fire, but by the second half of the 18th century it was already being described as the "Moscow Boulevard Saint-Germain." In 1793 about 33 of the 56 houses on the Arbat belonged to nobility or to civil servants. Amongst the nobles who had houses built for them on or near the Arbat were such celebrated families as the Tolstoys, the Gagarins, the Kropotkins, the Galitzines and the Sheremetevs. Nevertheless, despite its proximity to the Kremlin and to the seat of power, the district was considered to be tranquil, almost rural. By this period there was hardly any manufacture on the street, and also less trade than in other parts of Moscow.

However the Arbat continued to serve as the most important way into and out of Moscow towards the West. During Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812, French troops led by Joachim Murat used the street to get to the Kremlin. This event is mentioned in Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace, written 50 years afterwards.

The fire lit during the battle for Moscow in 1812 destroyed large parts of the predominantly wooden city, and also decimated the Arbat. The results of the energetic period of rebuilding in the 1810s can still be seen today, in the surviving houses of the Empire style, which was characteristic for the period. Towards the end of the 19th century, the architecture changed to Art Nouveau, with many luxury apartment buildings being built in this style. These buildings, with as many as six or seven floors, were technologically remarkable for the period, and fitted with all modern conveniences. Around a dozen are still to be seen along the Arbat today. In the last years of the 20th century and the first of the 21st, they were all renovated and made into plush domiciles or offices.

In the second half of the 19th century, the Arbat also moved away from being a purely aristocratic part of town, and became a popular place for artists to live. This was mainly due to the fact that many of the poets, thinkers, musicians and actors who had shaped Russia's cultural life came from the middle and lower nobility, sometimes from impoverished noble families. It was around the Arbat that Russia's intelligentsia began to develop, largely made up of young educated nobles who were not afraid to criticize society. Alexander Pushkin lodged in one of its mansions for a short time, and there is a statue of him and his wife, Natalie, in front of the house. Another famous inhabitant was the writer Andrey Bely, many of whose novels feature impressionist portrayals of the area. Thus over time the Arbat lost its richest noble inhabitants, who preferred the splendid districts around the Kremlin and Tverskaya Street over the would-be rural idyll of the Arbat. By the start of the 20th century, the Arbat had become popular with the middle classes, and academics, doctors and lawyers settled in the area.

20th century and today
In the first two decades of the 20th century comfortable new apartment buildings were built on the Arbat, which still contribute to the overall appearance of the street. The main inhabitants were now well-off academics, as well as a small number of artists. The Arbat's transport connections were also improved in the first half of the 20th century. In 1904 electric trams were introduced, which were replaced 30 years later by trolleybuses (electric buses which get their power from overhead lines similar to those of a tram). For this reason the previous cobbles were replaced with an asphalt surface. In 1935 Moscow's first Metro station opened on Arbatskaya Square. The fact that the Arbat remained part of the road between Moscow and Smolensk facilitated trade. Arbat became a busy shopping street with many renowned boutiques. At the beginning of the 20th century the most intense business activity took place near the Western end: on the site of today's Smolenskaya Square, a large farmers' market used to take place, the Smolensky Rynok (Смоленский рынок). Furthermore, in 1899 Kiev Station was built, a few hundred metres to the west of the Arbat, which further increased the influx of traders from Ukraine and Southeastern Europe into Moscow via the Arbat.

After the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks confiscated private property on the Arbat, as they did elsewhere in Russia, and made the buildings state property. Nevertheless, the street did not immediately lose its reputation as a haunt for artists. Through the 1920s this began to change, as mass immigration from the countryside into the capital put enormous pressure on housing. For this reason, the previous apartment buildings were made into kommunalkas, apartments where more than one family lived together. Furthermore, the area served more and more to accommodate the high-ranking functionaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This period is described in Anatoli Rybakov's novel Children of the Arbat (Дети Арбата}  This is the reason for the plain apartment buildings in the side streets off the Arbat, some of which replaced earlier, more architecturally significant buildings. Furthermore, most of the Arbat's churches were demolished, including that of St Nicholas, regarded as one of the finest examples of the style of the Boris Godunov period. For visiting functionaries a luxury hotel was also built near the Arbat, the Arbat Hotel (Гостиница Арбат) in Plotnikov Street. Some buildings were also renovated or built in the constructivist style. Probably the most original monument to this new trend is the Melnikov Mansion.

In the early 1980s the Arbat, which had been a busy street in terms of traffic, was closed off and made into a pedestrian zone one of the first in the Soviet Union. This happened at the same time as the construction of a new Ministry of Defence building on Arbatskaya Square, which required a great number of communications, pipes and wires to be laid beneath the Arbat. The renovation of the street and many of its historical buildings was completed in 1986. During Perestroika, the street was a gathering place for informal youth movements (like hippies or punks), as well as street musicians and artists. Tsoi's Wall in one of the Arbat side streets (Krivoarbatskiy Pereulok) remains a curious monument to those turbulent years. To this day, Russian youth frequently gather on the Arbat to play Tsoi's songs and those of other Russian songwriters. However, the overall appearance of the Arbat is dominated by street artists, souvenir stalls and shops, restaurants, cafés and bars.

Attractions

Since 1986, the Arbat has been dotted with distinctive street lanterns. It has several notable statues, including one to Princess Turandot in front of the Vakhtangov Theatre, and another to Soviet-era folk singer, bard and poet Bulat Okudzhava, who wrote several poignant songs about the Arbat. Arbat is home to the headquarters of oil company TNK-BP - a modern building at the beginning of the street. It also contains numerous restaurants, including The Hard Rock Cafe. Most of these restaurants are geared towards visitors to Moscow and are considered by many residents to be over-priced and of low quality compared to those in other parts of the city. There are also a few restaurants and cafés that cater to the working population and middle class; these include Praim, and Mu-Mu's.

