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Arrhidaeus

Arrhidaeus or Arrhidaios (Ἀρριδαῖoς lived 4th century BC), one of Alexander the Great's generals, was entrusted by Ptolemy to bring Alexander's body to Egypt in 323 BC, contrary to the wishes of Perdiccas who wanted the body sent to Macedonia. On the murder of Perdiccas in Egypt in 321 BC, Arrhidaeus and Peithon were appointed temporary commanders in chief, but through the intrigues of the queen Eurydice they were obliged to resign soon afterwards their office at Triparadisus in Northern Syria. On the division of the provinces which was decided by those attending Triparadisus, Arrhidaeus obtained the Hellespontine Phrygia. In 319 BC, after the death of Antipater, Arrhidaeus made an unsuccessful attack upon Cyzicus; and Antigonus gladly seized this pretext to require him to resign his satrapy. Arrhidaeus, however, refused to resign and shut himself up in Cius.

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Upwood

Upwood is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Upwood and the Raveleys, in the non-metropolitan district and historic county of Huntingdonshire, England, although in the administrative county of Cambridgeshire. Upwood lies approximately 7 mi north of Huntingdon, near Bury. In 1931 the parish had a population of 322.

The village lies along the High Street which runs parallel to the main road from Great Raveley to Ramsey about 300 yards to the west. The church stands about the middle of the village and there are several 17th-century cottages to the north and south of it.

In September 1917, the Royal Air Force started work on RAF Upwood, a large airfield near the village used by both the RAF and latterly by the United States Air Force.

Three nature reserves, Lady's Wood, Ramsey Heights and Upwood Meadows, lie near to the village; the latter is a national nature reserve.

The village has a free Book Exchange housed in a red telephone box.

History
In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, since the 12th century, has become known as the Domesday Book. Starting with the king himself, for each landholder within a county there is a list of their estates or manors; and, for each manor, there is a summary of the resources of the manor, the amount of annual rent that was collected by the lord of the manor both in 1066 and in 1086, together with the taxable value.

Upwood was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Hurstingstone in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Upehude in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there was just one manor at Upwood; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £10 and the rent had fallen to £9 in 1086.

The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there were 35 households at Upwood. There is no consensus about the average size of a household at that time; estimates range from 3.5 to 5 people per household. Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Upwood in 1086 is that it was within the range of 122 and 175 people.

The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands. In different parts of the country, these were terms for the area of land that a team of eight oxen could plough in a single season and are equivalent to 120 acre; this was the amount of land that was considered to be sufficient to support a single family. By 1086, the hide had become a unit of tax assessment rather than an actual land area; a hide was the amount of land that could be assessed as £1 for tax purposes. The survey records that there were sixteen ploughlands at Upwood in 1086. In addition to the arable land, there was 6 acre of meadows and 5.677 acres (2.297 hectares) of woodland at Upwood.

The tax assessment in the Domesday Book was known as geld or danegeld and was a type of land-tax based on the hide or ploughland. It was originally a way of collecting a tribute to pay off the Danes when they attacked England, and was only levied when necessary. Following the Norman Conquest, the geld was used to raise money for the King and to pay for continental wars; by 1130, the geld was being collected annually. Having determined the value of a manor's land and other assets, a tax of so many shillings and pence per pound of value would be levied on the land holder. While this was typically two shillings in the pound the amount did vary; for example, in 1084 it was as high as six shillings in the pound. For the manor at Upwood the total tax assessed was ten geld.

By 1086 there was a church and a priest at Upwood.

Government
Upwood is part of the civil parish of Upwood and The Raveleys, which has a parish council. The parish council is elected by the residents of the parish who have registered on the electoral roll; the parish council is the lowest tier of government in England. A parish council is responsible for providing and maintaining a variety of local services including allotments and a cemetery; grass cutting and tree planting within public open spaces such as a village green or playing fields. The parish council reviews all planning applications that might affect the parish and makes recommendations to Huntingdonshire District Council, which is the local planning authority for the parish. The parish council also represents the views of the parish on issues such as local transport, policing and the environment. The parish council raises its own tax to pay for these services, known as the parish precept, which is collected as part of the Council Tax. The parish council consists of nine councillors and a parish clerk. The parish council normally meets on the first Monday of the month. The parish precept for the financial year ending 31 March 2016 was £22, 000. On 1 April 1935 the parish of Upwood was abolished to form "Upwood and the Raveleys".

Upwood was in the administrative county of Huntingdonshire until 1965. From 1965, the village was part of the new administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough. Then in 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, Upwood became administered as if part of Cambridgeshire.

The second tier of local government is Huntingdonshire District Council which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and has its headquarters in Huntingdon. Huntingdonshire District Council has 52 councillors representing 29 district wards. Huntingdonshire District Council collects the council tax, and provides services such as building regulations, local planning, environmental health, leisure and tourism. Upwood is a part of the district ward of Upwood and The Raveleys and is represented on the district council by one councillor. District councillors serve for four-year terms following elections to Huntingdonshire District Council.