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

The result of the debate was Delete. Rx StrangeLove 14:54, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Desempacotamento
The assertion that "Desempacotamento belongs to the top [pub quiz] teams in The Netherlands" notwithstanding, this does not appear to be notable.--Ashenai 11:15, 29 September 2005 (UTC) Google seems oblivious to any mention of this team other than their own website (though not knowing Dutch, it's difficult to tell). --Ashenai 11:15, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Playing pubquiz is a very serious business in Holland and is fast becoming an inseparable part of the Dutch identity. Considering the growing importance of the pubquiz in Holland it is in fact notable to be a top quiz team. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.171.208.225 (talk • contribs), at 16:50, 2005 September 29. First edit.
 * Delete, this is similar to online gaming clans, who are also regularly deleted. Playing pub quizes may be serious for the members of this team, but: "Playing pubquiz is a very serious business in Holland and is fast becoming an inseparable part of the Dutch identity." is seriously overstated. I am from the Netherlands and study in Utrecht and haven't come across any pub quiz players in the 5 years I've been studying here. If this was as serious as claimed, I would've at least seen more announcements and come across fellow students and PhDs playing which I have not. - Mgm|(talk) 08:31, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, MgM's remark about not having come across players in the last 5 years in Utrecht is irrelevant. I've lived in Utrecht for 9 years and have not met any Mah-Jong players in that period. Despite that, I would welcome a Wikipedia-page about the best Mah-Jong players in Holland. Besides, MgM uses his own rather limited empirical experience as argument, which doesn't do much to help his case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.171.208.225 (talk • contribs), at 17:25, 2005 October 10. Second edit.
 * Delete per Mgm's magical analysis. -- BD2412 talk 14:52, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
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Can anyone add anything (perhaps in a new article) on Chiffley's proposed scheme? matturn 11:15, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

== Pharmacy & the PBS ==

The article should have information on how the PBS operates in regards to pharmacies including service delivery, consideration (money paid by the PBS to pharmacies) and the regulatory framework of pharmacy and the PBS.

Topics include: - The restrictions on the distrubtion of medicine: The monopoly of pharmacies to sell schedeled medicine. The need for pharmacy to have a HIC number to collect and sell PBS subsidized medicine. Georgraphic and other restrictions on obtaining an HIC number.

- Payments made by the PBS to Pharmacy Nominal Dispensing fees. The Profit margin paid by the PBS to pharmacy on subsidized medicine. The controversial role of discounts provided by generic medicine manufactorers to pharmacies for bulk purchases that increase the profit margain to pharmacy on subsidized medicine provided by the PBS. How this renumeration to pharmacy is set by regulation and how it has changed over time.

- The restrictions on pharmacy ownership: Pharmacists must be owned by qualified pharmacists. Pharmacies not allowed to be owned by companies. Limits on the number of pharmacies allowed to be owned by an individual pharmacist. Georgraphic and other regulatory restrictions. Exceptions and loopholes for the above e.g. Hospitals etc

--58.173.52.22 21:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)--

Added Internal Links
I have added Internal Links to this article. Kathleen.wright5 08:59, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

This article really needs a bit of a polish up in the history section - the history should cover a lot more - as there have been countless occasions where the PBAC has clashed with mainstream media and politicians. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shuggyg (talk • contribs) 17:15, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I have removed a section on 'biggest price drop occurred under Julia Gillard as it seemed overtly political and also erroneous. I have checked the citations and no such price 'drop' occurred (the $5.80 price cited was still an increase), the articles cited referred to a number of drugs now included in the scheme which dropped in price...but the text implied that all prices had dropped and 'australian families' were better off. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.174.145.126 (talk) 06:23, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

POV Edit?
Could someone with knowledge please review the first dot point under "Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits"? It seems to have been written by someone aggrieved by the (in their opinion) unnecessary prescribing of drugs to children. 194.193.140.80 (talk) 10:48, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I deleted the tendentious paragraph. On a wider note, this article (like many on Wikipedia) desperately needs an update to reflect developments in the past decade. Not sure I'm the one to do it though. ҉ Randwicked ҉ 02:30, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:Selous Scouts

Be consistant
The article uses, "guerillas", "insurgents" and "terrorists" interchangeably, I'm surprised "freedom fighters" didn't get a look in somewhere. Pick a neutral term and stick by it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.76.34.186 (talk) 23:14, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Max rspct:

I don't claim to be an expert on Rhodesian or specifically Selous Scout history, but I have read a fair bit on both and, although I have seen claims that the Rhodesian forces engaged in atrocities, I have never seen the specific claims that you make. I suggest that without citing your sources, your claims are baseless. Would you agree? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.6.147.254 (talk • contribs)

war crimes
In all respect, the way the Selous Scouts operated was seen as committing war crimes to the rest of the world. Answering terrorism with counter-terrorism is, again, terrorism, nothing else. So, the story has a dark side of the coin, too, and maybe someone is brave enough to make this clear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.188.77.92 (talk) 21:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * There were massive war crimes committed by the Selous Scouts. This article lacks balance, to say the least. It's like writing an article about the Waffen SS, and only mentioning their military exploits. The problem is that these same rhodesians have not gone through a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is why they won't mention atrocities committed by the rhodesian forces. 83.84.100.133 (talk) 17:07, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Do you mean the guerrillas were war criminals? Or if not, and the Scouts were the same, why are they war criminals? This thinking needs clarification. 95.149.53.131 (talk) 12:34, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Acidrain4696
I previously contacted this user about their edits, which have some merit but are poorly written and sourced, but they won't come to the talkpage, and revert several editors. --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 09:51, 3 May 2010 (UTC) I appreciate the hard work you put in, and you clearly know your topic, but I have undone your additions because there were several items that were unencyclopedic. I will give them an edit and put them back in. --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:52, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Poorly sourced? What Ron Daily the commander of the Selous Scouts is not a known source? Or my many pages that I have put forth in the citation?

I have revert several editors due me having an unrelated claim on Kim Jong Ill which has gotten me banned, which is turn negates my work. As I was working on both of them at the same time.

 * So I would like to hear your excuse for poorly sourced as I have made many more additions to this page than you have. Additionally, if you have a problem get a hold of the book and look it up page by page. Here it is on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0620066741/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&qid=1273108704&sr=8-2&condition=used

 * I do not refute that my editing may not be the best, but i contend that you hold with my original objective point of the situation. Instead of saying that it is poorly sourced. As i stated in the citation page you can go through and match up what i said to the citation, I have the paragraphs if you need them as well to each page. --Acidrain4696 (talk) 01:22, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * New comments go at the bottom, and being contentious and reverting in whole when there are concerns does not help your cause. At least you acknowledge that your vandalism at Kim Jong Il negates your work.--Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 05:49, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Chris, what 'cause' ? You admit that Acidrain4696's edits have merit - assume good faith, please. Wizzy… ☎ 08:40, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Chris, you did not address anything that I stated earlier.Which means that you either glossed over it or the statements were rooted in falsehoods. All you stated was that because of my view point of Kim Jong Il that it negates my Rhodesian work.... Second, "as reverting in whole" as you stated, was because you deleted all of my work. Then you stated that you were going to edit it and put it back up without a time schedule. You are not an admin and I would have no problem if you edited it and put it up without taking it down, instead You reverted my work, and than stated that I did this. Maybe your story is getting confused.(Check History if there is a disagreement) Third, you have failed to state when I cited incorrectly, and what is this new "cause" you are talking about. Stop talking in circles and address me directly on your concerns or stop writing in the talk page. Acidrain4696 (talk) 16:31, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Serious POV
His article was in need of a serious clean up for WP:POV and WP:WORDS. I have started. "Terrorist" is specifically on Wikipedia's list of words to avoid because it induces bias. I have opted for the word "guerrilla", which I think is more neutral. Amazingly, this article seemed to be portraying Rhodesia as noble nation of white people surrounded by "black supremacists" and abandoned by other white countries, as opposed to a nation in which its Black majority was oppressed by a tiny White minority. I think more clean up s warranted. I will watch this article to make sure that this egregious bias does not creep back in. Ground Zero | t 02:05, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Ok. Though in fact, Rhodesia was neither. 95.149.53.131 (talk) 12:35, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