For Upwood the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council which has administration buildings in Cambridge. The county council provides county-wide services such as major road infrastructure, fire and rescue, education, social services, libraries and heritage services. Cambridgeshire County Council consists of 69 councillors representing 60 electoral divisions. Upwood is part of the electoral division of Warboys and Upwood and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

At Westminster Upwood is in the parliamentary constituency of North West Cambridgeshire, and elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Upwood is represented in the House of Commons by Shailesh Vara (Conservative). Shailesh Vara has represented the constituency since 2005. The previous member of parliament was Brian Mawhinney (Conservative) who represented the constituency between 1997 and 2005.

Population
In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of Upwood was recorded every ten years by the UK census. During this time the population was in the range of 316 (the lowest was in 1801) and 416 (the highest was in 1851).

From 1901, a census was taken every ten years with the exception of 1941 (due to the Second World War).

All population census figures from report Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011 by Cambridgeshire Insight. The parishes of Great Raveley, Little Raveley and Upwood were combined into a single parish between 1931 and 1951.

In 2011, the parish covered an area of 4663 acre and so the population density for Upwood and The Raveleys in 2011 was 176. 6 persons per square mile (68. 2 per square kilometre).

Religious sites
The Church of St. Peter consists of a chancel (24 ft. by 15 ft.), nave (43 ft. by 16½ ft.), north chapel (11½ ft. by 12 ft.), north aisle (39½ ft. by 10½ ft.), south aisle (9 ft. wide), and west tower (7¼ ft. by 7¼ ft. The walls are of rubble with stone dressings, those of the chancel patched with brickwork, and the roofs are covered with lead.

Of the church mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), which was probably of timber, nothing remains, but about the year 1100 a stone church consisting of a chancel and an aisle-less nave was built, of which the chancel arch and part of the north wall of the nave remain. Some fifty years later the chancel was rebuilt and widened and an arcade cut into the nave wall and a north aisle built. The following century saw the building of the south aisle and west tower, and, apparently in connection with this work, the western arch of the north arcade was rebuilt. The south arcade, however, was rebuilt in the 15th century, and the clearstory built. The chancel walls were raised and a new roof constructed in 1642. The north aisle was rebuilt in 1884–5, and the west tower in 1890, and other works done in 1912 and 1921.

The chancel, c. 1150, has a modern east window with internal splays of the 15th century. The north wall has an original window, a blocked square-headed two-light window, a blocked door perhaps opening into a former vestry, a blocked squint, and a large blocked locker. The south wall has an original window, two 15th-century two-light windows, one with a square head and one with a four-centred arch and a transom forming a low-side window, and a 15th-century piscina. The arch, of c. 1100, has two plain orders resting on simple imposts; it is much depressed, and under it is a 15th-century oak screen. The roof, dated 1642, is of low pitch. There is an ancient gable cross, but the parapets have been rebuilt partly with brick, and have lost the fillings of their merlons.

The nave has a north arcade of three bays, the two eastern arches are semi-circular, of c. 1150, and supported on two circular columns with scalloped caps, the western arch with its respond was rebuilt in the 13th century. Above the two earlier arches are the remains of two blocked windows of c. 1100. The south arcade, also of three bays, is of the 15th century, with pointed arches and octagonal columns. The 15th-century clearstory has three two-light windows on each side. The roof is of 15th-century date, with sunk traceried panels in the braces.

The north aisle and north chapel were rebuilt in 1884–5, but incorporate a three-light window in the east wall and two others in the north wall, all of the 15th century, and a plain 14th-century north door, and the west wall has a 13th-century single-light window. In the wall between the chapel and the chancel is a recess with a blocked squint; westward of it is a modern opening for access to the pulpit. In the east wall is a reset 14th-century piscina. A simple 15th-century screen, much modernised, separates the chapel from the aisle.

The 13th-century south aisle has a 15th-century three-light window in the east wall, and the south wall has two similar windows, a 14th-century doorway and a 14th-century piscina. The west wall has a 13th-century three-light with modernised head. There is a little 15th-century glass in the heads of the east and south-east windows.

The roofs of both aisles are of the 15th century, but much restored.

The west tower was rebuilt in 1890, but the towerarch is of 13th-century date, and the belfry windows are of two lights of the same period. Parts of the parapets and pinnacles are of the 15th century. An early 14th-century niche has been rebuilt into the west wall, also a corbel of a woman's head in wimple, and a kneeling figure, both of the 13th century.

The font is a plain square bowl possibly of c. 1150, on a modern stem and base; it has a 17th-century pyramidal oak cover. There are three bells, inscribed: 1, John Gregory: Thomas: Charter: Churchward: 1709. 2, A penetente harte is goode. 3, Non Sono animabvs mortvorvm sed avribvs viventivm. 1615. (On second line) Henry Crvmwell, Armiger. The second by Newcome and the third by Norris. In 1552 it was stated that the middle bell had been sold for £7.

There are the following monuments: In the chancel, to Peter Pheasant, Justice of the King's Bench, d. 1649, and Mary (de Bruges) his wife; Mary Warner, widow, d. 1771; Sir Richard Bickerton, bart., d. 1792, and Dame Maria Anne, his widow, d. 1811; Maria Bickerton, Lady of the Manor, d. 1845, and Jane Frances Bickerton, d. 1827; and a floor slab to the Hon. Charles Montagu, youngest son of Viscount Hinchingbrooke, d. 1780; in the south aisle to Richard Ross, d. 1730; matrices of brasses of a demi-figure of a priest with inscription plate, and a figure of a woman with inscription plate and four scrolls, both 15th century; floor slabs to Reginald Michell, d. 1706, and the Rev. Robert Michell, d. 1707.

St Peter's Upwood is part of The United Benefice of the Ramseys and Upwood and the current incumbent is the Reverend Iain Osborne.

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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 REDIRECT to Planetary habitability.  Rob e  rt  16:53, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Habitable planet
This is a laundry list of dubious noun conjuncts ("Inhabited Terraformable Marginally Inhabitable Planet"). Hard to follow and if not OR essentially an off-the-top-of-the-head ramble. The much more comprehensive Planetary habitability has recently been created. I'd merge if I saw anything worth it and instead think it should be deleted. Marskell 15:17, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll officially go redirect ahead of delete. The history will allow for merge material if anyone finds it useful. Marskell 10:13, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Poorly written, but not nonsense. I would vote to keep and cleanup, but Planetary habitability is a much better article on the same general subject. Redirect to Planetary habitability, and possibly merge the contnet about Planets for man. DES (talk) 15:49, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delet/redirect Vsmith 16:03, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to the superior article at Planetary habitability.--Isotope23 19:20, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, given that I'm involved I won't do it, but could the next editor stopping by do a speedy redirect? The history will still provide potential merge material. Marskell 22:52, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with "Planetary habitability" --MacRusgail 15:47, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:D River

Tie?
the Oregon page says they are a tie, can someone check this —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.247.44.163 (talk • contribs) 15:17, September 29, 2005

Worlds shortest rivers
The ongoing dispute over whether the Roe River or the D River is the world's shortest according to Guinness World Records seems easily resolved. I looked in a 1973 edition of the book, but the rivers section has no shortest or smallest sections—presumably these were added sometime since. Perhaps someone has a newer edition handy?

I also poked around on the website, but couldn't find any entry. There are a few tease entries there, but selling a copy of the book is a major purpose for the website. Lacking that, the wikipedia entry for Guinness World Records claims they are a tie: Perhaps that was Randall's reason for adding it? EncMstr 02:04, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

 * That's odd: I know I saw this claim in print years ago. I was under the impression that it was in a copy of Guinness World Records, but it's entirely possible that I saw it in a copy of Ripley's Believe It or Not. I suspect this is an issue that will require digging thru multiple editions of these trivia collections to get to the bottom of this. The claim is also repeated in Lewis A. McArthur, Oregon Geographic Names, 4th edition (Portland: Western Imprints, 1982), p. 204, but the late McArthur failed to provide a source for his statement. -- llywrch 03:52, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

shortest river
The "Oregon" page claims a tie, while both the "D River" and "Roe River" pages state that the Roe River is shorter. However, the "D River" page says that the D River is only 121 feet long, while the "Roe River" page says that the Roe River is 201 feet long. Which one is actually right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.212.230.130 (talk • contribs) 02:56, June 8, 2006

 * Croatian river Ombla near Dubrovnik is only 75 feet long river and soon will be proclaimed as a world shortest river. Regards from Dubrovnik :-) June 4. 2009. 17:50 (CET)

Length
Citation is needed for the length being 120 feet at high tide. I don't have a good source, but everything I've seen indicates an average of 120 feet. I found one reference to the length varying from 58 to 205 feet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bcostley (talk • contribs) 17:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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Etymology "D"?
Where does the name "D" come from? The page mentions the name, but not the etymology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidGjam (talk • contribs) 17:38, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:Obstetric fistula

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I noticed these links are non-working or broken right now:

 * 1) http://www.endfistula.org/
 * 2) http://www.unfpa.org/issues/factsheets/fistula_defining.htm
 * 3) http://www.fistulahospital.org/
 * 4) http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/global/immigration/02120901.htm

--Aristoi 15:18, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Fact and citation check
(Part of the WikiProject Medicine effort)

Lead section
A general medical reference would be helpful; see: http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=33689 and http://www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/publications/obstetric_fistula.pdf and http://www.epwg.org/fileadmin/documents/What_is_Obstetric_Fistula.pdf

Symptoms and signs
Needs citations here as well; see: http://www.gfmer.ch/Medical_education_En/PGC_RH_2004/Pdf/Mabeya_Fistula.pdf

Causes
Needs references; see those mentioned above.

Statements such as “Some consider this point to be controversial and see it more as an economic access issue instead of a cultural issue,” “This is an opinion held by both men and women in various parts of the world,” and “In many instances, women do not consider their local hospitals and clinics to be places where they could ever seek such care and therefore do not go when there is an obstetrical emergency” are opinion without supporting citations and should be removed if not referenced.

Under Risk factors,

A 1993 Nigerian study is mentioned with no citation. This should be referenced.

Much of the information in this section should be referenced as it comes across as opinion.