POV problem? Read the revisions that you have put within the Article. You first state that Rhodesia was a racist state, therefore why did the Selous Scouts have a mixed race force. Additionally, why were there black African officers within the military. And when we talk about POV statements, I will accept the revision of terrorist to Guerrilla. I was stating that if they attack within the state of Rhodesia on their land, they will be looked at as terrorists. In addition, the POV that you put forth, is the opposite of my POV, neither of us are objective in nature. You view the Zimbabwe people as suppressed minorities: fine. How is their state security of the people since Robert Mugabe has taken over? How are their human rights situation? How is the food and medical supply situation or their economic situation? Sure things were not good under Rhodesian rule due to internal strife. But please do not paint the picture that they were like South Africa before Nelson Mandela during the Apartheid system. Your POV is an extreme position as well, just read the language that you put forth that, "ZANLA and FREELIMO were innocent organizations". In reality they attacked whites and blacks equally. Here is some advice look further then the books you pick up on Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe (that is suggesting that you pick up books on it) and read both sides of the picture to come up with the big picture. I will watch this article to make sure that this egregious bias does not creep back in. --Acidrain4696 (talk) 00:26, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * If you can't admit that Rhodesia was a racist state, all discussion ends there. 83.84.100.133 (talk) 17:09, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

The identification of the governments of the UK and the US as Labour- and Democratic Party-dominated is not within the scope of the history of this unit of the Rhodesian military, and is factually inaccurate. Rhodesian independence was opposed by all major parties in both the UK and US. In addition, the government of the UK was controlled by the Conservative Party between 1970 and 1974, and the United States government was controlled by the Republican Party between 1969 and 1977, the bulk of the period covered by this article. suez56 04:51, 08 February 2011 (UTC)

 * A fairly obvious problem with this article is that almost all its content is referenced to the former commander of the unit. He's obviously not an objective source on the unit. Nick-D (talk) 11:49, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

This issue has not been fixed. With the additional attention that is going to come to this entry from a recent NYTimes article, it would be good if someone took a serious go at fixing it. It does not seem appropriate for a unit that committed war crimes (as is already shown in the current version) to draw most of its factual content from that unit’s commander’s biography. It is akin to depending on a HIAG memoir for a Waffen SS division’s history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.46.224.35 (talk) 23:23, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

"Selous Scouts on patrol" photo.
The photo in the article on the Selous Scouts, (ref. above), are not Selous Scouts at all, but, Territorials (reservists) of the Rhodesia Regiment. If they were Selous Scouts, they would look more like a Sasquatch than men. They lived in the bush for weeks on end, and the white operators were always in "blackface" so as not to be recognized at a distance by the enemy. In addition, the white operators grew bushy beards to further conceal their "whiteness".

I served in the Rhodesian Security Forces as a Military Policeman for my three year enlistment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iarminius (talk • contribs) 21:33, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

 * You're quite right. I'll change it. —Cliftonianthe orangey bit 21:55, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Earlier date for origin of unit?
This post features scans of an old document that refers to the Selous Scouts having been founded in 1963 as an armored car regiment. Could someone with actual knowledge of the subject inform us as to the relationship between the armored car Scouts and the later unit? -   Metalello    talk 18:39, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * There's no relation between the Selous Scouts and the earlier, less prominent armoured car unit apart from the name. —Cliftonian (talk) 11:35, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

This was a war of decolonisation through terrorism and insurgency waged by black guerrillas (Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA)/Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA)/Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU)) with the goal of ending white minority rule in Rhodesia, a nation led by Prime Minister Ian Smith.

As a Shona I've never heard this was a fight of 'decolonisation' to end white minority rule, we were told in no uncertain terms that the purpose was to bring about a communist state by taking everything from the whites and killing them. Meanwhile thirty years later most of us are refugees who fled the starvation under communist rule. I get that Wikipedia is a very biased source but at least pretend to be neutral when not one single person from Zimbabwe on Earth would even know what 'deolonisation' is nor think we had any other instruction but to genocide the white man and take his stuff. That was the purpose of the war - genocide. Straight up. No ifs or buts about it. And we were CONVINCED it was the right thing, the whites were so demonized we truly believed that the communists who led everything would truly raise us to prosperity if only we killed off the evil white man. We did it out of hatred, because we knew no different and to show sympathy would be a death sentence for us. 121.210.33.50 (talk) 07:32, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

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Edits being made to improve balance
I'm in the process of re-working this article so that it is better balanced. This includes removing or finding other sources for the large amount of material referenced to the memoirs of the unit's commanding officer Ronald Francis Reid-Daly, and adding material acknowledging the unit's involvement in war crimes and the brutal tactics it used more broadly. Nick-D (talk) 02:59, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * We shouldn’t be using Ronald Reid-Daly as a source without attribution if at all. Right now they are our most prolific source and entirely unattributed, thats a big problem. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 22:57, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Foreign Involvement
Insertion of Cuban and Chinese guerillas led to the formation of the Scouts and they were major adversaries. No mention is made of this, as if the war occurred in a vacuum. The omission limits the usefulness of the article. 68.205.56.144 (talk) 19:57, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
 * What reliable sources support that claim? I haven't seen it in anything I've read on this topic. The article notes that the Selous Scouts were formed due to the increasing effectiveness of the guerrillas. Nick-D (talk) 23:48, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

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El Cerrito Plaza station

El Cerrito Plaza station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in El Cerrito, California, located adjacent to the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center. It primarily serves southern El Cerrito, northern Albany, and Kensington, along with nearby portions of Berkeley and Richmond. Nearly identical in form to El Cerrito del Norte station, El Cerrito Plaza station has two side platforms serving the line's two elevated tracks, with a fare lobby underneath. The Ohlone Greenway runs through the station area. The station is served by the Orange and Red lines.

History
The BART Board approved the name "El Cerrito Plaza" in December 1965. The station opened on January 29, 1973. As with El Cerrito del Norte station, the escalator walls feature tile mosaics by Alfonso Pardiñas. UC Berkeley music professor Jorge Liderman committed suicide at the station on February 3, 2008. Conceptual plans for modernization of the two El Cerrito stations were released in December 2013. Thirteen BART stations, including El Cerrito Plaza, did not originally have faregates for passengers using the elevator. In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. Two new faregates at El Cerrito Plaza installed in May 2022.