On rape cause, this article can be cited: http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Arrest-ordered-of-teen-rape-suspects/-/1056/2044814/-/9wvss8z/-/index.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.75.88.232 (talk) 15:06, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Prevention
This section would benefit from mention of the Fistula Care Project, aimed at preventing this disorder: http://www.fistulacare.org/pages/what-is-fistula/prevention.php

 * I plan to expand this section using information from reports by sources such as the United Nations (http://www.endfistula.org/webdav/site/endfistula/shared/documents/reports/67th%20UNGA%20-%20Report%20of%20the%20Secretary-General%20on%20Supporting%20efforts%20to%20end%20obstetric%20fistula.pdf) and the UNFPA (http://www.unfpa.org/fistula/docs/fistula-needs-assessment.pdf), since only two sources are currently cited. --Kayceeho (talk) 07:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Treatment
Any of the general references mentioned above could be used to provide support for this section.

Surgical statistics should have citations.

The statement “Some women are not candidates for this surgery, but can seek out alternative treatment called a urostomy and a bag for the collection of urine is worn on a daily basis” should provide the reasons why a woman might not be a suitable candidate.

Statements that “Many women report feelings of humiliation, pain, loneliness, shame and mourning for the loss of their lives and the child they lost during delivery” need referencing.

 * Some sources that may help to support the section's references include

 * Michael Brodman, et al. "Obstetric Fistula In Low And Middle Income Countries." Mount Sinai Journal Of Medicine 78.3 (2011): 352-361. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Sept. 2012.

 * R.J. Cook, B.M. Dickens, S. Syed, Obstetric fistula: the challenge to human rights, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Volume 87, Issue 1, October 2004, Pages 72-77, ISSN 0020-7292, 10.1016/j.ijgo.2004.07.005.

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020729204002565)

 * K. Ramsey, Z. Iliyasu, L. Idoko, Fistula Fortnight: Innovative partnership brings mass treatment and public awareness towards ending obstetric fistula, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Volume 99, Supplement 1, November 2007, Pages S130-S136, ISSN 0020-7292, 10.1016/j.ijgo.2007.06.034.

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020729207003864)

 * The above three sources are published articles that investigate treatment strategies and techniques that are accessible and low-cost. I plan on using these reports to explain treatments specific to countries or programs that have been beneficial in the past. There are several organizations that need to be noted and linked externally that work directly on this issue. These organizations include the Worldwide Fistula Fund, the Fistula Foundation, and the Campaign to End Fistula. Some initiatives have been evaluated and published in scholarly journals. For example, the Fistula Fortnight was a 2-week obstetric fistula treatment project launched by the Campaign to End Fistula in 2005 that successfully treated hundreds of fistula patients in Nigeria and raised awareness on the issue. --User:Kayceeho

History
Needs citations (see one previously provided).

Society and culture
The groups mentioned here should have links to their sites provided: www.un.org/popin/icpd2.htm and www.unfpa.org

The NY Times’ columnist, also mentioned, should have his work cited as well.BSW BV (talk) 13:20, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

New Illustration Added
I created and posted a new medical illustration to accompany the page. I posted it below the main info box containing the original diagram. I welcome any feedback. VHenryArt (talk) 20:17, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion of Expansion
Hello! I've noticed that this article describes the physiological aspect of the obstetric fistula quite detail. I believe the information is comprehensive and well-cited. I am hoping to primarily add to the Society and Culture section. The section discusses the UN Millennium Development Goals’ focus on the fistula but does not include the Sustainable Development Goals’ targets. It also does not discuss policies that countries adopted after the early 2000’s to provide better treatment for fistulas. The list of community organizations providing treatment and advocating on the fistula is also rather brief. I would like to add to this section by discussing organizations and their varied focus on ameliorating the factors surrounding the fistula (lack of resources, stigma, poverty, etc).

SBanda (talk) 00:58, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Moved here
This is promotional for this charity. Also we need third party independent sources. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:00, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The editors in question have not responded here yet. User:Studenteditor99 and User:Redorangeyellowgreenblue? Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 21:06, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
 * They state on my talk page that they are a class of students. You all must still use independent high quality sources. Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 18:28, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

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The Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation was founded by Australian doctor Catherine Hamlin and her husband Reginald in 1974. The organization focuses on three pillars: prevention, education, and treatment. The mission is as follows:"'Hamlin Fistula USA supports world-renowned hospitals that treat women with cutting-edge, compassionate care; a college for midwives who are helping to stop childbirth injuries from happening; and rural healthcare clinics to ensure all mothers can have safe births.'"

Prevention
Giving birth assisted by a midwife greatly decreases the risk for fistula, so the Hamlin Foundation trains midwives to operate around Ethiopia. Currently, 45 clinics in Ethiopia are staffed with midwives trained in the Hamlin College of Midwives.

Education
The Foundation’s mission for education is tri fold: educating midwives, educating surgeons to treat fistula, and educating the public. Operating out of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, the organization supports the education of obstetricians/gynecologists, urologists, surgeons, physical therapists, and nurses. Hamlin releases videos to educate the public about the risks of unassisted births, and provides physical and emotional care for fistula survivors. Survivors are often ostracized from their communities, so the organization teaches skills like numeracy, handicrafting, and literacy.