In 2018, BART and the city of El Cerrito signed a memorandum of understanding to begin planning for transit-oriented development to replace surface parking lots at the station. A developer was chosen in November 2020. A total of six buildings with about 750 residential units are planned. Per BART policy to limit parking replacement at urban stations, BART parking will be reduced from 761 spaces to 145 spaces. The first building was approved by the city in 2023. , construction of the buildings is expected to begin in mid-2024, with all completed by mid-2028.

Bus connections
Busways on both sides of the station serve a number of AC Transit bus routes:
 * Local: 71, 72, 72M, 79, 80
 * Transbay: G
 * School: 667, 668, 675, 684

The busways are also used by the Bear Transit RFS route. Several other AC Transit routes — including rapid route 72R, Transbay routes L and LC, and All Nighter route 800 — run on San Pablo Avenue 0.25 miles to the west.

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Ryen (station)

Ryen is a station on Lambertseter Line of the Oslo Metro. It is between Manglerud and Brattlikollen, and located in the Nordstrand borough where the Lambertseter Line crosses the E6 highway. Ryen Depot is a workshop and train yards for the subway company, therefore Ryen is a station where some early morning trains originate and some late evening trains terminate. During the early morning on weekdays, all lines serve Ryen, between 4:30 to 5:30.

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Smilavichy

Smilavichy (Смілавічы; Смиловичи; Śmiłowicze; סמילאָוויץ) is an urban-type settlement in Chervyen District, Minsk Region, Belarus. As of 2024, it has a population of 6,586.

In Jewish tradition it is known as Smilovitz, and was a shtetl in the Russian Empire.

Notable people

 * Ibrahim Kanapacki (1949–2005), Belarusian Lipka Tatar religious, political, and cultural leader
 * Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943), painter

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Special Herbs, Vols. 9 & 0

'Special Herbs, Vols. 9 & 0' is an instrumental album released by MF Doom under the moniker Metal Fingers. As with all volumes of Special Herbs released by Metal Fingers, each track is named after a herb or similar flora (with the exception of "Untitled (Meditation)").

Although an instrumental album, some tracks contain sampled speech, such as "Food... we need food!" in "Vervain" and "Peach fuzz!" in "Peach Extract". The track "Coca Leaf" is made up of vocal samples of singing women.

Track listing

 * 1) "Vinca Rosea" – 3:00
 * 2) "Burdock Root" – 3:32
 * 3) "Vervain" – 2:59
 * 4) "Bergamot" – 3:33
 * 5) "Podina" – 2:07
 * 6) "Untitled (Meditation)" – 3:56
 * 7) "Coltsfoot Leaf" – 3:41
 * 8) "Orris Root Powder" – 3:37
 * 9) "Passion Flower" – 4:04
 * 10) "Yellow Dock" – 4:22
 * 11) "Datura Stramonium" – 3:02
 * 12) "Coca Leaf" – 3:51
 * 13) "Peach Extract" – 4:07

Other versions

 * "Vinca Rosea" is an instrumental version of "It's No Secret" by Hassan Chop from the promo The Sharpening.
 * "Burdock Root" is an instrumental version of "Rapsploitation" by John Robinson from the album Who is this Man?. It is also used on "Leave" by Legit from the mixtape Feliz Sábado.
 * "Vervain" is an instrumental version of "Beef Rapp" from Mm..Food.
 * "Bergamot" is an instrumental version of "Darkness (HBU)" from NehruvianDOOM's NehruvianDOOM.
 * "Podina" is an instrumental version of "?" from Operation: Doomsday. An alternative cut was also included on Special Herbs, Vol. 2 under the name "Charnsuka".
 * "Untitled (Meditation)" is an instrumental version of "The Fine Print" by King Geedorah, from the album Take Me to Your Leader. It is also used on "Return to Monsta Island" by MF Grimm from Special Herbs + Spices Volume One.
 * "Coltsfoot Leaf" is an instrumental version of "I Wonder" by King Geedorah, from the album Take Me to Your Leader.
 * "Orris Root Powder" is an instrumental version of "Monsters" by MF DOOM & Trunks from the EP Unicron. It is also used on "Black Gold" from John Robinson's Who is this Man? which was also included on MF Doom's Unexpected Guests.
 * "Passion Flower" was used on "Still Dope" from DOOM's Born Like This.
 * "Datura Stramonium" is an instrumental version of "Poo-Putt Platter" from MM..Food?, and is also used on "Da Superfriendz" by Vast Aire featuring MF DOOM, on the album Look Mom... No Hands as well as "World Domination" by Joey Badass, from the mixtape 1999 (mixtape)
 * "Coca Leaf" was used on "Supervillain Intro" and "Thank Ya" both from DOOM's Born Like This.
 * "Peach Extract" is an instrumental version of "Peach Fuzz" from KMD's Mr. Hood.

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Birch Vale

Birch Vale is a village in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, just outside the boundary of the Peak District National Park, between New Mills and Hayfield. Most of Birch Vale, including the attached hamlet of Thornsett, comes under the administration of New Mills Town Council, though the small part to the east of the former Grouse Inn public house is within the boundaries of Hayfield.

Amenities
There are no shops, but two surviving public houses: the Sycamore Inn and Printers Arms in Thornsett. Previously, there were three more pubs: the Vine Tavern has closed permanently, the Waltzing Weasel became a B&B in 2013 and the Grouse Inn closed in January 2020.

There is a primary school in Thornsett.

Transport

Until 1970, Birch Vale had a railway station on a branch line from New Mills Central to Hayfield, with through trains to Manchester Piccadilly. Today, the trackbed of the former railway line carries the Sett Valley Trail; the nearest railheads are the stations in New Mills — Central and Newtown — about two miles away.

There are frequent bus services into New Mills, Hayfield, Glossop, Buxton and Stockport; routes are operated by High Peak Buses and Stagecoach Manchester.

Notable people
Birch Vale's most famous daughter is the TV presenter Tess Daly, who grew up there.

Factory fire 2009
In the early evening of Friday 2 October 2009 a large explosion was heard by residents as the Stirling Lloyd factory on a local industrial estate caught fire. It took around 16–20 hours to bring the fire under control. Local residents were evacuated shortly after police arrived. New Mills Fire and Rescue Team were among the first on the scene.

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Jesus
Check out the Jesus article and edit it to keep it focused on Jesus and a biographical account of Him. Watch the Jesus page to keep it focused on Him. Thank you. Scifiintel 21:47, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Steven Levitt AfD Discussion (comment deleted)
The unsigned canvassing comment by Steven Taylor is now deleted. I was getting tired of looking at it. Darryl Hamlin 18:37, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiethics
Hi,

We started a proposal Wikiethics to state the existing policies coherently and make suggestions on improving the editorial standards in Wiki. I thought you might be interested in contributing to that proposal.

Unfortunately, a pro-porn and pro-offense lobby is trying to make this proposal a failure. They unilaterally started an approval poll although almost no one including me believe that it is time for a vote, simply because the policy is not ready. It is not even written completely.

Editors who thinks that the policy needs to be improved rather than killed by an unfair poll at the beginning of the proposal, started another poll ('Do we really need a poll at this stage?') at the same time. The poll is vandalized for a while but it is stable now. A NO vote on this ('Do we really need a poll now?') poll will strengthen the position of the editors who are willing to improve the ethics policy further.

If you have concerns about the ethics and editorial standards in Wiki, please visit the page Wikiethics with your suggestions on the policy. We have two subpages: Arguments and Sections. You might want to consider reviewing these pages as well...

Thanks in advance. Resid Gulerdem 00:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I would love your help.
Hi,

I know you are interested in christianity, and I recently started a new wiki over at wikicities which is on the subject of christianity. Christian Knowledge Base is the site.

The goal is to have a knowledgebase on christianity from a distinctly "C(hristian)POV" rather than the NPOV. It is not meant to be a mere Christian Encyclopedia, but to foster a real sense of community. I'd like to include things like current events, news, stories, and anything that would add to both an understanding of Christianity, but also its enjoyment. I'm looking for help to build a resource that could really enrich the lives of Christians.

I know you are busy but I am actively seeking new sysops/admins to help me build this site up, and I would be positively thrilled if you could contribute in any capacity whatsoever. nsandwich 05:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

A request for an interview
Hello, My name is Nick Mokey, and I’m currently writing an article on Wikipedia for the Daily Orange in Syracuse, NY. The article will focus on how Wikipedia is being used in academic environments, specifically college. I wanted to know if you, as a Wikipedia contributor, would be interested in a brief interview for the story. It will take 15 minutes tops, and it would be an enormous help to me. If you are interested, please contact me at ntmokey@gmail.com, my deadline is midnight on Friday (4/28) but I can work you in any time during the day, it will just be a quick discussion over the phone. Thanks, Nick Mokey

TNA roster
Just to let you know that we alphabetize by last name, and by we I mean WikiProject Pro Wrestling. --JFred 22:51, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

 * The problem with that is that the leadership of a stable can be ambiguous, and that ordering by surname is more user friendly where casual readers are involved. I'm not sure there's a solid enough case for diverging from alphabetical order, which is a more or less scientific norm. McPhail 21:34, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Tonetare
It's good to leave an example of what you're talking about or otherwise your accusation is you are very refutable. I have no idea what you felt as personal attack and you will have to show me before it's considered that. Tonetare 00:02, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

if you're talking about the gay comment above, that is not a personal attack by the way and you even answered in a joking fashion. Your reactions contradict themselves. You could have at least erased what is up above before me coming to your page to respond Tonetare 00:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

sorry Tonetare 09:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Personal Attacks
I see you are having troubles with the user Tonetare as well. He is leaving personal attacks on my talk page also. --Mikedk9109 22:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

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Mark De Man

Mark De Man (born 27 April 1983) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or right-back, most notably for Anderlecht. He moved to Dutch side Roda JC in the Eredivisie for an undisclosed fee in the 2008–09 season and then returned to Belgium to play for Germinal Beerschot. De Man made five appearances for the Belgium national team.

Club career
Born in Leuven, De Man played for OH Leuven during his youth before signing with Anderlecht in 1998. In 2002, he was promoted to Anderlecht's first team where he established himself as a starter in 2005.

In July 2008, with a year left on his contract with Anderlecht, De Man agreed a three-year contract with Eredivisie club Roda JC Kerkrade.

After featuring sparingly for Roda, he left the club for Germinal Beerschot. During his time at Germinal Beerschot, De Man was kept out of action by a knee injury and an ankle sprain. In his three seasons at the club he made few appearances and joined his youth club OH Leuven of the Belgian Second Division in January 2011.

In autumn 2011 De Man was close to a move to Scottish club Kilmarnock but after a trial with Kilmarnock, he moved to the Belgian third division club KSC Hasselt.

International career
De Man received his first call-up to the Belgium national team in November 2006, for a UEFA Euro 2008 qualifier against Poland.

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Royal Army Pay Corps

The Royal Army Pay Corps (RAPC) was the corps of the British Army responsible for administering all financial matters. It was amalgamated into the Adjutant General's Corps in 1992.

History
The first "paymasters" have existed in the army before the formation of the corps. Prior to the 19th century, each regiment had its own civilian paymaster and the first commissioned paymaster was introduced in 1792.

In 1870 a Pay Sub-Department of the Control Department was formed; an officer-only establishment, it gained autonomy as the Army Pay Department in 1878. In 1893 an Army Pay Corps was formed, composed of other ranks, to support the work of the Department. In 1920 the Army Pay Department and the Army Pay Corps were amalgamated to form the Royal Army Pay Corps (the prefix 'Royal' having been conferred in recognition of valuable services provided during the First World War).

In 1919 the financial responsibilities were split between the RAPC, which handled salaries, and the Corps of Military Accountants (CMA), which handled the army's finances. The CMA was disbanded in 1925 and its functions and some personnel were transferred to the RAPC. Before the Second World War, the RAPC did not accept recruits directly from civilian life, but only transfers from serving soldiers who had been in the Army for at least six months. During the Second World War, members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service and men of a "lower medical category" were often conscripted into the corps. Initially they received very little military training but after a discussion in Parliament were trained in armed combat, especially for those posted closest to the frontlines, to prepare for surprise attacks on headquarters. The Pay Corps requisitioned Dalewood House in Mickleham near Dorking, Surrey as their headquarters during the Second World War. The House now acts as the main building of Box Hill School, a Public School established in the village in 1959. With the amalgamations into the Adjutant General's Corps in 1992, its functions are now carried out by the Staff and Personnel Support (SPS) Branch.

Headed by a Paymaster-in-Chief, the corps was responsible for keeping the army financially accountable to the servicemen and Inland Revenue.

Alliances
The corps had the following alliances:

 * 🇨🇦 – Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps
 * – South African Administrative and Pay and Clerical Corps
 * 🇭🇰 – Pay Section, Royal Hong Kong Defence Force
 * – Fiji Army Pay Corps

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Jan Van Steenberghe

Jan Van Steenberghe (born 4 July 1972) is a former Belgian football goalkeeper. He played most recently for F.C. Verbroedering Dender E.H., after being released from R.S.C. Anderlecht. His former clubs include Eendracht Aalst, R.A.A. Louviéroise and R.S.C. Anderlecht.