Treatment
Hamlin trains more doctors and staff each year to provide the medical and emotional treatment needed to recover from birth injury. Most hospital staff are fistula survivors themselves, so they are able to offer a unique perspective and sense of compassion. Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital has offered free fistula surgery to patients for 45 years. Restorative surgeries cost $500-$1000, so subsidized treatment is life-changing for the patients of Addis Ababa. They are currently building a hospital in Soroti, Uganda. The hospitals also offer cesarean sections for former patients to deliver safely.

Desta Mender
For patients with untreatable conditions requiring continued care, the Hamlin Foundation runs a farm village near Addis Ababa called Desta Mender. Literally translating to “village of joy,” Desta Mender currently hosts fifty permanent residents and preoperative women. The village offers opportunities for education, social connections, and income generation.

Fistula Foundation
Fistula Foundation is a U.S. based organization dedicated to treating obstetric fistula in more than 20 countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Its CEO is Kate Grant. The organization focuses its funding entirely on treatment, primarily via fistula repair surgeries, which cost as little as $586 on average. Fistula Foundation also funds training for surgeons and fistula care providers, as well as funds to upgrade facilities to enable providers to give the best care possible to women seeking treatment. To date, the organization has funded nearly 18,000 obstetric fistula surgeries since changing its mission in 2009, making it the largest provider of obstetric fistula surgeries of any other organization not accepting government funding.

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Raketenjagdpanzer 2

The Raketenjagdpanzer 2 or Raketenjagdpanzer SS-11 was a West German tank destroyer employed from 1967 to 1982 and equipped with Nord SS.11 guided anti tank missiles. It was developed at the same time as the Kanonenjagdpanzer and the Marder, and shares a similar chassis with them.

Overview
The vehicle prototypes were developed between 1963 and 1965 and between 1967 and 1968, Henschel and Hanomag built 318 Raketenjagdpanzer 2 for the Bundeswehr. Starting around 1978, 316 of them were upgraded with additional armour and a new missile system, and redesignated as Raketenjagdpanzer Jaguar 1.

Armament
The vehicle was armed with two launch rails for the Nord SS.11 antitank guided missile, and two MG3 machine guns. The machine guns were mounted in the bow and as an anti-aircraft weapon on top of the vehicle. The Raketenjagdpanzer 2 carried fourteen missiles, twelve of which were mounted in containers inside the vehicle while the other two were attached to the launch rails. The combined traverse of both launch rails covered 180 degrees. The vehicle's mission was to engage enemy tanks at ranges between 1.5 and 3 kilometers where the range and accuracy of tank cannon were inferior to that of the SS.11 missile. The maximum effective range of the SS.11 was around 3,000 meters. The SS.11 missile could penetrate 60 centimeters of rolled homogeneous armour.

Service in the Bundeswehr

The Bundeswehr first operationally deployed the Raketenjagdpanzer 2 in 1967. From 1968 forward, the tank destroyer companies of the Panzergrenadier (armored infantry) brigades were equipped with eight of these vehicles. At the same time, tank destroyer companies of the Panzer brigades received thirteen Raketenjagdpanzer 2. Between 1978 and 1982, the Raketenjagdpanzer 2 vehicles were upgraded to Euromissile HOT-carrying Jaguar 1 tank destroyers.

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Upton, Peterborough

Upton is a village and civil parish in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. For electoral purposes it forms part of Glinton and Wittering ward in North West Cambridgeshire constituency. The population of the parish is included in the civil parish of Sutton.

The Parish Church of St John the Baptist is a 12th-century Norman church with a north aisle rebuilt in 17th century. It was a chapel-of-ease and was built as a daughter church to St Kyneburgha's at Castor. The church is a Grade I listed building. It is set in the fields to the east of the village, 100 yards from the Roman King Street.

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VAS

Vas or VAS may refer to:

Places

 * Vas County, a county in Hungary
 * Vas County (former), a former county of the Kingdom of Hungary
 * Vas, Kostel, a village in Slovenia
 * Vas, Veneto, a frazione of Quero Vas, Italy

People

 * Surname
 * Abdul Vas (born 1981), Venezuelan artist
 * Anukreethy Vas (born 1998), Indian model and beauty pageant winner
 * Imre Vas (born 1966), Hungarian jurist and politician
 * János Vas (born 1984), Hungarian ice hockey player
 * Joseph Vas (born 1955), American politician
 * Márton Vas (born 1980), Hungarian ice hockey player
 * Robert Vas (1931–1978), Hungarian film director

 * Given name
 * Vas Blackwood (born 1962), British actor
 * Vas Coleman (born 1999), professionally known as Yung Bans, American rapper and songwriter
 * Vas J Morgan (born 1988), English television personality
 * Vas Nuñez (born 1995), Hong Kong footballer