While at La Louvière he helped them win the 2002–03 Belgian Cup.

Club
La Louvière Anderlecht
 * Belgian Cup: 2003
 * Belgian First Division: 2004, 2006, 2007
 * Belgian Super Cup: 2006

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Your tests
I don't know what you're testing, but you have been creating copies of the Sandbox header as new encyclopedia entries. I have removed these stray entries. Lupo 11:26, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Now you seem to have gotten the hang of it. Cool indeed! Lupo 11:31, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

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Miki 1

MIKI① is the debut album of J-pop idol Miki Fujimoto, released on February 26, 2003, which was also her 18th birthday. First pressing of the album featured special packaging and a 12-page mini photo book. It featured all of her previous singles from her debut "Aenai Nagai Nichiyōbi" (released March 2002) to her single "Boogie Train '03" (released February 2003). The album also contained the single "Boyfriend", which was originally released in November 2002, her last single for that year. Five months after the release of MIKI 1, Miki made her debut in J-pop group Morning Musume to become a part of the 6th generation of members.

Track listing

 * 1) Boogie Train '03 (ブギー トレイン '03)
 * 2) Romantic Ukare Mode (ロマンティック 浮かれ モード)
 * 3) Eki Mae no Dai Happening (駅前 の 大 ハプニング)
 * 4) Sotto Kuchizukete Gyutto Dakishimete (そっと 口づけて ギュット 抱きしめて)
 * 5) Namida Girl (涙 GIRL)
 * 6) Aenai Nagai Nichiyoubi (会えない 長い 日曜日)
 * 7) Giniro no Eien (銀色 の 永遠)
 * 8) Boyfriend (ボーイフレンド)
 * 9) Mangetsu (満月)
 * 10) Shall We Love? (Fujimoto Version)
 * 11) Let's Do Dai Hakken! (Let's Do 大 発見!)

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Katsuichi Honda

Katsuichi Honda (本多 勝一, Hepburn: ; born January 28, 1932) is a Japanese journalist and author most famous for his writing on the Nanjing Massacre. During the 1970s he wrote a series of articles on the atrocities committed by Imperial Japanese soldiers during World War II called "Chūgoku no Tabi" (中国の旅, "Travels in China"). The series first appeared in the Asahi Shimbun.

Honda also worked as a war correspondent in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, an experience which, according to some historians, contributed to stoking his interest in Japanese wartime history.

Early career
Honda was a war correspondent in Vietnam from December 1966 to 1968. He published a book on the Vietnam War titled Vietnam War: A Report through Asian Eyes in 1972.

"Travels in China"
During the 1970s Honda wrote a series of articles on the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers during World War II (including the Nanjing Massacre) called "Chūgoku no Tabi" (中国の旅, "Travels in China"). The series first appeared in the Asahi Shimbun.

The U.S. Occupation authorities in Japan at first banned the teaching of Japanese history. After the ban was lifted in November 1946, school textbooks referred routinely but briefly to the Nanjing Massacre. These references disappeared from about 1955 with the stigmatizing of Marxist historians who were critical of "imperial myths and morals" during the Cold War. The "spirit of patriotism" was to be written into school textbooks, to take the place of the "red textbooks" which were critical of the state and the Emperor. The Nanjing Massacre was written out of Japanese textbooks completely from the 1950s to 1970s, until disgust with the Vietnam War led Japanese society to rethink Japanese militarism in the World War II period. Katsuichi Honda's 1971 "Travels in China" was a keystone of this reexamination of the war era.

Just as Honda, in writing about the Vietnam War, had sought to narrate the war "through Asian Eyes", his scholarship on Imperial Japanese action in China sought to depict Japanese aggression from a Chinese perspective. The text stimulated much interest and debate, and had both supporters and detractors. Among the more intense rebuttals to the text was that of, a World War II veteran and popular commentator, who attacked in particular an account recorded by Honda of the hundred man killing contest. The contest would become a favorite target of revisionist writers in regards to the Nanjing Massacre, in later years. Tomio Hora answered skepticism of the account with subsequent scholarship. Detailed research by Wakabayashi subsequently claimed that the competition was indeed a press fabrication of the time.

Later career
1999 saw the English language publication of Honda's The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. The book was principally a translation of Honda's The Road to Nanjing (南京への道, Nankin e no michi, 1987) but was also supplemented with excerpts from his "Travel to China" and The Nanjing Massacre (南京大虐殺, Nankin Daigyakusatsu, 1997). The book, translated by Karen Sandness, was published by M.E. Sharpe in connection with the Pacific Basin Institute. Pacific Basin's founder, Frank Gibney, also edited the book, writing an introduction critical of Iris Chang and her popular treatment of the massacre, The Rape of Nanking, which had been published two years prior.

Other works by Honda available in English include The Impoverished Spirit in Contemporary Japan: Selected Essays of Honda Katsuichi and Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale.

Lawsuit
On August 23, 2005, a Tokyo District Court presided over by Judge Akio Doi ruled against the families of Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, Japanese soldiers who had participated in a "killing contest", to see who would be the first to kill 100 Chinese, in 1937. The families had sued the Mainichi Shimbun, whose predecessor, the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun, covered the story in 1937, as well as the Asahi Shimbun and Honda for his stories in 1971 and (in book form) 1981.

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Kelly Evernden

Kelly Graeme Evernden (born 21 September 1961) is a former professional tennis player from New Zealand.

Evernden turned professional in 1985 and won his first tour doubles title in 1986 at Cologne. His first top-level singles title came in 1987 at Bristol. His best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 1987 Australian Open, where he reached the quarter-finals by defeating Jonathan Canter, Johan Kriek, Brad Pearce and Derrick Rostagno before being knocked-out by Wally Masur. Evernden represented New Zealand at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

Over the course of his career, Evernden won three top-level singles titles, the last of which was won in 1989 at Wellington. He also won five tour doubles titles (the most significant of which was the Canadian Open in 1989). Evernden's career-high rankings were world No. 31 in singles and world No. 19 in doubles. He retired from the professional tour in 1994.

Evernden played pro tennis with only one lung, having had a lung removed as the result of an injury sustained in an accident at the age of 16. He was hit by a motorist and his heart stopped twice in five days (once for one minute and once for 45 seconds). In addition to puncturing a lung which had to be removed, he also had a broken arm, leg and ribs, however he recovered fully from the accident.

He lives on Mercer Island with his wife and two sons.

Prior to turning professional, Evernden played tennis for the University of Arkansas (where he studied business management and psychology) and was an All-American in 1984.

Evernden is a quarter Ngāti Porou Māori, and his Māori name "Te Rangai" means "Young Warrior". His Irish name, Kelly, means "War". Kelly is now the Davis Cup Captain for the country of New Zealand(2021-?)

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Talk:Katsuichi Honda

DoB
birthdate will require some digging. ja.wikipedia says 1932. the library of congress info from his 1999 says 1931, which is what ive used for the category for the time being. Nateji77 11:29, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * from his 1999 book. Nateji77 11:45, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * This looks fine so far, although what it's still missing is the tricky part: a neutral account of what exactly he says about the events. Mark1 02:14, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * and what the right says about him. he apparently was "underground" and "in hiding" for awhile... and the japanese article on him was protected when i tried to add an en: link. Nateji77 05:37, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Name of popular commentator
Among the more intense rebuttals to the text was that of Yamamoto Schichihei, a World War II veteran and popular commentator, who attacked in particular an account recorded by Honda of a contest to kill Chinese people using swords This name Yamamoto Schichihei requires verification, it's not a possible Japanese name. I added a verification template to the article. Wangedgar (talk) 02:12, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

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Serbophobia
Quote: "Thank you for your opinion, but it seems that Serb nationalists are trying to create another myth, so many from sr Wikipedia came to vote?! Can you ask some other Albanians to vote either in Englesh or Albanian Wikipedia. Noone need another myth that was based on Serb war criminals arguments." --Emir Arven --Albanian since Stone Age 19:33, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Shkruje shqip be njeri edhe nuk pe kuptova shka po do me thon
 * Write in Albanian Language and don't know what you means. --Sintonak.X 20:06, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

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infobox edit
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 * Was a wrong edit, i thougt it was the template for Yes, Dear Episode, but after the revert, i have noticed it's was wrong edit and thx for the tipp, p.s. was not intentionally. --Sintonak.X 02:33, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

O shqiptar...
Msoje anglishten se t'vyne shum. Prej cilit qytet je? Aeternus 14:31, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Gjilanit, e di shume mire anglishten per ata qe kam msu prej vetit, por kam problem akoma, e shkruajta ne qofse me shkrune mos me prit ata nje pergjigje ne anglishten e paster, jam duke msu, por ska ngutje, ka edhe Wikipedian ne Gjuhen Shqipe. --Sintonak.X 18:28, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

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Fol bre njeri
Fol mere ça je a je Goran a shqiptar? Mos u tut ky internet asht, edhe per mu nisoj kryesorja me kan njeri.--Hevnonen 18:56, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

 * 100% shqiptar, e tij? --Sintonak.X 19:11, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Pse nuk po din me shkru shqip? Why you dont know to write in Albanian?--Hevnonen 19:52, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Me qellim shkru keshtu. --Sintonak.X 19:58, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

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hello
Hello friend. My name is Avdo, and I'm currently working on a project to make labelled interactive maps of municipalities in the Balkans and I'm wondering if you could be of some assistance. At the moment, I'm working on a municipality map of Medveđa in Serbia, but I plan on making a map for the Prishtina municipality in Kosovo. I need something like this for Prishtina. Do you have any sources and is there any way you could help me out? If not, could you ask your friends, maybe if you know someone who is from Prishtina...? Any help is appreciated :) Thanks in advance, --  G OD OF  J USTICE 20:36, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Dreamgirls (film)
Thanks for adding the Albanian version of this article to the main article! Real96 01:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * You're welcome, i've created the article before a half hour in the Albania Wikipedia, it's a very good movie and it play 3 of my favorite actors (Eddie Murphy, Beyonce and Jamie Fox). --Sintonak.X 01:18, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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Tung!
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Je i mireseardhun!--Dardan Prishtina 23:44, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Historia!
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Invite to work on the SFK09
Hello We are working on creating a workgroup for wikimedia kosovo http://sfk2009.ning.com/group/wikimediakosova and have an event on august 29/30 in Prishtina. We would like to invite you to come. http://www.kosovasoftwarefreedom.org/index.php/sfk09/call-for-papers.html

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Talk:The Crow Road

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The description is severely plagiarized. 204.77.41.47 (talk)

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It's called a book
The character Metatron asks the character Muriel in the series Good Omens season 2 episode 6: "What's that you're holding?" - while she is reading The Crow Road. She answers: "A book. It's called a book." 2001:1A81:72FF:8A00:4824:63F9:F13E:C2D9 (talk) 11:26, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nonversation

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The result of the debate was Delete. Rx StrangeLove 15:07, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Nonversation
neologism Ashenai 11:33, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - and submit the contents to http://www.urbandictionary.com - Andre Engels 12:11, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. protologism. Furthermore runs afoul of WP:V and WP:NOR. enceph  alon  10:40, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
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Kongsberg Mesotech

Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd, based in Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada, is informally operated by Kongsberg Gruppen. Website Proff.no does not include the company on the lists of subsidiaries of Kongsberg Gruppen or  Kongsberg Maritime.

Mesotech make underwater surveillance and advanced frogman detection sonar systems.

The company was formed in 1973 to design and manufacture underwater acoustic equipment. Today Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd. supplies a worldwide customer base with a range of products for military, fisheries, oilfield, scientific, and other offshore market applications.

Product range
Kongsberg Mesotech's Vancouver office is responsible for the design, manufacture and sales of underwater acoustic products, including:
 * Imaging and profiling mechanically scanned sonars
 * Multibeam imaging sonars
 * Multibeam profiling sonar
 * Multibeam diver detection sonar
 * Altimeters

Kongsberg Mesotech makes over 100 models of multibeam, scanning, side scan, echo sounder, and altimeter sonar combinations.

Scanning sonar
Kongsberg Mesotech's breakthrough came in 1982 with the development of the Model 971 Scanning Sonar. This high resolution scanning sonar was quickly accepted by military and offshore oilfield market users, and soon became a standard for all ROV operations. In 1984 Mesotech was awarded the "Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation" for the 971 Sonar by Petroleum Engineering International, and Pipeline & Gas Journal magazines.

Multibeam sonar
In 1997, the Kongsberg Mesotech introduced the SM 2000 Multibeam Sonar, the FS 925 Forward Scanning Trawl Sonar and the MS 900D Digital Telemetry Mechanically Scanned Sonar Processor. In 1999 the PC-based MS 1000 Scanning Sonar Processor, and the 1071-series of scanning sonar heads and altimeters were added to the suite of Kongsberg Mesotech equipment.

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Bradway Tunnel

Bradway Tunnel, 1 mi long, was built in 1870 about 1 mi north of Dronfield, Derbyshire, in South Yorkshire, England.

It is at the summit of the Midland Main Line between Chesterfield and Sheffield, on what is known to railwaymen as the "New Road" built by the Midland Railway to serve Sheffield, which was bypassed by the North Midland Railway's "Old Road" due to the gradients involved. During its excavation a number of small heading tunnels were needed to drain some 16,000 gallons of water an hour.