Science and medicine

 * Vas (moth), a genus of moths in the family Erebidae
 * Vas deferens, connecting the left and right epididymis to the ejaculatory ducts in male anatomy
 * Vaccine-associated sarcoma, a type of malignant tumor found in cats
 * Victoria Archaeological Survey, a government organisation in Victoria, Australia
 * Visual analogue scale, a psychometric response scale
 * Vitamin A supplementation

Technology

 * Vector addition system, a mathematical modeling language
 * Vehicle-activated sign
 * Virtual address space
 * Bedford VAS, British chassis for buses and coaches produced between 1963 and 1987

Other uses

 * Vas (band), a musical group
 * Left Alliance (Finland) (Vasemmistoliitto), a political party in Finland
 * Value-added service, a telecommunications industry concept
 * Victory at Sea, a 1952 documentary television series
 * Victory at Sea (game), a set of naval wargames rules
 * Visual Arts Scotland

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Loulis

Loulis (born May 10, 1978) is a chimpanzee who has learned to communicate in American Sign Language.

Loulis was named for two caregivers (Louise and Lisa) at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was born. After ten months at Yerkes, Loulis was transferred to Oklahoma with Roger Fouts and Washoe, his adoptive mother. In 1980, the family moved to Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. By 1993, the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) was built for the family to reside. Loulis's biological mother remained at Yerkes and was used for medical research. In 2013, he moved from the CHCI to the chimpanzee sanctuary of the Fauna Foundation in Canada.

Language abilities
Washoe and three other chimpanzees (Tatu, Dar, and Moja) were raised as if they were deaf human children and acquired American Sign Language. The chimpanzees regularly use the hand signals to communicate with each other and humans. Loulis is the only chimpanzee in the family who was not cross-fostered (he wasn't raised by humans but rather Washoe and the other chimpanzees).

After eight days with Washoe, Loulis learned his first sign. For the first five years of his life, Loulis's human handlers only used seven signs around him (the signs used were who, which, want, where, name, that, and sign). Loulis was able to acquire what he learned of ASL from Washoe.

The details of this research can be found in Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees edited by Allen and Beatrix Gardner.

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Talk:Turkey Street railway station

I've read about Turkey Drives in the USA, where thousands of turkeys were rounded up and 'shepherded' to big cities in time for Thanksgiving etc. Does anyone know whether Turkey Street could have been on a similar turkey drive en route to London?
 * The turkey thing could have happened in the UK although it's a small road and I expect moving turkeys would have been done on bigger roads like Holloway Road which has the above explantion for its name. Also Turkey Street doesn't really go anywhere. I was given the following explanation but I can't find evidence. Around or along Turkey Street there used to be a prison. Relating to the locks on cells, there was an expression Turn Key which was then abbreviated to Turkey. Unfortunately I can't find anything to verify this so it needs a little more investigating. I expect this all happened before the 1700s as it was called Turkey Street by then. Rogwan 15:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superhero Intern

 * 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 08:36, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Superhero Intern
Can someone tell me if this exists? Is it a flash animation? I tried googling it and only found some forum posts, but mainly wikipedia-esque articles on the thing. A search on the warner brothers site came up empty. Even if it does exist, I'm still moving to delete on notability grounds. - Hahnchen 15:22, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * del. Nonnotable. mikka (t) 18:41, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * delete, nn, Pete.Hurd 16:59, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
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Marty Munsch
I'm having a go at MM right now. He kept adding US Chaos to the Ritz article, and himself to The Clash & Joe Strummer. It's evident he wrote his entire article himself. He should at least have the grace to accept the tags, eh? If you'd keep an eye on it and revert him next time he removes them, we'll get him on WP:3RR. Wwwhatsup (talk) 10:16, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Blook

OurBlook
Hi. Ourblook.com is a website that is completely centered on being a blook. Very useful content. Any way to include it here? 69.203.216.102 (talk)

I edited the line "An Instance of Shining Light by A. Zlengy and Madie's Bear Tribe Journals by Marsha Loftis are self-described as blooks."by adding A. Zlengy. It looked as if I had written both blooks.

The original article credited me with inventing blooks. I have helped popularize them but other blooks already existed by the time I wrote mine so I corrected this.

Also added citations to other blooks I know about and removed the stub designation from the article since it is pretty complete as of now.

Tevslin 15:23, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

I added examples of another definition of blook - a printed book derived from material previously posted on a blog including the first use of the term by Jeff Jarvis and Tony Pierce in 2002. Also added information about the LuLu Blooker prize. The edit appears anonymous (sorry) because I forgot to sign in before making it.

Tevslin 12:39, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Austria
what about http://www.aardvark.at/messages/ ? "Messages from the Lost Continent is a unique and at times hilariously funny blend of thriller, science fiction and fantasy novel, which was originally published in 2005 as a fiction weblog." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.158.112.129 (talk) 23:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

usage
I question the general usage of this term. I would appreciate references that any of the examples above have been generally described by this name. DGG 01:53, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

the latest content
read a little like an ad, so I shortened it. I strongly suggest the editor who added it try to find at least one more example of such products, or both this mention and the accompanying article are rather likely to be deleted. DGG 00:41, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

earlier blook
Hi, I editted the wikipedia entry to add the book of maroc.nl. I think books made purely of collections from forum discussions also fit the "blook" definition. The Maroc.NL book was published in Holland (The Netherlands) in the fall of 2001 under ISBN: 90-254-1603-9.