At the north end is the triangular junction with the Hope Valley Line and Dore & Totley station. Northwards the line proceeds down a 1 in 110 gradient, through the abandoned Beauchief, Millhouses & Ecclesall and Heeley stations, into Sheffield station.

 * North western portal: 53.32194°N, -1.50972°W
 * South eastern portal: 53.31258°N, -1.48656°W

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Naruto Manga Returns

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The result of the debate was DELETE. — J I P | Talk 16:40, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Naruto Manga Returns

 * Delete. I'm a fan of this manga (that's how I found this page) but I don't think this specific forum is close to passing any reasonable test of notability. -AceMyth 11:34, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm uncertain about that. It gets 970 Google hits, most of which seem to be relevant. I haven't checked their "14,000 members" claim, but if true, I'd think we should err on the side of keeping. I abstain, for now. --Ashenai 11:41, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I just googled it myself and found TONS of spam search results. Little to no "I've just been to Naruto manga returns, and..." or "Check Naruto Manga Returns, I think you can get what you're looking for there", or whatever, but lots of "porn tennis Natalie Portman Naruto Manga Returns free DVDs". Fishy, if I may say so. --AceMyth 12:36, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Forums on a subject are worth articles only rarely. - Andre Engels 12:15, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete echoing above. It is dismaying how many useless and nn forums already clutter up WP as it is. Dottore So 16:07, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
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Tronado machine

The Tronado Machine was a device which employed ultra high frequency or microwave radiation as a hyperthermia therapy for cancer; however, tests have failed to back its treatment claims. A man named Tronado designed the machine in the 1970s.

The treatment was improved and a new type of machine built by Dr John Holt who was formerly Head of Oncology at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia. He later established an independent clinic in West Perth. After Holt's retirement the clinic moved to Claremont where a research institute was established alongside the clinic. A further treating facility was established by Dr Hugh Tinsley in Dublin, Ireland. This clinic and the treatment were assessed by the Irish government and the clinic received government grants to assist with the ongoing costs of establishment.

Lack of scientific validation
Tests conducted on behalf of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia have concluded that UHF Radiowave therapy produces no therapeutic benefit when used in conjunction with conventional cancer treatment. The report Review of the Use of Microwave Therapy for the Treatment of Patients with Cancer conducted a review of the literature as well as an audit of Dr. Holt's patient records between 1973 and 2003. Regarding the literature review, the report stated "There is currently no published scientific evidence that shows benefit of UHF cancer therapy alone or when combined with ‘glucose-blocking agents’ (GBA) as treatment for patients with cancer."

Regarding the audit of Dr. Holt's clinical data, the report says, in part, "Despite the small patient treatment groups, some trends were evident in this audit. Firstly, the complete remission rates were not high in any group. The study did not confirm Dr Holt’s previous reports of a 100% response rate for bladder tumours (Holt, 1988). The initial response rate (complete response and partial response) was 50% for RT alone, 34% for RT + UHF and 17% for UHF + GBA. Following salvage surgery, the overall response rate (complete response and partial response) was higher for patients treated with RT alone (44%) compared to RT+UHF (25%) or UHF + GBA (11%)."

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Alverton

 * Alverton can also be a variant of Alverston or Alton.

Alverton is an English hamlet and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire. It is joined by neighbouring Kilvington to form an area for a parish meeting. It contains 22 houses surrounded by farmland,  and reported 61 residents in the 2021 census. The River Devon and its tributary, the Winter Beck, run along its eastern border.

Amenities
There is a Montessori nursery school at Staunton-in-the-Vale (1.6 miles, 2.6 km), primary schools at Orston (2.1 miles, 3.4 km) and Bottesford (3.6 miles, 5.8 km), and secondary schools at Bingham (7.3 miles, 11.7 km), Bottesford and Newark-on-Trent (7.5 miles, 12.1 km).

Alverton has no shops or places of worship. The nearest Anglican church is St Mary's at Staunton and the nearest Methodist church at Long Bennington (3.8 miles, 6.1 km). The nearest shopping centres are Bingham and Newark. The closest pubs are the Staunton Arms at Staunton and the Durham Ox at Orston.

Two buses run through Alverton on Wednesdays and Fridays between Newark and in the one case Shelton and the other Bottesford. The nearest train service is at Bottesford railway station on the line between Nottingham, Grantham and Skegness line.

History
Alverton historically formed part of Kilvington parish in Newark wapentake. It appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Alvretun and Alvritun. The township was recorded in 1832 as having only 16 inhabitants. It had been enclosed in 1806. The Lord of the Manor was recorded as Rev. Dr. Staunton, and its "two farmers" as Robert Cross and Charles Neale. In 1870–72 it had seven houses and a population of 40.

Ghosts
The former Staunton Church of England School in the village is now a private house, said to be haunted by a teacher once murdered there. There have been two purported sightings of a ghost at another house, The Chestnuts, each describing the figure of an elderly lady in Victorian garb, thought to be a former sempstress to Queen Victoria, Mary Brown, who had returned to Alverton as housekeeper to her widowed brother and ruled his four children "with a rod of iron".

External sources

 * Photographs of the old school and schoolmaster's house in 1978 appear in Our Nottinghamshire.
 * A 2014 photograph of the old school can be seen here.
 * A 1900 map showing Alverton and neighbouring villages can be found in the National Library of Scotland.

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Broomhouse Tunnel

Broomhouse Tunnel was on the Midland Main Line between Chesterfield and Sheffield. It was built by the Midland Railway in 1870 on what is known to railwaymen as the "New Road" to Sheffield. This bypassed the North Midland Railway's original line, which came to be known as "Old Road", and which had avoided Sheffield due to the gradients involved, see topographical map of the Sheffield area.

Broomhouse Tunnel was 92 yards long, through a narrow ridge a mile past Sheepbridge. It was opened out to become a cutting in 1969 (see Railway Magazine July 1969 p. 409, plus (picture) Nov 1969 p. 636).

The line diverged just north of Chesterfield at Tapton Junction with a steady three and a half mile climb at 1 in 100, through Sheepbridge and Unstone stations, before a short drop to Dronfield. From there, it climbed to the summit before Bradway Tunnel thence to what would become the junction through Dore and Totley and the line to Manchester, continuing to Beauchief.

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Omar Bongo Technical High School

Omar Bongo Technical High School (Lycée Technique Nationale Omar Bongo ) is situated in Libreville, Gabon.

It is among the largest secondary schools in Gabon with some 6,000 students. The technical school is named after Omar Bongo (1935 – 2009), former President of Gabon.

The school was temporarily shut down in January 2004 because of student lawlessness and the invasion of another school. A subsequent inquiry found that corruption and prostitution were endemic in the school.

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Category:Education in Gabon

This category collects all articles about education in Gabon. Please use the respective subcategories.

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