Kind regards. 81.68.228.8 20:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Another use
The term "blook" is also used to describe non-book objects made to look like books (book + look = blook). See, for example, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/books/a-secret-in-every-tome-no-text-required.html?_r=0 --99.26.130.45 (talk) 20:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Christopher Chappell

Christopher James David Chappell (born 17 July 1955) is a Canadian former cricketer: a right-handed batsman who opened the batting for the Canadian team in their first ever One Day International, played against Pakistan at the 1979 World Cup, and had two further ODI appearances, both in the same tournament.

Chappell was born in Toronto. Prior to his appearance at the World Cup, during the 1979, Chappell had made his ICC Trophy debut against Malaysia, but was run out without scoring. In all he played six times in that competition, with his highest score of 35 being made in the final defeat against Sri Lanka. He made one final ICC Trophy appearance in the 1990 tournament, like his first against Malaysia, scoring 3 not out.

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Damo (philosopher)

Damo (Δαμώ; fl. c. 500 BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher said by many to have been the daughter of Pythagoras and Theano.

Early life
Tradition relates that she was born in Croton, Magna Graecia, and was the daughter of Pythagoras and Theano. According to Iamblichus, Damo married Meno the Crotonian. Some accounts refer to her as an only daughter, while others indicate that she had two sisters, Arignote and Myia (married to Milo of Croton). With her brother Telauges, they became members of the Pythagorean sect founded by their father.

Writing
References to Damo can be found in the works of Diogenes Laërtius, Athenaeus and Iamblichus, although little is known about her life. As the sect credited Pythagoras with authorship for members' work, it is likely that Damo contributed to the doctrines ascribed to the philosopher. According to one story, Pythagoras bequeathed his writings to Damo, and she kept them safe, refusing to sell them, believing that poverty and her father's solemn injunctions were more precious than gold. Damo, in turn, passed the writings (memoranda hypomnemata) on to her daughter Bitale and Telauges, and to her mother's brother. The writings, as well as those by Damo herself, are not known to have survived. According to Iamblichus, she was a sister of Telauges.

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Talk:Municipal Force Daitenzin

Accidental Label
I'm afraid I accidentally labelled my update today as minor. Apologies. --Monocrat 15:24, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Expand Dojinishi and Manga Section
If anyone out there is familiar witht the Daitenzin dojinish/manga, I think it would be great to have information on it, specifically characters (names, how those in Excel Saga differ) and plot evelopments.

Ropponmatsu fancruft
"In the eyecatch, Roppanmatsu [sic] One's weapon are pliers and Roppanmatsu [sic] Two's weapon are kitty claws."

This is fancruft. I am a die-hard fan of Excel Saga, as my efforts on the main article should demonstrate, but this bit of trivia is utterly irrelevant to any discussion of the show, its humor, or its characters. It should not be in the article, and I will continue to remove it.--Monocrat 04:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

images
There should be a covershot of the manga Daitenzin. 70.51.9.57 (talk) 07:24, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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Broad Channel station

The Broad Channel station is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway, located in the neighborhood of the same name at Noel and West Roads in the borough of Queens. It is served by the A train and the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times, the latter of which originates/terminates here. Broad Channel originally opened in 1880 as a Long Island Railroad station. The LIRR discontinued service in 1950 after a fire on the trestle across Jamaica Bay, to the station's north. The station reopened June 28, 1956, as a subway station.

Broad Channel is the only subway station serving the island of Broad Channel, which is located in Jamaica Bay and only has about 3,000 residents. Thus it is the least-used in the subway. However, this station is the only transfer point for riders traveling between Brooklyn and Manhattan (which the A train travels to) and the four other stations served by the Rockaway Park Shuttle. North of this station, there are two additional tracks within the right-of-way: a short track that allows Rockaway Park Shuttle trains to reverse direction and return to the Rockaways, and a longer track that is used to test new subway cars.

History
The station originally opened in 1880 as a New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad station (although some sources claim it opened in June 1881) and was acquired by the Long Island Rail Road, to become a station on the Rockaway Beach Branch.

As a Long Island Rail Road station it served as one of two junctions between the Far Rockaway and Rockaway Beach Branches. The other junction was at Hammels Station, although it was originally a junction for the Far Rockaway Branch and the Ocean Electric Railway. Hammels is now located where Hammels Wye is. Wooden shelter sheds were added to the station in 1921 and 1923. A fire on the trestle between this station and another one known as The Raunt, located to the north, forced the closure of both stations on May 23, 1950, as well as the entire Jamaica Bay trestle which stretches from Howard Beach to Hammels Wye.

By October 3, 1955, the Rockaway Beach Branch south of Ozone Park, and all of the Far Rockaway Branch west of Far Rockaway were purchased by the New York City Transit Authority. The Broad Channel station was completely reconstructed (as were the Howard Beach and Far Rockaway stations) with new concrete platforms, and a new station house. The contract for the new station was approved in December 1954. The station opened to subway service on June 28, 1956.

The station and the adjacent segment of the Rockaway Line suffered serious damage during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and was out of service for several months. Due to its location in the middle of Jamaica Bay, the station was filled with debris, with its trackbed damaged. During its temporary closure, the station received new ADA-tactile strips, platform edge rubbing boards, and cosmetic and mechanical work. Service was restored to the station on May 30, 2013, and to celebrate the re-opening, a vintage R1 subway car formed the first train. In 2018, a two-phase program of flood mitigation work along the Hammels Wye required further service disruptions. The first phase, from April 9 to May 18, suspended rush-hour A trips to Rockaway Park. The second phase, which began on July 1, rerouted all Far Rockaway A service to Rockaway Park until September 3. In both phases, the shuttle ran from Rockaway Park to Far Rockaway, skipping Broad Channel.

Station layout
This station has two tracks and two side platforms, each measuring 12 ft wide and over 660 ft long. The northern parts of the platforms are sheltered with canopies and windscreens. The station is served by the A train and the Rockaway Park Shuttle at all times, serving as the northern terminus of the latter. The next stop to the north is Howard Beach–JFK Airport. The next stop to the south is Beach 67th Street for Far Rockaway A trains and Beach 90th Street for the Rockaway Park Shuttle and limited rush-hour A trains. The station is one of two New York City Subway stations located on its own island, the other being the Roosevelt Island station in Manhattan, serving the.

Exit
A station house is located above both platforms, containing a crossover, waiting area and fare control. The single street staircase outside of fare control goes down to West Road by the intersection of Noel Road next to the Rockaway-bound platform. This platform also has a set of exit-only turnstiles leading directly to this staircase so riders exiting the station on this side do not have to go through the station house. The station house is heated, while the platforms feature passenger-activated heaters; these heaters, and the doors separating the station house and staircases, were not originally part of the station. The station house used to have 1950s-era signage at its front entrance reading "SUBWAY", but now only has modern MTA entrance signs.

At the north end of the station is a power substation, located at West Road and East 6th Road adjacent to the Rockaway-bound platform. A second exit-only staircase is located here, but is closed.

Track layout
Just to the north, the Rockaway Line gains two extra non-revenue tracks straddling the two revenue tracks. The western track is a test track, installed in 2001 and called the Far Rockaway Test Track,    while the eastern track is used to relay shuttle trains. The western track extends around 10000 ft or nearly 2 miles (3.2 km), while the eastern track is long enough for one full-length train (600 feet) and ends at a bumper block. The test track was installed in 2001 by New York City Transit's Maintenance of Way Department to ensure that new cars have undergone necessary acceleration and braking tests before being put into revenue service. This was because NYCT needed to recover a greater amount of braking energy and reduce power demand peaks with the introduction of AC-motored cars with the capability for regenerative braking. A kinetic energy storage system with KESS technology was installed, and as a result, the voltage regulation of the track improved. The system provides voltage support to the revenue tracks as well as reinforcing the voltage of the test track during the testing of new trains.

Continuing north, the Rockaway Line crosses Jamaica Bay before reaching Howard Beach; the distance of 3.5 mi between the two stations is the longest between any two in the New York City Subway system. To the south, the Rockaway Line continues to the Rockaway peninsula, crossing two bridges: a fixed span between Broad Channel and Subway Island, and a swing span between Subway Island and the Rockaway peninsula. On the peninsula, the line splits at a flying junction named Hammels Wye to allow service to both Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue and Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street. Punch boxes are located at the ends of both platforms, to allow train operators to select the correct route. The switches are then accordingly switched by the local tower operator.

Ridership
Broad Channel is a small island with fewer than 3,000 residents, and as a result, it has historically been one of the least-used stations in the system. In 1985, the station had only 224 paying daily riders on a typical weekday, making it one of the least used stations in the system. The station had the second lowest ridership in the subway system, with annual riders. By 2021, it was the system's least-used station overall, with 39,981 annual riders. However, it is the only transfer point between the A train and the Rockaway Park Shuttle, and some 2,700 daily riders use it in this capacity. As a result, the platforms are sometimes packed.

Nearby points of interest include a visitor center and trails for the Gateway National Recreation Area's Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge is one of the most significant bird sanctuaries in the Northeastern United States, and it is home to more than 330 bird species, making it one of the most ideal places in New York City to observe migrating birds. The visitor center is the start of many guided tours of the refuge and it is home to exhibits that discuss the history of Jamaica Bay, the wide array of wildlife that can be found there, and the impact of human activity.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Woehl

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further 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 speedied as patent nonsense/poss. attack page --Doc (?) 16:05, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Woehl
Hoax. Article claims tha subject is born of a sea-captain and a whale. In addition, it claims to publish "Great Expectations 2" and the "Star Wars trilogy. Tagged for CSD but removed by author of article. Hurricane111 15:27, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong delete Obvious hoax, on the edge of patent nonsense. I won't re-speedy, but.... DES (talk) 15:43, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - hoax CLW 15:54, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, well over my edge of patent nonsense - speedied --Doc (?) 16:05, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
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